BMW enhances customer satisfaction with their new driveshaft maintenance strategy

[mspratz]

Is Eurosport Asheville your [closest] BMW dealer now?
About the dark patches ... any photos? My headers never got nicely blued marks in the locations you might expect but instead have brownish patches wherever. I bought some Autosol (based on what people were saying on the Internet) but never got around to trying to erase these marks (largely because I am skeptical about the veracity of the reports).

Yes, my dealer is Eurosport Asheville. According to the service manager, BMW is indeed paying for the check/re-lube every 12,000 miles. However, he says they will only do so within 1000 miles either side of the iterative 12,000 mile mark. I can only assume, based on the wording of the letter I got, that he means 12,000 miles of driveshaft life, not necessarily 12,000 miles odometer. He also said that BMW intend that these check/re-lubes happen with the regular 12,000 mile service. I said I like to do my own service. He said "I know", and happily scheduled my bike for the "free" driveshaft service at 1 pm today. I had to ride it an extra 20 miles or so yesterday to get it to 11,000 miles on the odometer by 1 pm today.
I would bet that anyone who has more than 12,000 miles on their driveshaft wouldn't have too much trouble convincing their local dealer to do the "free" driveshaft service without waiting for the next 12,000 mile unit to roll around.
I'll post photos of the black marks on the header pipes later today. I will start a new thread for that.