Transmission Reliability

[willgabriel]

Originally Posted by JCL

I am very glad you are laughing, because I am rolling on the floor. It is very entertaining here.

I never said that a performance SUV can't have a transmission that WILL last at least 150,000 miles. I said that you didn't buy one that was guaranteed to that point, so I don't want to pay for your error.

My current performance SUV has a transmission that will last 500,000 km without trouble. I won't keep it that long, but that is besides the point.

I noted in a post above (purely opinion) that the transmission probably will last 150,000 miles, or more, on average. They won't all last that long due to the nature of the failure. It won't be worn out when it fails, it will have a random failure involving consequential damage from a minor subcomponent, IMO. I knew that going in though, so I won't be joining any class action suits to make BMW pay for my naivete.

Well, that's your choice. So, fine. As already stated, the main issue isn't NECESSARILY that the transmissions seem to fail too soon, but that BMW is not backing their product that even you admit should be able to go at least 150k miles without failing. NO "reasonable consumer" would expect a BMW transmission to need replacing (at a $7k clip) before 150k miles based on the quality they seem to represent and the price of the vehicles (and that's the standard here - not what you would do with your more advanced knowledge of BMW's weaknesses that undermine what BMW claims by explicit and implicit representations). Again, if they do fail, that's a problem, but the fact BMW has all but denied any responsibility for any issues with the transmission thus leaving many consumers hanging out to dry or at least wrestling with BMW over fixing what is under warranty - THAT is the MAIN issue that must be addressed.