fun2xlr8
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I am so pissed right now. I have either owned or had a live-in girlfriend who owned a 2000-2002 BMW 3-series on four seperate occasions. Two of them were two cars with the same person. And I have a good friend with a late model 3-series. These cars are CRAP!!! Holy-moly, what are we paying $40k for? A car that has a lot of bells and whistles, but the build quality of a friggin Yugo? Of the five cars mentioned above, one needed a new motor before 20k miles(330i), one needed to spend more time at the dealer than in my garage the first year and was then "exchanged" by the dealer for a different model(M3), one has been in the shop at least every four months for the past two years for all kinds of miscellaneous crap as soon as 50k miles hit and the warranty was up(my friend's 325i), and now my girlfriend's car, which has 85k miles is back in the shop for the fourth time in the past year(325i). This time, no reverse at all. The dealer says the car will need a new tranny ($5000). I could buy a friggin Hyundai and get more miles outta that bitch for half the cost!!! I am so through with BMW. I will never buy another one again, and would like to tell all of my friends on this board to beware as well. I was always a die hard BMW enthusiast. They are great fun to drive, very performance oriented spirited driving cars, but apparently, out of the five cars listed above, only one lasted with no recurring or catostrophic failure. That's a pretty lousy batting average if you ask me. Gonna go see about trading the gf's car in on a new E-class this week, see if we can unload the car without doing the tranny work ourselves. Maybe DC will cut us a deal with our fixer-upper piece of crap car.
Greg
Greg