Remember this guy?


http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26144

Guess what? He's news again

Quote Originally Posted by Aris Ilagan, Top Gear
(excerpts only... for the full article, you'll have to read Top Gear... hey, I don't have forever to type!... parentheses and smileys are mine.)

from the September 2007 issue

[size=4]Victim or Scammer?[/size]


B*** - as he's called by his close friends - said his BMW touring motorbike with license plate NI 4078 caught fire shortly after noon of January 20, 2007. He was cruising along the main road of Barangay Sapang 1 in Ternate when he felt the heat emanating from the lower portion of his gas tank.

...got hold of a small towel to try to wipe out the leaking gas. But according to B***, the fire rapidly spread... and after a few more seconds, the bike supposedly exploded.

...when he came back to the scene, the K1200 LT - which he had bought from Autohaus BMW in Libis, Quezon City, two years earlier - had turned into a useless piece of melted metal.

...he had brought the LT to the BMW service center earlier as it had been reeking of gasoline. However, he said that upon inspection, the mechanics found nothing wrong with the bike.

...surfed through the BMW website to research on the LT about possible issues involving gas leaks. It was then that he discovered that his (cut) VIN indicated that the unit had been manufactured in 2003. It wasn't the "2005 model" as presented to him by the BMW dealership.

This led him to file a criminal case of estafa against... (various people in BMW)

That's his version of the story.

On the other hand, BMW Philippines says that B*** seemed to have endless issues with his LT. The bike spent more time in the casa based on his claims that it had repair problems that seemed to remain unsolved.

One of the several repairs... replacement of the electronic control module (!!!). Still, he was not satisfied, claiming that the bike didn't function well.

Before the LT, B*** had owned another BMW bike, the CL, which he eventually traded for the LT touring bike. As in the case of the LT, he had claimed that the CL had been defective.

...S**** wanted a brand-new LT as a replacement, which they refused to give. To their knowledge, they had been able to fix whatever had been there to fix, but B*** had been hard to please.

BMW Philippines' experience with B*** apparently is not an isolated case. Records shown to me establish that about two years ago, Ford Alabang got entangled with the same American who purportedly gave them a headache by claiming that his Ford Everest was a lemon.

(in case you forget: )

http://tsikot.yehey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26144

According to Ford insiders, B*** insisted on a full refund of the Everest because he was always unhappy with the repairs on his vehicle. He wanted the refund to be based on the price of a brand-new Everest.

....

There is a similarity between the Ford and BMW cases. But BMW stood their ground in rejecting S****'s demands... (which included a new bike). In his complaint sheet, S**** failed to indicate that his burned bike had already been paid by an insurance company. (oopsie, did I forget to mention that? )

Is this simply a modus operandi... or was there really something wrong with the vehicles purchased by B***? The public deserves the truth. :hysterical:


For anyone who wants to avoid selling a car to the guy, Aris has actually printed his whole name. I don't want to open that can of worms online myself... baka sitahin ulit ang tsikot...