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Originally Posted by StephenVA
No hard stats on vehicles still titled vs parts sold. Would make an interesting grad student marketing project.....
It only seems that way as most everyone has had a failure sometimes in the E39/E53 life. The funny ones are the ones that fail on in garage queens that are just sitting there on battery tenders. I haven't been bit yet but my personal thoughts are I am on borrowed time as three of my cars just sit on tenders.
Indication of super high replace cycles.
The part is now available as a Chinese knockoff, the dealers near me stock 5 at a time due to high demand on 10+ year old cars, and every shop that tinkers on BMWs locally are experts as they are seeing a few each month around here.
All antidotal elements though. No hard stats just frequency of hits on the DIY articles.
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Logic makes sense though the forum sampling is extremely small part of the universe of X5s and we hear about those having problems not those that are not.