BMW service while under warrenty

KwackerJack

My other half has a 2008 318D that is under warranty from BWM
For a oil + filer and Air filter change is €300.00 including a full health check and wash (yay)

I can get the parts for €115 and a full inside & out clean for €25 saving me a nice €160.00

Only questions is will a non BMW service void the warranty

Atlantic Dawn

A 2008 car won't have a BMW manufacturer warranty, the warranty will have been supplied by the dealer, read up on the terms to see if it is a condition. On a manufacturers warranty once you use genuine parts the warranty remains valid.

DublinWriter

KwackerJack wrote: »

My other half has a 2008 318D that is under warranty from BWM

It's not. Believe me.

Voodoomelon

Even if you had a BMW warranty, getting it serviced outside the network is allowed if you used manufacturer approved parts.

How are your service parts costing €115?
You should only need 5 litres of LL04 oil, a €10 Mann oil filter and a €15 Mann air filter.

Should be €70 tops.

KwackerJack

DublinWriter wrote: »

KwackerJack wrote: »

My other half has a 2008 318D that is under warranty from BWM

It's not. Believe me.

They replaced a turbo, 2 front shocks and the timing chain + driver seat base so its not all that bad

KwackerJack

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Even if you had a BMW warranty, getting it serviced outside the network is allowed if you used manufacturer approved parts.

How are your service parts costing €115?
You should only need 5 litres of LL04 oil, a €10 Mann oil filter and a €15 Mann air filter.

Should be €70 tops.

I just priced the most expensive options to see the difference!

Voodoomelon

Mann are the OEM supplier, so same thing you'd get at the service counter at BMW. Even if you got all the parts from BMW themselves they wouldn't cost €115.
Just don't buy oil in their 1 litre bottles.

Toyotafanboi

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Even if you had a BMW warranty, getting it serviced outside the network is allowed if you used manufacturer approved parts.

And the parts are documented as fitted by a VAT registered garage.

Gumbo

DublinWriter wrote: »

It's not. Believe me.

It could be an AUC.
Irrespective of age, once sold as a second hand car from Bmw, you get 2 year warranty.

OP, get onto www.bmwservice.ie and compare.
Once it's carried out in any BMW approved workshop, then warranty will stay intact. Also check that it can be done by a registered garage and save even more.

rebel.ranter

kceire wrote: »

It could be an AUC.
Irrespective of age, once sold as a second hand car from Bmw, you get 2 year warranty.

OP, get onto www.bmwservice.ie and compare.
Once it's carried out in any BMW approved workshop, then warranty will stay intact. Also check that it can be done by a registered garage and save even more.

Having been through this myself with my 2007 M6, I can share my story.

For a new car warranty from BMW you can use a non BMW garage to service the car as long as OEM or equivalent parts are used.

For the AUC warranty you MUST use the BMW dealer network. I have just finished a 2 year AUC warranty in February. The AUC warranty from BMW is underwritten by Mobdial.

I now have the BMW Extended Warranty since February, again underwritten by Mondial. However they have confirmed that the T&Cs for the extended warranty allows you use use a non-franchised garage as long as it is VAT registered garage and you retain the receipts.

Very strange I know but this is accurate

Gumbo

rebel.ranter wrote: »

Having been through this myself with my 2007 M6, I can share my story.

For a new car warranty from BMW you can use a non BMW garage to service the car as long as OEM or equivalent parts are used.

For the AUC warranty you MUST use the BMW dealer network. I have just finished a 2 year AUC warranty in February. The AUC warranty from BMW is underwritten by Mobdial.

I now have the BMW Extended Warranty since February, again underwritten by Mondial. However they have confirmed that the T&Cs for the extended warranty allows you use use a non-franchised garage as long as it is VAT registered garage and you retain the receipts.

Very strange I know but this is accurate

Cheers Mark.

Cerco

rebel.ranter wrote: »

Having been through this myself with my 2007 M6, I can share my story.

For a new car warranty from BMW you can use a non BMW garage to service the car as long as OEM or equivalent parts are used.

For the AUC warranty you MUST use the BMW dealer network. I have just finished a 2 year AUC warranty in February. The AUC warranty from BMW is underwritten by Mobdial.

Very strange I know but this is accurate

The AUC warranty is paid by the dealer so this is only portion where the dealer can influence the t's&c's. More profit for the dealer in most cases. If buyer must use BMW dealer then they most likely will have the service at place of purchase.

rebel.ranter

Cerco wrote: »

The AUC warranty is paid by the dealer so this is only portion where the dealer can influence the t's&c's. More profit for the dealer in most cases. If buyer must use BMW dealer then they most likely will have the service at place of purchase.

With BMW AUC warranty you can use any franchised dealer. I did, and had to claim ?21k plus in the two years. I was becoming all too familiar with the process! For the first 10 months the dealer had the car 25% of the time. The two biggest particular problems were:
- The DSC Hydro unit, they took a number of attempts to solve by swapping out other brake components.
- Tensioner pulley broke once, they replaced it and I suspect overtightened it and it broke again which made it a huge job the second time round.

Other stuff was random: Head up display, speakers, ignition coil, fuel tank, fuel tank sender, noisy heater valve. Can't remember the rest.

KwackerJack

It's definitely an AUC warranty

And for the pleasure I've to pay twice the price for a service.

I Will probably go for a Hyundai Tuscan / Santa Fe next anyway...... Bmw are nice but so overpriced

I'm not liking the direct injection diesels that every motor as now, they are so bloody tickity at idle 😱

corglass

KwackerJack wrote: »

I'm not liking the direct injection diesels that every motor as now, they are so bloody tickity at idle 😱

All diesels have been direct injection since day one????

Blazer

Oil services I tend to get the main dealer to do them but anything else off to an Indy. I also makes sure to specify the oem parts to the Indy as I explain my car has a warranty.
It's nice to have the BMW dealer stamp in your book when selling on.

KwackerJack

corglass wrote: »

All diesels have been direct injection since day one????

No they were indirect at first and as such did not have that awful ticking noise due to lack of modern electrical ignition systems etc . They were still noisy mind you but they were clunky which is better than tick tick tick