straight from the horses mouth that is, extracted from the email they sent me. :|

So?
Every diesel owner can play his/her russian roulette with this issue if likes to. Just place your bet.

That's about it in a nutshell.

im afraid so, sucks dont it.

that is a standerd worded response.
BMW will not own up to anything they dont have to or can get out of, if they said "yes we know about this possible problem" it would open a floodgate of possible law suits...if you knew why dont you recall etc.......
its far cheaper to deal with the small % that complain than recall thousands. (damage limitation)

as Anzafin rightly says..its russian roulette......so take your turn guys :lol:
me..i dont want to play that game.
it would be different if it was a major job, or cost hundreds of ?, but it is so easy costs next to nothing and has no detramental effect on our cars, it all stacks up as a no brainer for me at least.
if i had a 30,000 mile car i would still do it, as its that easy.
pay a good mechanic ?100 and he will jump at the job, if you dont like getting your head under the bonnet. just print off Anzafins excellent how to, and give him that to refer to...job done.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to fight them for this, if a car is serviced within the recommended service plan and the flaps fail then surely an independant inspector could confirm a design fault is to blame. The thing that surprises me is for the sake of a simple inspection being added to the service schedule every 50K miles, this issue could probably be avoided.

Reputation is everything they will forget this at their cost, a car maker in these times should not take things for granted.

Not sure it would be a simple inspection - they would have to spend a couple of hours labour to get the manifold off, inspected, and on again ..which is probably why its not added to the schedule.

Starting to seriously consider doing mine, even tho its an N2 engine..........I might just wait till I see some posts here on these forums about other people with the revised flaps who went bang tho ?? Ive yet to see a single post here from an owner only 1 report from someone who knew a mechanic who said they did one (not dissin that btw)

search the web mark, there are lots of cases of swirl flap failure on E60 high milage cars.

cars with the revised flap pins tho ?

i have tried searching but can't seem to find out if this swirl flap issue affects 2.0d models. I have a 55 plate 520d, all the posts seem to be about 525d and 530d's. Thanks in advance.