I’m not sure if anyone has already picked apart the story of the trashed BMW. It would have been ruined but not the way she says: Dismiss the notion of it being towed in first gear, in any gear or in drive. The drive wheels would not rotate and if you attempted this stunt those tyres would skid along with obvious results – if you could even get the whole rig moving.
To get any forward motion you would need to put the car in neutral. But even engaging neutral and lifting the front wheels on a dolly won’t protect automatic transmission for more than three or four miles because BMWs are rear-wheel drive. Automatic transmission requires the engine running to ensure lubrication is pumped to the rear drive shafts (which would be rotated by the act of towing.)
Rotating drive shafts in neutral = insufficient lubrication = burnt out transmission.
JA tried to blame U-Haul but that’s farcical. No rental company would watch her struggling to drive off with the rear wheels of the towed vehicle locked solid! In my opinion she drove off normally with the towed BMW in neutral (key safely out) and its transmission burnt dry after a few miles.
Sorry for the mechanics lecture, and it’s a minor point, but another lie which needs pointing out – to JA and her DT. :websleuther: