Re: 1999 323ia

["Calvin Hare" <harem3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carl,

Congrats on your new car.  Don't know of any discount sources in the Bay 
area but there are a few mail order options.  One digester friendly 
source is Stephen at South BMW in Miami.  He'll give you a real 25% 
discount on all BMW parts.  Contact him at FLBEARCUB@domain.elided.  He should 
be able to find the part #'s for you also.

Other options I've used are Global Imports in Atlanta 
(www.atlantabmw.com) and Circle BMW in NJ (www.circlebmw.com).  They 
give about a 20% discount I believe.

Good luck,

Calvin Hare
Orlando, FL
'96 M3

>From: Carl Geenen <C.Geenen@domain.elided>
>To: "'bmw-digest@domain.elided'" <bmw-digest@domain.elided>
>Subject: 1999 323ia
>Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:47:07 -0700
>
>Hello Fellow Enthusiasts!!
>
>After several months hiatus, I've resubscribed to the bmw-digest.
>Yesterday, my wife and I traded in our 1991 525ia (sniff, sniff) on a 
brand
>new 1999 323ia.  It took quite a bit of doing and haggling, but we hung 
in
>and finally got our numbers without too much blood being spilled.  The 
525
>was becoming quite a problem and we just didn't feel like hassling with 
it
>any more.  It was one thing after another - 14 trips to the shop since 
we
>had it.  You name it, and we probably had it replaced or repaired.  So 
we
>finally put ourselves out of our misery and got a new bimmer.  And the
>monthly payment is only marginally more per month than we were paying 
to
>have the 525 repaired.
>
>There's nothing like a new car!!  The way it smells, the feel and 
handling,
>the gleam of everything new, and the knowledge that we are the first 
and
>only drivers is a wonderful sensation.  So the price to pay for these
>sensations is the cost of the first year's depreciation.
>
>Anyway, what the salesman couldn't get from me in the negotiations the
>finance person tried to get from me in the form of equipment and
>accessories, most notably the alarm and CD changer.  I passed on both
>thinking I really don't need the alarm and I could probably get a CD 
changer
>from somewhere else much cheaper than the $895 installed price I was 
quoted
>at the dealer (they started at $1100, then backed off to $995, and the 
final
>price I heard was the $895).  I called around to a couple of the car 
audio
>places and was told there are no adapters available yet for the BMW CD
>changer.
>
>So my question is this:  Does anyone know where I can buy the CD 
changer
>plus bracket kit for my 1999 323ia for cheaper than the price quoted by 
BMW
>Concord?  I would prefer to find a place here in the San Francisco bay 
area
>that would install it for me because I'm not so mechanically inclined 
and if
>I screw it up I'd only have myself to blame ;>{)  A mail order place 
would
>be OK, too, in which case I'd take it somewhere to have it installed.
>
>Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
>Sincerely yours,
>
>Carl T. Geenen
>BMWCCA #143136
>1999 323ia
>
>


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