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Message: <blockquote data-quote="t2ribena" data-source="post: 376601" data-attributes="member: 3847">when talking about a product...lifetime means the lifetime of the product...let say the e60...it was released on late 2003 and due to be replaced with F10 coming late 2010...the product lifetime of e60 is 7 years and based on BMW estimated mileage usage per year of 20k km the lifetime mileage is expected to be 140k km or slightly more nia...same goes to the thumb drive...all of them bears the lifetime warranty...but when u read the fine print then u will understand its lifetime is until it is replaced with another variant...which is normally in the span of 3 months depending on the manufacturer's... as u said, BMW is a performance car, and in this case BMW engineers tries to extract as much performance possible in relation to acceptable durability of the products...when pushing a products/components near to its limit, you are by default reducing its lifetime...for the N52 2.5l NA engine for example, they manage to extract out 218bhp of power and still being highly durable throughout its lifetime...other manufacturer only release less than 180bhp for the same displacement in the name of its longer lifetime and durability... that is why F1 engine only last for 1 race last time and now for 2 or 4 races...when doing this they sacrisfy power to cut costs...if not how to extract 700 to 800bhp from a 2.4l V8 NA engine? this swirl flap issue is quite complicated as some 530d experience this problem as early as 30k km and some as high as 200k km which is way past its lifetime expectency...like i said before, pursue this with the manufacturer and see what they can offer to solve this issue since this is a common failure...</blockquote>

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