Transmission Reliability

[willgabriel]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

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.

Good grief, man, your "version" is far more fantastic than anything I was thinking. I simply see a problem with a significant number of X5 transmissions that BMW is not willing to correct as they should. As such, I strongly believe a formal complaint should be and will be filed in order to "assist" BMW in doing the right thing to remedy the issues (monetary losses, etc) associated with a less-than-adequate major component that they had thought to be "maintenance free", and built to last at least 150k miles. Do tell me how/why BMW would have built the X5 believing the transmission would've lasted less than 150k miles under normal conditions? Now THAT would be grounds for investing in the conspiracy theory you outline that I was not implying.