Originally Posted by
Trotter
I agree abuse a car enough and the car could break,but we are talking a high performance car that has broken a gearbox in a very short life,sounds poor engineering to me,I'd agree with m3's warranty void with a clutch but I would guess they wouldn't refuse a gearbox repair on a very new car
Yes they would, and have done - just ask John Taylor
.
A mate of mine was going to buy an E46 M3 SMG convertible off JT and had sorted all the finances and JT was about to deliver it, but decided he would give it a full bore launch using the LC before he did, just to see what this was like. The gearbox objected big time
, so he took it back to BMW expecting it to be replaced under warranty (as it was well within this), they plugged in the computer, noted that it had been launched 20 or so times in it's life and politely declined the claim, leaving him with a £9k bill
.