Thanks all...I know I am between a rock and a hard place and really, I am venting more than anything... this is no solution that suits the way BMW underwrite their warranty and my needs.

Reminds me of when I had one speaker of a pair of speakers damaged in transit and the insurance company paid me half the cost to replace both even though they knew that you could not buy the speakers singly.

Seriously, it made me want to put a screwdriver through the cone of the good speaker... hardly made me more honest.