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Old 06-07-2019, 12:42 PM
oldskewel oldskewel is offline
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Originally Posted by andrewwynn View Post
I had a perfectly ok service experience with my airbag recall. They didn't try to sell me on any service and they even un-stuck my oil service interval red light that I couldn't because I waited too long apparently.
Glad to hear that you got some benefit out of the visit. But just a guess ... you have a non-sport steering wheel and you did not need an airbag replacement.

BMW's multiple letters to me, the recent alarming postcard, and a few phone calls from me to them ... all seem to confirm my hypothesis about a non-sport steering wheel, but they are not willing to confirm it directly when asked. Gathering data, ignoring most opinions here, so far is confirming it.

It all makes perfect sense. I just wish someone at BMW would be able to directly confirm things when asked. It would be a true danger if somebody who did have a sport steering wheel, and did have its airbag replaced, and it was replaced with a faulty Takata bag (I believe all 3 must be true to actually have an airbag that warrants replacement) ... thought since they only had a weak 3 spokes that their wheel was non-sport (wrong of course, since the sport is 3 and the non-sport is 4), and skipped on the recall. So I can understand why BMW's party line is what it is.

Still waiting for a data point to contradict this.
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