Brucey wrote:So I am wondering what they are on about; You can buy B46-0725 as a Bilstein spare or the same thing (for more money I expect) via BMW. It'll be the same story about your front insert too I expect.
I agree completely. It's just a case down here of them wanting to stick steadfastly to their throwaway society mantra as hard as possible. They've got stock sitting on their shelves in boxes ready to go, and they would MUCH rather sell me that than mess about rebuilding a set of 30 y.o. shocks. That's the simple truth. They make a tonne more profit from selling me something in a box they don't even have to open and best of all they carry no responsibility if it fails or is otherwise knackered in the warranty period. That responsibility just goes back on the factory and they're no more disadvantaged by it. All profit and no care. That's the modern way of doing business and they will come up with whatever excuse or story they have to to steer you into making that decision. New is always better than old. Old things should be thrown away into landfill. They're too much trouble. Not worth repairing.
You should just throw your bunky old clapped out M635 away to the crushers and get a modern up to date car like an idecream container white Toyota Camry with bluetooth and Facebook & Twitter and built-in Instagram and Pinterest & Snapchat and more bollocks than you can poke a stick at so it beeps at you constantly. Your M635 is shit and hopelessly outclassed by modern, safer plastic cars. This is the overriding mantra that exists down here. We don't get shows like Car SOS or The Classic Car Show or For The Love of Cars down here. We get endless shyte about cooking, dancing, singing, gardening, home renovation DIY, dating, shaming & weird American so-called celebrity self-centred 'reality' shows usually about someone named Kardashian. People down here have no idea what a classic car even is. There is no classic car culture in Australia.
I have been told everything you can imagine so far. The seals are NLA, your shafts are bent, they're corroded. The seal running surfaces are worn. It'll cost much more to rebuild these than it will to just buy new ones. We won't warranty anything rebuilt, whereas you'll get a 5 year warranty on new ones. Just the postage cost across the country to the rebuilders in Sydney will be more than new shocks from the local suspension shop. They're old technology that even if rebuilt will be hopelessly unsafe and uncomfortable on modern roads in modern traffic conditions than newer shocks... you name it, I've already been told it. Anything to convince me to just throw them away and buy new ones.
You have to be REALLY determined, willing and able to take on a lot of the running around yourself down here to get what you want done rather than what someone else wants to do.