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Originally Posted by bde
It could be that USA-assembled cars had some sort of tolerance issues. No clue really. I wonder if anyone tracked the manufacturing origin of each failed vehicle.
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All M cars are manufactured in the same plant in Germany.
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Originally Posted by thekurgan
Or just more mileage. I suspect in a couple of years, it will be the 10-11 models suffering, new bearings or not; and, possibly crank damage on top.
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Agreed
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I'd rather have the older bearings with the WPC treatment than the new ones.
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So would I. Except that you can't. The 088/089 leaded bearings have gone out of production for over 3 years now, and there aren't any left on the market. The only bearings available now are the unleaded OEM 702/703 ones.