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RB, interestingly enough, according to the records from the previous owner, on my 03 3.0, dealer replaced alternator at 79k miles. The replacement unit (Bosch Reman) works just fine at close to 208k miles. Possibly bad batch of alternators on 03 models.
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Stephen she's on the charger now! Long fucking headache story to tell tomorrow but she's home. I left it on 2A (I have 10 and 2 amp on my Schumacher) and "conventional" automatic setting (I have auto conventional, "auto maintenance free/deep cycle" and manual settings) and the conventional setting. Let me know if it should be on deep cycle but on the 1+ hour drive all seemed well in the charging system.
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Deep cycle setting is for marine type batteries. I would use the automatic setting unless the instructions recommend a particular setting for AGM batteries which some chargers do.
Completely discharging a battery can damage or destroy it (sulfation). Once the battery is fully charged, if it will, I would have it load tested at the place you bought it. That way you will know if it is OK. Some chargers have a load test setting.
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A 2 amp push is fine on automatic for a car battery over 24 hrs. Should be completely charged by then. The shumacher chargers only push until the draw requirements signal backs off so as not to over heat. The auto maintenance free setting should be fine also. Easy enough to test the battery correctly. I always wonder how the counter clerks test an X5 battery with one of those quickie testers when the battery is buried under the rear floor.
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Look at it this way: $1100 = one months payment on a low optioned X3. It's the hassle factor that is always the worst when these things happen.
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Oh I'm fine with my $1100 tab for my alternator. Could have been worse.
Now I'm dealing with the dealerships asinine incompetence since they broke my drivers door carrier and stupidly called me telling me "it broke" and I guess I was expected to pay for it? I told them to basically fuck off and I guess I would buy the part from my local dealer and DIY. Then I go to pick up yesterday. Someone didn't tell the lot jockey that my handle was broke and he locked my key in the car. I was over an hour from home and it was 8 PM so I really didn't want to make my wife drive down. Dealer jockeys jimmied the car open with their rod and wedges and air bag and scratched up my B pillar shadow line trim pretty bad and scratched up the paint pretty good on my door jamb and the door jamb on my actual door. I'm amazed they didn't damage my interior Titan trim. After a pretty frank and scathing 5 page letter to the owner of the dealership and copied in BMW NA, I spoke to the GM today. Told him I just want to pay for what I needed done. So I had no problem with my $1100 alternator bill. But I didn't bring the car in with a broken door handle yet I left with one. And also no paint or body damage which was inflicted subsequently because they locked my key in. Also incompetence. So I am looking at having them reimburse me for the door carrier parts so I can DIY, and my local body shop is within walking distance of my office (painted my skid plate) so I will be sending them the invoice for the repairs to my vehicle they inflicted while "breaking in" Such a friggin headache. Literally this could have all been avoided if the service advisor said "you know what I remember when you checked in on Saturday, your door was fine - it broke in our hands, we wouldn't dare ask you to pay for it" - but they tried to get another 4-500 bucks out of me and now they are probably going to pay the same amount in reimbursement to the body shop and to my local dealer parts dept than they did to fix my alternator. Long story but I can try to post my letter here in case someone wants a good read. I basically called out their price gouging, and asked if I dropped my car off with 4 perfect wheels and if a tech curbed my wheel would they call me and ask if I want to pay to replace it? I also don't even want to mention the most minute detail but most annoying. On my $1100 tab, I see 10 @ .88 - $8.80 - 5w-30 I CHANGED MY FUCKING OIL A WEEK AGO I don't even want to get into semantics about how a tech measures that I am 10 ounces low on oil. Never mentioned by service advisor either. Just was on my bill at pick up. That pissed me off too because as an enthusiast and in my letter to BMW I noted that as an enthusiast I keep oil on my shelf and was furthermore enraged that they didn't just charge me price for the quart and let me keep the rest. I couldn't believe they had the audacity to charge me for 10 ounces of oil after I changed mine a week ago with 8 fresh quarts.
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I feel your pain RB.
This is a classic case of why my X NEVER rolls into a dealer or indy shop. I dealt with lots of similar dealer BS before swearing to DIYing everything. NOBODY will treat my vehicle with the same care that I do. My transfer case chain job had around 25 different torque specs during re-assembly, I would bet most would have been air ratchet tight had I let the "pros" do the job.
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^I second TiAG. I DIY everything I possibly can... which, so far, has been 99% of things gone wrong on my bimmers.
Such a hassle RB. Hope they at least try to make it right somehow. That is a terrible dealership experience. We have the same thing happen here at our dealership but they are the only game in town. Funny, Lexus dealers treat you like royalty. As do Infinity. Maybe the Germans need to take some lessons on customer service from the Asian brands?
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I can feel your pain all the way down to Virginia. Atypical dealer experience which seems to occur too frequently on "older models" as they represent 100% COD on any repairs.
All dealers pump oil in bulk so there is no "quart" to give you, unless you bring your own bottle. Good luck on getting her back to square one...
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