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Originally Posted by swartzentruber
I don't think you are getting my point. UK has warmer winters than most of northern US and Canada (and northern Germany). SenorFunkyPants says UK has lower incidence of blown engines. Thus, hypothesis is that warmer winters equals fewer blown engines. Someone from Australia also mentioned much earlier in the thread that this is not viewed as much of an issue there. This also supports this hypothesis.
Since the Germany shop is getting engines from around the world, it doesn't allow us to make any correlations about temps to bearing wear.
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Spot on. My SA has been ringing around the dealerships in Australia, and mind you we don't have very many here, and except for one or two cases, it is not a known issue with S85 or S65. It was acknowledged a case in Queensland, which I know about, but they wouldn't give specifics.
Yes, our climate is lot more warmer than the rest of the world, and our winter, especially in 2/3 of the country, is like a mild summer's day in the UK. Hence the reason it's news to most here.
When I enquired about the various bearing part#, the service manager had to contact BMW Australia to get details of current and superseded parts. If bearing was an issue, this information would have been somewhat readily available locally.
Also when someone says they are getting s lot of engines from around the world per week, that counts for a lot of S85 and S65 engines. They must be getting some engines but the claim I think is an ever exaggeration, and a good selling point for his/her business.
We also get crap fuel in Australia which most are claiming for the 10w-60 turning black very quickly. As I said in one of my prior posts, I changed my oil after 12 months and nearly 5k km, and it was jet black. There was no translucency what so ever. It looked like the oil has burnt. I know someone at Castrol and I will be writing on the weekend to find out why this is happening. There should be some technical explanation to this.
Every time I drive year round, I easily touch the 12 o'clock position on the temp gauge. In the winter it might drop slightly back, but in the summer, which is coming up soon, and currently our temp is averaging 36 Celsius (97 Fahrenheit), the needle sits at 12. So using thinner oil doesn't make sense to me here.