03-17-2010, 02:27 AM
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Originally Posted by willgabriel
Fair enough, and I understand and believe in personal responsibility. Yet, as this 2007 Consumer Affairs blurb shows, BMW's response to the transmission issues leaves much to be desired, and in fact, sounds too much like Ford when it came to the Pinto and Toyota about two years ago when they thought they could "get by" with distract and denial tactics. A day of reckoning is coming though ...
Transmission Failures Plague BMW Owners |
That article sounds like an abridged version of www.noreverse.org and the same stories I've been reading about in the forums for years. Ironically, even reported at the end of the article, that BMW's sales continue to rise. Thank god for Car & Driver keeping the 3 series in the "10 Best Cars" category for as long as the magazine has been around...too bad most people don't do their homework until after they have a failure, then they see how widespread this issue is.
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