On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:00:13 +0000 (UTC), Bimmer Owner
wrote:

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:14:12 -0700, jim beam wrote:

it's cheaper to just buy a new one.

To be clear, that's what 99.99999999% of the BMW owners do.
But that's not the point of this thread.

The point of this thread is to get a handle on WHY they are all
failing.

Specifically, how to figure that out is the question.

The simple answer is that they are under-designed for the conditions
under which they apparently are regularly subject to.