Wow, yes. I had the same experience with my 2011 335xi. Two blown clutches, the first at 15,000 miles. The morons said I didn’t know how to drive manual. I informed them that I had been driving manual longer than they had been alive. It worked once, not twice. The clutch was too weak for the torque the car put out. Eventually, a mechanic explained that they didn’t actually expect people to buy sticks, it was just there for the advertising value. Don’t get me started on how bad the service was. My friend the mechanic quit the industry completely when it became clear to her that she would be a service writer, a job that as she described it, consists of upwelling people with fraudulent service needs. Oh, and having to badger BMW to perform service on the car. Infuriating. Well, maybe better than the time we brought in my wife’s 530xi for the last warranty service, they flooded the rear electronics bay with water during the car wash and then charged us $3,500 to repair what happened in their garage because they didn't clean out the drains properly. I had multiple people at BMW tell me that the cars were not supposed to last past warranty and you were a fool to keep them beyond that. I have one friend who still drives them. She gets a new one every three years on lease. Since she is a partner at her firm, she just writes it off. But since it’s a company car, she is always stuck on the 320s which are seriously underpowered. And they get uglier and uglier every time.
Yes, brake rotors and water pumps. And then there were headlights. $1,500 each for auto-leveling BS that broke every time I hit a pothole (as did the rims) which in New Jersey is frequent.
It was finally totaled due to a flash flood last year that hit while I was under a railroad trestle.
I should add that my wife’s Model Y is faster and has better handling. 20,000 miles, a year and a half, and absolutely no service. Completely different experience than the BMW.