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Originally Posted by blackwidow328i
Apparently a good majority of BMW's are randomly catching on fire due to poor maintenance, nests and such? I find this kind of odd. What would other factors cause fires just to start even if the car was "parked" for 3 days?
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Originally Posted by blackwidow328i
Makes sense I was just wanting more input cause this seemed highly unlikely all of a sudden. Appreciate the response!
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I don't know that you really "appreciate" what they're saying about your initial post. (And here I use the 2nd meaning of the verb "appreciate": "2. understand (a situation) fully; recognize the full implications of.")
You have completely and utterly miss-used the word "majority". As you know (I hope) "majority" means "more than one-half". BMW sells around 325,000 cars per year in the USA; 18.4 million total cars were sold in the USA in 2016, so BMW's share is about 1.8%. There are 253 million cars in the USA, so if BMW compose 1.8% of the 253 million cars that exist in the USA (a reasonable assumption) that means there are about 4,500,000 BMWs in the USA.
A "majority" of BMWs catching fire would therefore mean AT LEAST 2,250,001 fires. That number is not close to "40 fires".
Go read the BMW statement in the other thread, and the other comments in it, for more information.
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1383515