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Good mechanic to check out BMW purchase, Dublin

  • 08-02-2014 7:47pm
    #1
    fisher8181
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭


    Can anyone recommend a good mechanic who could check a BMW I am looking to buy second hand. (i'm based in Tallaght)
    I'm looking for someone who knows what to look out for in this model
    08 bmw 320i SE e90

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Check this thread out:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057115427


  • #3
    randy hickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    OP, Ive sent you a PM about an excellent mechanic in Tallaght.


  • #4
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    fisher8181 wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend a good mechanic who could check a BMW I am looking to buy second hand. (i'm based in Tallaght)
    I'm looking for someone who knows what to look out for in this model
    08 bmw 320i SE e90

    Thanks.

    Those models suffer coil pack and injector failure. The diesels are even worse, with the infamous timing chain problem. Google BMW N47 timing chain and all will be revealed.

    If you're buying an E90, get one built before September 2007 (unless you're going for six cylinders i.e. 325 upwards) when they put all the Efficient Dynamics crap into them. Both petrol and diesel models before this build date do not suffer from any major issues and are reliable for a modern BMW (which is to say they're not really that reliable at all, but at least the problems they suffer can be rectified relatively cheaply).


  • #5
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    fisher8181 wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend a good mechanic who could check a BMW I am looking to buy second hand. (i'm based in Tallaght)
    I'm looking for someone who knows what to look out for in this model
    08 bmw 320i SE e90

    Thanks.

    As per your other thread, is recommend :
    kceire wrote: »
    get it booked in for an hour with Valdas in Motor Confidence, just off the Naas Road behind the old Coca Cola.


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