Worried with those subframe stories

[The Gorilla]

Hi Alex,

I agree with that for sure.

Regards,

The Gorilla.

[The Gorilla]

Hi,

Alex, no ''Bushes'' to worry about either !!!!

Regards,

The Gorilla

[Alx]

Originally Posted by Monkey

I would say though, if yours has not cracked by now, there's a good chance it wont.

Thank you again James, that's good to read.

My car has currently 60'000 km, but with all those horror stories, I'm not sure it will not break one day.

@The Gorilla: That would be a nice solution!

I'm wondering if any car had cracks even after the foam injection.

I won't do anything before the spring anyway.

[MCSL]

Does anyone know how long warranty BMW give on the replacement floor?

[Steve B]

I had mine done at BMW Hitchin bodyshop and they had a guy from France bring his car over for a goodwill replacement....


Steve

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by JBird

I would be interested to hear if any forum members who had a proper floor replacement and foam fill early on have carried out a detailed inspection since. Any signs of cracks or corrosion? I remember some ppl geting it done back in 09 - cant find the post though...only about 200 subframe threads! General search of tinternet doesn't find anything either - good sign i guess.


Monkey, do you recall the root cause of the second time round failures you saw, corroded welds poping, or genuine cracks in foam filled floors?



cheer up Alex, all the more reason to get the CSL sorted and hold onto it. Just incase you havn't seen it, clearly plenty of others who share your opinion mate....

Genuine cracks I think I'm right in saying one of them had the foam fill, not sure on the other one. It may just be isolated cases, potentially down to human error in the fitting process. Time will tell if this will happen more frequently.

[Monkey]

Originally Posted by MCSL

Does anyone know how long warranty BMW give on the replacement floor?

I would have to double check, but 99% certain its 3 years.

[JBird]

Originally Posted by MCSL

Does anyone know how long warranty BMW give on the replacement floor?

The warranty on the workmanship is lifetime, if you keep up annual inspections at the bodyshop that did the repair (insp should be free). If you don't manage the inspections it reduces to 5 years. This only applies to the owner of the car at the time of the repair. This is what I was told at the Woodstock bodyshop where i had mine done. I believe this is std for all UK BMW bodyshops. Exactly what "workmanship" entails i dont know. If the fucker starts corroding, i'd argue it wasn't done properly, but BMW always seem to have a get out clause with corrosion. Certificate looks like this. On the reverse side is where you log the inspections.

[JBird]

Take back what I said about the corrosion....turns out its 12 years.

...although, it sounds a bit grey, 12 yrs on the new floor, or 12 years since the car was first registered? Sounds more like the latter which doesn't help much. I guess it means 04 cars that have had new floors have their inherent cover till 2016, but 03 cars (which had just 6 years corrosion warranty originally) have no corrosion cover on the new floor. Gee, BMW thought that one thorough well. Hopefully common sense would prevail and we would still be looked after if they all start rusting.

[MCSL]

Originally Posted by Monkey

I would have to double check, but 99% certain its 3 years.

Cheers.