It’s not about them being greedy, they are ALL about safety and looking out for the bottom line! If you have 1500 cars out there and 1000 catch fire it doesn’t look good for stock price or the image of the company. Then the law suits to follow. You have to think beyond the video and realize that BMW doesn’t want to take a loss on any of these cars either and they have done their due diligence in making sure of that.
After living in a time where everyone seems to think forced mandatory medical procedures on the population is cool and normal, I tend to agree with you.
these cars were here locally to me in vancouver BC, there was a yard with hundreds of new BMWs left to rot due to "possible" salt water damage during shipping, for all those blaming BMW, the decision wasn't theirs, they were forced by transport canada to junk all cars, truly a shame and waste, honestly transport canada should be charged and penalized for the way they dealt with this
It was actually chemicals they use to de ice planes that was sprayed to melt the snow when they were in port with 6 ft of snow on them. All of these cars were inspected and are the ones the deemed unsafe by a team of inspectors from Germany
@@Auction_Insider right, another correction on my part, it wasn't hundreds, it was 3000+ cars, with average bmw cost $80k CAD, it was $124 mil CAD thrown away
Yep proves that in the end its just a pile of metal. One of many reasons id never buy one of these new even if i had the money, might as we flush the bills in the toilet.
I'm from Germany and I see something like that, it breaks your heart and unfortunately you can't do anything about it..... how does something like this happen?
I went there and tried to get one. I didnt care which one, i asked for any, they said the problem is if i go insure it and smt happens cause of the damage insurance wont cover it. Thats why they csnt be sold. Insurance wont cover em
@@jamericanprinceify buy a car in Canada and the price will be 25% less depending on the dollar that day. Importing isn’t that bad as long as it’s not modified or lowered.
Growing up in Oakland County Michigan I remember going to a scrap yard in the afternoon with a friend to make a few bucks. We couldn't believe what we witnessed. A stack of brand-new corvettes six high stacked on top of each other!! All to be demolished!!! Apparently, they were test cars. For two sixteen-year-olds it was shocking. That was over 50 years ago. I think the name of the yard was Sam Allen's on the edge of Pontiac Michigan.
They look nice on the outside, but the amount of wear on the mechanical parts is beyond the repairability, even for a new car. They put them to a very hard test to check how they will last over hundreds of thousands of miles.
I've been working fixing cars for almost 30 years, and I struggle to understand how any amount of "excessive exposure to water, salt and ice" that could occur during the initial storage period (as described in the news article linked to in the description) could result in a car not only becoming unsafe to the point that it's unroadworthy, but doing so in such a way that's impossible to determine without destructive testing. Rather than crushing these cars which is an appalling waste, they could have instead just auctioned them off as "Damaged in storage, sold as seen, buyer beware" and then not only would they have recovered some of their manufacturing and shipping outlay, but it would have saved thousands of likely perfectly fixable cars from destruction. I find it difficult to believe that any of these cars would have been any more unsafe or any more beyond repair than some of the badly collision-damaged cars I've seen properly repaired and put back on the road.
The real answer is that it's all about money. If you sell 3,000 "new" BMWs at a discount on the secondary market, it reduces scarcity. e.g. it would reduces the amount of money people would be willing to pay a dealer for a new one. Fighting in the courts to be compensated for the full value and then selling new ones is more profitable. Everything is about $$$
This reminds me of the VW Diesel recall, those cars are all currently sitting in an open lot in Nevada. They cannot be resold if turned in to VW unless the upgrade is done.
That was all a scam...as Kiwi testers found out...all done to push EV's diesels were too cheap to run,too reliable... hence diesel is 30p/litre more expensive than petrol right now in the UK(cheaper to produce as well), and agricultural diesel is banned on everything apart from farm equipment... all part of the WEF plan...enjoy driving while you can, it's coming to an end very soon!
@@williamrae9954 I believe you 100% I had a 2014 VW Jetta TDI that was my best car ever. All a damn scam. America still building diesel trucks with worst pollution than VW😡
We bought a new, no mileage Subaru Legacy that had been on the lot for many, many months. Right away the battery failed and the dealer replaced it. Since then, we've had it in storage for over three years because of COVID-19. It literally went from one storage facility to another.
They were exposed to salt and ice. Is this not the normal situation for any car in Canada? Does this mean your bmw will become dangerous if you use it all winter? If they were flood damaged I would understand.
I met someone who bought a new m4 convertible that ended up being part of this group. A lot of the exposed aluminum bits in the engine bay and suspension parts had that white flaking stuff on it in the short time she had it, but otherwise no issues? BMW called her up later and explained what had happened and she needed to bring her car back. They offered to replace it with a similar M4 and she agreed. Her old car is still somewhere in this video. Color was topaz? I don’t recall the official name for it.
I understand that’s not what you’d want on your new car. Scrapping it is completely on the other side of the spectrum though. My 6 year old Mercedes C-class has some flaking white stuff on the outside of the engine as well. It’s common after six years and 90k miles and it will probably last another 90k miles or more.
@@roelp1126 I do not remember everything that was explained back then in 2015. It wasn’t just cars that were delivered to the west coast, but across Canada as well. These cars were under constant excessive salt water exposure while waiting on the docks on the east coast, and at one point were encased in ice created by the ocean spray. Either way it was just a huge mess, BMW lost their lawsuit against the port, and now they are all gone.
@@Fabulousprofound168 ok thanks, that sounds like a horrible scenario! Now I understand a bit better where the flaking white stuff came from.. Of course BMW Will never be able to provide any form of guarantee for these cars. Hopefully there will be value in the parts (if I were a BMW owner, I’d definitely be interested in a nice Alpina upgrade 😉)
They are nice looking cars. That generation of bmw m5 is prone to rod bearing failure. There is one right now at my work with a failed engine. 2012 M5 white in colour.
Great buddy, but absolutely heartbreaking..I can't get over the Alpina!! 😥 The wheels alone are thousands a corner.... It's only superficial surface damage ( when they got sprayed) what an absolute shocking shocking waste of precious resources 😲😮😱
This brings back memories of when I was working at a BMW/Mini dealer back then as a tech and used to do PDI inspections on them when they were new. I've taken the plastic protection off so many times, if I was there, I'd start peeling it off 🤣
mine too... i´ve been driving an E36 328i Coupé now for 9 years and i try to make it an oldtimer, keep it in good condition and so on... same goes for my 335xi E92... it hurts to see those cars going to be scrapped for no real reason... i mean, my father crashed his E36 323i Sedan very badly in 2014... but still, we managed to get it back on the road by fixing it by ourselves.
They are from Quebec and they end up in Kimco scrap yard in Kingston, Ont. being shredded all bmw and mini cooper I remember that, some kind of water damage, driver told me that .
They had them spread out over a few yards in Canada. I would have liked to see all the other units that were across other sites but I wasn’t even sure if I was going to be able to post this video
It would cost more for the factory to pay somebody to fix and guarantee them than to have their factory make a batch of new ones. "If you or a loved one were injured because BMW profited by improperly selling salvaged cars with known defects, call 1-800....."
The BMW Models with a 320D Engine here in Europe actually do around 60 mpg on a run and at least 50 Minimum Driving locally, They are one of the best cars in Europe for fuel economy, especially with our price of fuel, which is over $10 usd a gallon.
In real life it's more like 40mpg, I've had a couple to know. I get similar numbers from my 330d, earlier m57 with a manual box. The six cylinder diesel models are the way to go.
I do alot of work on bmws with the diesil engines and I'm constantly fixing broken timing chains they are one of the most unreliable cars that I work on everything is made of plastic their just terrible if everyone were driving Toyotas I would be out of business their still the most reliable car ever made in my opinion..
@@petermerrifield1234 even the M57. I don’t see many problems with 335d but I do know what you are talking about plastics in the engines. I’ve seen almost new BMW X5, 750s with 20-30,000km on them huffing blue smoke lmao.
The ignorance & negligence of the human race is a bottomless pit, making any known black hole in our universe look like a soap dish. What a disgusting, shameful waste. Honestly, when I was shopping for E9X's pre pandemic, the conditions weren't far off from these anyway! 😂
Oh no I've just seen one identical to my car - Estoril Blue 435i - Love that car so much, cant believe they were just destroyed. Even if the engines and body/chassis were truly compromised as BMW suggests, the interiors were pristine on most of them, and individually worth thousands unused.
Highlights the stupidity of mankind. To have all these cars rotting away instead of stripping them completely down and have a HUGE market on replacement parts. It doesn't matter if the car is recalled or isn't streetable anymore, the individual parts have nothing to do with that.
Would be nice if they could resell these at huge discounts but make the buyers sign a waiver/agreement that BMW isn't responsible for the safety of these cars and they need professional repairs done. However, in reality regardless of any waiver anything negative that happens from these cars will fall back on the brand and hurt their reputation.
Oh I was just being OTT .. reading comments here it struck me odd that so many people said they were heartbroken. Seems odd to feel that way about a bunch of cars.
However valid (or not) the reason all these cars were signed off as "damaged"/unfit for sale, that doesn't make this any less painful to watch! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have a car like an M235i/M2 but I can't afford one (I have a rusty E46 330 instead) and to see so many of those fantastic fun machines just sitting there waiting for their fate with the crusher is pretty hard to take. It says something quite unflattering about the state of our society that such waste is just considered normal. Why not sell without warranty or with a waiver on the corrosion protection? This is wasteful to a vulgar extent. 😣
I understand the car being unsafe, but if the car is brand new, allot of parts can be reused, the interiors especially! All those tires 12 000 brand new or close to brand new tires left to rot? I mean that is a bit silly and hugely wasteful.
@@carronagringa but what about rims, exterior parts or some interior parts that looked perfectly intact. Of course nearly everything internal as well as the engine is gone. Some of them still were in pretty good shape though. I mean it would be even better if they wouldnt have rotten there since 15´ lol
There were about 2,750 BMW and Mini cars stored in open air lots on three sites in Canada. In 2015 there was a bad storm and it was frosty and icy, then BMW alleged that the cars were irreparably damaged by the frost and ice (but seemingly all of the previously sold BMW and Mini cars out and about in Canada were just fine and perfect!). BMW didn't actually have to show that any car was actually damaged, nor were they able to, and the storage company had around ten cars examined and not one had any faults! BMW went to Court claiming 175 Million Canadian Dollars (the combined value of the cars) and they officially issued a Safety Recall to Transport Canada on every single one of them.). BMW won their case and ordered every single vehicle to be destroyed! There was nothing wrong with these cars, just like there was nothing wrong with any other BMW and Mini cars that stand outside during a spell of bad weather, but in order to get the 175 Million Canadian Dollars, they destroyed them. The cars were held for so long because of the dispute between BMW and their storage agent dragged on. BMW actually demanded 10, 000 Canadian Dollars A DAY to cover the cost of storing the cars in the run up to the court case... And they got that, too! So not only did they crush around 2,750 perfecty good new cars, they also got ten grand a day costs for storing them till the case came to court! Talk about wanton destruction, no reselling them for parts, no donating them, just crushing them for profit. This is truly sickening, absolutely fucking awful...
Did you read the article? "Certain vehicles, which were parked at the port of entry in Halifax during the ice storms in February 2015, may have been exposed to excessive standing water and salt for an extended period due to this isolated environmental incident,” said Transport Canada in statement. Providing more detail, the government body said there was a risk of corrosion on the starter motor power supply cable connecters on certain MINI models, which could lead to the inability to restart the engine following an engine shutdown by the start-stop (MSA) system, increasing the risk of a crash. On certain BMW models, meanwhile, the lubrication of some internal components within the steering rack may have been exposed to excessive water or salt, which Transport Canada said could result in higher than normal steering effort or steering binding, also increasing the risk of a crash. It also said that that the exposure of electrical wires and connectors to water or salt on all of the vehicles could lead to increased electrical system resistance, and increase the risk of fire.” Transport Canada required the recall. Should BMW pay for something that was not their fault? No, the transport provider that caused it had to pay.
@@Fekillix Exactly. Why should BMW take the risk because of someone's error? I still think the insurance company that had to pay the claim should have been able to sell these with cert of destruction or parts only titles. To at least cover some of their loss through the sales. Plus lots of these still had tons of great parts.
All of those cars in the video were inspected by a team from Germany. The ones you see with mileage on them were already sold to customers and taken back.
These are cars with possible salt water damage and it was not bmws decision to let them rot there. They were forced to write off a complete ship full of brand new cars.
I agree,German shit at its best. Tons of these up for sale now,never seen so many for sale. BMW business plan worked but now nobody wants them now they realise what money pits they are.
@@garlicnaan1 I’m surprised that bmw wasn’t held more accountable for the plastics inside the engine causing almost new cars to smoke after 20-30,000km. They couldn’t tell me they didn’t know about the problem during testing before release lol
I find it ironic that BMW would claim 3000 cars being "stored by Autoport in Halifax were unduly exposed to ice, water and salt." We (in Hfx) got 3x the average snowfall that month (Feb '15), the cars at AutoPort have been delivered to the same spot for 40+ yrs, and NO OTHER MANUFACTURER made this claim... There's 10-15,000 cars at the HFX AutoPort at any given time, from every manufacturer in Europe & Asia, including Honda/Nissan/Mercedes/Jaguar/Rover/Bentley/Porsche/Ferrari/Lamborghini. None of which made this ridiculous claim, knowing damn well the cars are stored close to Hfx Harbor (salt water) and Halifax gets the occasional blizzard... Corporate greed at it's finest. 🤬
Автомобили списали из за неправильного хранения.В связи суровой зимы,авто подверглись воздействию льда, воды и соли. BMW утверждает, что экспозиция создала потенциальные риски для безопасности, и отозвала все автомобили. Агентство заявило, что коррозия может привести к внезапному отключению двигателя, проблемам с рулевым управлением или возгоранию!
how much was the average price of these bmws on the auction , cuz judgin by their condition and how they are kept u might be able to get a good deal for them but they are all gone , unfortunately
@@nightmaredemon480 There was a few I know got delivered to customers with a few thousand kms but they were all recalled. Then they just sat in yards around Canada until the lawsuit was settled. They were never sold to anyone after that and most have already been recycled.
These Cars are probably more reliable and safer to be on the road than 75% of the current cars already on the road who does their own illegal DIY 😳 and etc...
How did u get there RIP ALL CARS MINIS AND BMWS THE WASPS WHERE LIVING IN THE CARS AND TREES HAVE BEEN GROWING OUT OF SOME OF THE CARS HAVE BEEN THERE SINCE 2014-2015 it’s 2022 !!!
I really want a 335d, but I’m scared to leave my Camry reliability LOL. Although I did see a 335d posted a few weeks ago with 415,000km. Some high mileage examples would be nice to see.
@@Auction_Insider damn what a sad waste, regardless of the damages, the interiors looked mint, could've easily sold or made someone's day with them.....god i hate the world nowadays , so wasteful with everything:/
@@BimmerMafia I’m sure there might have been a lot of theft, I personally didn’t see any or I would have filmed it. It’s a problem with any big business though.
@@Auction_Insider oh Forsure. Especially with auctions & storage facilities. I work for IAA towing in vehicles. Before knowing the story I was already thinking hail damage or flood cars. But if they were at adesa auto auction. Usually means to be sold. The Adesa in San Antonio Texas has a car crusher but it’s only to crash a couple cars a month not 3k bimmers. Tragic
@@BimmerMafia we are also a storage facility. I should have made a VW diesel video because we also stored all those vehicles before they were fixed and resold
I thought it was incredible also and wanted to document it. I wanted to put this video out a long time ago but I think waiting for them to be gone was the right thing to do.
Should find those who did this and send them to a place where it takes 2 days to walk back. And every time they found back home walking, again take them back to the same spot. Do like this for years till they die
You'd have to start it up first, and make sure it has gas, and I'd don't think they'll track you bc there were there to be crushed anyway and you have to have it hidden somewhere bc otherwise itll get towed if no registration
Been so long, they should have sold these to some nigerian business man who will distribute them around africa or any where where the insurance laws..etc dont matter as much.
Nothing to do with quality for sure IMO. BMW has decades of experience, premium brand, top notch quality control and customer service. Wouldn't let "dangerous" cars out of factory, especially overseas to a very important american market. Also notice the variety of models, engines etc... If this was due to a technical problem, would be a specific model line or a batch. We will never know the truth. Probably has to do with big money/ politics/ greed/ "big interests" or all combined. Brands do recalls for fixing/parts replacing. Not for letting cars rot in the field. (Duh?) 🤔
It was transport Canada that said they had to be destroyed. A company like bmw does it’s due diligence, they wanted these cars back on the road. As you can see some have a few thousand miles on them and we’re recalled. These were all inspected by special team from the factory and this is what didn’t make the cut. There were way more cars than this originally. Minis and other bmws.
@@Auction_Insider transport Canada? Is it trains, ships? Freak Bill Gates owns the Canadian trains.. Wondering if the scammer con had anything to do with it. You know how he destroys food and fertilizer sector, creating man made food shortages and supply chain problems. Basically scamming folks into believing the climate change hoax (puppet Trudeau is in it too), pushing towards net carbon zero, electric cars nonsense etc.. Wondering if it was a part of the automakers push/blackmail.. European car industry/customers were very slow on the whole electric thing until recent. Just a thought. But basically these are kind of methods they use for achieving their agenda.
@@no_clot_shot1128 transport Canada is responsible for safety so if they deemed the cars to be inspected and they had to pass certain criteria to get back on the road as I understand it lol
@@Auction_Insider oh I see.. the usual bureaucracy.. The cars got wet? So the wheels will fall off lol... or the cars will explode lol.. Still, the "officia version" doesn't satisfy me nor makes sense. Anyway, nothing we can do about it. Would really be cool to know the REAL vs OFFICIAL version. Have a good one and thx for the chat.
It's bullshit these car companies are so greedy that they would let these cars rot rather than give them to needy families
It’s not about them being greedy, they are ALL about safety and looking out for the bottom line! If you have 1500 cars out there and 1000 catch fire it doesn’t look good for stock price or the image of the company. Then the law suits to follow. You have to think beyond the video and realize that BMW doesn’t want to take a loss on any of these cars either and they have done their due diligence in making sure of that.
@@Auction_Insider idk if you know or not but all car companies do this B.S if they can't sell the car
@@eddielwheeler the cars with a few thousand kms were cars that were already sold to people and BMW bought them back because they were unsafe
@@Auction_Insider they can take responsibility of their cars and FIX THEM
how can i get one of these BMW i reside from Nigeria i need it reply please
I'm not gonna lie, I'd be out there with an engine hoist, jackstands and a toolkit getting an M5 engine.
Lmao!!!
Exactly what I was thinking!! BMW ain’t going to miss it lol getting scrapped anyway.
@@JoshL1 a lot of people wanted parts off these
come on, lie, you know you wanna
@@gregh7457 LOL I think all the bmw fans want to
i don't care what the reasoning here is, you have to admit we live in fucked up upside down world where nothing makes sense anymore.
Yes. Believe it or not the Bible talks about this. Everywhere you look things are backwards. It's literally clown world. 🤡🌎
Amen!
You said it brother
@@eotikurac its all about , the rich getting richer
After living in a time where everyone seems to think forced mandatory medical procedures on the population is cool and normal, I tend to agree with you.
these cars were here locally to me in vancouver BC, there was a yard with hundreds of new BMWs left to rot due to "possible" salt water damage during shipping, for all those blaming BMW, the decision wasn't theirs, they were forced by transport canada to junk all cars, truly a shame and waste, honestly transport canada should be charged and penalized for the way they dealt with this
It was actually chemicals they use to de ice planes that was sprayed to melt the snow when they were in port with 6 ft of snow on them. All of these cars were inspected and are the ones the deemed unsafe by a team of inspectors from Germany
And they bang on about global warming
@@mooneymooney1565 lol
@@Auction_Insider right, another correction on my part, it wasn't hundreds, it was 3000+ cars, with average bmw cost $80k CAD, it was $124 mil CAD thrown away
@@XMG3 yea originally there was way more cars here but they started getting rid of the cheaper ones first, such as the mini coopers lol
As a BMW fanboy, this is excruciating to watch! I LOVE the year’s and looks of these. Probably my favorite.
That's where they belong in the junkyard every single BMW
@@teflondonhks50caliberbarre72 No. They don't
@@teflondonhks50caliberbarre72 You are a dork...
They belong in the garbage bin anyway
@@teflondonhks50caliberbarre72stay mad 😂
Its quite crazy, you get people that will work their whole life to afford a car like this, but these chaps just throw them away
Just goes to show you just how much a life is truly worth
Flood and hurricane dealer cars
Agreed! I still can’t afford one LOL! What’s a bmw 340 these days 40-50k used
@@Auction_Insider I guess that makes two of us
Yep proves that in the end its just a pile of metal. One of many reasons id never buy one of these new even if i had the money, might as we flush the bills in the toilet.
Lemme find me a M4 with the keys in it at this yard. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure 😂
Hahaaa trust
I'm from Germany and I see something like that, it breaks your heart and unfortunately you can't do anything about it..... how does something like this happen?
In Deutschland passiert sowas nicht. Da kriegst du nicht mal ne Entschädigung im Abgasskandal.
because we live in an political/economic system that is totally fucked up and controlled by a bunch of moronic greedy demonic evil freaks
@@MagnetbergOfficial ja ist leider wahr
That was painful. That hurt my soul. Every 7 series and M5 you walked past I died a little. What a world we live in.
I went there and tried to get one. I didnt care which one, i asked for any, they said the problem is if i go insure it and smt happens cause of the damage insurance wont cover it. Thats why they csnt be sold. Insurance wont cover em
@@jasonmacfarlane7885 real
Real
No, im not crying, yes im crying😭
LMAO!! I had to see them come in new and watch them get to the point they are in the video
@@Auction_Insider is it possible to part them out? All those clean interior’s, fender, wheel’s. I’m want to 😢 too.
@@rigovelasquez2107 no unfortunately they were all recycled 5-6months ago
I’m hurt rn I live in California where a 2015 BMW is still worth for 30,000😭😭😭
@@jamericanprinceify buy a car in Canada and the price will be 25% less depending on the dollar that day. Importing isn’t that bad as long as it’s not modified or lowered.
I’m not even a BMW fan but I’m crying inside 🥲
Growing up in Oakland County Michigan I remember going to a scrap yard in the afternoon with a friend to make a few bucks. We couldn't believe what we witnessed. A stack of brand-new corvettes six high stacked on top of each other!! All to be demolished!!! Apparently, they were test cars. For two sixteen-year-olds it was shocking. That was over 50 years ago. I think the name of the yard was Sam Allen's on the edge of Pontiac Michigan.
@@randallfowler-om7lm can't imagine how much the parts on those vettes would be worth nowadays....pre production engine block...etc
They look nice on the outside, but the amount of wear on the mechanical parts is beyond the repairability, even for a new car. They put them to a very hard test to check how they will last over hundreds of thousands of miles.
I've been working fixing cars for almost 30 years, and I struggle to understand how any amount of "excessive exposure to water, salt and ice" that could occur during the initial storage period (as described in the news article linked to in the description) could result in a car not only becoming unsafe to the point that it's unroadworthy, but doing so in such a way that's impossible to determine without destructive testing.
Rather than crushing these cars which is an appalling waste, they could have instead just auctioned them off as "Damaged in storage, sold as seen, buyer beware" and then not only would they have recovered some of their manufacturing and shipping outlay, but it would have saved thousands of likely perfectly fixable cars from destruction.
I find it difficult to believe that any of these cars would have been any more unsafe or any more beyond repair than some of the badly collision-damaged cars I've seen properly repaired and put back on the road.
The real answer is that it's all about money. If you sell 3,000 "new" BMWs at a discount on the secondary market, it reduces scarcity. e.g. it would reduces the amount of money people would be willing to pay a dealer for a new one. Fighting in the courts to be compensated for the full value and then selling new ones is more profitable. Everything is about $$$
I think they should have been sold non insurable parts cars
How are they even flooded. Cars get exposed to salt up north all the time. Were they submerged in sea water or what?
BMW doesn’t do things like that. They couldn’t be insured, can’t be serviced under warranty and if they start having issues it looks bad on BMW.
the alpina b6 with the creme and brown interior was so nice 😢 😢
Mercedes gang coming through lol thanks for watching!
@@W204_C63.-AMG I’ve never seen an interior like that it was immaculate
@@Poseoptional01 real!
@@Poseoptional01now that I think about it Range Rover does have something similar and it’s also really beautiful
Awesome part cars, nice to buy instead of waiting for backorder parts
That's fucking heart breaking...I love this generation of bmw and this could be a nice back up of this beautiful cars💔
They were nice cars it’s a shame they had to be recycled
This reminds me of the VW Diesel recall, those cars are all currently sitting in an open lot in Nevada. They cannot be resold if turned in to VW unless the upgrade is done.
That was all a scam...as Kiwi testers found out...all done to push EV's diesels were too cheap to run,too reliable... hence diesel is 30p/litre more expensive than petrol right now in the UK(cheaper to produce as well), and agricultural diesel is banned on everything apart from farm equipment... all part of the WEF plan...enjoy driving while you can, it's coming to an end very soon!
@@williamrae9954 I believe you 100% I had a 2014 VW Jetta TDI that was my best car ever. All a damn scam. America still building diesel trucks with worst pollution than VW😡
@@drewski1441Are you sure?
@@ChrisPatrick-q6k Just sniff the tailpipe when running
@@chriscraft999 Nah, it was proven they were scamming emissions regulations. Remember how they were caught.
It would be cool to see a full detail on one of these cars
"So how many solar trickle chargers did you want sir?" "Erm, about half a million units please"
Bahahaha best comment so far!!! There was actually a whole pallet of them.
We bought a new, no mileage Subaru Legacy that had been on the lot for many, many months. Right away the battery failed and the dealer replaced it. Since then, we've had it in storage for over three years because of COVID-19. It literally went from one storage facility to another.
Makes sense, wouldn't want your Subaru to catch Covid 19 out on the roads. Has it had it's 12 vaccination shots? 😂
They were exposed to salt and ice. Is this not the normal situation for any car in Canada? Does this mean your bmw will become dangerous if you use it all winter? If they were flood damaged I would understand.
BMWs actually have super good rust protection. Mine is a 2009 still like brand new underneath. I live in the rust belt.
Aluminum & plastic composite doesn’t rust. This was for a different reason.
Can you really buy this cars ? Seriously 😡😡 this cars can be given free the interiors are sweet 😂😂
I met someone who bought a new m4 convertible that ended up being part of this group. A lot of the exposed aluminum bits in the engine bay and suspension parts had that white flaking stuff on it in the short time she had it, but otherwise no issues? BMW called her up later and explained what had happened and she needed to bring her car back. They offered to replace it with a similar M4 and she agreed. Her old car is still somewhere in this video. Color was topaz? I don’t recall the official name for it.
Yes those were for sure issues I heard of also
I understand that’s not what you’d want on your new car. Scrapping it is completely on the other side of the spectrum though. My 6 year old Mercedes C-class has some flaking white stuff on the outside of the engine as well. It’s common after six years and 90k miles and it will probably last another 90k miles or more.
@@roelp1126 I do not remember everything that was explained back then in 2015. It wasn’t just cars that were delivered to the west coast, but across Canada as well. These cars were under constant excessive salt water exposure while waiting on the docks on the east coast, and at one point were encased in ice created by the ocean spray. Either way it was just a huge mess, BMW lost their lawsuit against the port, and now they are all gone.
@@Fabulousprofound168 ok thanks, that sounds like a horrible scenario! Now I understand a bit better where the flaking white stuff came from.. Of course BMW Will never be able to provide any form of guarantee for these cars. Hopefully there will be value in the parts (if I were a BMW owner, I’d definitely be interested in a nice Alpina upgrade 😉)
@@roelp1126 yea I agree it sucks they were scrapped
I'm driving my 4th bmw I hate to see these cars just destroyed gotta a special spot in my heart for the beamer damn I wish I could take one home.
A lot of people want to take one home including me lol
I really liked this generation of BMW as a teenager and dreamed of owning an M5 like these. It’s pretty jarring to see what happened here.
They are nice looking cars. That generation of bmw m5 is prone to rod bearing failure. There is one right now at my work with a failed engine. 2012 M5 white in colour.
Wish I could get one of these
@@movie3447 you and me both!
Great buddy, but absolutely heartbreaking..I can't get over the Alpina!! 😥
The wheels alone are thousands a corner....
It's only superficial surface damage ( when they got sprayed) what an absolute shocking shocking waste of precious resources 😲😮😱
It wasn’t just surface damage they were all inspected by bmw techs sent from Germany
@@Auction_Insider true, but i am sure they could have sold in parts, at least the intact ones, truly heart braking
@@NardoGreyRam of course it’s sad, it sucks but a corporation is going to do what’s best for the bottom line
I'm homeless and these cars are nicer than mine...
The parts could have been put up for sale for other owners instead of being left to just decay
This brings back memories of when I was working at a BMW/Mini dealer back then as a tech and used to do PDI inspections on them when they were new. I've taken the plastic protection off so many times, if I was there, I'd start peeling it off 🤣
Did this today at work on a new M3😂
As a bmw fan this hurts my heart for real
As a car guy I totally agree.
Same here brother. Very Beautiful Cars !
mine too... i´ve been driving an E36 328i Coupé now for 9 years and i try to make it an oldtimer, keep it in good condition and so on... same goes for my 335xi E92... it hurts to see those cars going to be scrapped for no real reason... i mean, my father crashed his E36 323i Sedan very badly in 2014... but still, we managed to get it back on the road by fixing it by ourselves.
@@Auction_Insider is it for sale
@@WonderfulTropicalIsland-tc2he no sadly most have already been recycled. There is only 6 left and at some point they will be recycled also.
Could use them as parts instead of crushing them
Would surprise me if no parts were recovered.
actually nobody crashed those cars..i dont know where you got this from...they either stand there or been sold already
Nobody said they were Accident Cars? Did they?
They are from Quebec and they end up in Kimco scrap yard in Kingston, Ont. being shredded all bmw and mini cooper I remember that, some kind of water damage, driver told me that .
They had them spread out over a few yards in Canada. I would have liked to see all the other units that were across other sites but I wasn’t even sure if I was going to be able to post this video
The one with the red interior was really nice!! This is a nightmare. Smh so sad
It was for sure hard to see such nice cars sit and waste away!
@@Auction_Insider just gave u a sub
@@justdoinit2378 thanks for watching and giving me a sub it’s much appreciated
They should’ve went through every one thoroughly fixed it then sold it certified pre-owned with warranty.
They had a team of inspectors from Germany. These are all the ones that weren’t saved
It would cost more for the factory to pay somebody to fix and guarantee them than to have their factory make a batch of new ones. "If you or a loved one were injured because BMW profited by improperly selling salvaged cars with known defects, call 1-800....."
I made it all the way to the Alpina rotting in the lot. I almost puked.
LOL 😂 A lot of people in comments including me feel the same way.
The BMW Models with a 320D Engine here in Europe actually do around 60 mpg on a run and at least 50 Minimum Driving locally, They are one of the best cars in Europe for fuel economy, especially with our price of fuel, which is over $10 usd a gallon.
I really want to purchase a fully deleted 335d. Here in Canada where I live we are at around $8 usd a gallon.
In real life it's more like 40mpg, I've had a couple to know.
I get similar numbers from my 330d, earlier m57 with a manual box.
The six cylinder diesel models are the way to go.
I do alot of work on bmws with the diesil engines and I'm constantly fixing broken timing chains they are one of the most unreliable cars that I work on everything is made of plastic their just terrible if everyone were driving Toyotas I would be out of business their still the most reliable car ever made in my opinion..
I had f11 2014 520d xdrive touring. I drove 1500km without refill. I dont remember tank size but it was eco car.
@@petermerrifield1234 even the M57. I don’t see many problems with 335d but I do know what you are talking about plastics in the engines. I’ve seen almost new BMW X5, 750s with 20-30,000km on them huffing blue smoke lmao.
Oh my lord.. I definitely would’ve “procured” some parts for my cars.
Lol
And then they say there is a car shortage... this is crazy to watch
Bro walked by a de badged m4😭 and said let’s see if we can find any more nice ones😂
Lol
The ignorance & negligence of the human race is a bottomless pit, making any known black hole in our universe look like a soap dish.
What a disgusting, shameful waste. Honestly, when I was shopping for E9X's pre pandemic, the conditions weren't far off from these anyway! 😂
With ALL Car Manufacturers doing this with OLD STOCK AND GREEDY CEOs this makes me SICK.
Jesus, I'm Crying now. I'm FAN of BMW.
How much would one cost if it would go for sale? I believe there's so much profit potential in these cars.
Those cars still worth a lot of money in parts alone. They’re just really dirty. You’d be surprised what a 1000$ detail can do
Yup but they aren’t available
Oh no I've just seen one identical to my car - Estoril Blue 435i - Love that car so much, cant believe they were just destroyed. Even if the engines and body/chassis were truly compromised as BMW suggests, the interiors were pristine on most of them, and individually worth thousands unused.
@@robertelkins5928 Yea it would have been nice to see them parted out but I don’t make the decisions.
Highlights the stupidity of mankind. To have all these cars rotting away instead of stripping them completely down and have a HUGE market on replacement parts. It doesn't matter if the car is recalled or isn't streetable anymore, the individual parts have nothing to do with that.
I have cryed more at this than any golden buzzer!
Lol
😅🤣
So sad, but thanks for this Video👍
Very welcome hope you enjoyed watching it as much as I liked making it!
Would be nice if they could resell these at huge discounts but make the buyers sign a waiver/agreement that BMW isn't responsible for the safety of these cars and they need professional repairs done.
However, in reality regardless of any waiver anything negative that happens from these cars will fall back on the brand and hurt their reputation.
Of course and any brand doesn’t want that kind of negative publicity.
How’s that happened? How can it be possible, so many supercars abandoned?!
The link is in the description
I just need one hour in this yard and all my F31's issues could bre resolved... This is a hard watch
LMAO! There is an army of people in comments that are with you. Sadly they were all recycled 6 months ago
Why would they park them outside in all types of weather? Something is not being disclosed here. There must be a reason why these cars were not sold.
Yeah something is fishy here. I don't buy the deemed not safe to own bit.
EV-pushers playing dirty tricks.
I am so shaken by this I can't stop crying -
Wow u need to look hard at urself..
Oh I was just being OTT .. reading comments here it struck me odd that so many people said they were heartbroken. Seems odd to feel that way about a bunch of cars.
Lol a lot of people are
There are tell signs some of these may have been flooded.
They were for sure, you can read the link in the description and get an idea of what happened. Thanks for watching!
Yh prolly
!00’s of millions ,,normal person, cannot comprehend such a action.
However valid (or not) the reason all these cars were signed off as "damaged"/unfit for sale, that doesn't make this any less painful to watch!
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to have a car like an M235i/M2 but I can't afford one (I have a rusty E46 330 instead) and to see so many of those fantastic fun machines just sitting there waiting for their fate with the crusher is pretty hard to take. It says something quite unflattering about the state of our society that such waste is just considered normal. Why not sell without warranty or with a waiver on the corrosion protection? This is wasteful to a vulgar extent. 😣
I would of loved to have one to, just gives me incentive to work harder and make more money to get what I want
Damn, that’s so sad. Could have made so much money parting those cars out.
I agree but hassle and time that would take wouldn’t be worth it.
Yh bro just give me 2 weeks I would have gotten enough rims seats ,tailgate tail lights headlights transmission bruh😢
Each one of those M steering wheels would be min $500 each
I understand the car being unsafe, but if the car is brand new, allot of parts can be reused, the interiors especially! All those tires 12 000 brand new or close to brand new tires left to rot? I mean that is a bit silly and hugely wasteful.
But how unsafe and why is it unsafe?? Salt and chemicals sure but there must be a way to restore them to brand new status.
They'd make more money parting them out .
No, all parts are bad, salt and water😢
@@carronagringa not the interior ones but still
@@carronagringa but what about rims, exterior parts or some interior parts that looked perfectly intact. Of course nearly everything internal as well as the engine is gone. Some of them still were in pretty good shape though. I mean it would be even better if they wouldnt have rotten there since 15´ lol
Is it really wrong to steal from a scrapyard from these cars that are going to be destroyed anyway?
Hahahaha I don’t steal so I don’t really have an opinion on it
@@Auction_Insider fair enough
There were about 2,750 BMW and Mini cars stored in open air lots on three sites in Canada.
In 2015 there was a bad storm and it was frosty and icy, then BMW alleged that the cars were irreparably damaged by the frost and ice (but seemingly all of the previously sold BMW and Mini cars out and about in Canada were just fine and perfect!).
BMW didn't actually have to show that any car was actually damaged, nor were they able to, and the storage company had around ten cars examined and not one had any faults!
BMW went to Court claiming 175 Million Canadian Dollars (the combined value of the cars) and they officially issued a Safety Recall to Transport Canada on every single one of them.).
BMW won their case and ordered every single vehicle to be destroyed!
There was nothing wrong with these cars, just like there was nothing wrong with any other BMW and Mini cars that stand outside during a spell of bad weather, but in order to get the 175 Million Canadian Dollars, they destroyed them.
The cars were held for so long because of the dispute between BMW and their storage agent dragged on.
BMW actually demanded 10, 000 Canadian Dollars A DAY to cover the cost of storing the cars in the run up to the court case... And they got that, too!
So not only did they crush around 2,750 perfecty good new cars, they also got ten grand a day costs for storing them till the case came to court!
Talk about wanton destruction, no reselling them for parts, no donating them, just crushing them for profit.
This is truly sickening, absolutely fucking awful...
Did you read the article? "Certain vehicles, which were parked at the port of entry in Halifax during the ice storms in February 2015, may have been exposed to excessive standing water and salt for an extended period due to this isolated environmental incident,” said Transport Canada in statement.
Providing more detail, the government body said there was a risk of corrosion on the starter motor power supply cable connecters on certain MINI models, which could lead to the inability to restart the engine following an engine shutdown by the start-stop (MSA) system, increasing the risk of a crash.
On certain BMW models, meanwhile, the lubrication of some internal components within the steering rack may have been exposed to excessive water or salt, which Transport Canada said could result in higher than normal steering effort or steering binding, also increasing the risk of a crash.
It also said that that the exposure of electrical wires and connectors to water or salt on all of the vehicles could lead to increased electrical system resistance, and increase the risk of fire.”
Transport Canada required the recall. Should BMW pay for something that was not their fault? No, the transport provider that caused it had to pay.
@@Fekillix Exactly. Why should BMW take the risk because of someone's error? I still think the insurance company that had to pay the claim should have been able to sell these with cert of destruction or parts only titles. To at least cover some of their loss through the sales. Plus lots of these still had tons of great parts.
All of those cars in the video were inspected by a team from Germany. The ones you see with mileage on them were already sold to customers and taken back.
@@Auction_Insider so they sat for years and went back to the original buyer?? Doesn't make sense.
@@crherniman no some made it to the dealership and were delivered to customers that’s why some have higher mileage
These are cars with possible salt water damage and it was not bmws decision to let them rot there. They were forced to write off a complete ship full of brand new cars.
@@mosasako4679 💯 correct
This is poetic. German junk from the factory straight to crusher.
BAHAHAHAHA one of the best comments yet!!!
I agree,German shit at its best.
Tons of these up for sale now,never seen so many for sale.
BMW business plan worked but now nobody wants them now they realise what money pits they are.
@@garlicnaan1 I’m surprised that bmw wasn’t held more accountable for the plastics inside the engine causing almost new cars to smoke after 20-30,000km. They couldn’t tell me they didn’t know about the problem during testing before release lol
@@Auction_Insider I know,absolutely, it's part of their 'cost cutting' from that Suzanne woman head of bmw
@@garlicnaan1 lol
I find it ironic that BMW would claim 3000 cars being "stored by Autoport in Halifax were unduly exposed to ice, water and salt." We (in Hfx) got 3x the average snowfall that month (Feb '15), the cars at AutoPort have been delivered to the same spot for 40+ yrs, and NO OTHER MANUFACTURER made this claim... There's 10-15,000 cars at the HFX AutoPort at any given time, from every manufacturer in Europe & Asia, including Honda/Nissan/Mercedes/Jaguar/Rover/Bentley/Porsche/Ferrari/Lamborghini. None of which made this ridiculous claim, knowing damn well the cars are stored close to Hfx Harbor (salt water) and Halifax gets the occasional blizzard... Corporate greed at it's finest. 🤬
I also found it kind of weird that only BMW’s were damaged, when they have multiple makes at a port at any given time.
Was this video taken 5 years ago? Or just before they got crushed recently?
The video was taken just a few months ago there was a bunch more mini coopers here but they were all crushed last year.
Why sell them to those who want them to buy? Love those mini coopers
As a BMW fanboy, this just hurts to see these beauties in a current state like this.
All but a few have been recycled already 😞
A sad sight, I would like one of those. They just need a good clean up. Not sure about the silver one though !
Some needed more than a good clean up lol
@@SNS_Highlights most definitely, many of them were practically new cars as well.
Oh my God BMW heaven . freaking wowwwwwww where is his place???????????????????????
Автомобили списали из за неправильного хранения.В связи суровой зимы,авто подверглись воздействию льда, воды и соли. BMW утверждает, что экспозиция создала потенциальные риски для безопасности, и отозвала все автомобили.
Агентство заявило, что коррозия может привести к внезапному отключению двигателя, проблемам с рулевым управлением или возгоранию!
dude literally walking thru adesa auction..who are you trying to scam my boy..
Некоторые люди не могут за 3.000€ машину купить а там совсем новые стоят и гнеют, жалко и обидно.
how much was the average price of these bmws on the auction , cuz judgin by their condition and how they are kept u might be able to get a good deal for them but they are all gone , unfortunately
@@nightmaredemon480 There was a few I know got delivered to customers with a few thousand kms but they were all recalled. Then they just sat in yards around Canada until the lawsuit was settled. They were never sold to anyone after that and most have already been recycled.
@@Auction_Insider such a wate of potential, but again safety comes first
@@nightmaredemon480 Yea wouldn’t be good for business if something was to happen if they did sell them.
These Cars are probably more reliable and safer to be on the road than 75% of the current cars already on the road who does their own illegal DIY 😳 and etc...
Illegal diy? Where is it illegal to work on your own car
@@louisianavq1943 you must not be one of those fool who does the illegal straight pipe that sound like a fart can then. Lol 😆 😆
How did u get there RIP ALL CARS MINIS AND BMWS THE WASPS WHERE LIVING IN THE CARS AND TREES HAVE BEEN GROWING OUT OF SOME OF THE CARS HAVE BEEN THERE SINCE 2014-2015 it’s 2022 !!!
I work there
As m3 f80 owner I CRIED
The 335d’s were only sold in North America from 2009-2011. Then your were able to get 328d’s from 14-18 as far as the 3 series goes .
I really want a 335d, but I’m scared to leave my Camry reliability LOL. Although I did see a 335d posted a few weeks ago with 415,000km. Some high mileage examples would be nice to see.
This was painful to watch, these babies deserve to be driven man🥺
Cars that have been sitting for years can become an absolute nightmare to own.
Yea I have one in my garage that hasn’t moved in 11 years lol.
Those are some nice rides
It was sad to see them sit like that for so many years
Those Torronto cars deserved more love than to be crushed like a bug....
These were located in Vancouver
It just hurts so much 😭😭😭
Nearly eighty years old .Dream of a car like these,what a tragedy!
@@patcollins7208 yea most of have been recycled already
Amazing time capsules! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching it’s much appreciated!!
Time capsules? These are 3 to 4 year old cars with 0 miles 💀
@@madern7 yea most were under 100km
@@madern7 most of them are almost 10 years old actually. a lot of those m4’s were 2015 models
@@kylemontano228 still not a time capsule 🤣
i wonder if i could fly out there and just take interiors or exhaust for my M2, id probablly scoop up a M perf exhaust and a full M4/3 exhaust
They have all been recycled 5-6months ago
@@Auction_Insider damn what a sad waste, regardless of the damages, the interiors looked mint, could've easily sold or made someone's day with them.....god i hate the world nowadays , so wasteful with everything:/
@@KareemKayy I agree it was a huge waste of nice and rare parts
@@Auction_Insider what does recycled mean? they crushed them? or the parts have been scrapped and sold on already?
@@golfguyuk they were crushed and the metal recycled
Wow. A lot of parts I need 💯
Everyone wanted those cars for the parts lol
I’m sure some people got plenty parts on there day off before scrap.
@@BimmerMafia I’m sure there might have been a lot of theft, I personally didn’t see any or I would have filmed it. It’s a problem with any big business though.
@@Auction_Insider oh Forsure. Especially with auctions & storage facilities. I work for IAA towing in vehicles. Before knowing the story I was already thinking hail damage or flood cars.
But if they were at adesa auto auction. Usually means to be sold. The Adesa in San Antonio Texas has a car crusher but it’s only to crash a couple cars a month not 3k bimmers. Tragic
@@BimmerMafia we are also a storage facility. I should have made a VW diesel video because we also stored all those vehicles before they were fixed and resold
I don’t understand how there are so many I could understand a few cancellations but this is incredible 😮
I thought it was incredible also and wanted to document it. I wanted to put this video out a long time ago but I think waiting for them to be gone was the right thing to do.
@@Auction_Insider i think that cars came in a ship than sunk and they where all claimed as total loss, i think it was a famou notice back then in 2015
@@TheChaich they were for sure covered in snow
I find it hard to believe that there is moss growing on these brand newish models
Just , BMW M6 Grand Coupe Black 2018 560HP or 600 HP or G-Power 900 HP Plus . My Dream carrrrrrr
Expensive AF though lol
I would definitely buy one over there
Should find those who did this and send them to a place where it takes 2 days to walk back. And every time they found back home walking, again take them back to the same spot. Do like this for years till they die
Lmao!
I would take off in one of those bad boys if I was there foe real!
You'd have to start it up first, and make sure it has gas, and I'd don't think they'll track you bc there were there to be crushed anyway and you have to have it hidden somewhere bc otherwise itll get towed if no registration
@@speedygee6396 ty for the info. black women need they cars for they kids.
All of these cars are crushed now??
@@dailydoseofvines1295 There is only 6 of them left. I did an update video with the same thumb nail a while ago.
Been so long, they should have sold these to some nigerian business man who will distribute them around africa or any where where the insurance laws..etc dont matter as much.
They were all inspected and deemed a fire hazard.
I would have bought em
@@markthegamedriver they were unsafe to sell to anyone
@@Auction_Insider even the parts? Rims,headlight ,seats,steering will be best replacement for copart purchased cars
@@markthegamedriver transport Canada said they had to be scrapped I believe
Nothing to do with quality for sure IMO. BMW has decades of experience, premium brand, top notch quality control and customer service. Wouldn't let "dangerous" cars out of factory, especially overseas to a very important american market. Also notice the variety of models, engines etc... If this was due to a technical problem, would be a specific model line or a batch. We will never know the truth. Probably has to do with big money/ politics/ greed/ "big interests" or all combined. Brands do recalls for fixing/parts replacing. Not for letting cars rot in the field. (Duh?) 🤔
It was transport Canada that said they had to be destroyed. A company like bmw does it’s due diligence, they wanted these cars back on the road. As you can see some have a few thousand miles on them and we’re recalled. These were all inspected by special team from the factory and this is what didn’t make the cut. There were way more cars than this originally. Minis and other bmws.
@@Auction_Insider transport Canada? Is it trains, ships? Freak Bill Gates owns the Canadian trains.. Wondering if the scammer con had anything to do with it. You know how he destroys food and fertilizer sector, creating man made food shortages and supply chain problems. Basically scamming folks into believing the climate change hoax (puppet Trudeau is in it too), pushing towards net carbon zero, electric cars nonsense etc.. Wondering if it was a part of the automakers push/blackmail.. European car industry/customers were very slow on the whole electric thing until recent. Just a thought. But basically these are kind of methods they use for achieving their agenda.
@@no_clot_shot1128 transport Canada is responsible for safety so if they deemed the cars to be inspected and they had to pass certain criteria to get back on the road as I understand it lol
@@Auction_Insider oh I see.. the usual bureaucracy.. The cars got wet? So the wheels will fall off lol... or the cars will explode lol.. Still, the "officia version" doesn't satisfy me nor makes sense. Anyway, nothing we can do about it. Would really be cool to know the REAL vs OFFICIAL version. Have a good one and thx for the chat.
@@no_clot_shot1128 thanks for watching it’s much appreciated I didn’t ever think the video would do this well.
Plastic still on the seats, plastic still on the engine 🙄.
I'm from California it's my heart ❤️ broken 💔 when you see this beautifuls 🚗 like that
It was for sure hard to see
What a waste
I totally agree!
@@Auction_Insider hi do you no why they was there
@@LockeM140 Check the link in the description. Btw thanks for watching much appreciated!!!
Why why why ?
Que pena de coches.... Casi lloro con los M4 y M3 😢😢
Seguro que fue difícil ver todos esos coches nuevos sentarse y desperdiciarse con el tiempo.
Could they not even part these cars out? Instead of BMW owners having to pay INSANE prices of replacement parts
If they did that they probably still would have charged insane prices lol
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