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Originally Posted by greglepore
What is it with German window regulators-guess they all source them from the same folks, but its another problem endemic with MB/BMW/Audi.
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Domestic window regulators (Ford) aren't immune either... but you do have a point. I replaced all 4 regulators in my '01 740iL over the course of a year. I've owned 3 BMWs. My '95 M3 was an absolute dream. It suffered from the E36 interior delamination in the door panels and headliners, so I replaced them. My 740iL was an awesome highway cruiser but I bought it 2nd or 3rd hand around 70k miles, so it needed a little love quite often. My last one was an '06 M-roadster, which I had zero problems with but then again, I sold it as the CPO was ending.
I would do it over again at the age I did it. I didn't mind DIYing on the 7, which I'm sure was amusing to our neighbors seeing the big luxo-barge dismantled in the driveway. The driving experience of each of them was uniquely different but equally gratifying. In the end, though, I got intrigued by rapid improvement in the design and quality coming out of Korea, so I tried it and have stayed for the past three years. My Hyundai is an appliance, but it is an appliance with lots of buttons to push, reliability that exceeds pretty much anything else I have owned in recent history, and a warranty to back it up. I use it to make sure I don't have to hitchhike to work and I save my shadetree skills for the fun cars which are presently all from Stuttgart (not counting the 1987 Honda Spree that I am resurrecting from a neighbors trash.