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Originally Posted by JCL
Earlier on in this thread you suggested that any reasonable person should expect BMW transmissions to go longer than 150,000 miles. I am not sure why you picked that number, since it is well over the warranty that BMW offers, but in any case you are now suggesting that BMW transmissions only last 50-100 k miles. There are a lot of X5 owners with more miles than that on their original transmissions that would disagree with your conclusion that 50-100 k is the life of a BMW transmission.
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Actually, I said a reasonable person should expect a BMW transmission to last at least 150k miles before failing especially considering BMW has said they need no special maintenance (no fluid changes, etc). Otherwise, indeed many people never have a problem with their X5 transmission, but the one's who do have problems seem to have them anywhere between 30-100k miles. This observation does not invalidate the first suggestion. In fact, if BMW would extend their warranty coverage (or at least partial coverage) for the problematic transmissions to 150k miles, that would pass the reasonable person test, IMO.