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 Tue 7 May 13 16:10 
 Are modern cars less reliable? - No FM2R
A friend's daughter was apparently having trouble with her BMW Mini "its making a strange noise".

He was updating me on the tale. BMW said they didn't know what the noise was, but it wasn't doing any harm and to take it back if anything happened.

At that point she drove past and I immediately told him the big ends were going. back it went the next day to BMW who finally agreed it was the big ends.

Now to be fair to BMW they could not have done more. Huge amount spent on repairs and a written warranty for the next 12 months (on a 4/5 year old car) and a written apology and financial consideration.

But, that to one side, apparently the problem was that none of the technicians or whatever they are in the BMW garage knew what failing big ends sounded like.
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