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      12-26-2013, 06:59 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by sunsweet View Post
39, only ??!

Only 39 directly and indirectly reported cases of broken engines in ~half a month of this poll being active on a forum dedicated to the E92 M3 with 181,000+ members ? that is 0.021 % or one in 4.5 thousands cars.

So I know it is not adequate to take the forum total population but It is not 1% !

The power of the internet and graphic pictures and some people already think it is nearly a coin toss on their cars failing or not. So funny.
Let's be very generous and say that 2000 of the total 57000 M3 population is:
1) are all still running and none been crashed and totaled
2) on this sub forum regularly
3) reading this thread
4) willing to respond without anonymity

Those are some pretty big and generous assumptions. That would put the failure rate at 1.95% of total population if everything scales equally. That's a very large failure rate to me because I expect there to be about < 0.1% failure rate for a well engineered and well manufactured product. But again, that's just me.
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