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Originally Posted by Mr. BMW
I don't have time to go searching to find ones that didnt look bad but I remember seeing some that didn't look bad to me. Bearing are going to have some wear on them. It's metal on metal. I would be more surprised if there wasn't some wear on them...
Here's the one where he had them replaced and then had a main bearing failure probably due to something that the shop did wrong.
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthr...hlight=bearing |
The purpose of the oil running through the bearings is precisely to avoid metal on metal failure
You can read the really long thread discussing this if you want. Normal bearing wear equals no wear or almost no wear.
I've seen that thread. Yes, shops screw up. He's getting a new engine out of that most unfortunate incident