^^ Good advice.

Are you trading this back to the dealer? So they did a CPO, (apparently they violated their agreement with BMWNA, more later) and failed to detect the prior repairs. CPO inspections are worthless, even more so when the dealer has a financial incentive to not find issues.

To think a CPO would detect the repair, or to think the dealer would TELL you, are both unlikely. The order in which the CPO was done has no bearing on detecting or not detecting the accident.

The dealer CANNOT do a CPO once you own it. This is an absolute violation of BMW rules. The dealer MUST be the owner. You may have them with a bit of leverage here. How could they have sold the car to you on 12/.31, yet enrolled the car as a CPO later? They probably backdated the CPO inspection and enrollment to cover this up.

Did you ever get a copy of the CPO inspection report? The selling dealer is required to give that to you PRIOR to purchase. Also they absolutely retain a copy in their sales records for that car. Get a copy, sooner rather than later.

GL

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