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Originally Posted by WhyNot
Hi All,
First of all as a new member I want to say hallo to every happy F20 user 
And now back to the business. As a lucky BMW 120d user (produced in 2012) I decided to take advantage of the BMW offer called M-Performance Power Kit for 120d model. So simply called to the dealer and I asked about availability and potential dates to make this upgrade. Of course dealer said ok, great, they will check and come back to me with details. Dealer came back and said "There is no PPK available". Ok, so I asked him not available now or what, and he just said not available at all for my car (this model with this number). 
I was really surprised and I tried to get more details but there was no details behind it, just not available and sorry, of course he would be delight to sell me one package but not in this case.
So, I just went to another official BMW dealer, I showed him a car, papers, and he said something like that "Car is ok, from technical point of view it is possible to install PPK but according to the number car is not "editable" and it is hard to do it here in Switzerland, it is about regulations". In that situation I asked him, If I take car to any BWM dealer in Germany there will be no problem to install official BMW package in my car right? He confirmed.
Status for now is that I am waiting final call from this dealer with more details.
Now my question is maybe someone from you dear forum users have faced that kind of issue?
It seems there is a potential customer who wants to spend money on BMW products but cannot do that.
P.S.
I forgot, from first BMW dealer there was a suggestion that I can make an upgrade via chiptuning, but of course I have to remember about car warranty... ??? |
I know how you feel, I asked a total of 4 local dealers here, one didn't know anything about it, other quoted wrong figures (money&time wise, E87's instead of F20's), after explaining the difference between the procedure for both chassis and getting kind of a I_got_no_clue_what_you_are_talking_about expression, I discarded them also. The third one was BMW Iberica(ie, the automaker's dealer here in Spain), they didn't recommended it as the increase in performance was marginal, told me that a chip/box tuning would get me more for my money, as I didn't know it already (they failed to take into account that I didn't want to void the warranty, first thing I stated on my enquiry). The fourth finally gave my a quote, but after the other replies I had already been discouraged.
I see you're from Switzerland, seeing how's aftersales over there (same as here), if I were you I would not bother and just cross to Germany to have the kit installed, might as well save some money, there's a dealer that has some great discounts for members of some of the German forums, the ppk is listed just shy of 1000euro fitted (some 400euros less that the best quote I have over here).
Here's the link,
http://www.bmw-matthes.de/aktuelles/...320d-520d.html
I might plan a two week holyday this spring and pay them a visit, I also want to fit the M aero package, the ppk, and a few minor things. The quote I got here for the M aero kit was around 3000euro and they do it for 1500!, so, 400 of savings from the ppk, and 1500 for the M package... some 1900euros to spend on the holydays!
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