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Done at main dealer so I assume it's all done to book..mileage counter is correct

1. E89 Model 35iS
2. Year 2010
3. Colour exterior Melbourne Red
4. Colour interior Ivory White

5. Issues experienced, notes & status e.g.

5a. Issue description - "Very slight" leak from nsf adaptive shock absorber, "slight" leak from rocker cover gasket & leak from DCT sump plate
5b. Current status - Resolved
5c. Warranty Claim? - Cost covered completely under warranty
5d. Comments? - BMW extended warranty. £250 excess.

18 December 2020

5a. Issue description - "edc control fault" & leak from DCT sump plate (the latter again)
5b. Current status - Resolved
5c. Warranty Claim? - Cost covered completely under warranty
5d. Comments? - BMW Insured Warranty. £250 excess. Edc unit was £659 & sump plate was £337.

Add to above - Wheel locking nut failure.

Z4 E89 faults in 2 years of ownership

1. E89 Model (35i)
2. Year / Reg (2010)
3. Colour exterior (Silver)
4. Colour interior (Red)

5a. Issue description - Turbo wastegate rattle
5b. Current status - Resolved
5c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £400
5d. Comments? - Wategates replaces at an independent specialist

6a. Issue description - Injectors leaking
6b. Current status - Resolved
6c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £800
6d. Comments? - 3 leaking injectors. All 6 replaced with the latest revision

7a. Issue description - Cracked alloys
7b. Current status - Resolved
7c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £200
7d. Comments? - Cracks repaired at wheel specialist

7a. Issue description - Cracked cam cover
7b. Current status - Resolved
7c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £250
7d. Comments? - Cam cover and gasket replaced

8a. Issue description - Rattles from interior
8b. Current status - Resolved
8c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £15
8d. Comments? - Spent a few days taking apart most of the interior and covering any mating surfaces with sticky back felt.

9a. Issue description - Exhaust flap stuck closed
9b. Current status - Resolved
9c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £5
9d. Comments? - Spent an afternoon removing exhaust, cutting out the flap and welding up the hole left from the hinge.

10a. Issue description - Thermostat heater failed
10b. Current status - Resolved
10c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £100
10d. Comments? - Replaced thermostat with OEM part

11a. Issue description - Water pump failed
11b. Current status - Resolved
11c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £400
11d. Comments? - Replaced waterpump with OEM part

12a. Issue description - Rear spring snapped
12b. Current status - Resolved
12c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £200
12d. Comments? - Replaced both rear springs with with OEM part

13a. Issue description - boot partition bracket broken
13b. Current status - Resolved
13c. Warranty Claim Rejected? - Cost completely paid by customer at £5
13d. Comments? - Repaired as per guide

Interesting one... Did a bit of searching and can not seem to find any similar stories so perhaps is just an unfortunate one off...

1. E89 Model (28i Manual)
2. Year / Reg (2012 - 12reg)
3. Colour exterior (White)
4. Colour interior (Black)

5. Issue experienced, notes: Oil level unexpectedly dropped by one litre after 12 months of commuting and since last service. Mileage went from around 40K to 55K during this time.

5a. issue description – Oil top up warning
5b. Current status - Resolved - Replaced with OEM crankshaft oil seal and dropped in a new 3 piece OEM clutch kit while the box was off
5c. Warranty Claim? - - Non warranty - paid around £350 (Cheap eh… )
5d. Comments? – Covered 15K in twelve months of various driving including 80 mile a day commute on mixed roads and some pleasure driving as you’d expect with a car like this.


6. Issues experienced, notes:

6a. Issue description – Oil level drop over 15K miles in 12 months, previously my regular drive for the first 3 years of ownership was around 10 miles a day commute and some pleasure driving so around 6K PA.

6b. Current status - Resolved - replaced with OEM parts, issue resolved
6c. Warranty Claim? - Non Warranty -

6d. Comments? – Initial thoughts were top up oil and check the level periodically as my driving has changed from around 6K PA to 15K in 12 months. Had an oil service change done and when up on the ramps had an inspection of the turbo (Check, all OK) engine for leaks (Check, all OK) and gearbox (Check appears to have oil in the bell chamber, we may have found the smoking gun!!

Well that got me thinking, has this been leaking for a while but my lack of mileage (Low miles for earlier years) masked it. Reason I thought was the clutch had a nasty judder from cold, I just put it down to the “normal” characteristics of the car as it always had the judder from when I purchased, it just went away after a few miles and the clutch action smoothed out so you basically forgot about it or I must have just got used to it and adapted to driving “with it”. Clutch may have been getting slight oil contamination and drying out after initial use, no slipping experienced though.

Any way post resolution of the remedial works the car drives amazingly different (Difficult to describe) gear changes are slick, the clutch pedal feels super soft and easy to work and no judder like before.

So in summary I have a new clutch and a new crankshaft oil seal and an interim oil service. The car is back on song and a pleasure to drive and I am looking forward to many more years of happy motoring

Happy reading

any questions or further details required let me know

1. E89 3.0si auto
2. 2009 (owned since 2012)
3. Black metallic
4. Red
5a plastic hinge in boot for roof tray (2015)
5b Resolved
5c part laid by dealer since I argued that I shouldn’t have to pay the full cost since BMW changed the design to included the net
5d no problem since
6a Car wouldn’t hold manual when selected in the manual mode reverting to drive. I drive the car always in manual via the paddles (2019). Needed a new shift lever handle.
6b Resolved
6c Cost £695 inc the £120 fault diagnosis
6d back to perfect

1. E89 Model - 35is
2. Year / Reg - 2011 original owner/still have her (58k miles)
3. Colour exterior - Black Sapphire
4. Colour interior - Coral Red

5. Cracked Rims (many)
5a. Issue description - Cracked Wheels
5b. Current status - Resolved (for now)
5c. Warranty Claim? - Never covered; range of new rim from $700 (noob) to $500 for new; also was able to salvage one at $200.
5d. Have had this happen 6 or 7 times. I am in Houston and streets are very bad. Taking the RFT's off helped a bit but not much.

6. Top not working pt.1 2018
6a. Hall sensor went bad
6b. Resolved
6c. Out of warranty; $1100 at dealer
6d. I didn't trust an indy with fixing the top so I paid the dealer.

7. Top not working pt 2 2019
7a. Water ingress from filters at the back bumper. Hydraulic pump went out and harness corroded
7b. Still working on this
7c. Not in warranty; looks like this is going to cost a cool $4k to fix
7d. Car was left out at the body shop during tropical storm Imelda and water came into the boot destroying the pump. ALWAYS check the boot for water! Check those filters in the bumper.

8. Suspension problem 2017-2019
8a. Struts leaking @ 35k miles, bushings bad
8b. Current status - Resolved (for now)
8c. Warranty Claim? - Out of warranty; Struts/top mounts ~ $2200, replace upper/lower arms and bushings with M3 components ~$700
8d. Struts started leaking at 35k but I was out of warranty. Replaced with OEM parts at an Indy.

I really cannot think of any issues I've had which were covered under the 4 year warranty period. The car has been super reliable for the first 7 years but this last year I feel like I am dumping money into it.

Hi, an update on my Z4 2.0 Msport
Manufactured Feb 2016.

Had it’s first MOT April 2019 no problems.FAB.

In July 2019 I noticed the roof making a louder clunk when closing and attaching to the front windscreen.
I had mentioned this at the MOT in April but the BMW mechanic tested it and said there was nothing wrong then proceeded to open up the roof and then close it and low and behold nothing, not a squeak , I said to him so what did you do ? He said nothing there is no issue.
Ah well , that’s just the Z4 isn’t it, noises appear to come and go.

Any way as I was saying the louder clunk appeared in July 2019 and I said to myself you were right at MOT time there is an issue.
I decided to drop a couple of drops of 3 in 1 oil into the two areas where the roof attaches to the front windscreen and perfect the clunk was gone.

My Z4 is still running like a dream but I have to say it’s only done 26k miles since new .
I’ve replaced the two rear tyres but the two front ones are the originals from production.

I love this car especially with the top down , I live in Scotland , chilly , but top down for me except when it’s raining.
I love driving with the top down at night as well.Great feeling.

Deferd wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2019 4:33 pm I decided to drop a couple of drops of 3 in 1 oil into the two areas where the roof attaches to the front windscreen and perfect the clunk was gone.

Now there's something worth trying. Thank you.

1. E89 20i auto
2. 2014
3. Black
4. Black

5. Issues experienced, notes & status e.g.

5a. Engine overheating light came on after engine warmed up - car drops into limp mode
5b. Resolved
5c. No warranty, ran out 2 months ago and chose not to renew...total cost to replace was £950 although that included 4 wheel alignment and initial diagnostic. Water pump and thermostat replaced.
5d. The problem identified was a failing water pump, but the pump and thermostat were replaced.

1. E89 Model 35iS
2. Year 2010
3. Colour exterior Melbourne Red
4. Colour interior Ivory White

5. Issues experienced, notes & status e.g.

5a. Issue description - NSR 'barrel' spring - snapped 1.5 coils from bottom
5b. Current status - Resolved
5c. Warranty Claim? - No
5d. Comments? - Total £172 inc VAT.

Busterboo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:56 pm 5a. Issue description - NSR 'barrel' spring - snapped 1.5 coils from bottom

Just curiosity here, why Barrel spring? Isn't it just a helical spring?

ronk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:04 pm

Busterboo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 02, 2020 8:56 pm 5a. Issue description - NSR 'barrel' spring - snapped 1.5 coils from bottom

Just curiosity here, why Barrel spring? Isn't it just a helical spring?

It was the term the mechanic used and the spring is barrel shaped - fat in the middle and narrower at bottom and top.

https://www.turnermotorsport.com/p-6067 ... -bmw-part/

ok not e89, I was wondering where

tintoverano wrote: ↑Wed Jun 03, 2020 4:56 am ok not e89, I was wondering where

My car is an e89. I just grabbed an image off t'interweb to show the barrel shape. (It looks as if both 85 and 89 have rear barrel springs.)