Originally Posted by faz

thanks for your reply. yes, I agree with your point of taking an out of warranty car to the dealer.

Well, the seat belt issue was brought to their attention before warranty expired, and they said they couldn't find a fault code so couldn't do anything, but noted it in their system in case it happened again (after warranty) they could cover it. Now of course, it has been too long past the warranty and they are refusing to do the work on it. I will have an independent shop look into it.

Also the heat through the passenger footwell, well, the indie shop didn't have any experience with this, thought may be refrigerant is low... I just wanted to get the dealer involved to do the computer etc. testing done and get the job done in one shot.

The oil/coolant mix situation was found and brought up by the dealer after the visit.


Am I the first one who has seen and reported the oil/coolant mixing situation here? doing a search on the forum didn't come up with anything that had to do with oil cooler. Search on google brought up a post in another forum with regards to a recent 4 cyl turbo 328i, having the mix of oil/coolant due to oil filter housing gasket/oil cooler gasket... so I am guessing this is not a very common situation perhaps??