Re: E39 bore wear problem.

turtill@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:02:40 +0000, John Burns
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was looking through What Car  price guide today and I noticed it
warned of serious bore wear problems in late 1990 cars. Surely this
problem was with early 1990 cars. Is this a mistake?
I'd have said 95-98 M52 six cylinder cars and the 93-95 V8s. 

Well that is what I understood too as far as the V8 was concerned. I
did not know about the M52 problem lasting that late though.
pete

Really depends on where you are located. There is NO problem with the M5x series engines in the US.. until they got it sorted out - the M5x engines still came with a cast iron block, and then with steel inserts
in the aluminum blocks.

Apparently the Euro cars weren't as lucky.


.

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