Urgently Needed - Recomendations

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Hi All,

I'm new here and am really hoping you can help me. My daughter drives a BMW X1 X Drive on a 2015 plate. We desperately need recommendations for places which are known to be good and reliable to supply us with a quality (ideally refurbished with long warranty) gearbox and transfer box, all ready to be fitted and able to be delivered to a garage in South Wales. I know this won't be cheap, but it's essential having just spent £1000ish on a flywheel and clutch which threw up unexpected problems, probably caused by the previous owner. Below is the transfer box only found when the gearbox was dropped.

Can anyone recommend anywhere good to supply a quality, long lasting part / parts?

Thanks

[Greydog]

Hi David

Welcome to the Forum

That looks as though it has had some serious surgery at some point. I would check www.realoem.com put the last 7 digits of the Vin number in the search box it will bring up your model. In view of the welding I would check that the gearbox is correct.

I believe the box should be a ZF manufactured so I would search ZF Repair Centers and ZF specialists 

Hope this helps not hinders

Dave

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Anything is welcome thanks. It has just got more complex today and is now back with the selling garage who are not phoning us back. My daughter has to make the decision whether she risks the garage doing a repair with the possibility it may go wrong again in 4-5 months time with no warranty left on it, or whether she rejects the car after contacting the finance company as not fit for purpose. That way the finance company and my daughter get the bulk of their money back and the garage is left with the car ownership and having to resolve the problem before they can sell it again.

 

[Greydog]

Hi David

As the car has clearly suffered some serious transmission failure at some time there could be diff problems further down the line. If she has the Finance Company on board then rejecting the car is probably the best move as even if the complete transmission was changed her confidence in the car wont be there.

Good Luck which ever way you choose to go

Dave

[X5smw]

Personally I would hand it back, get the finance company to deal with it. 
 

check all the documents to make sure they didn’t list this or any repair work on any receipt.

also, make sure you get a receipt from the finance company that you have relinquished ownership to them and the garage. 
I got in a massive mess because of a missing document that the finance company ‘forgot’ to send me. 
 

If it is a precious car to her, then ask for an independent valuation of the car with found issues and approach the finance company with that figure. 
see what they say.

good luck, but you should not be having to spend any money replacing what was not declared in the finance agreement

 

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Greydog and X5SMW, Thank you for your replies. It is beginning to look like we may have no choice other than rejecting it. The selling garage want the car taken to a garage that does RAC warranty work, and I emailed them last night stating I was looking into rejecting the car and before they allowed any work to be undertaken I needed a costed, fully itemised list of anything to be done along with details of any warranty/warranties that come with the work. Nothing was declared in the finance agreement, and to be fair to the selling garage I think they bought it not knowing about the fault but that is their problem, not ours.

Thanks for your advice and I'll update once we know more.