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So I asume, if you are in to high gear/ while low RPM and then floor it, it causes heat, sparkplug's get drowned in fuel and the engine get's under alot of stress. |
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Whatabout the exhaust fume's? We know blue...mean's coolant...white? Wich color are you referring when diagnosing a potencial candidate? |
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Indeed , we can even smell the oil and is a dark blue fume , they burn oil for joy ! I really don't get it that OP burns oil to 1/2 indicator in 1K miles , even when the oil was burned the only exit is via the exhaust tips ! The big question is... Can bad bearings that run hotter burn oil that fast in about 1K miles ...
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I get these are "worst case" numbers but lets not pretend that 2-4% range is fixed. It will only continue to go up as these cars age. |
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Honestly , my car is every single winter in hibernation on my battery tender for about 3-4 months or more, depends when the road salt is gone . After this I start my car and drive it for 4-5 days in granny style ,max to 4-5K rpm , because the car was not driven for months ! After that week I just step on it my friend and my S65 runs just perfect , and hope to keep it that way .
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You forgot that making a public acknowledgment also damages the brand's reliability reputation which is difficult to put a revenue loss number on and it opens the doors to all claims on engines, bearing related or not. |
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But also speculation , because we saw on here several with +100K on it and someone with + 170K on it ! Are this the real winners ... About his very reliable source I'm agreed , and BMW will do nothing , and the only thing they do is..."Financial speculation"
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Hope the same thing , like I said it's a lottery from out of the factory !
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2-4% bearing failure rate seems very high for a production motor. I wonder why there is still no recall on the engine, as ceasing the motor at highway speed represents a danger to public safety. I'm curious if getting NHTSA involved to start an investigation will prompt BMW to do the right thing. Maybe we should get a class action suit started. Are there lawyers on this board?
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What was the % of failures on the E46 M3 recall?
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Somehow the initial statement in post #1 about car being babied it's whole life doesn't quite fit with red-lined up to a dozen times per day. This engine was designed to be revved, of course, so there is no way I would advocate granny-driving it. Perhaps in the long run, a V8 with this much rev capacity is too close to being a racing engine for usage in a high mileage street car without some expectation of occasional failures. Obviously, it is possible to design such an engine with lower bearing fail rates than what we see here if the development time and focus is there up front at the manufacturer. It looks like some of us will get lucky and a few of us won't (in terms of engine failure), but at the same time how many other V8s in the world can turn 8400 rpm regularly and last for 100k+ miles?
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What is considered "lifetime" mileage for these engines? Also, do you have any knowledge of an approximate mileage on these engines that most failures will occur by (and therefore, a mileage after which we as owners, if we've not already experienced a failure, should feel somewhat "safe")? |
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Was reading your statement at least 5 times on here posted by others! Saw a lawyer on here with exact the same words..but it were his last words ! The problem is who starts and how , because the lawyers in Germany are no fools...
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I admittedly "baby" the car and keep it under 3000 rpms until the oil temp needle reaches the middle. Once it's at the middle, I'll open it up several times as traffic allows. Rarely to redline though, often to 6-7k. Would you say this is bad practice to baby it, keeping it under 3,000 until the temp needle reaches towards the middle (210)? It sounds like the OP did this as well and I'm sure lots of owners do this too.
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