Wellington BMW dealer?

[huck farley]

Anyone know who the next BMW motorcycle dealer is going to be in either Wellington or the Hutt valley.

Motorad has either lost the franchise. Or Motorad told them to shove it where the sun don't shine. The place is full of Triumphs now.

[Hitcher]

A normally unreliable source says that Wellington Motorcycles will soon be selling new BMWs.

[oldrider]

A normally unreliable source says that Wellington Motorcycles will soon be selling new BMWs.

According to the BMW unbelievers that could be a sad thing for Wellington Motorcycles then, perhaps they are in trouble! John.

[Forest]

BMW moved their bike operations away from NZ and apparently the dealer support has gone down the plug-hole.

I understand that they've lost most of their goodwill.

[Pedrostt500]

Found Experience BMW in auckland better to deal with as they seem to know what they are talking about, and Mount Motor Cycles in Mt Maunganui do some BMW wrecking, you learn these things when you try to keep an old K100 on the road.

[huck farley]

A normally unreliable source says that Wellington Motorcycles will soon be selling new BMWs.

mmmmm Interesting, seeing that the sales rep at Motorad said that they are selling 3 Triumphs to one Beemer. He also said that they had lost a lot of the servicing on BMW because of the expensive part replacements and at $90 an hour for labour would turn a lot of people away. I think the BMW faithful will be thinking twice before they sign up for yet another BMW. If that's the case.

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I suppose the BMW cars are equally as expensive to work on. As anyone got one and can verify that?

I took my Audi quattro A4 2.9L in for it's 30.000 service and replacing the plugs, oils, and filters and whatever else they did and it cost me $656.00 Why are friggin bikes so expensive to work on? Bloody racket if you ask me!!

[sels1]

The place is full of Triumphs now.

Now aint that a good thing!

Why are friggin bikes so expensive to work on? Bloody racket if you ask me!!

You're not wrong. Unless I need specialised stuff (like a tune download) I tend to use the small owner operator bike shops - much better value

[fergie]

I think that sometimes it's a case of"genuine part=higher price" i recently burst a power steering line on my hsv senator. cost $120.00 for the replacement, when i saw the old part it was just a piece of copper tubing that the local plumber could have bent to shape and flaired the ends.

[Eddieb]

...lost a lot of the servicing on BMW because of the expensive part replacements and at $90 an hour for labour would turn a lot of people away. I think the BMW faithful will be thinking twice before they sign up for yet another BMW. If that's the case.

In my experience (3 BMW's, 2 Ducati's, ~12 Japa's) most BMW parts are not significantly more expensive than japanese parts if at all, except for some reason some specific parts in NZ.

There's no excuse apart from pure greed on someone's behalf, manufacturers seem to expect us to bend over and take it like a man when buying parts.

The clutch cable for my BMW R80G/S, of which I recently went through 2 in 3 months, cost $96NZ each here.

In the good ole US of A they are $15US each retail which is less than $20NZ, a genuine part from a genuine BMW dealer.

I can understand shipping adding a bit due to our distance, but something as small as a cable is not going to add $60 to the cost of such an item.

We are being raped.

[huck farley]

My bike is still under warranty for another 8 months. If I don't get the scheduled service done by a genuine Triumph dealership then my warranty would be null an void.

Don't worry after this year they can poke there overpriced services where the sun don't shine.. One Triumph dealer told me that I can't even change my own oil. But can supply it, and a filter. What a lot of shit, I did as the asked, but next time I won't be asking.

I will just do it and tell them it's done. I'm using that Q8 race oil. Fully synthetic it works out to $46.00 with my discount per 4 litre. I think it's great oil.

I was running Mobil 4. But my bike used 500ml between changes. But since I changed to Q8 That problem no longer exists. I run the oil for 10.000ks but change the filter every 5.000ks always have done and always will. What do you use?

[Crasherfromwayback]

A normally unreliable source says that Wellington Motorcycles will soon be selling new BMWs.

They're true to form then.

According to the BMW unbelievers that could be a sad thing for Wellington Motorcycles then, perhaps they are in trouble! John.

It would be. But it's not. I've worked in a BMW franchise before...I'm glad I'm not going to be doing so again.

[crazybigal]

were would they put them? they have run out of space as it is.
BMW wanted the BMW car dealer to do it, they said no as there is no $$ in it.

A normally unreliable source says that Wellington Motorcycles will soon be selling new BMWs.

[geoffm]

The lack of dealer support (and rip off parts prices in NZ) are the reason why I would be very unliley to buy another BMW.
Parts are 30% cheaper landed to my letterbox in 5 days from the UK, including postage, than ordered from the Auckland $tealership and which takes 3 weeks+ from Germany.
Geoff

[Sparky Bills]

Motorad are still the service agent...

[HDTboy]

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I suppose the BMW cars are equally as expensive to work on. As anyone got one and can verify that?

I can verify that it doesn't cost me anything to work on BMW cars, at a dealership, using genuine parts.