Talked with a lawyer I know and he would want $10K to proceed so that is the last avenue of recourse. I'd rather stick $10K into another car along with the one in the shop/s as trade.
That way we get the benefit and not pay for a nice vacation for somebody else.
This comes after spending 6 months looking for the F15 after selling the E53. We were nursing the E70 along with leaking VCG. I'm just glad we waited until we had another car as it would have bee a real pain had it have happened when it was our only means of transport.
Rentals? We gave up calling the local rental agent. Seems the only bought an answer machine and never actually hired any CS agents.

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