[drjekl]

Originally Posted by Bimmer305

It is in your on warranty manual, that the DME is warranted for 80K miles.

Thread revival!

Out of curiosity may I ask for a pic of where it states this info?

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emission system warranty

[Beemw335]

I wonder how common of an issue this is, and if any shop could essentially just solder in the new ones, it would suck to have to get a new ecu.

[V8bait]

It's uncommon overall considering how many don't fail to begin with, but maybe accounts for a quarter or a third of failed dme's (making that up but sounds about right), maybe influenced by other things too.

Any shop? Noooo. In fact I would not have a car shop do this. An electronics repair shop (think computer motherboards, video cards, laptops) should be able to do it easy. Had a logic 7 amp on a family 750i repaired for $150 at one, needed some capacitors and the dsp processor iirc. Similar difficulty level.