I downgrade my experience with Alba from a 5 to a 3.
While the purchasing process was good and the assistance great (see the original message below), I first had an issue with a scratch that appeared between the order and delivery. Looks like a door had been opened on a car next to mine and dented it.
It took a while to get Alba to accept to fix it but they did. I had to take the car in to Alba myself and pickit up a day later. Time lost and a couple of taxi-rides expense on me). Unfortunately, the fix was really not great. It was not a proper job, just filling in the scratch with a bit of paint. At least it was now less obvious.
Yesterday, I was going to take the car from my garage after 2-3 days of not using it. The battery was stone dead. I informed Alba who did not react. As I need my car, I had a company intervene today and they confirmed that the battery was in very poor condition and while they offered just to jump-start it, they advised me that it was 100% going to happen again if I did not replace the battery. Given that BMW shuts off all, but essential, electronics there is simply no reason for the battery to give up like this, unless the battery was already damaged, or something else in the car is not functionning properly.
Alba says the battery is not covered and they insist that the battery was in great condition when delivered (they fail to explain how it can die in just a matter of 3 weeks). I hope they will change their minds and reimburse the cost of the battery replacement. If they do, I'll gladly update the review again.
My original message :
I just bought a BMW from Alba. I had the pleasure of dealing with Rees, Faraad and Moiz who were all really helpful and available during the entire process.
Rees came in on his day off to show me an additional car and that turned out to be The One. We faced some challenges, but we sorted them out together and the aforementioned Alba team went out of their way to help out. 🙏
I have an after sales issue that came up just yesterday. I trust that they will solve that one too in the same efficient manner. I’ll update this post to confirm!
Many thanks to Alba Cars