Bmw 4s, shenzhen's capital, did not return to work after the spring of 2026 and its vehicles were seized by the court. Founded in 2010, it has been operating for 16 years and has claimed to be the largest seller in shenzhen, serving nearly 300,000 clients of bmw and mini. On 31 march 2026, the bmw official text message informed the official termination of its authorization。
Since january 2025, the guizhou source group, the parent company, has been classified as an executed person by the courts of guiyang, cary, hangzhou and compliance, with a cumulative value of over $16 million. Many of the group's stores have been in the business restructuring period since 2025, and their customers' uniforms have revealed on social platforms that `all stores under the umbrella of the group have been de-authorized'。
According to the source, the bank has had unpaid wages since mid-2025 and has undergone three series of labour arbitrations involving approximately 50 persons each. During this period, the stores continued to sell food packages and extended security rights ranging from several thousand to ten thousand yuan. The owner of the car initially estimated the total amount of interest after the sale to be paid to be over $1 million。
Most of these extension and maintenance rights are sold by dealers themselves and are not official bmw brand products, which leads to difficulties in defending rights. Owing to the lack of key evidence, such as payment vouchers, service contracts, most owners were only compensated for discounts. Similar cases included the raiding of cards in the second half of 2025 before the closing of shanghai's bmw store 4s under the banner of the guangcai group, as well as the refusal to withdraw the 3,000 yuan deposit fund following the cancellation of the contract at the chase gate and the inability of maintenance records to be recorded in the bmw official system, which affected quality assurance compliance。
There was a high level of robbery on the outskirts of the closed shop: former staff members were live telecasts, a short video campaign called `the self-defence portal for former technicians' and repair plant personnel were stationed in the parking lot to distribute business cards. The post-sale technicians confirmed that some of the personnel had made precise offers by accessing the client's files, and even that there was a `carry-in' mechanism, with a single introduction fee of $200. There is also a specialized shop focused on owners with a high reserve value interest, which is contracted at a discount and has a higher conversion rate。
According to industry data, 29 cars have been bankrupt or parked in the country since 2020, with more than 8,000 4s shops closed and turned around; 4s stores closed down in 2024, with an average of about 12 units per day; and an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 in 2025, of which 93 per cent were licensed shops for traditional fuel brands。
However, the market for socialized caricature repairs has not shown the expected dividends: f6 statistics show that in 2024, the number of entrances to the clothing store fell for eight months, with 54 per cent of the shops growing negative, 13 per cent falling by more than 25 per cent, and the value of national socialized caricature repairs falling by 7 per cent; in 2025, the number of entrys fell by 5 per cent in relation to the value of production, 64 per cent in relation to the number of shops falling by 15 per cent, and the number of machine oil and machine-filter replacement stations fell by 7 per cent。
Ac automotive statistics show that in 2024 there were about 10,000 transfers, in 2025 there were over 11,000, and in the fourth quarter, there were 2403 transfers, a 16 per cent decline over the same period, mostly reflecting `unconnected disks'. The number of newly registered car repair-related enterprises was only 318,000 in 2024, the lowest since 2018。
There are three main paths to the direction of the lost owners: first, bmw, which is officially directed to other authorized distributors in the same city, especially those holding the original plant, extended insurance and service packages, and approximately 80 per cent remain in the 4s system; second, as a result of the contraction in consumption, which estimates that 65 per cent of the owner's maintenance spending will not increase in 2025, with more pronounced cuts in users of high vehicle prices, an average of 10,000 kilometres per year and a decline in the frequency of entry; third, the price-sensitive crowds, which are being competed for by multiple staggers — the tiger of the path and the kyungdong cars, etc. — with 199 small maintenance; bmw brands with low-cost strategies such as the $599 old passenger maintenance; and the 50 per cent breakthrough in new energy penetration by 2025, a reduction in fuel vehicle usage and an accelerated loss of the base plate。
