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Old 04-18-2019, 11:36 AM
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Find a good independent shop.

I've only had good experiences with warranty work at the dealer. Of course, this is their dime and time so they do their best to get it right and get the car out.

We had an e46 325i that had a cyl1 misfire according to an inexpensive code reader. It would misfire when idling cold. If I was manually raising the idle with my right foot during after cold starts, the SEL would not show. After it reaches operating temp, it idled fine. I drove it 750 miles r/t to Socal in this condition. It wasn't the coil as we swapped them around, 1 to 4. DISA seemed fine also.

We took it in to BMW San Francisco and $200 later, they said it needed cylinder head work. Later, we sold the car to a mechanic who probably fixed a vacuum leak that I couldn't find.
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e53 - transmission blew at 225k 2012
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