Reading about all of this muck, e.g.:
http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...-problems.html
and:
http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...tml#post793790
it seems I really can't complain, the car is almost 14 years old, and 65K miles, so I can't really complain about one CCV failure.
I don't even mind spending money on the car. I'm just irritated that it happened six weeks after being in the shop anyway.
D'oh!