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Originally Posted by capt_slow
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Originally Posted by danallxt
BMW seems concerned about tire/wheel damage relative to a potential safety risk, as a result suspected damage means the tire and rim removed, the tire is cut up and rims also cut up and destroyed so any employee etc cannot have access.
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Great write-up! The local CCA chapter organized a tour of the VDC not too long ago and I was fortunate enough to attend. Hoping another opportunity comes up soon.
The cars all come from Germany fully assembled for the most part, so most port-installed components will be replacing a part that was previously installed on the car. The latter gets destroyed on the spot. We watched a tech swap out the stock kidney grills for the blacked out ones and they smashed the old ones right after the new ones were installed.
If I recall correctly from the tour, BMW also stopped using the cosmoline wax on the cars a few years back. There are some videos of cars being offloaded and driven that mile down the road from the port staging area:
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Same thing happens with ALPINA - items from the base car get destroyed if you upgrade it with an ALPINA option. I was gutted when I found out.