[Chappers 71]

Originally Posted by MrRigma

Quite a few quid as I bought the 335i. £38 per month for warranty. £45 for the MOT on the 330d. Sort of wish someone would just buy the 330d as it's making me sad looking at it every day!!

Probably not the best time of the year to be selling a car
Congrats on the 335i though, good choice

[russ9898]

Originally Posted by Chappers 71

Dann if your battery's quite old I'd recommend fitting & coding a new one, I kept putting off replacing mine as the car always started fine, allthough a few quirky things have happened over the last few months but now the new battery's fitted it's running sweet. Hope yours gets through its mot ok

Out of interest, what were the quirky things your car was doing pre-battery change?

[Chappers 71]

The car had developed a stutter on tick over kinda like a slight misfire coinciding with a battery voltage drop of 1.5-2amps, the welcome & see you home lights had stopped working, rear fog lights out warning light on dash upon starting the car although the lights were working, sometimes when pressing the starter button nothing would happen for a few seconds & the I-drive screen would stay black for a few seconds upon starting the car, I also had a fuel pump plausibility code which wouldn't go away.
All of these issues have now gone

[MrRigma]

Originally Posted by Chappers 71

Probably not the best time of the year to be selling a car
Congrats on the 335i though, good choice

Yeah agree! Don't mind keeping the 330d for a bit longer, it's only costing about 50 quid a month extra to insure. Problem is we have 5 cars!!
The 335 is a properly nice car, although it's been ages since I've driven a BMW with run flats on it! They are coming off

[Rudz]

Originally Posted by MrRigma

Yeah agree! Don't mind keeping the 330d for a bit longer, it's only costing about 50 quid a month extra to insure. Problem is we have 5 cars!!
The 335 is a properly nice car, although it's been ages since I've driven a BMW with run flats on it! They are coming off

I've gone the other way around from 335i to a 330d, missing the 35i badly 😔😔 330d is not a bad car mind, just not as fun,don't mind not having to fill up every 3-4 days tho😀 (was doing 25k a year)

[Dann]

Ouch.
I filled up 2 weeks ago and have done 30 miles since......and about 1\8th tank of fuel in the process.

[villieb]

So far this month.... £145

Replaced top gasket, new spark plugs, oil, oil filter, steam clean, new serpentine belt and a couple of pulleys....

did most of the work myself (under the supervision of someone who know's what they're doing)

[zippyonline]

Originally Posted by villieb

£145

top gasket, new spark plugs, oil, oil filter, steam clean, new serpentine belt and a couple of pulleys....

What! How!?

I just spent £90 on 6 spark plugs and an air filter (all OEM, with 30% off at ECP) Oil + filter would cost me another £60ish on a good deal..how on earth did you get the rest of it for less!

In other news - I'm not going to buy the official BMW earth straps for my E91, I need 2 of them and they're £21/each!!!

[villieb]

Originally Posted by zippyonline

What! How!?

I just spent £90 on 6 spark plugs and an air filter (all OEM, with 30% off at ECP) Oil + filter would cost me another £60ish on a good deal..how on earth did you get the rest of it for less!

In other news - I'm not going to buy the official BMW earth straps for my E91, I need 2 of them and they're £21/each!!!

Possibly because did most of the work myself... using a friends garage? He ordered the parts, i fitted them (under his supervision).. that's how much his invoice came to... I'm not going to complain

[zippyonline]

Originally Posted by villieb

Possibly because did most of the work myself... using a friends garage? He ordered the parts,

That's a significant discount on parts! (Prices I quoted were parts only).

[MrRigma]

About 200 quid in fuel. Bloody ell these things are not frugal!!!

[Socket]

Hmmm about $70 in fuel and $3800 in mods.... but its a slow month

[mjn77]

Jan was expensive!

New rear discs / pads / handbrake shoes, glow plug controller and 6 new glowplugs. Swapped out the regular brake hoses for braided. And two new rear tyres. Oh, and renewed my ConnectedDrive sub.

[Chappers 71]

How expensive mjn, share your pain

[mjn77]

Erm...

Discs / pads / handbrake shoes - £300
Braided hoses - £110
Labour - £230
ConnectedDrive Sub - £120
Rear Tyres - £266
Glow plugs - £35
Glow plug controller - £0 - already had
Labour - £150

Total ~£1110!

[Dann]

This week - £27.43
MOT passed for another year. A whole 3180 miles after last years

[Chappers 71]

£350 spent during January, replaced serpentine belt, battery & finally got the oil leak sorted.
Car seems to be running well & I didn't have to pay out on anything during November & December apart from the usual £40 a week on fuel.
I put some petrol in it yesterday £1.30 a litre for shell V Power

[mjn77]

A new month, another expense.

Car having rear brake pad sensor replaced whilst i'm looking sexy in hospital.

[Chappers 71]

Originally Posted by mjn77

Erm...

Discs / pads / handbrake shoes - £300
Braided hoses - £110
Labour - £230
ConnectedDrive Sub - £120
Rear Tyres - £266
Glow plugs - £35
Glow plug controller - £0 - already had
Labour - £150

Total ~£1110!

Painful, especially just after Christmas. Hopefully all will be well now for a few months

[mjn77]

Ha ha.......see post above!

[Chappers 71]

Lol your looking hot!!

[Chappers 71]

Brake pad sensor shouldn't cost very much, pity they didn't replace it when you was having the brakes done, but as you say it's another expense