Dear all
Just to let people know not to take main dealers diagnostics as gospel. Their mechanics are apparently always being pressured to fix the next car like a production line.
My battery light kept coming on and then it died. So it went to a main dealer thinking it would be new battery or worst case a new alternator and new battery. So when they said that the DME main controller had gone and that a new one would be £1200 + labour. I nearly collapsed.
I started looking for a reconditioned one and I stumbled across Mini spares in Bury. He was admant it wasn't the DME So he took it away, put in a new DME, just to test it and it still had the fault. So he spent a day going through all the wiring looms and found a broken wire behind the glove box. Unfortuntely it had taken out the alternator with it. But he's still only charged me £288 as opposed to £1200 + labour, which wouldn't of fixed the problem
Just to let people know not to take main dealers diagnostics as gospel. Their mechanics are apparently always being pressured to fix the next car like a production line.
My battery light kept coming on and then it died. So it went to a main dealer thinking it would be new battery or worst case a new alternator and new battery. So when they said that the DME main controller had gone and that a new one would be £1200 + labour. I nearly collapsed.
I started looking for a reconditioned one and I stumbled across Mini spares in Bury. He was admant it wasn't the DME So he took it away, put in a new DME, just to test it and it still had the fault. So he spent a day going through all the wiring looms and found a broken wire behind the glove box. Unfortuntely it had taken out the alternator with it. But he's still only charged me £288 as opposed to £1200 + labour, which wouldn't of fixed the problem