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Hmmm... so if the AC plumbing can be damaged by a lowered suspension, who's to say it can't happen under full compression of the standard suspension?
Because it is someone's job at BMW to check for this sort of problem and when something slips through the cracks, there's tens of thousands of vehicles on the road where the problem would manifest itself quickly and be corrected.