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Originally Posted by gee-m-w
I could see someone hitting a pothole on the Cross Bronx Expressway and having a $19,000 repair to replace some aluminum bit on the front 1/4.
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You seem to imply that BMW doesn't even test their cars... Although M cars surely place higher loads on various components things are still tested. Most cars including BMWs will also enjoy nice progressive failures with larger and larger loads (larger and larger potholes). First a tire or wheel will go, then a suspension member will go, then a mounting point might yield, finally a major subframe or frame component will actually fail. No guarantees that this is true for every BMW, every M or every car, but generally this is the way cars are designed to deal with large wheel impact loads such as potholes.