chapin99
07-20-2010, 07:40 AM
Hi, all.
I'm a newbie, so please forgive if I don't do this right. I just bought a 2007 335i from my local BMW dealership. The car has lots of mileage (53000), but came with a maintenance agreement through 2012. It is a CPO car. Well, here is the deal: I purchase last Friday, but it is a car they have in the back and not yet ready for test-driving (which I thought might be good). They got it from a sister dealer in Alabama. Anyway, they take until late Monday to wait for a second key to be mailed (and it doesn't arrive). I still go pick it up and plan for key to be mailed. While going over features in the idrive and all that, the salesman and I see that the reading light housing isn't a good fit, but not really commented on. I begin driving off with a terrible creaking sound (pet peeve - especially for a sedan). I push on dashboard and whatnot trying to resolve it and finally push in the reading light console thing and noise stops, but still not looking like a good fit. Well, showed off my car to a friend and when they got out and closed the passenger door, the whole console thing just fell out dangling by wires and turning on the middle light. GEEZ! So, now in reflecting on scuffs on the wheels (I use rejex and was looking them over and saw this at home), black graphite-like stuff inside trunk lid (on white trunk - car is titanium), and some white gunk on rear rubber around back window, and this thing just falling out and dangling, I'm concerned it wasn't given CPO treatment since they already had a sale. It doesn't help that when salesman and I reviewed the deal, he said I only had maintenance through October of this year until I reminded him that it was supposed to be the reason I chose this car over its twin in the lot. Then he kept pulling up the facts about the other car (which he did several times in the process of me buying the car on Friday while I was there from 11:00 until 3:00). To get confused about it being a CPO car and that it had the maintenance the original owner bought, makes me think again that it wasn't treated like a CPO (which I made sure to buy!). So, my question to you all who have done this before and know the car: Does this sound like the condition a car should be in if it is a CPO car and truly gone over by their people? The salesman said they'd had a lot of turnover in service and some problems getting cars ready lately, but that my car was to have been moved to the top of the list on Friday and possibly be ready Saturday (but the call late Saturday said that he didn't know when the wheel guy would be in, so obviously there was some wheel situation and maybe what I saw when I got home). I'm just feeling a little (a lot) disappointed, especially since I just traded my Porsche Boxster with hard top and perfect condition in for this car which I thought would be even better for future reliability. I love the drive of the car and how I've read raves here, but does this deal seem iffy and how might I proceed from here? Thanks for reading through this long post. I look forward to some advise and do want to love this car.
I'm a newbie, so please forgive if I don't do this right. I just bought a 2007 335i from my local BMW dealership. The car has lots of mileage (53000), but came with a maintenance agreement through 2012. It is a CPO car. Well, here is the deal: I purchase last Friday, but it is a car they have in the back and not yet ready for test-driving (which I thought might be good). They got it from a sister dealer in Alabama. Anyway, they take until late Monday to wait for a second key to be mailed (and it doesn't arrive). I still go pick it up and plan for key to be mailed. While going over features in the idrive and all that, the salesman and I see that the reading light housing isn't a good fit, but not really commented on. I begin driving off with a terrible creaking sound (pet peeve - especially for a sedan). I push on dashboard and whatnot trying to resolve it and finally push in the reading light console thing and noise stops, but still not looking like a good fit. Well, showed off my car to a friend and when they got out and closed the passenger door, the whole console thing just fell out dangling by wires and turning on the middle light. GEEZ! So, now in reflecting on scuffs on the wheels (I use rejex and was looking them over and saw this at home), black graphite-like stuff inside trunk lid (on white trunk - car is titanium), and some white gunk on rear rubber around back window, and this thing just falling out and dangling, I'm concerned it wasn't given CPO treatment since they already had a sale. It doesn't help that when salesman and I reviewed the deal, he said I only had maintenance through October of this year until I reminded him that it was supposed to be the reason I chose this car over its twin in the lot. Then he kept pulling up the facts about the other car (which he did several times in the process of me buying the car on Friday while I was there from 11:00 until 3:00). To get confused about it being a CPO car and that it had the maintenance the original owner bought, makes me think again that it wasn't treated like a CPO (which I made sure to buy!). So, my question to you all who have done this before and know the car: Does this sound like the condition a car should be in if it is a CPO car and truly gone over by their people? The salesman said they'd had a lot of turnover in service and some problems getting cars ready lately, but that my car was to have been moved to the top of the list on Friday and possibly be ready Saturday (but the call late Saturday said that he didn't know when the wheel guy would be in, so obviously there was some wheel situation and maybe what I saw when I got home). I'm just feeling a little (a lot) disappointed, especially since I just traded my Porsche Boxster with hard top and perfect condition in for this car which I thought would be even better for future reliability. I love the drive of the car and how I've read raves here, but does this deal seem iffy and how might I proceed from here? Thanks for reading through this long post. I look forward to some advise and do want to love this car.