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Originally Posted by CE750Jockey
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Originally Posted by BarryJI
As you can see, I am all-in with Dinan and have never regretted it for a moment. This is a very balanced, refined tune for the street but it can still get your adrenaline going. The performance exhaust is very high quality. The performance suspension, combined with the retuned shocks, really plants the car at all speeds and the bumpstops are completely trouble-free. Above all, potential customers must realise that Dinan's principal client relationship is with the local dealers, not the end-user. I always advise everyone not to use a Dinan-licensed dealer but a BMW tuner shop where you can benefit from more expert technicians and from that shop's relationship with the supplier (Dinan). As for the badge, mine is still in its envelope; it's just not my style to wear it on the car.
I have absolutely no beef with Dinan's products, their customer relations, their sourcing or their prices. The last two are subject to the very deep research and testing that they do with both their tunes and their suspension products.
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This is curious to me. Isn't part of the attraction to Dinan the fact that it's installed at a "Dinan-licensed" dealer? Is a "BMW tuner shop" install as equally warranted as the other? I would think that if you had it installed at say a BMW dealership that is a Dinan approved dealer, that your warranty would be rock solid, but if you had it done at a tuner shop, then took it to a BMW dealer for any resulting "issues", that you might have some trouble getting it warrantied. I can hear it now, "Yes Dinan is BMW warranted, but since you didn't have it installed at a BMW dealership then......"
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I think that a lot of dealer service shops acquire Dinan licenses as an extra revenue stream without paying too much attention to training their mechanics in how to install the equipment. There was a horror story on these forums a while back about a guy whose BMW was expensively damaged when BMW techs at a dealership installed his Dinan springs upside down. High-end tuner shops, on the other hand, make it possible for the customer to know the tech and even to watch him work; this is a relationship that does not exist at dealership service departments. My tuner shop in L.A. has deep connections with Dinan and I know the master mechanic by name who does all the work on my car. For me, to bring the car to a really reputable tuner for Dinan installs vs a Dinan-licensed dealership is a complete no-brainer.