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Originally Posted by cooljess76  I doubt BMW is trying to make money off of it's customers by sabotaging their trannys. If that were the case, they'd also tell you not to change your engine oil. |
actually they did this with a few things
the trannies built by ZF didn't have stickers and they told BMW that it wasn't lifetime oil. BMW changed this im not sure if it was to make money or not though, thats just a guess.
they also did this with brake fluid.
my dad has a brochure from the late 70's from BMW saying to do an annual brake flush.
in the late 80's BMW put out a secret letter to all BMW dealers saying hat they were not selling enough brake parts and they increased the brake flush to 2 years.
also, on the new engines they are saying change the oil every 5,000 miles instead of 3,000 miles, and i cant even count how many sludged engines we have in the back of my dads shop because of this.