Batman

I am since last Feb 2008 without warranty, but no issues yet . . . . .

dirksqjaw

I bought out of warranty. I've had a few problems, some pretty minor, my M-ASK was major. All in all, it's cost me about 4k US in the last 3 months. I need to replace my headlight assemblies next (wiring inside is shot), so that's another couple of grand. I could have bought a CPO'd 550 for price I paid for the car plus repairs.

I knew the risk going into it, and at the time I was in a hurry to get a car and there were no CPO's available that I liked so... I'll never buy out of warranty again if I can help it. It's tough on the pocket book.

iCharles

Ditto! But that's life. This is my first BMW, I have owned two Mercedes - and I wasn't sure how much I wanted to invest in a brand of car that I mainly know for being 100% reliable at cutting people off and not using turn signals.

Since I paid cash for my car, and cash for all the repairs/maintenance and aftermarket goodness, I found last night that I could have just bought a fully loaded 545i, newer and with less miles.

rogerj

Bought my '04 545i couple months ago with 47,000 miles, 1 week out of factory warranty. Bought it from private luxury dealer. I have a buddy who works for BMW and was able to do an extended carfax inquiry for me, so I had some additional confidence regarding this car's history. I never considered extended warranty at time of purchase and one was not offered to me. I am also one of those people who rarely purchase protection plans on much of anything. From my research on this forum, an extended warranty would cost me about $3000. So I did not buy a plan and I am willing to spend $3000 to $4000 to keep her running. Any more than that and I am out. I should also mention that this is not my every day car and usually only driven on weekends. I was referred to this site for extended warranty but none was offered for my car.

http://www.autowarrantybroker.com/quoterequest.asp

carfucious

545i, out of warranty with 61k miles. Only problem was a crank angle sensor that went bad causing hard/no start. About $300 to diagnose and have fixed. Everything else maintenance only.

DKNewYork

I bought the car from a dealer auction. I'm out of warranty as of September. I have a 04 545i which I heard has lots of problems. It has 42k miles on it. So far the only problem I had was the alternator putting too much power to the computer. It was fixed before the warranty expired. Thank god. Next car will be CPO

info@trinityautosport

*knock on wood*

I am running without a warranty as well, approaching 51k miles.

djr77

My warranty on my 04 530i ran out on October of 07. Since then I have spent $100 on oil and filter. I have 67,000 miles now and my brakes are starting the squeak. My iDrive says they still have 20,000 miles left. I hope it's correct.

kiwistu

Hi All

I had my 545 for a week, out of warranty, perfect timing for the pass airbag issue to occur! My dealer looked after me though, wouldn't admit there was a design problem, but took a full 70% off the invoice (go figure) I was happy with that.

This was before I could arrange the aftermarket warranty, I paid NZD $1200 (about US$800) for $10k per fault/3yrs/unlimited kms offered by the AA here in NZ, so I am covered for all but a total meltdown, and even then my car is mainstreem (ie not an M5) so $10k would go a long way to fixing it. I am allowed muliple faults also.

The way I see it I am betting the insurer that it won't break - I am mainly concerned about a big electronic problem etc.

These warranties work well in New Zealand, I had a POS Volvo (V70 turbo - we had a new child figured I needed a family car, had some great features but what was I thinking?? mate, even the volvo forum members were mostly weirdo's I should have known!) anyhow the AC blew up, $5k job covered by the warrenty. Sweet I can sell it and did shortly there after!

Summary, when my wifes SUV rolled out of warranty + my car, in both cases I bought aftermarket warrantys. I love insurance when you get the bong of despair! (my wife still gives me greif about that bong - 8 years ago we had a '91 M5 in the UK, coolest car ever by a mile, but it liked the workshop!)

My 2c

Cheers
Stu

myfiveserie1818

I am like you also lol.. my checkbook is my waranty. crossing my fingers now..