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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 12:55 AM
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hi all...... was so proud on 31/3/05... picked up my new 530 sports... every thing was great....

then just 403 miles later and just under two weeks the transmission errort flashed up.... .... then 2 miles later... the gearbox died..

BMW saying this is very unusual.....not had it happen before..... so now waiting for new gearbox from germany.......

anynone else heard of this problem.. or was i really that unlucky!!!
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 01:05 AM
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Hello again Mike!!

Welcome to the site - i hope you find it as useful as I do.

Sorry again to hear of your problems...

Cheers.
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 01:09 AM
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u must be following me around!!!!
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by mikeqls' date='Apr 20 2005, 10:09 AM
u must be following me around!!!!
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thought you were the private investigator!!!



Edit: I also now see that you have already resgistered here (in fact before me).
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 01:14 AM
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wanna job?????
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 01:15 AM
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must admit i forgot about this site!!! Silly me!!!!
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by mikeqls' date='Apr 20 2005, 08:55 AM
hi all...... was so proud on 31/3/05... picked up my new 530 sports... every thing was great....

then just 403 miles later and just under two weeks the transmission errort flashed up....? .... then 2 miles later... the gearbox died..? ?

BMW saying this is very unusual.....not had it happen before..... so now waiting for new gearbox from germany.......

anynone else heard of this problem.. or was i really that unlucky!!!
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Manual gearbox?
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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 08:35 AM
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Welcome, i presume that you have the new 3.0i?
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Old Apr 21, 2005 | 01:32 AM
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hi.... yeah its the new 3.0i engine and its an auto box... or rather should say... it was an auto box!!!!
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Old Apr 22, 2005 | 12:36 AM
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i have spoken to a few technicians sales guys and discovered mine was not the only new E60 sports to have this problem...... But the 2nd!!!! according to BMW there is no known problem with these cars... just two unlucky people i guess!!

i have had this up on another site and not got much response so can only assume it is not a common issue......
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