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Battery Registration (inserting foot in mouth now)
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10-27-2010, 01:03 PM | #45 |
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10-27-2010, 02:28 PM | #46 |
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Exactly!! Why do some people continue to post misinformation about these cars. There are only 3 battery manufacturers in the world, Johnson Controls being one of the largest & they make the batteries for Autozone, Walmart, & many others including Costco. Connect the vent tube & save big$$$$.
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10-27-2010, 02:39 PM | #47 | |
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As far as depreciation on my car, I bought a 2008 328i w/40K miles a couple of months ago. A comparable 2011 would sticker for ~$48K; I paid $22.9K. The car will depreciate over the next year whether I sell it or keep it. As far as buying a Porsche over BMW, I was under the impression that the BMW was a reliable car that wouldn't cost an arm & leg in maintenance costs. If I've got to spend a bunch of money for maintenance ($384 for a stinkin' battery), I'd rather be driving a Porsche. My standard joke (as a former Porsche owner) is that the price of the car is a down payment; your monthly payments are in parts and labor. And BMWs don't hold a candle to Porsches as far as drivability. But I think that you're missing the larger point that I was trying to make. Why would you even build a car that requires the battery to be registered? I've never heard of such a thing until I started reading this board. As far as I can tell from a google search, BMW is the only company that requires batteries to be registered. That said, Porsches also have their idiosyncracies. For instance, if your battery's dead on the Cayman, you can't open the hood without jury rigging a power supply to it. http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-open-p...t-battery.html Painful. But it's a great driver's car. |
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10-27-2010, 02:45 PM | #48 |
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The battery location in the trunk vs front of the car isn't going to change the weight balance that much. Moving it back under the hood and putting a spare in the trunk would fix the balance problem. And fix the run flat problem.
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10-27-2010, 02:55 PM | #49 |
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^ Not to mention battery weight balance means nothing when you include the weight of a 250 pound driver.
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If no codes are being thrown use Chevron Techron fuel injector cleaner (concentrate). It solves rpm fluctuating upon cold start-up. Also, for most BMW problems start off by scanning your car with the Peake Research Tool. It contains the actual BMW codes. If you want to register a newly installed battery for free (just buy a $10 cable) and google/download BMWLogger
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10-27-2010, 09:11 PM | #50 | |
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10-27-2010, 09:15 PM | #51 |
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Unless you consider the weight of the driver in the design of the chassis for weight distribution in the first place, and you use the battery as part of the weight balance scheme to counter-act the body weight of the driver...
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10-27-2010, 09:17 PM | #52 |
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I think it is obvious that the reason BMW ditched the spare tire is to make room for the large mufflers used in the 335i and even the 328i.
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10-27-2010, 09:49 PM | #53 |
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Just for some clarification... using the BT Tool to "register" the battery will have the same result as from the dealer?
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10-27-2010, 09:53 PM | #54 |
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10-27-2010, 10:35 PM | #55 | |
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It's a nice car, but it's not exceptional enough to be worth it if it's going to be a maintenance hog. And after reading a lot of threads around here, I've noticed that the 3 series has a lot more maintenance problems than other high end cars that I've owned - I'm comparing the %age of problem threads on this forum compared to other car forums that I've been on. I expected BMW to build a hassle-free car; so far, it doesn't appear that way. My license plates expire next November; perhaps I'll feel differently before then. |
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If no codes are being thrown use Chevron Techron fuel injector cleaner (concentrate). It solves rpm fluctuating upon cold start-up. Also, for most BMW problems start off by scanning your car with the Peake Research Tool. It contains the actual BMW codes. If you want to register a newly installed battery for free (just buy a $10 cable) and google/download BMWLogger
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10-28-2010, 06:15 AM | #57 | |
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10-28-2010, 08:31 AM | #58 | |
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If no codes are being thrown use Chevron Techron fuel injector cleaner (concentrate). It solves rpm fluctuating upon cold start-up. Also, for most BMW problems start off by scanning your car with the Peake Research Tool. It contains the actual BMW codes. If you want to register a newly installed battery for free (just buy a $10 cable) and google/download BMWLogger
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10-28-2010, 08:41 AM | #59 |
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100% Agree with you. The car is not hard to work on. The plugs are a bit of PIA since you have to remove half the engine bay to get to them, but at every 100,000 miles, I can live with it.
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If no codes are being thrown use Chevron Techron fuel injector cleaner (concentrate). It solves rpm fluctuating upon cold start-up. Also, for most BMW problems start off by scanning your car with the Peake Research Tool. It contains the actual BMW codes. If you want to register a newly installed battery for free (just buy a $10 cable) and google/download BMWLogger
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10-28-2010, 11:07 AM | #62 |
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The 335 is far from easy to change fluids. The coolant is nearly impossible to drain from the block, the transmission fluid has to be sucked out and not drained. The differential fluid is extremely hard to get to. I don't know if anyone has actually done these jobs, but I do know that BMW makes them much harder to do.
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10-28-2010, 11:48 AM | #63 | |
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That said, many of you are missing the point - and are doing so intentionally. Several of us have given valid reasons (including scans from the Bentley manual) that explains why a battery should be registered. If you want to ignore that, then it is on your dime since it is your car. Your problem may lie down the road. With that, I'm out of this thread. This constant bickering is giving me a headache. |
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10-28-2010, 12:09 PM | #64 | |
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If no codes are being thrown use Chevron Techron fuel injector cleaner (concentrate). It solves rpm fluctuating upon cold start-up. Also, for most BMW problems start off by scanning your car with the Peake Research Tool. It contains the actual BMW codes. If you want to register a newly installed battery for free (just buy a $10 cable) and google/download BMWLogger
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10-28-2010, 12:53 PM | #65 | |
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But I'm calling BS on coolant and trans fluid changes. This is AGAIN a Rube Goldberg machine according to the DIY guides. http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=367729 Do you really find having to pump in new transmission fluid underneath the car with a transfer pump as easy? http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=248187 Coolant change? Again, not easy. (How many tools are listed just to change the coolant?) These are fairly simple tasks that can be done with easily on most cars. Not so with BMW. And don't get me started on lifetime fluids; that's a sure way to kill a car in under 200K miles. But I think that's their plan... |
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10-28-2010, 12:55 PM | #66 |
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I would like to add one piece of info to this discussion.
I see a lot of comments along the lines of... "why pay the dealer $400 when I can get a new battery for $90!!" Modern BMWs come with a absorbed glass mat (AGM) battery that is far better quality than the old style lead acid battery. AGM batteries cost quite a bit more than lead acid batteries, so if we are going to make this about price we should compare like batteries. A little Google-Fu turned up this http://www.odysseybatteries.com/battery/pc1220.htm link for a group 94R AGM battery that will fit a new 3-series. As you can see the battery is $268. If you go to the dealer you will be getting a AGM battery. Not really fair to compare that to the $90 lead acid battery from Walmart. If you factor in the cost of an equivalent AGM battery, the dealer prices we are seeing quoted in this thread do not seem to unreasonable when you add in labor to R&R the battery, plus hooking up the computer to do the registration. I'm not normally one to defend dealer prices, but I thought this was important enough to be pointed out. |
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