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#1538 of 1544 Re: Brand new BMX X3 costs 20% of price to sell back [pp2009pp] by lawman1967 Sep 18, 2009 (1:25 pm)
Replying to: pp2009pp (Sep 18, 2009 10:32 am) Just for giggles, why don't stop crapping all over the X3 threads. 1 lemon does not make for a defective car line. My wife had a brand new 2007 Toyota Camry, largely regarded as one of the most reliable cars on the market, but it was a rattle trap with shimmying brakes from day one. She traded it on a 2009 X3 in February, last 15,000 trouble-free miles later it remains THE BEST-BUILT, MOST RELIABLE, LEAST TROUBLESOM and ZERO DEFECT car that either of us has ever owned.   We are so delighted with the build quality that when I trade in my Mercedes early next year I'm going to look for a nice CPO 2007 or 2008 X3 for myself.   Of course my great experience doesn't make the X3 a troublesome car line any more than your experience makes it a troubled one.   The fact is the X3 uses largely the same parts as the previous-generation 3-series, a well-liked and reliable car if ever there was one, and the engines and transmissions from the current 3-series, also a rather highly-regarded car. There is nothing about the X3 that makes good engines and transmissions bad.   Face it, you got a bad one. Maybe your car was put together on the Monday morning after Oktoberfest, but it is hardly representative to the entire line. Replies to this message: roadburner (Sep 20, 2009 11:07 am) pp2009pp (Sep 20, 2009 12:54 pm)
#1539 of 1544 Re: Brand new BMX X3 costs 20% of price to sell back [lawman1967] by roadburner Sep 20, 2009 (11:07 am)
Replying to: lawman1967 (Sep 18, 2009 1:25 pm) Face it, you got a bad one. Maybe your car was put together on the Monday morning after Oktoberfest, but it is hardly representative to the entire line.   Exactly!
#1540 of 1544 Re: Brand new BMX X3 costs 20% of price to sell back [lawman1967] by pp2009pp Sep 20, 2009 (12:54 pm)
Replying to: lawman1967 (Sep 18, 2009 1:25 pm) "Face it, you got a bad one. Maybe your car was put together on the Monday morning after Oktoberfest, but it is hardly representative to the entire line. "   Did I ever say it was? I am talking about my car and my personal experiences.   I am trying to figure out what is wrong with my car and how to fix it. Since my car will eventually be up for resale as well, I do not have a vested interest in outlining its problems either. However, the situation is bad enough that I am willing to take the risk of poor resale in order to figure out what the heck is wrong with it.   So far, I have found (through talking about my car) that it might have the well-known transmission problem causing rocking, it might have a cv joint problem causing bucking from the front bumper, it might have asthma or allergies....I do not know. I am currently trying to figure out if there is something amiss in the seat as I feel the side to side swaying behind the driver's seat after going over minor imperfections in the road.   Who knows what I will find today? The hunt continues until I figure out what it is.
#1541 of 1544 Best time to sell brand new 2009 by pp2009pp Sep 26, 2009 (6:56 pm)
I do not see a folder for Prices When Sold and Selling Experiences.   Does anyone know when it makes sense to sell a brand new 2009 X3 AT in favor of a different car from a different manufacturer?   Right now, to sell it back to the dealership costs about 20% of the purchase price. That means that driving this around for 1 month cost 20% of the purchase price. It also means providing more profit to the dealer and BMW which just adds insult to injury even though I do not blame the dealer.   Caveat BMW.   I suspect that driving it around for 6 months, unless I am putting more than 1500 miles on it in a month i.e. significantly more than average, doesn't cost much more than 20% of the purchase price. Has anyone actually done this with a BMW or similar car?   I'm just looking for options. I don't know yet if this qualifies for lemon lawing although it still may since it appears to be picking up new ticks. Replies to this message: nyccarguy (Sep 27, 2009 6:31 pm) pp2009pp (Sep 27, 2009 8:51 pm)
#1542 of 1544 Re: Best time to sell brand new 2009 [pp2009pp] by nyccarguy Sep 27, 2009 (6:31 pm)
Replying to: pp2009pp (Sep 26, 2009 6:56 pm) You're going to get killed either way, today, tomorrow, or 6 months from now - pick your poison. You have an '09 x3 that had an MSRP somewhere in the $40K ish neighborhood. The dealer has to buy it back from you and sell it at a profit for significantly less than a new '09 X3 (0 miles). If you are truly unhappy (and it seems like you are), then shop the car around. Get quotes from your dealer (which you have), I hear carmax always offers more than a dealer does, try other BMW dealeships. You never know. Good luck! Replies to this message: pp2009pp (Sep 27, 2009 8:51 pm)
#1543 of 1544 Re: Best time to sell brand new 2009 [nyccarguy] by pp2009pp Sep 27, 2009 (8:51 pm)
Replying to: nyccarguy (Sep 27, 2009 6:31 pm) Difficult to say. Right now I am so angry about this that I am not going to make any quick decisions.   This HOJ may head back to the dealership yet again this week as the cold weather apparently exacerbates the well known problem with the AT. Unbelievably, things could actually get worse with this HOJ.   I will say that that along with others who have been saddled with BMW JUNK, I am happy to relate my personal experiences with as many people as I can. I could have paid 1/3rd of the price and not had anywhere near this kind of headache.   BMW is not a premium brand, it is just a car company selling over priced, under performing cars. And, no, I do not think BMW cares one iota about disgruntled customers. Note the huge number of transmission problems in a variety of BMW models from earlier this decade at noreverse.org. There, you can read a litany of complaints about new transmissions costing thousands of dollars to replace because one day the BMW simply refused to go into Reverse,   You can also go to the forums on the BMW X3 Automatic Transmission problems. There are also a litany of complaints spanning three years about this same set of problems.   What a nightmare.
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