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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-May-2005 at 03:09
Originally posted by Coasting Coasting wrote:

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I think you've got every right to have a go at BMW's if you think you're not getting what you should be.

I just wonder if we sometimes set our expectations too high.

I did have high expectations of BMWs, possibly a bit too high. I was just expecting it to be put together a bit better and have less common problems. Every time something has gone wrong with my car it had turned out to be a problem that a lot of owners have had. It would be more forgivable if I was the exception and had just bought a bad car.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-May-2005 at 03:31
Originally posted by I_MNL I_MNL wrote:

I think you are not listening to me; so I have to say it again:

"Even in the best families of the world, one will find the black sheep"

My problem is that there appears to be several black sheep Big Smile

The E36 in general dosen't appear to be very well built. At first I just thought I had bought a bad one but after using this forum for several months I noticed that the same problems were comming up regularly with other owners cars. And it's not just the E36 either.

My biggest bug bear at the moment is RUST. The last few times I have washed my car I have started to notice that it is appearing everywhere. Nothing very serious but in a couple of years time if left untreated the car will look a right state. Again my first assumption was that it must just be my car, but I have started noticing that a large proportion of E36s, coincidentally in the same places as it is starting to show on my car, are also going rusty.

Again this is not just limited to the E36, I have noticed several E38's starting to go around the back arches, at around the same age as my car. The E34 is not immune either and I don't doubt that in a year or two E39 and E46 owners will start to notice the onset of 'tin worm'

Maybe I just have an unrealistic expections, but surely a company like BMW could make cars with have less of a tendancy to convert to iron oxide!   

Anyway I think i've made my point.

I do agree though a pint would be nice and  Black sheep would do just fine! Big Smile

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10-May-2005 at 17:25

My biggest bug bear at the moment is RUST. The last few times I have washed my car I have started to notice that it is appearing everywhere. Nothing very serious but in a couple of years time if left untreated the car will look a right state. Again my first assumption was that it must just be my car, but I have started noticing that a large proportion of E36s, coincidentally in the same places as it is starting to show on my car, are also going rusty.

Again this is not just limited to the E36, I have noticed several E38's starting to go around the back arches, at around the same age as my car.

 

Have you ever thought that it might just be the bad quality salted grid spread all over the country even on a trace of snow??!? Which really spreads death to metal...

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The above is an attempt to explain things to Peter Fenwick!
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