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My view of of this car, it's the biggest pile of c@#p I have ever purchased!
From day one my parking sensors haven't work correctly, they will pick up a plant leaf moving in the wind but not a brick wall and my friendly local dealership doesn't know how to fix them and has refused to do anymore work on them.
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We got to 400km before feeling the same, but our problems are all mechanical. We love the cool design interior and the gadets work fine. We have PDC with a camera and it is true that the sensors start beeping really early and when anyone walks by the car. Judging distances takes some practice but generally the system works well. I would complain in writing to the dealer and BMW. Our only problem with parking is that the wheel vibrates horrible when manoeuvring in a tight space, and there is a wheird sound. This
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4 months ago I had my 2nd clutch fitted, a modified clutch which was made in Germany because every time I pulled away from a junction the car would judder like crazy, which know needs replacing again as the juddering is back and I have been told if it is replaced again I may have to pay for it.
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the BMW guarantee is 2 years. They buy insurance for these changes.
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Within the last few months intermittionly I have had a warning come up on the dash when I start the car. I have looked the warning (yellow key with a line through it) up in the handbook and it tells me I have inserted the wrong key, but the engine will start everytime, I have told my local dealership who tells me "they all do that, why, who knows"
What is it with auto lights and winter, I have auto lights that will only turn off if I turn them off manually or turn the engine off. My good old dealership says it is 'the winter blue sky effect' and all BMW's with auto lights have the same problem, the 3 previous 3series I had with auto lights never had this problem.
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Never seen that the yellow key. Our lights do come on quite a bit, they will even activate in the shade on a bright sunny day[/QUOTE]
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I've left the best to last. Within a fews days of picking up my car from the dealership I had to fill the washer bottle up as it was empty (dealership forgot to fill it) and noticed a quite a few of the engine parts where covered in rust. Again I spoke to my local dealership who told me they all do that and the only way to deal with it is to next time buy a X1 with a bigger engine cover. Within the last few days I have just recieved a written reply from BMW via my local dealership telling me that rust will protect and do no damage.
I have spoken to BMW direct about these things and all I get from them is "we stand by whatever your dealership says".
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