BMWNA just called me up and told me they will cover 100% of the cluster, if I chip in for one hour of labor. Works for me. Thanks to all the people who let us know of the process. The whole thing took about 3 weeks. I sent an email about 3 weeks ago. They emailed me back and said I needed to fax them registration proving that I'm the owner (1.5 weeks ago) and they just called right now to let me know.
My beast is a 2000 and has about 75,000 miles on it. I thought it would cause a problem, but I stated in my first email that a brand built on quality should have electronics that last more than 50,000 miles on their cars, especially when mine started to go out around 40,000 and just got progressively worse. I just need to schedule an appointment at the dealer to get it fixed.
It's definitely worth a try; i wasn't planning on changing it, but I just got bored and that i would give it a shot.
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2000 m5 - Carbon Black w/ some goodies - tubi exhaust, rough SSK w/ DSSR, DiCE, Sirius, Kicker Solobaric.