E30 Zone

Anyone wanting at least 10% discount of your BMW OEM should just ask for a discount. You can say the BMW Car Club, but usually even if you are not a member, they will often give you at least 10% if not more. In fact, when I said that I wasn't with the BMWCCGB they actually gave me more - go figure!?!

Now don't be afraid to ask, they can only say no, but usually will give you a nice discount.

What where you wearing at the time and was the person on the parts desk male by any chance?

A nice low-cut top with tight jeans!!! LOL!!

That always works for me too Lizzy

Fyi, We have a dealership on board with the zone these days, Paul @ Cotswold BMW offers great service and discounted prices.

Excellent news. I think most dealerships are only too pleased to help out, especially when they see the immaculate E30's that turn up outside their showrooms. They just show how wonderful BMW cars are and how well they are made to last.

They don't like mine at my dealers, Too low & too noisy. There is a huuuuuuuge ramp on the way out that I left my mark on with my exhaust

Look up "Council" in the dictionary and you will find a picture of me

I don't think the low cut top and tight jeans will work for me somehow but I'll give anything a go once!

Got a feeling the beer gut and ginger chest fur won't have the same effect! LOL

Cabgirl wrote:Anyone wanting at least 10% discount of your BMW OEM should just ask for a discount. You can say the BMW Car Club, but usually even if you are not a member, they will often give you at least 10% if not more. In fact, when I said that I wasn't with the BMWCCGB they actually gave me more - go figure!?!

Now don't be afraid to ask, they can only say no, but usually will give you a nice discount.

Who's been watching "Don't get done, get Dom!"?

Very funny! It's actually quite a good programme, if you can stand watching the little guy for more than 10 minutes.

Ah - I've just found my old smiley - this was for me when I was on crutches for all those years. -

nothing new about main dealers giving discouonts to car club members however some items such as service parts dont have that much movement on prices any more.

ask? my local wouldn't get my custom if I had to ask lol

I bought a few bits at a dealer in Brentford a while ago and they asked for my BMWCC card which I had and confirmed the discount, my local dealer never bothers - I just state I'm a member and it's not that expense and it's piece of mind

Maybe I'm too honest

The dealers that I use give me 15% as standard and thats without being in any club, all you need to do is be nice and friendly.

Where Barvarin in Belfast told me that their trade guys will only get 10% and were a bunch of stuck up C***S who looked down their noise at me cause I was in me snickers.

Cabgirl wrote:A nice low-cut top with tight jeans!!! LOL!!

d6dph wrote:That always works for me too Lizzy

ive been getting discount at the dealers for years buy saying that i work for the same car refinishing shop what discount you get changes on different parts ive found

My local stealer(Sopers) informed me that they do not sell parts for modifed BMW's,so I use zimmer now.It still takes two days to get my bits,but they are delivered to my door and zimmer phones me....saves me two 15 minute drives and I get thanked for my business.Win/win...

strangely i was in soper the other day after a couple of parts when i happened to say that i was a member of the zone the guy asked me to leave and off topic ive wanted to do this for a while

rubber_duck89 wrote:strangely i was in soper the other day after a couple of parts when i happened to say that i was a member of the zone the guy asked me to leave and off topic ive wanted to do this for a while

Whats their telephone number? address?

adress is soper BMW, black horse drive,gateway park south hykeham lincoln

I'll be letting my parts desk monkeys know that, they love gossip about other delears they do. Not the right attitude though is it?

Look at all the business Zimmer gets from all round the country because hes friendly, helpfull and not even remotely a complete part monkey coont. I bet he makes half the parts department target sales from the zone and 'old' bimmers that other dealerships just disregard.

You got asked to leave a dealer due to this place? I wonder why, I have not seen anything negative about Sopers on this forum.

Probably just snobbery, or ignorance or rudeness, or all three.

I'd make acomplaing to BMW GB and send a copy to the managing director of Soper, whose home address could be found very easily on companies house website.

Hmm, This stinks of the post from the states about Flow BMW

d6dph wrote:Hmm, This stinks of the post from the states about Flow BMW

It does, but at least they didn't take him into the back room, no telling what a zone deviant would do in a looked room with two BMW employees!?!

Maybe the zone has got to a point now where we are all 'council' by virtue of being a member.

i get 15% at my local stealer! not bad i suppose but you always want more!

I used to get a discount, but the two local (to me) dealers have stopped offering anything at all...

(Cooper, Reading and Altwood, Taplow, btw)

Over on Bavarian-Board.co.uk there is a thread with dealers both good and bad listed within...

These days, for small or urgent bits I go to the local dealer...for anything more costly or that I know I need in advance, I get from Cotswold...If it is worth my while I can, with a bit of waiting and effort, can get the parts with trade -30%...Only worth the hassle, though, if the order is over £200-300

My local dealer did some work on my old mans e32 and kindly left a lump hammer wedged up inside the gubbins of the front offside suspension (went in for something to do with suspension bushes and shakey brakes iirc)

He drove it home, it felt odd so he took it to his "tame" garage to use their lifts....and ta da a wedged hammer.

Needless to say said dealer appeared like magic with a flatbed and sorted the "problem" and sent a cheque in the post and the car back on said flatbed.... ;)

I got good discount from the main Sytner dealer in solihull for my Alpina centre caps, Price quoted £288.00 complete set, Paid £236.00 which after years of going to scrappies and looking on many forums and of course Fleabay.Bit the bullet and coughed up.

Fushion_Julz wrote: Over on Bavarian-Board.co.uk there is a thread with dealers both good and bad listed within...

Back in the time when I was one of the administrators on www.e30zone.co.uk we did a post about good and bad dealerships too. I don't know if this can be found in a search or not. It would be a good piece of information to have. Moderators, please!!

Cabgirl wrote:Excellent news. I think most dealerships are only too pleased to help out, especially when they see the immaculate E30's that turn up outside their showrooms.

I think the Parts guys are pretty clued up but the rest are only interested in the new cars.

I suppose all the Sales guys want is to sell new cars. After all, that is where they get their commission from, but a clued up guy would still know how to treat all his/her customers with respect.

My dad had a conversation with a couple that had turned up to the ACE Cafe on a motobike. They told him of the really bad service the wife had got from Mercedes. It all came down to the fact that she was treated as though she was a piece of shite and that she couldn't afford an A series let alone anything else. It comes to it that they own a valet company - a very successful one that they have done so well that they are multi-millionaires. Her husband went down to the guy who treated her so really awfully and tore rips out of him and explained to him that if he wanted he could buy the franchise of Mercedes without even having to look at the price it would cost.

Car salesmen/women should not judge people by what they look like, or how they dress. When I travelled first class on Pan Am - a long time ago now, most travellers were wearing jeans, albeit designer ones, but they didn't need to dress up. They didn't need to impress anyone.

My BMW dealership now HR Owen Heathrow are really good to me and my dad. We've never been treated badly in all the time that we have been there, although the Sales team know that we really are not interested in buying new cars. Why bother when you have beautiful E30 and E32!!

Well that's the thing, I drive about 20 miles past the closest dealers in Belfast to get my parts because I can turn up in my work clothes and not be looked down upon like I was a beggar coming in looking for some spare change.

When I went to buy my e65, I made sure that I was in my work gear and if the car was right and the dealer was decent then I was goin to buy it. If the car was right but the dealer was a tawt the he could stick his 7 series. £ days later wala 745i

Cabgirl wrote: Car salesmen/women should not judge people by what they look like, or how they dress.

But they do, its human nature. Its why I wear a sut to work, I would love not to but its the image the company wants to portray.

If I drive my E30 to my local dealer, get out in jeans and t-shirt and they would not appoach me, turn up in a suit and tie I would probably be offered a test drive.

Your a lady, you see two guys one in dirty messy jeans and one in clean smart jeans, which would you chose.......... instant dicsion.....top of your head?

Guy in the clean jeans lives at home and his mum who does hs washing, The guy with the dirty jeans has just been under his ferrari 250 california getting it ready for a show

town325i wrote:ive been getting discount at the dealers for years buy saying that i work for the same car refinishing shop what discount you get changes on different parts ive found

i metioned this earlier

service parts there is not much movement in prices, because they will always sell them. some parts eg pannel work can have bigger discount but its all modela and part specific and it all depends on how GB/AG feel.

there has recntly been a big shake up in pricing and structue. some parts and now half the price they were, and some parts gone from expensive to very expensive.

GB as well have instructed dealers with stricter guidlines on what they can cant do, and many dealers have enforced their own guidlines and in some care they are stricter the what GB set them at

go figure, but end of they day if you get a discount its all good. you can not moan at that can you ?

Cotty wrote:

Cabgirl wrote: Car salesmen/women should not judge people by what they look like, or how they dress.

But they do, its human nature. Its why I wear a sut to work, I would love not to but its the image the company wants to portray.

If I drive my E30 to my local dealer, get out in jeans and t-shirt and they would not appoach me, turn up in a suit and tie I would probably be offered a test drive.

Your a lady, you see two guys one in dirty messy jeans and one in clean smart jeans, which would you chose.......... instant dicsion.....top of your head?

Guy in the clean jeans lives at home and his mum who does hs washing, The guy with the dirty jeans has just been under his ferrari 250 california getting it ready for a show

Guy with the nicest smile and twinkling eyes does it for me, rather than what he is wearing. I can always get him out of his clothes!!