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      04-27-2015, 02:07 PM   #91
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Originally Posted by davesaddiction View Post
If 2-4% is the "acceptable" catastrophic failure rate on all BMW engines over their lifetime of use, that's one thing. I'm trying to get a handle on if this is truly the number of failures we can expect with our S65, related to the rod-bearing issue.
...and that's why he dropped a bombshell with this internal number. You know how these things go, the source is from a close friend's cousin's church member's neighbor's co-worker's fraternity brother who has a resource with someone at BMW DE or BMWNA.

So until we see the actual leaked doc, we won't know for sure. I'm not trying to discredit the claim.
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