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I personally don't think there's any need to change oil that often before the first thousand miles. |
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An excellent highly informative and Technical post. Thank you!
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You hit the nail on the head. More frequent OCIs or different viscosity oil wouldn't necessarily have done anything here.
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This is my car! Had it in this past week, bought it two weeks ago. I've been browsing these forums for a while but it's finally time to join up...
Very interesting to see a write-up on why exactly these bearings fail. Deansbimmer took care of my rod bearings and a couple other things -- total class act. |
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deansbimmer that last main bearing pic made me sick to my stomach (not that the others weren't giving me acid reflux already). WTF causes this? Do you have any history on the car/maintenance/driving style? Seeing those mains is scary as f***. Now I've got to start browsing the interwebs for used Caymans (the ones w/o the IMS bearing issue). Again. FML.
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Oh I see, I thought they failed after two weeks of ownership, I should’ve read it better, my bad.
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Thanks so much for sharing this info. Very helpful. My '12 with 58K goes in Monday for rod bearing + engine mount replacement. Going with BE bearings.
Just out of curiosity, do you have similar pics of rod bearings from other (non-BMW) motors that show what a more typical wear pattern would look like?
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Great post!
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Flew down from DFW and drove it up. |
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I don’t know if I would wait... my car has 35k km and I just had my bearings done and i am glad I did ...
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Edited first post with further detail. Hopefully more members can find it useful!
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The pic of the micro grooving made me think about the WPC bearings. Wouldn't all the micro grooving be removed via the WPC process? Seems like a less than desirable outcome. It's knowledge like this that made me tow my (old) car from Knoxville, TN to your shop during my relocation drive. AC bearing failure was a blessing, of sorts, I guess! I've seen what the new owner has had you do to the car and it looks awesome!
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The WPC peening process increases clearances by only .0002 or so. The Micro Grooving depth is deeper than what the WPC treatment will affect.
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Excellent thread Deansbimmer, and very useful
Btw, you should link this thread in your sig, so anytime someone says 'those bearings look fine', you can just point them here . Quote:
I do plan to gather such photos myself from any engine & post a thread about it, but I haven't even started yet. Although I did see a whole 2 people post photos of good rod bearings in the 'rod bearing condition' thread, it's a massive thread to search through . [edit] Actually I do have a single link of good RB photos from an S65, posted by Deansbimmer! See this thread Hopefully I can get the photo to show here.....
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I bought my 2009 e90 from the original owner, with 100k on it. Sent it straight to my shop, who is in the process of replacing the bearings (with VAC as that’s what is currently available). Here is a pic of my old bearings... |
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