Educate me (or talk me out of) the 35D...

[Ricky Bobby]

^Yep I have 8 months of factory warranty left (in service date 7/31/13) so I will decide whether to just keep it with just CPO or extend factory -

I have the service records from BMW - and I'm in a California Emissions state (for now) so it qualifies for that coverage (CA emissions coverage is more than the Federal 8y/80k - and that is the stuff I worry about failing, urea tanks, DPF's, sensors, EGT sensors, etc etc

To have another 12 or 24 months of Bumper to Bumper I may purchase the BMW plan with $0 deductible to overlap the CPO, I haven't decided yet, we got a good deal so I'm going to give it a couple months and see how it treats us, as long as I purchased before factory warranty is up I can extend it

[Thecastle]

Yeah my 335D is under california emissions as well. It covers certian items on a diesel longer than the 4/50K mile warranty. But some items are not covered as I've already discovered. Such as the SCR tank, which commonly fails on these cars, however I think on the X5 BMW has extended the warranty on them to 100K. The sedan's no... The tanks seem to die about every 50-80k miles.

[Ricky Bobby]

Emissions components like the urea tanks etc should be covered under 8y/80k federal emissions or in CARB states 10y/120k I believe - on later gen vehicles the component lifespan was upped to 150k as in the Gen3 TDI

Trust me with all this emissions nonsense going on the last thing BMW wants to hear is a call to the EPA or the CARB that they have federal emissions components failing way before the federal and CARB emissions components mandate and are expecting customers to foot the bill. Sure there are people who won't fight back but if my urea tank took a dump at 60k I'd laugh if they expected me to replace it on my dime. It's an essential part of the emissions system.

Same as if a catalytic converter died at 60k, anything that fails early directly relating to the emissions of the vehicle should be covered.

If for some reason it's not, well a DPF and EGR and urea delete would happen a lot sooner than needed.