Had the Safety Restraint Faulty message and Active Steering failure come on last Monday. Took into BMW to fix today and tried to claim via Warranty Direct in UK as manufacturer warranty ran out last December. Unfortunately the parts are not covered by Warranty Direct as its not one of the parts mentioned in the gold cover which is supposed to be the same as the BMW manufacturer warranty. What a con!!!

Any had problems in the UK claiming with Warranty Direct and if so what happened and was any complaint made? Cost to repair is quite excessive too.

 

Warranty direct is popular with M3 owners, purely for cost 700 pounds PA in month installments 1 months notice, they do payout on normal stuff form what ive read.

BMW now charge 1800 quid a year for warranty on M cars !! one reason I just swapped to an E60 and the fact in 3 months they spent 6k on warranty work on my M3 !!

however Warrantly Direct is limited to 5k payout there is another one of the problems. If recall, BMWs limit is the value of the car only

Could I suggest get the offending parts second hand from Fabdirect or Quarry motors etc..or nwe from Euro car parts. Get them fitted by an Ex BMW specialist and get the Dealer to reset the computer and verify its working ok. This should cost less.

trouble the safety parts, is they are connected by fibre optics "byteflyte" as far as I can see so you wil have to carefully who does it

Mark