BMW Philippines Explain

[boyscout]

Here's my story. I am an avid BMW owner since the time I bought my BMW 325i E46 a sweet car. You can say that in the past few years I learned a lot about his vehicle. I am now in the process of selling this vehicle, one person was looking at my car this afternoon and just wouldn't agree with me that this might not be a 2002 production car so I showed him the hidden codes that can be done to find out the exact manufacturing date of the car which is more or less a year before the actual year model of the car siyempre at least a year for the transport of the car from abroad to the Philippines, customs etc. etc. , and a simple gauge check to see if everything is working inside the gauge cluster. You can find this info in e46fantics.com. My manufacturing date is 3rd week year 2001.

Making this long story short he was so "bileb" that he asked me if this is applicable to all BMW cars and I told him that at least 2000 and up models applicable ito. So I showed him that it also applies to my moms 2 month old BMW X3 and lo and behold the manufacturing date is 38th week of 2004. Na shock ako i specifically told my moms dealer na wag old stock ibigay and sabi niya sa akin 2006 daw manufacturing date nito. I only had the chance to check it now eh.

So my mom called his dealer and asked him bakit? And my moms bmw ahente was surprised and would further explain tommorow na lang daw after talking with a service advisor na lang daw. Feeling tuloy ng mom ko naloko siya. Kaya pala the advisor was forcing her to get the 2.5i version rather than wait for the 2.0d version kasi siguro old stock na talaga. ( BTW I prefer the 2.5i version, all bimmers in my opinion should have an inline 6 engine).

Chance na siguro ito hingi ako ng malaking discount to get an E90 325i. Or would get a full refund and ask for a 2006 production year X3

[lui]

wow super tagal ng stock nung naibigay sa inyo sir.

[OTEP]

Kung ganyan ang production date, dapat ata binenta na nila sa inyo iyan at NOS (new-old-stock) prices.

Yung mga NOS na nabili namin mas bata pa diyan.

[ryan]

Wow, didn't know BMW had that much X3 stocks. Good thing alert ka.

By the way, I noticed that the E90 325's price has dropped since the official launch. Motioncars.com says 3.38M for the 325 Exec and if I remember correctly, the same model cost around 3.6M yata when it was launched. Do you know anything about it? Usually pataas ang pricing ng cars and kawawa naman yung first few 325 customers.

[Lucius]

BOYSCOUT ka nga bro =)

[Horsepower]

you should have waited for the 2.0d

[redorange]

Here's my story. I am an avid BMW owner since the time I bought my BMW 325i E46 a sweet car. You can say that in the past few years I learned a lot about his vehicle. I am now in the process of selling this vehicle, one person was looking at my car this afternoon and just wouldn't agree with me that this might not be a 2002 production car so I showed him the hidden codes that can be done to find out the exact manufacturing date of the car which is more or less a year before the actual year model of the car siyempre at least a year for the transport of the car from abroad to the Philippines, customs etc. etc. , and a simple gauge check to see if everything is working inside the gauge cluster. You can find this info in e46fantics.com. My manufacturing date is 3rd week year 2001.

Making this long story short he was so "bileb" that he asked me if this is applicable to all BMW cars and I told him that at least 2000 and up models applicable ito. So I showed him that it also applies to my moms 2 month old BMW X3 and lo and behold the manufacturing date is 38th week of 2004. Na shock ako i specifically told my moms dealer na wag old stock ibigay and sabi niya sa akin 2006 daw manufacturing date nito. I only had the chance to check it now eh.

So my mom called his dealer and asked him bakit? And my moms bmw ahente was surprised and would further explain tommorow na lang daw after talking with a service advisor na lang daw. Feeling tuloy ng mom ko naloko siya. Kaya pala the advisor was forcing her to get the 2.5i version rather than wait for the 2.0d version kasi siguro old stock na talaga. ( BTW I prefer the 2.5i version, all bimmers in my opinion should have an inline 6 engine).

Chance na siguro ito hingi ako ng malaking discount to get an E90 325i. Or would get a full refund and ask for a 2006 production year X3

The car was made on the 3rd week of 2001 and it was sold as a 2002 model? It takes a year to ship and clear the car through customs? If that's the case buyers of BMW in the Philippines as getting screwed because in any other part of the world that would be sold as an 2001 model not a 2002. Does the same thing happen for other makes and model of cars?

[the josh]

Obviously gusto nilang i-clear yung old stocks kasi mas madaling i-benta yung bagong stocks, kaya lang niloloko nila ang customers nila in the process.

[hitomi]

this is usual dealership practice for all brands.

when you buy a car, they give you the oldest one they have in stock. japanese makes get sold fast so the customers don't mind but bmws sell much slower so its not strange that their cars are in stock long before someone buys them (especially for big ticket models like the seven series and the M6).

[OTEP]

Does the same thing happen for other makes and model of cars?

I can't speak for other manufacturers but Kia stamps both date and time of production on their units. Yung mga naka-display nila sa dealership nung January had a December production date.

[boyscout]

The ahente called us today and it was indeed a new old stock (NOS), though we told him not to give us such kind of unit. It was totally clear that we didn't get what we paid for. He told us just to write a complain letter to BMW Philippines about the matter. In your opinion what should we ask for 1) a replacement vehicle with a 2006 production date. 2) Complete refund. 3) price deduction refund to the price back then. any other suggestions?

[BlueBimmer]

replacement and refund is out of the question IMO...best you can do is ask for big discounts

[bunge]

Discount. Make a complain letter noted by your dealer.

[Bry]

When are they bringing out the 3 series diesel here? After loving the 530d , I want another diesel engine! Preferable the 335d hehehehehe. The X3 2.0 is using a de-tuned version of the one in the 520d tapos manual pa siya. Is your mom's X3 2.5 the one with the new 210 hp engine or the older 190hp engine? If its the 210hp engine then it should also have the new 6-speed A?T rather than the older 5-speed AT transmission. NEvertheless the X3 is a sweet city car to own. I dont know why people bash it so much.

Because the X3 is so closely priced to the X5.

[JiggeR671]

based on my experience, the first or second batch of a model year is guaranteed to have an older production year kase manufacturers start making cars the year before diba... say an '06 car, syempre ginawa yan nung '05. pero yung sa kaso ni sir boyscout talagang niloko sila kung sinabi na 06 yung kotse.

pero kung gusto nyo makasiguro, check the 10th digit of the v.i.n. #5 means 2005 model year #6 is 2006 and so on....

the production date and model year is always present on most vehicles even if its below 2000...

[theveed]

Check the seatbelt as well, the date/year stamped on the seatbelt flap is also a pretty good indicator of actual manufacturing year.

[raquino]

well, that's a common problem with high end cars, lot's of old stocks. you can lobby for a big discount for that. ang nakakainis is other car manufacturers like mitsubishi which continues to sell fieldmasters and tell costumers that they are new models or unit when in fact they are old models and japan stopped making them since 2002 for a new model. sad to say though dami pa rin naloko.

[boyscout]

Sa BMW to know the exact production day and week you press and hold the left button on the instrument cluster when turning on the ignition to acc. after that test 1.0 is displayed press the left button again 4 times to go to menu 1.4 there nakasulat ang 4 digit code which is the week of production followed by the year. seatbelts is not really that reliable because kaya pa din palitan ito.

[Horsepower]

Ask for an upgrade to 2.0d at the same price. hehe

[oldblue]

humingi ka na lang 1 month all expense paid trip to Europe and Bavaria hehehe