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I had warranty work done at my local BMW dealer in the UK no problem (new discs at 12,000 miles as they were juddering) - this was on a 6 month old X5 I'd bought from Amsterdam - so the Euro wide warranty thing definately works. They didn't even ask about the fact it was imported nor was the possibility of any money changing hands ever mentioned. All free & it came back wonderfully clean. Back then the european factory warranty was only for the first 2 years though - the 3rd year was only for cars in bought in the UK (& still the case I think).
Mind, when I had a new M3 back in 2002, I had actually bought it in London from BMW, but then took it abroad. I had to have the crucial 1200 mile oil service done at my local German dealer, but this isn't free abroad - I had to send the bill to my UK dealer where they reimbursed me. So again in the end no problem, and I guess this principle would apply to UK cars in their 3rd year too, if you were abroad.
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