I have a 2003 745Li and my brake booster stopped working one cold morning and I nearly backed into another car. I was inches away before it finally stopped rolling...
I checked and it looks like there is a recall out for the vacuum pump leaking oil and causing the brake booster to fail?
I called up the dealership to ask if the recall had been done on my car and they had detailed records of every service the car has been in for as well as all it's other recalls. For this recall though the extent of their records was a tiny note saying "Checked/Performed recall" at the bottom of one of my other service records - no mention of parts replaced, or actual work performed. Every other record has every minute detail recorded... This was from just 3 months ago.
But because they "Checked/Performed recall", they now want to charge somewhere near $2000 to fix what as far as I can tell appears to be the exact issue outlined in the recall.
I'm quite annoyed at the BMW dealerships at this point and I was wondering how feasible is it to fix this myself?
I checked and it looks like there is a recall out for the vacuum pump leaking oil and causing the brake booster to fail?
I called up the dealership to ask if the recall had been done on my car and they had detailed records of every service the car has been in for as well as all it's other recalls. For this recall though the extent of their records was a tiny note saying "Checked/Performed recall" at the bottom of one of my other service records - no mention of parts replaced, or actual work performed. Every other record has every minute detail recorded... This was from just 3 months ago.
But because they "Checked/Performed recall", they now want to charge somewhere near $2000 to fix what as far as I can tell appears to be the exact issue outlined in the recall.
I'm quite annoyed at the BMW dealerships at this point and I was wondering how feasible is it to fix this myself?