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Originally Posted by JABCAT
It could be argued that the likelihood of headlights being shattered by road debris is probably higher than the oil cooler being punctured by road debris and the owner continuing to drive the vehicle without oil leading to a catastrophic engine failure. I have headlight guards on my Wrangler headlights to avoid such damage, so it's not an unfounded argument.
And the comment to which I replied said BMW should have paid for the damage or a new car.
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I am pretty sure the headlights are designed to be much much stronger for the same reason you mentioned they are much likely to be hit by debris. You will hardly see a cracked headlights when comapred to other road debri damages on car.
And since there are laws and basic requirements on the placement of an headlight. They are essentially designed to withstand a certain level of abuse.
This cannot be said for the oil cooler and they had many opportunities to place it else where or at least protect it to a certain extent. You can see the extent of damage many of the owners already have on their coolers with in few thousand miles. Just imagine repeated hits over the life of the vehicle.
I am not sure why we should trivialize such a blatant design issue comparing it to non-equating examples.
Also why did bmw have a plastic protection in the F-series?