beemerdons
Certifiable Old Fart
BMW goes to great lengths to conceal the actual number of FD failures the RT's are experiencing (most FD failure components get spirited back to Germany by the dealers - mine did).
Ergo, no one outside of corporate BMW actually knows the failure percentage.
Those whom have suffered often angrily inflate the percentage to as much as 20% - I don't think it's that high.
The 'other side of the fence' like to gloss over the failure rate at 2% or less - I don't think it's that low.
But if it happens to you, your failure rate is an expensive 100% - I think that's unacceptable.
+1, Gunny; very well said greenwald, totally unacceptable from a continuous Beemer Owner since March of 1969 with a 1966 R60/2 and I joined MOA in 1979!