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Chart based on 5 repair trips. The repair cost chart excludes repairs made under warranty, do-it-yourself repairs, and repair trips that include maintenance.
Under warranty BMW replaced springs, shocks and strut bearings. The annoying knock sound coming from the suspension over ripples, expansion joints and other small road imperfections is mostly gone but the car still does not feel anywhere like an E90 series. I really miss my 2011 and will be looking for a good example.
The steering wheel column had a vibration on bad roads. They replaced the cross joint before the steering box, but the vibrations persist. They say we need to either replace the steering box, or to fix the steering box.
52700 mi
$4000
Steering box and tie rods were replaced
53320 mi
$450
A noise on bumpy road. This time they replaced the inferior part of the steering column, as in my 5 GT
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