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Originally Posted by 5soko
i dont want to even know the cost to repair after an accident!
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All of this talk of CF is meant to sound like it directly benefits the customer.
The reality is the BMW is using these materials to reduce production costs.
What's going to happen when these cars are in a bad accident 12 years from now when the CF is dry rot and over stressed from traveling 150,000 miles in the California desert.
The other problem of course is not the CF and not the aluminum/steel alloys. The problem areas are going to be the places where the CF is merged with the metal structure. Mark my words, over time the CF to metal joints are going to fail. Especially during a previous accident. If the car was 100% CF or 100% metal that's one thing. But, the advertisements clearly show the CF being places intermittently. This will be the bane of the 1st gen CF cars.
Ever [hear] of the Comet? (Not the car, but the plane). The pressurization tech was new and misunderstood.