YIPEE! Free exhaust tips from BMW

[Stock323iSaloon]

I missed this auction a few days back...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=38786&item=4523181754&rd=1

But it turns out that you can get these chrome tips (18 10 7 500 194 ) from BMW from FREE. Apparently when new cars were getting rolled off the forecourt, they used to fit these chrome tips but for some reason they stopped doing this. As a result, each dealer should have a huge stock of these left:) So it's a winner for someone like me with stock exhaust, and also for a jippo selling them on eBay (what a tink!)

Anyway, I went to the dealer and I got 2 for myself. Apparently, this is one of very few freebies you get from the dealer! I wander what else you can get from them. Anyone with stock tips should get your freebie!

[Afif]

im going tomorrow!

[Stock323iSaloon]

Hi Afif, just say you drive a 323/325 or soemthing so that they give you two (assuming 4-pots only have one exit)!

[Afif]

oo good idea but i htinkmy local knows might pop down to another one lol.

[Stock323iSaloon]

sell the other one on ebay and you'll be a jippo too :D

[Afif]

i went down the dealer and just out of habit gave him my license number! [bang. He said there not for my car and wont fit. Wanted £11 for the equivilant for my car. Not much but i was thinking of popping down to another dealer and this time telling him i got a 6 pot so i can check whether they fit.

[Stock323iSaloon]

Sorry to hear that your tips are the wrong one:(

i tried to remove my old ones but only managed to get one off. i tried knocking it with a hammer but it ain't budging (completely stuck) ...anyone got a fool proof way of getting the old tail pipe covers off?

[ANT MAN]

Try spraying WD40 and leaving for an hour or so and then remove it. Try this a few times. And then.......I don't know :D

[Stock323iSaloon]

Jippos still selling these for a handsome price...people not in the know still paying for these freebies!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10374&item=4527537275&rd=1

[whizzkid11]

So, what do I actually say to the dealer when I get there? :confused:

[Stock323iSaloon]

hey cris, just ask whether they have them in stock, they will check in their computer. Ask for a price...there isn't one! they will say...'btw, can't sell u these cause they are free blah blah...' just say you spoke to his/her colleague yesterday to pick these up (look surprised). just make sure u give them the correct part number:)

[Afif]

lol yea when i said the part number for the guy he thought summin was wrong [crackmeup. Even the supervisor was a bit confused. In the end they asked for £11 cos the 316 part number is different. I havent had time to go to another dealer and pretend i got a 325.