Does anyone know how i would go about transferring the BMW UK warranty to an Irish main dealer, is it even possible or needed to be done?
Does anyone know how i would go about transferring the BMW UK warranty to an Irish main dealer, is it even possible or needed to be done?
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Exactly. We had a breakdown a couple of years in the UK. Car was still under BMW warranty. Anyway turned out to be an injector. Was replaced under warranty at a BMW dealer no issues
Be careful....THe 3 year warranty in the UK becomes a 2 year warranty if the car is exported out of the UK. It's in the fine print.
I just transferred the 340i into BMW Ireland for it's service plan. I could also extend the AUC warranty at a very reasonable price.
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F31 340i M Sport Shadow Edition
It's a bit odd how it works..
My wife's car was imported about 3 years ago by someone (it's a 161)
I extended the warranty just before the end of the manufacturer warranty but had to use the UK reg - so there was no issue with the car being in Ireland. Seems their computer system can't cope with changing a reg no... They had no trace of it in Ireland as they have separate computer systems for Ireland and the UK.
The other odd thing is that it had a service pack which is 3 years in the uk (as opposed to 5 here). But when it went in for the egr recall it was serviced also under the service pack (in year 4)
So looks like even though you only have a 3 year service pack in the UK, in Ireland it just assumes it 5 years (or maybe it's just Joe Duffy)
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I don't think luck came into it to be honest. Warranty work needs to be approved by BMW in advance before the dealer will go ahead with it. If it's not approved then either the dealer pays for it out of their own pocket or the customer has to pay for it. I didn't buy the car from the dealer in question nor was the car serviced by dealer so I couldn't see how the dealer would offer any goodwill to me in paying for it out of their own pocket. In saying that this was about 10 years ago so things may have changed since then regarding the 3rd year of the warranty but BMW Ireland and BMW UK are still the same company.
I've got some warranty work done by Duffy on my ex UK G30 just few weeks ago. The car is well over 2yrs so full terms are honoured no problem. Same as UK service pack.
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