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Originally Posted by Ashley Schaeffer BMW
Or in other words..... Anything that hurts your precious feelings.
Lots of guys here have been driving M's a lot longer than "since 2013". I think you could learn a thing or two by reading more and posting less. The longevity of these "aftermarket" bearings haven't been tested yet. They could blow more engines than they save by messing with OEM standards. To call it preventative maintenance at this stage is a stretch. More like experimenting with your motor.
Moral of the story...... You don't know what you're talking about.
Do you own stock in the company pushing these bearings on the forum?
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Oh boy, we have another one with their head in the sand!!
This has nothing to do with owning stock or being compensated monetarily to promote a fictitious catastrophic failure. Nor is it about the solution provided by afterwork manufacturers. I sure as shit am not sponsored by any OEM!
I didn't buy my second M3 to modify the engine internals just for it to function on a daily bases. Point is bearings are not a wear item; PERIOD! Which you casually missed! Are you saying an engine needs to be torn down on a ____ mile increment? Are you kidding me? $2K plus bearing replacement is not an adder for standard maintenance, better yet $25K for a replacement long block is no joke! What is your point exactly? That all of us who experienced these issues are what... Crazy? making it up? causing the same issue? all have forced induction that are keeping it a secret?
I personally have experienced it all and kept it pretty quite for the most part. The point of these threads are to compare notes and hopefully someone from the factory is here to see what we're all experiencing. IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BY BMW.
I'm in the electronic industry, if any of my OEM's had 10% defect rate due to the same exact malfunction, there would have been a recall long ago!