Just having a brain scratching moment or two here, as mine is currently under diagnosis with the dealer for making very screechy mechanical sounding noises from (I'm almost certain) is the back end.
Did yours make any noises before going screech, OMG! and sitting in a lot of smelly smoke I wonder..?
That must have been a horrendous slide to stop. Thank goodness it was safely concluded.
I was just thinking the same thing. If it were a box on its way out, it would have been making some noise.
GreyGoose, I know you weren't driving, but had your BB been noisy from the get go or quiet? If it were noisy all along, it may have been hard for your wife to discern normal from, as Steve put it, OMG...
If it were quiet, it was probably a catastrophic failure like a tooth braking etc and locking up the box. I can't imagine bearings or something rotating and setting up as being quiet while going south.
But as Steve's has just gone through as well as many others here, it's probably due to the lack of oil or oil turned to tar.
Either way it's crap now, and not just in your wife's underwear. Knickers to you UK guys.
I hope in both cases that they resolve this with better products, although Steve's was supposedly the latest and greatest being a '14 model. A rebuild of confidence it also very important to both of you.
