Again about tranny

[Steelhead]

Hi,
Most of the comments here on tranny reliability are negative. I would like to hear about you bimmers that never had problems with it even at high mileage ? Mine is still working well and I am at 89K.

[JCL]

Originally Posted by Steelhead

Hi,
Most of the comments here on tranny reliability are negative. I would like to hear about you bimmers that never had problems with it even at high mileage ? Mine is still working well and I am at 89K.

Most have never had a problem with it. You never hear about those that are running fine. Yes, more seem to fail than expected, but that is like moving from a very small (x) percent to something like 2x percent. From reading the posts here, it seems that they are all failing. That simply isn't true, it is a standard message board fact that the negative gets discussed more than the positive. Example: I drove to work today. Nothing broke. It was a nice day. I caught a few green lights, traffic wasn't bad. There were no instances of road rage. Who wants to read that?

[birdman]

Thought I'd chime in on this thread for my first post. I'll post an intro thread w/ pics in the near future.

Here is my experience with BMW automatic transmissions:

1980 BMW 733 transmission replacement at 240,000 miles
1998 BMW 528 transmission replacement at 170,000 miles
2003 BMW X5 4.4 transmission just fine at 40,000 miles

[Zulu95]

The older manual boxes were bullet proof. (I owned 5 during the 70's & 80's.) The seldom ever gave problems. These newer GM boxes seem soft. I had a look on a Caddy site and the same boxes are failing in the Caddy lines very early. At least they change the fluid/filter! Only thing that seems to help a bad situation.