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      03-05-2020, 07:57 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by gofast182 View Post
Interesting re: the 3 series. Powertrains are largely the same, enhanced for reliability if anything. I'm not seeing nearly the same rate of infotainment issues that happened when iDrive7 was released on the G05. My car had a passenger mirror motor fail but that wouldn't make it unreliable.
The rate of infotainment issues that you're seeing, is that based on actual figures or just what you've seen in the forums?

I agree that in these forums, I've seen way more posts in the G05 forum for infotainment issues than in the G20 forum, but not sure that's representative of real world numbers. Consumer reports gave both the G20 and G05 a 1/5 for reliability.

That being said, it seems that the majority of issues that were originally present when the G05 first came out (which happened to be software related) have been ironed out. I've been lucky that both my G05 and G20 haven't had any issues.
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