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Originally Posted by cn90
You can ask BMW.
Personally, I think BMW has its strength and weakness.
- Strength is in esthetic "curb appeal", driveability, the "name BMW" etc.
- Weakness is: reliability and repair procedure is overly cumbersome.
Technical manuals were written with liability in mind. This bolt discussion is somewhat dumb simply b/c the crazy (paranoid) engineers wrote that sentence of "replacing the bolts" and not-too-smart people follow it like the Bible. Remember "it takes 2 to tango" and I am not part of this tango.
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Same reason why BMW tells owners that the ATF is lifetime, but if you go on ZF's website they state that ATF should be changed every 40,000 miles, not unless it is revised by the car manufacturer. So who are you to believe, the company that sells the trans to the manufacturer or the manufacturer that buys the trans and install it in the car.