What a story. Was the driveshaft replaced due to a recall or something initially and the replacement grenaded? Which engine?

I had a customer who struck something like a parking curb came broke his front propeller (drive shaft) and it acts like a steel baseball bat smacking into everything it can. In his case was the transmission: dented the crap out of the pan, put a hole in the pan and broke off a couple of the bolt holes in the transmission case.

We found a shop that thinks outside the box was able to put a new oil pan onto the broken transmission case using through bolts past the broken off flange.

Good job standing your ground and getting BMW to fix the car.

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2011 E70 • N55 (me)
2012 E70 • N63 (wife)