DearChicago
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As long as you have the work carried out by an authorised garage using genuine BMW parts your guarantee would not be impacted. My mrs had hers done when it needed a few service intervals and "recommended part changes" all at once and BMW wanted something like £550 for time and parts and she had it done third party approved for about £200. Why spend £350 on a brand name for the same work? You'll pay the same amount for the parts of course, but labour will be a fraction. You will get the iDrive updated to show work has been carried out correctly in exactly the same way.
She probably spent more on that car in 3 years than I spent on my Focus titanium in 11 years, just seemed a constant stream of cost. They dont seem to do amazing in the annual reliability indexes that get published.
Was the garage local to Boro?