birthday present to myself
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cheers all 
Glad I paid a bit more and bought from the BMW dealer, been back three times already but hopefully get all the niggles sorted out. They've fixed a small dent I noticed when I was inspecting it initially, got the guy's card for future use as he did a top job and you¡¦d never know there was a ding. More worrying was a high speed vibration which is harder to diagnose, especially as it only happened at private road speeds.
They've tried new tyres, wheels rebalanced and a few other things which seem to have made it a lot worse thoguh that's good from a finding the cause objective as it can be felt at 60mph now and getting worse as you get faster, a major vibration from the front end and moving around like the tyres are going flat following cambers etc. probably due to the huge number of weights on them to get them balanced. Back in again next week to fit new wheels as they are guessing one or both are buckled at the front causing the problem. Hopefully all sorted soon as there is no point having a quick car you can only drive slowly. Let them get on with sorting it out at their expense but keeping an eye on the 1000 mile or 30 day hand back guarantee if they can't sort it.
Love the car just not handling like it should just now so fingers crossed new wheels and a full geometry check sort it.
Glad I paid a bit more and bought from the BMW dealer, been back three times already but hopefully get all the niggles sorted out. They've fixed a small dent I noticed when I was inspecting it initially, got the guy's card for future use as he did a top job and you¡¦d never know there was a ding. More worrying was a high speed vibration which is harder to diagnose, especially as it only happened at private road speeds.
They've tried new tyres, wheels rebalanced and a few other things which seem to have made it a lot worse thoguh that's good from a finding the cause objective as it can be felt at 60mph now and getting worse as you get faster, a major vibration from the front end and moving around like the tyres are going flat following cambers etc. probably due to the huge number of weights on them to get them balanced. Back in again next week to fit new wheels as they are guessing one or both are buckled at the front causing the problem. Hopefully all sorted soon as there is no point having a quick car you can only drive slowly. Let them get on with sorting it out at their expense but keeping an eye on the 1000 mile or 30 day hand back guarantee if they can't sort it.
Love the car just not handling like it should just now so fingers crossed new wheels and a full geometry check sort it.
Edited by Crusoe on Friday 14th November 12:21
Crusoe said:
cheers all
Glad I paid a bit more and bought from the BMW dealer, been back three times already but hopefully get all the niggles sorted out. They've fixed a small dent I noticed when I was inspecting it initially, got the guy's card for future use as he did a top job and you¡¦d never know there was a ding. More worrying was a high speed vibration which is harder to diagnose, especially as it only happened at private road speeds.
They've tried new tyres, wheels rebalanced and a few other things which seem to have made it a lot worse thoguh that's good from a finding the cause objective as it can be felt at 60mph now and getting worse as you get faster, a major vibration from the front end and moving around like the tyres are going flat following cambers etc. probably due to the huge number of weights on them to get them balanced. Back in again next week to fit new wheels as they are guessing one or both are buckled at the front causing the problem. Hopefully all sorted soon as there is no point having a quick car you can only drive slowly. Let them get on with sorting it out at their expense but keeping an eye on the 1000 mile or 30 day hand back guarantee if they can't sort it.
Love the car just not handling like it should just now so fingers crossed new wheels and a full geometry check sort it.
I would suspect the wheels because they arent standard for that year of Z4; maybe the previous owner bought them used off ebay (renowned as a source of damaged but look fine to the naked eye wheels)...Glad I paid a bit more and bought from the BMW dealer, been back three times already but hopefully get all the niggles sorted out. They've fixed a small dent I noticed when I was inspecting it initially, got the guy's card for future use as he did a top job and you¡¦d never know there was a ding. More worrying was a high speed vibration which is harder to diagnose, especially as it only happened at private road speeds.
They've tried new tyres, wheels rebalanced and a few other things which seem to have made it a lot worse thoguh that's good from a finding the cause objective as it can be felt at 60mph now and getting worse as you get faster, a major vibration from the front end and moving around like the tyres are going flat following cambers etc. probably due to the huge number of weights on them to get them balanced. Back in again next week to fit new wheels as they are guessing one or both are buckled at the front causing the problem. Hopefully all sorted soon as there is no point having a quick car you can only drive slowly. Let them get on with sorting it out at their expense but keeping an eye on the 1000 mile or 30 day hand back guarantee if they can't sort it.
Love the car just not handling like it should just now so fingers crossed new wheels and a full geometry check sort it.
Edited by Crusoe on Friday 14th November 12:21
Liking the car too. one for the hedge lovers
http://bp3.blogger.com/_4DzLbV79i7g/Ry7ZUi7N-tI/AA...
Meikleour Beech Hedge between perth and blairgowrie, 100 ft high and a third of a mile long, world record for the highest hedge.
http://bp3.blogger.com/_4DzLbV79i7g/Ry7ZUi7N-tI/AA...
Meikleour Beech Hedge between perth and blairgowrie, 100 ft high and a third of a mile long, world record for the highest hedge.
Edited by Crusoe on Tuesday 18th November 10:51
New drivers side wheel and all is well again can go a bit faster now averaged 35.6mpg from all this slow cruising around.
edit- ar$e, took it for a hoon last nigth and vibration is still there, just at a bit higher speed than before. Back in on Friday so another mini for the day.
can go a bit faster now averaged 35.6mpg from all this slow cruising around.edit- ar$e, took it for a hoon last nigth and vibration is still there, just at a bit higher speed than before. Back in on Friday so another mini for the day.
Edited by Crusoe on Thursday 20th November 09:38
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