So what your saying is that they quoted you a number of other service items outside of the recall repairs done to the vehicle? Is this correct?

^Thats exactly what he is saying - to a dealer they see a 10+ year old vehicle in for recall service and all they see is dollar signs, the service dept is the real money maker at dealerships and not the sales department.

(not sure if you remember my recent thread on my dealership fiasco where they broke my door carrier and urged me that my 8 month old battery was dead and wouldn't hold a charge)

Jersey is damn humid so I expect my letter soon LOL

Finally. I haven't revieved my letter but I'm glad this is rolling out. It'll be nice not driving around with a grenade in my face.

In the other hand they added a5/s5 convertibles to the list. I'm sure my coupe isn't far behind.

Thats correct. Everything from motor mount to seals etc. Ironically saw no evidence of it when i was under the car literally the night before and again right after I brought it home.

What they also didnt know was I had the TB done within 200miles at a honda dealer and nothing was mentioned and the tech from Honda came out to tell me how nice it is to work on such a well maintained and clean car for a change.

Yeah, I bought the '05 Accord (bad weather/dog hauler, 105k miles) into Lute R Honda for airbag recall, was told the trans & brake fluid looked/smelled bad, needs changing.

Had done the fluid swaps a few weeks prior with RedLine and ATE SuperBlue products.

Haha, I can't wait to take my E39 in then. If they manage to find anything it will be amazing! But with this info I will enforce a "Do the recall, and get me outa here, ASAP". I don't like mechs messing under my body panels :)


-Still no letter though.

Did no one get a rental while waiting for the parts? I found that expedited things VERY quickly to get me the parts to stop the burn of a rental

That would probably just encourage them to replace the bag with another faulty bag.

Not to mention probably any rental car has the same issue.

^Huh? Yeah Im sure thats what they did, replace my old bag with a faulty new component thats tagged with my VIN.

All my rentals were 2016 or 2017 model vehicles

Lol. Brand new vehicles are recalled as well. This is an industry wide problem stemming from a specific airbag manufacturer.

Cars have been "repaired" with new airbags of the same faulty design. This is why many e46s (and countless other makes/models) need to have the airbags replaced a second time. A temporary solution is/was to replace old defective airbags with new defective airbags because age is a primary factor. An older Takata airbag is more dangerous than a newer one (while both being of the same defective design). So yes, they could very well install a new Takata airbag to calm a bitching customer.