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Sorry to hear this has happened to you mate. I know you must be devastated. If your aftermarket warranty doesn't cover the bill, I would attempt to contact BMWNA and try and explain the entire situation to them. They have given a few others on the forums goodwills on new engine replacements. I am sure they will be very sympathetic to your situation. Best of luck OP
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So until we see the actual leaked doc, we won't know for sure. I'm not trying to discredit the claim.
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It's called "lugging" the motor. It's worse to lug the car around at a low RPM/high gear than rev the piss out of it. A motor, once running, will want to continue to run, even moving. Now imagine the strain on the parts when you are putting resistance to them. This is amplified on a motor with no torque like ours where it will lug around sometimes as it's just unavoidable. (I could leave a stop light in 5 gear in my vette and it would move, try that in the M and it will most likely just stall). I have stated it prior and was dismissed by the rude posters of this board, that I have personally heard a few different cars have an audible knocking on tip in of the throttle when slightly lugging the car around. The first car was constant and I don't know if it is still running and the 2nd car only had the issue after presumably bad gas and the noise was never heard again. Either way, a light knocking under load is no good. |
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They did mine this past November.
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This whole rod bearing issue sucks, but I still maintain that I trust me S65 more than an S54.
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I'm expecting that as these cars get further in time away from their warranty end date, the goodwill fixes will drop off. It also helps to be the original owner and/or a repeat buyer of BMW products. Being a second-hand owner on a car more than one year past it's warranty end seems a tough situation for any kind of goodwill repairs.
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Yes, exactly! You nailed it. I recall your post, and your post is what put this idea in my head. I thought about it since you mentioned it, and it seems, at the surface, to make sense. I'm not saying this is what causes the bearing issue, but I can see how it is likely bad for our engines to be exposed to that type of driving. If I recall you had planned on making a post about this issue, correct? |
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When I say babied, I mean that maintenance of drivetrain, interior, and no track days or heavy mods, no abusive driving, etc.. |
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I would consider that recent so good to know.
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Brand loyalty and the chance you will buy more "new" cars in the future definitely plays a big part of "good will" repairs.
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1. Original owner? 2. mileage of failure? 3. month, year warranty expired? 4. month, year of failure? 5. how long did it take to get the approval? 6. how many levels up BMWNA did you have to go? 7. any other tips?
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I did not just join to post about a bearing failure... I was just starting to get acquainted here when the failure occurred... |
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2. Failure happened around 60k miles. Was getting on the freeway during traffic (no hard driving) and the car went into limp mode. Got off the freeway and parked in a parking lot. Tried to fire the car up and the engine wouldn't turn. 3. Standard warranty ends at 50k miles? I forget, but didn't hit the time expiration. 4. Failed around August or September of 2014. I have BMW's factory extended warranty, but it was denied because they did research and "found footage of my car racing at the track and that is considered abuse". They also found my car's max redline recorded at 8500-8600rpm. Never miss-shifted and my software isn't set to raise the redline. 5. My car sat at the dealership lot for probably 2 months without any final word. Not surprisingly, the dealership kept saying BMWNA didn't want to fix my car and BMWNA would tell me that it's the dealership's call and they didn't want to repair my car under my extended warranty. 6. Not sure how far I had to go up. I dealt with the second contact after the initial customer rep for the rest of the duration. 7. I talked to a bunch of people who went through the same thing or had friends who did and the only real advice they could give is to push that I had bought so many BMW's recently and that I am a loyal customer who plans to keep buying in the future. In the end, all they really care about is money and your chance of future purchases. At the time I was planning on buying an i3 and getting rid of the X5M to get a newer X5D. I talked about my BMW history (owned 7 new BMW's since 2009), and how I was planning to buy the new ones soon. If they didn't fix my motor I would not buy another BMW based on principle. But I decided to risk it and pick up the i3 during this whole process. I called BMWNA up after getting the i3 and told them about it. Like a week later, I got a call from my dealership that BMWNA has approved the repair and a new motor was ordered from Germany.
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Hmm this is interesting, at the end of the day, even with your known fix under warranty at 16k, they still initially denied your claim based on that you've used your car at the track as the sole reason? My assessment of your situation is, that they couldn't find a legal way to wangle out of the fact that you still bought extended warranty. thanks for the info!
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