Best place for BMW Maintenance Service in Metro Vancouver

you mean which dealer ?

For oil change, hardly any dealer will give out courtesy car as the job only takes 1 hr at most

Take it to your dealer for maintenance as it should have X amount of years free maintenance.

Courtesy car costs money.

Sinasta wrote: ↑Take it to your dealer for maintenance as it should have X amount of years free maintenance.

Courtesy car costs money.

Courtesy/loaner cars are free for people taking their car for warranty work or maintenance. I don't know of any dealership that charges people for their courtesy cars.

booblehead wrote: ↑you mean which dealer ?

For oil change, hardly any dealer will give out courtesy car as the job only takes 1 hr at most

Might depend on your relationship with the dealership and maybe the vehicle you purchased, but my Audi dealership offers me a courtesy car every time I bring in the car for an oil change. One of the local BMW dealers gives my friend an X1 or X3 whenever he needs the extra space for moving larger items, or will give him a 3 or 5 series xDrive if he goes to the ski hill for the weekend. He also drives an M3 and has been a longtime customer so that might have something to do with it.

All dealers in BC change a $25+tax for a BMW loaner. You can also get a generic rental car for free. If you have a personal friend at dealer they may just let you get one without paying.

Any dealer is fine for maintenance since it's free. Most people go autowest and Brian Jessel since they're the most convenient.

bomiheko wrote: ↑All dealers in BC change a $25+tax for a BMW loaner. You can also get a generic rental car for free. If you have a personal friend at dealer they may just let you get one without paying.

Any dealer is fine for maintenance since it's free. Most people go autowest and Brian Jessel since they're the most convenient.

Is this only for BMW? That's ridiculous.

That's cheap. In Ontario, some bmw dealers want $50 + taxes + your refilled gas for bimmer; non bmw would be $25 +

For warranty work, reg maint but some SA will give the loaner free, pending on how extensive and duration the warranty work is and your dealing wth SA

booblehead wrote: ↑That's cheap. In Ontario, some bmw dealers want $50 + taxes + your refilled gas for bimmer; non bmw would be $25 +

For warranty work, reg maint but some SA will give the loaner free, pending on how extensive and duration the warranty work is and your dealing wth SA

I have never heard of a dealership charging customers money to use their courtesy cars. Is this a way for them to ensure they always have some available? What about if you have to go in for warranty work? They still charge you? Seems ridiculous to me. My local dealership once gave me a Porsche Cayenne S for the day because they ran out of Audi loaners.

Used to be free for virtually any types of services. These days , it is all about padding more $ to the margin.

booblehead wrote: ↑Used to be free for virtually any types of services. These days , it is all about padding more $ to the margin.

They can definitely get away with it in the big cities like Toronto and Vancouver where virtually everyone is driving a 3 series. Here in Ottawa, that wouldn't fly haha.

rsang39 wrote: ↑...... Is this a way for them to ensure they always have some available? ....

Yes, that's the main reason I remember from when our BMW dealership announced this change a few years back.

Seems that the sense of entitlement with many BMW owners is strong and that earlybirds were refusing being driven a short distance to the office and insisting on a loaner.

That left the dealership with a problem when later customers who really needed a loaner because their repair work meant the car needed to be kept overnight (bigger repair than expected, ran out of time, parts ordered in, etc.).

Also, there is a cost to everything, and the demanding/entitled customers were being subsidized by those who chose to take the bus, walk, have a ride with a friend or colleague, or use the loaner BMW bicycles.

I agree that any dealership should be able to reward longtime customers with freebies when appropriate and not find they unable to because the freeloaders had emptied the cookie tin.

rsang39 wrote: ↑Courtesy/loaner cars are free for people taking their car for warranty work or maintenance. I don't know of any dealership that charges people for their courtesy cars.

As proven by other posters. It costs money.

Sinasta wrote: ↑As proven by other posters. It costs money.

Yes that's fairly obvious, but i've never heard of a dealership passing the rising expenses to customers by charging them money to use their cars. I don't know of any dealership in Ottawa that does it.

macnut wrote: ↑Yes, that's the main reason I remember from when our BMW dealership announced this change a few years back.

Seems that the sense of entitlement with many BMW owners is strong and that earlybirds were refusing being driven a short distance to the office and insisting on a loaner.

That left the dealership with a problem when later customers who really needed a loaner because their repair work meant the car needed to be kept overnight (bigger repair than expected, ran out of time, parts ordered in, etc.).

Also, there is a cost to everything, and the demanding/entitled customers were being subsidized by those who chose to take the bus, walk, have a ride with a friend or colleague, or use the loaner BMW bicycles.

I agree that any dealership should be able to reward longtime customers with freebies when appropriate and not find they unable to because the freeloaders had emptied the cookie tin.

Yeah this was it. There are too many BMWs in Vancouver, and at one point I remember AutoWest ran out of courtesy cars and used up a lot of their demo cars to compensate.

It was so much better before. An SA once let me pick a car I wanted to use as a loaner, and I picked a M6 just for the fun of it. Now, they can't offer the gesture.

They're not denying people courtesy cars, just that they aren't BMWs if you want free. Plus, they are also willing to drive you anywhere and a lot of times are willing to drive you back from work or where ever you are.

Lexus and even Ford in my surrounding area offers a loaner, when bringing a vehicle in for service...just have to ask in advance when booking the appointment.

rsang39 wrote: ↑Yes that's fairly obvious, but i've never heard of a dealership passing the rising expenses to customers by charging them money to use their cars. I don't know of any dealership in Ottawa that does it.

Give Ottos BMW a call.

Sinasta wrote: ↑Give Ottos BMW a call.

Won't be buying a car from them anytime soon. Surprised BMW does it. Heard MB does too, pretty disappointing. I'll stick with a dealership that gives me free loaners when I need them.

Lexus gives free loaner. Usually ES (the boat)

LOL, BMW charges for loaners..I suppose that's the price to pay for a luxury loaner car. My local Toyota dealer gives free loaners to customers.