Hey, wow, I totally know this issue sucks.

This is something BMW should fix for every owner as it truely is a defect.

As Mike has said, my main complaint was the car idle rough in the AM (or whenever it was a cold start and it was less than 50F outside) and stalling.

I was very fortunate to have a friend at the dealer who was able to get the service manager to open a case with BMW NA to fix my issue even though I was not the original owner and the car was about 1 month outside the warranty. However, the VIN and PN's on the levers did match up with the bulletins listed so my car was a prime candidate for the flix.

Even tho BMW should fix this for everyone, I feel that if you have a good relationship with your service writer or the salesperson who sold you your car, you can use that route to get BMW NA to open a PUMA case for you. I wouldn't go in there barnstorming the place and demanding a free fix. Its probably best to play nice and see how much they can help you. They do know its a known issue.

Also, there is a way to get the car to fail the diagnostic tests. Maybe killcrap may know and share that info. My friend who is a tech told me my car passed the tests 2x even though we all knew it should have failed. Then he was told to perform the test a different way and surely enough it failed and that got the ball rolling. It has to fail the diagnostic for it to qualify for the lever fix.

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