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Originally Posted by SiKkBaSs
I'm not being a party pooper just looking at the facts. This is after all what BMW are acting on. Us being consumers, are going to expect that we should be treated fairly, that's human nature. The thing is BMW are going to look at every loophole in the book to get out of it. This really is a difficult problem to prove for people with cracks, something BMW is retaliating with by saying it's driver error or potholes, both being out of BMWs problem. Is there a significant amount of cracking in the US? Seems to be just UK...further ammo for BMW to use in the manufacturing of the alloys being up to par and it being due to driver error. 
Boils down to MASSIVE COMPANY VS A FEW CONSUMERS
Obvious who wins |
Your playing Devil's advocate Sunny.
BMW are suggesting that a lot of the wheels are cracking because of driver error, either by kerbing or driving through a pothole etc.
Most of the wheels featured showed no sign of external damage (kerbing) which could be attributed to cracking the wheel. In the case of potholes, what are we expected to do swerve round everyone we see, what about ones you can't avoid/don't see?
The statements from some of the Dealers featured admitted that the wheels were unfit for purpose.
It's clear that BMW should come clean, but I can't help thinking that there was not a satisfactory conclusion from Watchdog despite there best efforts (well done all, especially PJS), and the Guy who represented the manufacturers was clearly out of his depth, and did himself no favours whatsover.
There are quite a few mentions over on the US forums about cracking wheels, so it's not just confined to the UK's third world roads!
Hopefully the programme and the subsequent public reaction will gather momentum and BMW will start to see the error of their ways, lets hope so
