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Originally Posted by X5only

I follow you SlickGT1. 1.4 cap is my next "upgrade" for both my X5 and E39. I've read about 1.4 cap in the E39 forums but I think your explanation makes a lot of sense. Coupled with that, I recall one time my daughter, who is a senior in Electrical Engineering, pointing out to me that they had a discussion at school wherein the gist of the conversation was products are deliberately designed to fail. She called it something like "planned obsolescence". It happens where engineering meets capitalism. Products aren’t designed to last, so the brightest and most successful engineers don’t aim to create the best possible machine. They aim for maximum profit through steady sales. In other words, our Bimmers aren't the "Ultimate Driving Machine" after all

This is like a conspiracy therory here.

Let me clear something up, it would cost a manufacture MORE money to produce parts that deliberately fail. I work in a manufacturer setting and have been for some time. It just doesn't work this way. You guys that think bmw made a faulty part on porpose have never worked in a manufacture setting with engineers designing, with the other part of the company producing what was engineered. These company's are trying to beat the compition and you think designing faulty parts is a way to win......omg

Slick now you just stated that your research was indeed "a bunch of shit on the forums" right after BC and I explained how you are only going to read the bad. Find me an example of a guy who got 200k out of his cooling system. You won't because he's one of the serval million bmw drivers without cooling issues that are not posting on forums.

Well said BC.