I’m looking at purchasing an X3 or X5. However, I have heard that the BMW maintenance costs are quite high and after warranty the maintenance issues occur extensively. I’d appreciate hearing from BMW owners if this has been your experience. Is it fact or fiction?
Depends.
There’s 2 situations that you need to fall in: you either need to be very well off that dealership/independent shop prices don’t hurt the wallet OR able to turn a wrench.
The issue is majority don’t fall in either bucket so the neglect of the bmw stacks on and eventually a $500 repair cascades to $5000 repair due to neglecting the previous stuff.
As a current x3 owner (this was kind of a project car for me to learn how to do car repairs as a beginner); I’m doing several years of neglected items atm. If these were done at a dealership/independent I can tell this would’ve been like $7k-12k worth of work. But since I’m doing it on my own it’s been massively cheaper.
Good points. Thank you for your insight. I’m not the most handy with the wrench so I guess it’ll be time to pull from the 401K :)