E39 M5 Warranty

[SI M5]

Guys

Does anyone know what is covered under the old (£800) M5 Warranty? I've heard even the exhaust can even be claimed?! Does anyone know how hard it is to claim on this?:confused:

Mine is coming up for renewal, but BMW have added another £1000 to the warranty with a £250 excess.

[Chaos]

Yes, welcome to BMW's new warranty process, cunningly titled their "Parts InSurance Service for Tired And Korroded Engines", or PISS-TAKE for short. It's a very very clever commercial marketing ploy to try and shed a couple of million customers by putting the craptastical shiteness of their customer services into document form and charging the people who pay their wages so that they also finance their eye-wateringly average F1 team and their fat German directors don't have their bratwurst-laden pensions cut into by running such a huge money-pit. A brilliant plan, only very marginally tinged with the fact that people can now see them for the rip-off money-gouging cocktards that they really are.

Still, I digress somewhat. I would think that a warranty claim on an exhaust would need you to find a very very friendly dealer indeed, and even then to have a relatively new exhaust to be claiming against. Dealers round here have been told to tighten the belts somewhat (their words, not mine), so I'll bow down to your good self if you can get away with it, but no harm in asking cos I've been amazed at what they'd do in the past when I did just that so you may get lucky.

As for the renewal, it's a tough call with an M and especially an M5, as bills can get a little silly quite quickly. If yours has been well maintained and you've had it trouble-free for a while, I'd be tempted to bank the cash for just-in-cases, then go on holiday a year later if you got away with the 12 months trouble-free. ;) If you've not had it long or it's been a bit tetchy lately for bits going wrong, it may be worth swallowing their extortion for a year until it settles down, much as it makes my ringpiece itch to recommend you giving any consideration at all to the toilet paper that they've written that fkin outrageously shite new scheme on.

[Shuriken]

From what I've heard, if you've got the old-style warranty you can claim them to clean your ashtray on the basis it's too full and not functioning correctly. Anything, basically. :P

Shuriken.

[Dirty Black]

My car is not functioning correctly, it seems to be out of gas, this is happening once a week.