Replacement waste gate actuators out of stock
Well I finally took my 35i in to have the suspected sticky waste gate actuator problem diagnosed and fixed on 9/14. They spent a little more than a day in diagnosis, confirmed the waste gate actuators needed to be replaced, then kept the car a 2nd night expecting to get replacement parts the next day.
But no parts were available.
Instead I got the car back thinking it would be drivable. However, while at the dealer, the symptoms changed from throwing the fault code and going into reduced power mode once a month to every time I stepped on the gas. They had actually temporarily replaced the vacuum lines with transparent hoze and run smoke through it to prove no restrictions. I suspected that theses hoses hadn't been replaced properly but they claimed not and gave me a service loaner.
Its 11 days from the start of this and I'm still driving a service loaner car with no word from the dealer or BMW on when they will have parts to fix my car!
Do any of you have any insight into this?
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