$2,400 for a clutch job??? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!

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Matt & Sarah Avery

$2,400 for a clutch job??? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!

Post by Matt & Sarah Avery » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:47 pm

Give Steve Taylor a ring on 07 847 7178. He is the owner of Apex Brake &
Clutch in Hamilton, and also happens to drive a late model Mondeo as
well.

Matt.

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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 08:48:38 +0000 (GMT)
From: glenn roberts <supasparky@yahoo.co.uk>
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Thanks Matt will give him a try..
Its seems like every time i get closer to putting
the turbo on(MX is in bits at the moment) i take two
steps forward and three steps back. Getting very,
very fed up at the moment.
Also, the Replacement Gearbox that was put in the MX
a little while ago is also no good and needs to be pulled out too
AAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!! (bangs head on
desk.)
I think ill become a monk, ride a bicycle, and eat
lentils.


Glenn "SLYDIT"
http://miata.cardomain.com/id/supasparky
Currently building a DIY Turbo..

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Post by EricW » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:54 am

Glenn, I can sympathise and empathise.

I recently noticed a little electrical fault with the BMW. The car has this
little trick function where, if you switch it off, but don't get out, it
recognises the fact that you are still there, and only progressively shuts
things down. You can, for instance, still operate the radio, heater, power
seats, windows etc, for about 19 minutes after you switch off.

However it started to decide that it was being switched off while I was
driving it, and progressively shut things down while I was still on the
move.

Now you would think that someone like Team McMillan could simply plug in the
Diagnostics and sort the problem, or that they would know, or simply see
from the wiring schematics, where this function was controlled. I don't
believe that this is the only BMW 528 which has ever had this problem.

However, their remedy was to take another car and remove all of the various
modules from it and install them into my car, one by one, until they found
the one that solved the problem. This took some 11 hours, at $96.00 per
hour! I don't know how many modules they still had to go when they found it,
but it could have taken them years. (I don't know what the owner of the
other car would have thought either).

Having initially told me that the radio was stuffed and I needed a new one
at $1500, (despite the fact it worked perfectly while it was geting power)
they finally decided that the problem was in the air con, at $1410.00 for
the control module, no suggestion that we might simply open up the module
and fix the (as it eventually turned out), $8.00 component which was causing
the issue!

At $1056.00 to "diagnose" the problem and $1410.00 for the air con module,
plus fitting, I was up for nearly $3000 to fix the problem!

I can still recommend BMW as a brand, but I will be finding someone who
knows how they work, the agents certainly don't appear toknow!

Eric

Bill Rehm

$2,400 for a clutch job??? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!

Post by Bill Rehm » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:11 am

Most Dealership mechanics are like lawyers and doctors: they "practice"
their profession and learn by doing ... usually at the client's
expense!!!

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$2,400 for a clutch job??? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!

Post by MX5PWR » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:52 am

My wife has a 1995 318ti and with what we have had to spend just to keep it on the road in the last 6 mnths, we could have bought a late model MX5.
I would not recommend a BMW to even my worst enemy !!! Sorry Eric, but having owned 10 MX5's that have not cost me anything to keep on the road apart from normal service costs, the BMW does not inspire confidence, and it was a NZ new not an import.

Nigel
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I seem to recall something about needing to drop the engine to change
the clutch (I have an earlier '96 Mondy wagon) ... probably has
something to do with it !

http://www.carsurvey.org/viewcomments_review_61272.html

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$2,400 for a clutch job??? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!

Post by EricW » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:12 pm

Actually Nigel, I have had very little trouble with the car, it is a
gorgeous thing to drive and I have driven it nearly 90,000 km in the last 18
months, the only reason I would drive a car like that is the miles I do. The
main criticism is that, around town, it drinks like a fish.

All I have done that was "expensive" is one set of pads and rotors, and the
Brembo rotors were only about $350 for the four, (although I bought them as
Brembo not BMW, which mkes a difference, same part number!), It is still
running on the set of tyres it had on it when I bought it and they still
have life in them. Bridgestone Potenza, awesome tyres!

I have replaced a couple of suspension bushes, but that is about all. So the
car it'self is great. But Team McMillan are a shower of s..t.

The problem with BMW is that they are "over-engineered", there really is no
reason for the air-con or the radio to be integrated to the computer system,
and just because you can, does not mean you should!

Eric

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$2,400 for a clutch job??? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!

Post by zorruno » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:45 pm

on 7/12/2005 9:54 a.m. Eric & Ann West wrote:
The car has
this little trick function where, if you switch it off, but don't get
out, it recognises the fact that you are still there, and only
progressively shuts things down.
That relay and 555 timer circuit triggered by the door switch &
connected to the ACC wire sounds pretty tricky. I'm guessing the BMW
logo on the circuit board adds a few $$ ?

;)

cheers
zorruno
(z)

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Post by EricW » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:39 pm

You are probably right zorruno, but it is not the cost of the bits that
annoyed me, it is the being taken for a fool that really got my blood up,
and Bob McMillan has the nerve to attempt to justify it!

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$2,400 for a clutch job??? YOU MUST BE JOKING!!

Post by Simon Lord » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:59 pm

We had an elderly Japanese import BMW for a short time. Once the electrics
started to go wrong it was a nightmare - we should have got rid of it
immediately and we would have saved ourselves a fortune.

Eventually we replaced it with a Mitsubishi Chariot that had already done
97,000 kms - when we finally sold that a couple of months ago it had done
230,000kms with very little attention at all other than regular servicing.
Now that has been replaced by a Mazda Premacy - fingers crossed...

Simon
97 SR Ltd (sparkle green)
Email: simon@franchise.co.nz

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