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Replying to: tagman (Sep 11, 2008 8:34 pm) I was driving the E46. I guess "old and smelly" is in the eyes of the beholder.  This particular dealer is know for being a little *snooty* which is why I bought from the other one last time. Here's a good one - I mentioned previously about my friends new '08 535i. He bought it at the snooty dealer. After he ordered the car I mentioned that the Premium Package was free as noted on the BMW web site. When he called they balked about giving him the $2,200 back. He insisted - and they insisted they wouldn't. Since he gave them his Sequoia as a trade a few weeks earlier, he didn't have much leverage. He did manage to get all-weather floor mats and an update to his X5's nav. 
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Replying to: ivan_99 (Sep 11, 2008 8:32 pm) I'm going to wear a tuxedo the next time. 
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Replying to: venture (Sep 11, 2008 6:13 pm)
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Replying to: kominsky (Sep 12, 2008 9:45 am)
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Replying to: venture (Sep 11, 2008 6:42 pm) While we were visiting in Cincinnati we decided to check out the CPO inventory at Jake Sweeney BMW as well as The BMW Store. I had checked both of their web sites and each of them had at least one car I was very, VERY interested in. I was prepared to make a simple deal; 100% cash, no trade. We first stopped at Sweeney's, where we pulled up in my wife's 2004 X3 and walked over to the CPO lot to find the two 540i Sports that I had seen on Sweeney's website. We walked across the lot and through the CPO showroom and received no offers of assistance- not counting the lot jockey who asked me if I wanted the keys to a car I WASN'T looking at. I guess jeans, a BMW CCA golf shirt, and a BMW F1 jacket don't meet Jake's dress code. After about fifteen minutes of this I decided enough was enough; as we were leaving we walked by a sales guy who had been ignoring us while he chatted on his cell phone. As we passed him he heard me tell my wife that we were moving on to the BMW Store. So NOW he asks, "You mean you folks haven't been helped?" "Just forget it." I replied. His response? "Have a nice day. We're busy too, you know." Nice try, but I'd just walked through the CPO showroom and there was maybe one customer in the whole place, and two bored looking sales guys sitting at their desks. I wrote a letter to the CPO sales manager that detailed the entire incident and that was ignored as well. Worst of all, when we did get to the BMW Store the car I was interested in had just been taken out on a test drive- and ended up being sold to that customer... 
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It's car salesmen that give car salesmen a bad name!  I mean, they don't come by their bad reputation idly ... they work hard for it! |
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Replying to: roadburner (Sep 12, 2008 6:11 pm) Don't you just love it when they have a smart remark after they have ignored you for so long? I'm going to start carrying a banana cream pie with me when I go car shopping. 
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Replying to: venture (Sep 12, 2008 10:30 pm) |
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I recently had the fuel pump replaced in the 135i. The check engine soon light had come on, and after they diagnosed the car, they said it was the high pressure fuel pump. There was only 1944 miles on the car when this happened! The more I looked into it, the more I discovered that BMW keeps fuel pumps in their parts department like light bulbs and fuses. They actually know they are bad and will need replacement. Sooooo many of them are replaced, and this problem has been ongoing for quite some time. Supposedly, this latest generation of fuel pump, which has a long part number ending with 881, is supposed to be the real fix. We'll see. TM
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The fuel pump has been a problem area for the BMW twin-turbo 535i and 335i vehicles. Now I see it has hit the 135i's too. I am not surprised. Sorry to hear the fuel pump thing happened to you.  |
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