Transmission Reliability

[willgabriel]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

Read the threads you will find that there are no criteria
at this point that demonstrates the need for a formal
complaint regarding the issues with BMW X5 transmissions.
Sorry but those are the facts.

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...tion-suit.html

Well, you began that thread thinking there were criteria. Of course, recall is not the same as a mere complaint. I'd have to seriously question the "position" of anyone who would be so overconfident in stating there were no criteria for a complaint in this issue. In fact, considering the numerous transmission failures due in part to the owner's leaving the transmission alone as a direct result of BMW's insistence/position (that they since have changed their minds on with newer models) that the X5 transmission fluid is a lifetime fluid that should not be changed ... that alone is enough criteria to at least file a complaint. It seems like it'd be up to the courts to decide if the complaint had merit, not people on a message board who may or may not have the best interest in mind of the poor soul who is out $6k in part because BMW wrongly believed/stated that the transmission fluid on the X5 was a lifetime fluid needing no changing ... ask Toyota, Ford (in the 70's), etc if a cost/benefit analysis ethos doesn't eventually come back to bite you when enough people say, "enough is enough!"