Scammed On A BMW Battery

[Jack Bauer]

So I guess this is a warning for others. Last year I purchased a 9kwh BMW PHEV battery from a breaker yard in Ireland that I had done some business with in the past without problems. As usual with me plans changed and I only got to start working on the battery today. My first uh oh moment was when I found the one security torx fastener was missing and had been replaced with a normal hex head bolt. Once got the lid off I found the sbox completely missing and the bms master wiring not clipped down as is usual. Long story short it seems what happened is someone had a 530e with a battery problem , sourced a replacement , swapped out their bms master and sbox into the replacement battery and fitted that to their car. The "dead " one was then put back together minus the sbox and sold to me as a complete working battery from a crash written off car. Possibly the car that donated its battery to the now repaired car.

Due to the libel laws in Ireland and the fact that I can't prove who did what or when , I'm not going to name the company publicly other than to say they are based in the Republic Of Ireland. If anyone is worried send me a pm. So yeah be careful folks. Seems this kind of thing will get more common. I'm more sad about what this says about the human condition than the personal loss.