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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #15 on: October 16, 2019, 05:56:35 pm »
Quote from: TomL on October 16, 2019, 04:53:30 pm


To see a faulty coil one would have to have scope showing plug firing voltages. Specialised equipment with coils on plugs and the general inaccessability on this engine.

Always easier to detect when the intermitent missfire becomes constant.

I’ve got a scope and a coil on plug probe. As I mentioned in a post about it I’d be interested to see if it can detect a failing coil.
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2019, 06:11:32 pm »
Invite Matt over, I'm sure he'll be happy to oblige  :)
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2019, 06:33:46 pm »
Haha thanks but Frank, my dear, I'm just calling BMW Assist in the morning :). It's a warranty item according to my book.
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« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2019, 11:50:58 am »
Well I called BMW Assist this morning. I mentioned how cool we all are and that it won't be a problem they can solve on site, obviously  8).

In any case they sent a chap in a 5 series tourer out. All he had was an OBD thing and a penchant for leaving my bike idling for half an hour whilst said OBD thing completely failed to talk to my bike.

He did say that their new 'process' dictates that every job is triaged by a car-driving person before they'll let you get recovered. All well and fine for a car says I, but these bikes? Take them away!

So as you can guess, i'm now waiting for a recovery van to arrive. Debacle started at 0820 with my call to Assist, guy arrived at around 1000, and now ETA on actually what was needed is 1215.

My place are expecting it in any case. And hopefully it won't go anything like this old thread I've been reading this morning!

Oh I also got the usual "...well i'm not discounting owners' knowledge..." when I mentioned how our wealth of knowledge has narrowed it down already. So I didn't give him any further clues.
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« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2019, 12:27:12 pm »
Ah yes, I remember it well....

Saint Max of Swallowtail seemed to disappear off the face of the earth so whether he immolated himself when setting fire to the bike in the Nice BMW showroom on a busy Saturday morning, who knows   8)

Good to know that BMW Assist is finding new and innovative ways to delay the inevitable. At least my Britannia Rescue chappies send a bike transporter at first asking and take me to wherever I wish  :D
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« Reply #20 on: October 17, 2019, 02:19:09 pm »
I’ll shorten as much as poss.

Ran mine on the BM extended warranty for 6 years ish and was probably breaking even had a problem with the alternator that would flicker on the dash intermittently took in and by which Clark’s had changed to Blade..... guy says it might be termed BM warranty but it’s a separate company that will only pay with a print out from the diagnostics and it didn’t show so got charged 25 quid and sent on my way.

I’ll shorten the next bit as well a couple weeks later after i’d Had enough of the extended warranty and not renewed it said alternator let us down big time and so did the RAC so much so they coughed up £250 in compensation.

Oh the alternator.... bought a brand new off German EBay £125 and fitted myself.
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« Reply #21 on: October 17, 2019, 03:37:42 pm »
Hah!

Well it's done me ok so far, and my place seem pretty good at blagging claims when needed. I also love the recovery aspect... when it happens! And maybe the courtesy car for a nice change.

Bri, the policy must be quite new, re triage, as the puncture i got it recovered for was about 2 months ago, and they didn't even challenge my "it's buggered, trust me" statement.
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #22 on: October 18, 2019, 08:51:56 am »
Coils are non identifiable with  nay diagnostics tool or the mother PC due to canbus system configuration. No1 is always the culpable but as soon as you replace it no2 will immediately follow. Better change them all at the same time. Chipest solution is to get the BERU made ones at a fraction of mother OEM parts price. The difference of 0,1 mv is not noticeable and after subjectd to vigorous testing they were found to perform brilliantly.
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #23 on: October 18, 2019, 09:24:06 am »
If you have a link to those coils Costas post it up, it might help people in the future.
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #25 on: January 20, 2020, 11:26:01 am »
https://www.onlinecarparts.co.uk/beru-8348496.html

that the cheapest i could find.
bike got one coil gone.lost of power and strong smell of fuel at the exhaust end.
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« Reply #26 on: January 20, 2020, 12:16:57 pm »
Oh yeah, BMW quoted me £418 to fix this, doing all four. I think £118 was the labour component. So quite a quick job!
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #27 on: January 20, 2020, 02:17:19 pm »
Ocean charged me £73 a coil 8 months ago. Was part of a 90k service so don't know what the labour was for that item
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #28 on: January 20, 2020, 03:34:07 pm »
That's cheap for a stick coil. £70'odd is the BM going rate.

If you like pulling the bike apart and vacuum re-filling the cooling system then it is a relatively cheap fix to just do the ailing one.

The sensible option is to bite the bullet and change all 4 at once.
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Re: Place Your Bets
« Reply #29 on: January 20, 2020, 11:24:51 pm »
Order all 4 and getting ready to to pull that bike apart :(,read enough info about the job ahead of me.
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