Heading to Autocar as a long term car, I believe
F30 LCI D3 BiTurbo #429
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Charles
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Teacher of Chemistry and driver of ALPINAs - not necessarily in that order
B3S Touring (49/116) - been to the moon and now on the way back!
Renault Grand Espace - not mine but the wife's!
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Wow, now thats an expensive 3 series!
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Lovely B3
Never understood why Sytner insist on that number plate font, it just looks weird
Never understood why Sytner insist on that number plate font, it just looks weird
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1993 Mercedes 190E 2.6 Sportline spec
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2012 F10 D5 Biturbo No.13
1993 Mercedes 190E 2.6 Sportline spec
1991 Mk1 Golf GTI Sportline cabriolet
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Back up for sale. Love this quote
D3 BITURBO [F30 LCI] #429 A75 - Melbourne Red/LCL3 - Black Dakota w Red Stitch Leather; 2017_17; £32.0k; 55k; TradeMANUFACTURED BY BMW EXCLUSIVELY FINISHED BY THE EXPERTS AT THE ALPINA DEVIATION!!
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Wonder if they've test driven it and spotted the issue yet...
D3 Bi-Turbo Blue 2017 #346 (sold)
D3 Bi-Turbo Mineral White 2014 #44 (sold)
D3 Bi-Turbo switchtronic 2009 (sold)
D3 2006 #184 (sold)
B3s Conv 2004 #189 (sold)
D3 Bi-Turbo Mineral White 2014 #44 (sold)
D3 Bi-Turbo switchtronic 2009 (sold)
D3 2006 #184 (sold)
B3s Conv 2004 #189 (sold)
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Not sure, guess we might find out in time.
Was talking to a friend in the trade, apparently F3x's are notorious for faults with the steering rack, there are plenty of results after a quick Google. Wonder if that was checked? You'd like to hope so if it was at a BMW dealer?!
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Somewhere above it was written that the fronts were swapped left to right - hence how the tyre damage was spotted. And the rears were new when the car was purchased. So it reads as if the rears hads not been swapped right to left as part of the owners fault finding. My bet is a rear tyre was at fault. I'd have thought a steering rack issue would be apparent not just when accelerating hard.CaesarBob wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 10:14 amNot sure, guess we might find out in time.
Was talking to a friend in the trade, apparently F3x's are notorious for faults with the steering rack, there are plenty of results after a quick Google. Wonder if that was checked? You'd like to hope so if it was at a BMW dealer?!
In my experience, most garages/dealers, are terrible at diagnosing issues such as this. Porsche dealers are equally inept. My advice is to go somewhere like Center Gravity. When I was last there with my 718 Cayman, Chris Franklin the owner, was solving a handling/tyre issue on a 911 which had just been fitted with new Michelin PS4s. When I enquired as to who was other chap inspecting the car, he told me it was the Technical Assessor (or similar title) for Michelin UK no less. Admittedly Center Gravity are Porsche specialist, but they see a few M cars and exotica.
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100% agree churchie386, dealers are very very poor at this kind of fault finding and Chris @ CG is superb
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1993 Mercedes 190E 2.6 Sportline spec
1991 Mk1 Golf GTI Sportline cabriolet
2012 F10 D5 Biturbo No.13
1993 Mercedes 190E 2.6 Sportline spec
1991 Mk1 Golf GTI Sportline cabriolet
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#429 is back up for sale
D3 BITURBO [F30 LCI] #429 A75 - Melbourne Red/LCL3 - Black Dakota w Red Stitch Leather; 2017_17; £27.5k; 63k; Private
D3 BITURBO [F30 LCI] #429 A75 - Melbourne Red/LCL3 - Black Dakota w Red Stitch Leather; 2017_17; £27.5k; 63k; Private
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And back again (with recycled images from a previous advert)
D3 BITURBO [F30 LCI] #429 A75 - Melbourne Red/LCL3 - Black Dakota w Red Stitch Leather; 2017_17; £27.0k; 66k; Private
D3 BITURBO [F30 LCI] #429 A75 - Melbourne Red/LCL3 - Black Dakota w Red Stitch Leather; 2017_17; £27.0k; 66k; Private
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