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      12-16-2013, 03:16 AM   #7
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There was a crank bearing change autumn 2008 - hard to know for sure if it was a revision for the 2009 MY or on a particular date. 2009 MY starts Sept 2008 but the revision was apparently in October 2008.
The date for the rob bearing revision is uncertain - the only way to tell is by the numbers on the bearings themselves which you see when you strip down the engine. [1]
Note though that the bearing failure rate is actually reassuringly quite low....although you'd think there would be expired M3s abandoned by the side of every road going by M3post.

Edit [1] somewhere around 2011 seems like the best guess so far.

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