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Originally Posted by PeteJ
Did anyone else think when they bought there cars "German cars, what could go wrong!"
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Not quite like that but I'm a natural born cynic and am not surprised by 'faults' on any car, be it Germanic or not. Although I would still like to believe that the faults are/should be less than other marques. That said, my father had to have a new engine on his 328i because of the 'old high sulphur content in the fuel' story. Somehow all that was kept pretty quiet from the general public.
This alloy situation though is rather disturbing and as usual, the 'establishment' that is BMW and their legal team will be very reluctant to admit any liablility and set any kind of legal precedent as to claims. I would have thought that the lawyers should be balancing the possible long term costs of extremely bad publicity versus a flood of claims if a precedent should ever be made.