Ah OK I get it now. It appears to me at least that you believe you have
assumed some sort of moral stand regarding BMW transmissions.
You also believe that BMW is purposely robbing people by installing in
X5's a transmission they know will fail prematurely.
I believe Fraser expressed it this way "BMW has sold 845,000 X5s world wide."
If what you say is true then either 845,000 X5s world wide will
fail prematurely or some will fail. The question then becomes
what are the published facts regarding the amount of
transmissions that have failed according to your recollections that would lead us to presume
that an injustice and terrible wrong has been committed and justice is required?
How many of the 25K members on this board have
transmission troubles that can attributed to some sort of
premature failure BMW planned in order to cheat customers.
I sympathize with anyone who has had difficulties regarding their
transmissions but like all vehicles I have owned I expect that
at some point mechanically something is gonna break. When it
does break I wont believe and I doubt anyone believes there is a
moral conspiracy on the part of BMW to cheat or rob people
regarding transmissions. But then you never know. Someone at BMWNA
may indeed be sitting in a board room trying to figure out
how to rob the next unsuspecting BMW owner.
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Originally Posted by willgabriel
Reasonable is determined by social mores and expectations in conjunction with an evaluation of similar products. I throw out 150k miles as I suspect most vehicles' transmissions last that long without needing to be fully replaced. Otherwise, yes, contacting BMW NA is a good idea. Of course, the weight of that correspondence - which has already been initiated by others - would be benefited by a formal complaint. Finally, why do we defend and come to the aid of people being robbed? Because it is wrong, and we know that if there is injustice for one, then none of us can rest assured that we shall have justice.
And for the person posting about the mass number of BMW X5's sold and the small number of complaints, on this board alone there are many, many complaints. That leads me to believe that there are many thousands throughout the world. That is enough to get BMW to change their policy - IF a formal complaint is filed, and argued effectively.
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