My wife has a 2008 BMW 118d - it's done about 26,000 miles and has full BMW service history, done on time and at a main dealer from where it was bought.

The 3 year warranty expired last month.

Last night, the DSC/Traction Control warning lights came on and have remained on today indicating that there is a problem. Looking at BMW forums and Google etc, this seems to be a common fault and there may be a number of fixes for the problem.

However, where do you think we stand in terms of BMW having to sort this out at no cost to us. I think it would be outrageous if they expected us to even contribute to the repair, especially when this seems a common fault on BMW's. Arguably, as this is a 3 year old car maintained in the way BMW intended, and with very low miles, they should sort this out for free regardless of the warranty having expired - that's my view anyway.

Anyone had a similar experience?

 

Take the bulbs out or if they are LED's felt tip works well

Seriously though, I've always found BMW dealers very good, I think you will get a good chunk as "goodwill"

If you are keeping the car, put a warranty on it

 

What he say.

Frankly, if you are running anything modern full of canbus/LED without a warranty, you've gotta be nuts.

Modern cars are timebombs.

 

1. take out the extended warranty
2. discover the fault
3. claim

 

If you have a good relationship with the dealer, then approach them. I had items done on my 55 S2000 out of warranty but Honda covered them.

 

There is that.

 

The DSC part alone runs to about £1000, it's £1500 job at a dealer.

Occasionally a failing ABS sensor causes of alarms too, the error codes will tell you whats up.

This is a common failure though unfortunately.

Often people have got the part gratis and had to pay labour.

You need to negotiate with a friendly dealer

 

Had a DSC sensor on my 04 E46 done recently under warranty. Cost would have been around £350 IIRC

 

A friend has a 2005 120D, he had the DSC/Traction control light, and the ALB. Apparently the ABS pumps go on the 1 series and cost a lot to fix.

Extending the warranty is a good idea!

 

This sort of stuff tends to go wrong on NSXs; when they're 15-20 years old.

It must be constantly beating up supplier prices, why practically all modern cars are like British Leyland.