u/ballistic_hydra

So I took my car into the stealership for routine oil change and they told me my guibo was cracked (was cracked previous oil change as well) and everything else they marked as good. They quoted me 1200 for repair as well as 700 for transfer case fluid service and rear did fluid service (which I requested as routine maintenance). Price seamed high so I went to an independent euro shop who gave me all 3 jobs for 1300 (800 for guibo 300 for transfer and 100 for rear dif *just estimates*). So I took it there because it was 600 bucks cheaper for everything and they are very highly rated by the community with 980 reviews and a 4.8 star rating on google. I was feeling relieved I saved money and got my car into shape. Well I get a call today saying my engine mounts and transmission mounts are both collapsed and the transmission ones leaked all the oil onto the exhaust (which 2 days prior bmw techs explicitly stated in my inspection I didn’t have any leaks from transfer case) so it’s priority but engine mounts are not as they didn’t start leaking yet. They quoted me 700 for trans mounts and 2500 roughly for engine mounts. Are we fucking joking here? I figured I would have a few expensive repairs on this car but figured they would be engine related not problems that should never happen. What the fuck. I only payed 30k for this car when I bought it a year ago. It is paid off. But for a 30k car in my first year of ownership to have 4k of repairs needed to be done is fucking ridiculous. My previous 4 cars didnt cost even half that much in repairs over the 7 years previous I’ve been driving. This is ridiculous. I’m 23 and buying a house next year and would like to get my home gym decked to the gills but having to spend 4k in repairs is going to screw me out of that. Is this something that really needs to be fixed asap cause if that’s the case I’m selling the car. It’s got no vibrations and drives perfectly so I don’t see how it could be screwed but I was planning on keeping the car till it died but wasn’t expecting costly repairs like this to occur for 3-4 more years until it was around the 80k mile mark and expected it to be engine related like a normal car. But to spend 4k on a 30k car after 1 year of owning it and it only having 50k miles is ridiculous. The car is cherry otherwise has every package you could imagine, diamond stitched seat, soft close doors, m sport package, and anything in between and I love it but this is making it not worth it as it’s not even something that should go wrong with the car.

I’m debating whether or not to sell my 2018 540i m sport with 50k miles stage 2 mhd tune with straight pipe and catless set up for a newer 2024 x3 m40i with less than 25k miles on it (I would make sure it was low miles preferably even under 20k.I would drive a beater car for a year or 2 and power save money and use the money from selling the 540 and some money saved to put a big enough down payment on a x3 m40i to have about a 300 a month payment on a $45k car. I probably wouldn’t tune it till it was payed off and older. Or I can save longer and get a m in 3-4 years. But I would have to drive a regular traffic car for that whole time and I’m not sure I want m tax either. Or I could keep the 540 which is payed off and just be happy cause I do love the car. It’s worth $28k right now but will obviously depreciate over the years so either way it’s costing me money. What do you guys think is the better decision? Would I even enjoy the x3? Going to have a family soon and I have a dog so I’m thinking a suv would be useful but at the same time my girl will always have a suv so maybe it’s not needed for me to get one too?