why didn't bmw service mention the leaks?

[lanbrown]

Who did you have inspect it and who was selling it? From the sounds of your post, you never had it inspected and went with a report of two months and 2,000 miles prior. You should always have your own inspection performed by an independent party of the transaction. You bought a vehicle AS IS. Even if the seller was required to disclose all that is wrong with it, all that means is that the seller isn't going to look too hard at the vehicle which then means they knew of no issues with it. You can't know what you don't look for. So if the seller expects this and that to be a problem area, steer clear of looking that direction.

[Ron07x5]

I am not complaining about the former owner selling it "as is" and I bought flying in from out of state and took it as I found it.
Now it was a bit crazy of me, and I did assume that it had been service ONLY by BMW and it did come with printed out BMW service records.


Now my issues ---

1. Why didn't BMW say the transmission needed to be serviced and the
pan gasket was leaking. Do they ever service these? Note the fluid was brown and clearly the filer-pan and fluid needed to be changed! Not to mention the leaking coming from the old gasket! .... Note I have done it no big deal for me to do!

2. The smaller dip from what I assume is the oil cooler gasket is there
and looking at the oil on the bottom of the engine looks like it has been happening for a long time. Why do none of the BMW records I have not mention this, they do say "world class inspection" and in cases they list items but never this drip?

The last BMW service (by the former owner) was at like 102,500 about 3 months ago, where it states "world class inspection" And a oil-filter change was done. Now I guarantee the oil cooler gasket has been dripping for 10,000 or much more and likely the transmission pan too. But nowhere on service records do I see any mention of either of these leak.. So why not? Could the owner have told BMW service not to mention it on the service document?

I have physical printed out service records from the former owner, I take it he asked BMW to print those for him? I believe they where recently printed out they do not look like they were collected over six years. Would BMW do this again for me? So I could know I have all the records, or is it just from the X owners service center in California.