As a fella that works in test and has done for 16 years, I can only laugh at the terminology being used by BMW here. If it was a QA program, we wouldn't be in this position in the first place with 2L DIEsels - this should've not only been caught at factory, but rectified in subsequent deliveries of models using this engine/timing chain combination. There are zero excuses that this is going on 8 years without formal intervention.

Recall it definitely is, if the above is going ahead.