33 days

And still not fixed. My 750Li that is. Picked it up last Friday at 5:30 after 33 days at the dealer supposedly fixing the "ghost in the drive" problem that has plauged the car for the last year or so. This was the 4th repair try. Extensive diagnosis including input from the regional "super tech" led to replacement of 3 separate modules on the same bus - drivers side front and rear door modules and drivers seat module (twice, 1st replacement was DOA). The invoice then reads that everything was extensively checked for several days and worked as designed. Well, not so much. I hopped in the car, fired it up, cleared the lawyer screen and the idrive controller started its ritual twitching. The tech is ready to kill it with fire and is out of ideas. I'm just plain pissed that I was without my car for a solid month and it's not any better than it was when I dropped it off, apart from having their PDR guy take out the half dozen door dings it had picked up. A call to BMW USA customer relations today made it clear that they have nothing constructive to add. I suppose this is to be expected with a 93k mile 7 series - the craziness of out of warranty ownership starts at 100k miles, probably 5 months given my usual mileage accumulation. Yet when I drop the hammer and hit my favorite offramp way faster than any huge luxobarge has the right to while the Logic7 system makes my ears bleed with perfect sound and the kids squeal with delight in the spacious rear seats I have that same stupid grin plastered on my face and I know I won't sell it anytime soon.

You must never own a high end German car that is not covered by a bumper to bumper warranty. Never.

There's a freaking computer for each door

MegaSquirt and manual windows. Ef the BMW electrics.

IIRC BMW was having such problems, like yours, especially with the iDrive, they were very quietly buying the cars back from their owners. With owners signing non-disclosure clauses. This was about 4 years ago or so. SSoooooo, maybe you got one that fell through the cracks? You might want to mention this to BMW USA just to hear their reaction. But 33 days.....Ask for a tech from a different dealership to look at it--fresh eyes and all that... Good luck. I'd be thinking lots of down-draft webers, velocity stacks, or megasquirting at this point. Your example is exactly why I've been avoiding the plethora of cheap 750s I've seen lately.

P.S. You have a high threshold of pain/patience.

Nice to see that BMW's are of such high quality.

Javelin wrote: There's a freaking computer for *each door* MegaSquirt and manual windows. Ef the BMW electrics.

+1

i still havent figured out how the manufacturers use dispaly screens to operate all the accessories in a world where texting on your phone is illegal.....

they are the same thing! DUH!

The '02-03 745s all got 100k warranties and BMW was buying back some as well. The bugs were generally worked out by '06 but this is why I bought a CPO - to get the 100k warranty. It runs and drives great, so no need for megasquirt or carbs. It's just the stupid idrive making the radio, phone, navi and hvac adjustments other than temp more annoying.