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Originally posted by kaisen
My 1988 535is may have been the exception. That was a great car except for the $3800 transmission failure at 120K miles.
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I have never heard of another manual tranny failure with so few miles.
Personally, I will never own a 7. For one, I don't see the point. The 5 is big enough - unless you are being chauffered around in the back seat, and they always have way too many gadgets and electrical stuff that fails. Not just gremlins, which I can halfway accept, but failing electric motors everywhere in hard-to-reach places like seats.
Maybe I'm just a wishful thinker. I just bought a '97 528i that I so far love, but I wonder if I'll feel the same way in 3-4 years when all the "little" things that break cost 4 figures to fix.
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Originally posted by SoCal911SC
(The one reliability exception was definately was the mid-80s automatic transmissions. That definately was a problem. Went through a few of those. Although they weren't $3800 to fix. Fortunately, that problem only seemed to affect some of the 85 and 86 model year cars).
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Don't forget the GM automatics they used for the m50 2.5 liter engine in the 3's and 5's from 91 through 95. If there's one that hasn't failed (or slips so badly it might as well be broken) I'd be surprised. Utter pieces of crap, they were.