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Message: <blockquote data-quote="downn2(aka starcruiser)" data-source="post: 48573" data-attributes="member: 1136">The repair aspect was my concern eventually turning me away from BMW....I read too many post in the BMW rooms about weeks of disrepair concerning dealer's lack of wanting spend the money to keep a good inventory of parts, resulting in long periods between shipments between German and the U.S..And then you hoped they'd diagnosed the problem correctly as to order the right parts....I can only image some $10.00/yr bubba back in service dept, scrathing his head over the complexity of some poors dudes $20K BMW, meanwhile consumed with wishing he could get a job at the HD dealer down the street so he wouldn't have to think so hard and could get himself a deal on a harley........I'm sure if we were anywhere in Europe it'd be a different story, as it's obvious the U.S. dealers aren't only too tight to carry a fully loaded parts inventory but a way to cheap to send anyone to BMW (Germany) school to become a BMW qualified mechanic....Hell,they got too many Triumps, Aprilas and Ducates to work on anyway to let someone off for a month to actually learn what he's doing working on just a BMW...</blockquote>