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Originally Posted by strohw
That's like me saying, I have 20 years of riding motorcycles with over 90,000mi on over a dozen different bikes and I've never had a rock pierce my radiator. Except on my 20th year, it did happen to me on a bike I never installed a guard on. Now I'll never not put a rad guard on my bikes.
Is it likely to happen, No, but it could happen.
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Exactly. I've owned over 45 vehicles and driven who knows how many hundreds of thousands of miles. I hadn't had a front splitter break or head light shattered until this year when my '22 330e got hit by a kicked up discarded tire tread causing $5k in damage. And after the repair my new front splitter was hit & cracked by road debris, and a third had the same fate in less than 4 months.
So just because someone hasn't seen it happen, doesn't mean it hasn't, can't, or won't. As already pointed out in the M2 forum, a member had his oil cooler destroyed by a rock in the first couple hundred miles. The M2 cooler is $1,600. I'll pay $300 for added protection.