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The thing with taking the word of someone like a mechanic at face value is that, like the police, and paramedics, they only fixate on the problems because that's all they see. Which of course, is only half the picture.
One could also argue that the number of luxury German cars on UK roads has probably quadrupled since the 90s thanks to cheap finance so the number they see in the garage with problems is likely to go up in line with total ownership.
How many modern German cars with hundreds of sensors are out there on the roads every day with zero problems? I'd wager a lot more than online forum and Facebook discussions would have you think.