Heya! Picked up this car. It's recently had a rocker cover gasket, filter housing gasket and cooler housing gasket replaced. We might be looking at doing the rocker cover as well (there's a slight burning oil smell after hard drives and we're not sure yet if that's residual oil after that recent work or an ongoing problem. TBD soon). there's also a minor leak in a sump gasket which I might just get addressed.
it's at 60k kms (35k miles for you freedom unit folks!)
some internet says top 5 problems are:
Valve Cover Oil Leak
Water Pump Failure
Leaking Oil Filter Housing Gasket
VANOS Solenoid Failure
High Pressure Fuel Pump Failure (HPFP) – Mostly older models
so some have been ticked off already! Any suggestions for some 7 year 35k mile preventative maintenance items? Especially if work is being done around the sump gasket and rocker cover. But other usual items too?
Last edited by harlen; 02-17-2021 at 12:20 AM.
Sorry I see these are common requests. I have searched for info here and not found much (or been buried with too many results).
https://bmwtuning.co/bmw-n55-faq/
has some good info, tho it mostly talks about 100k miles. I wonder if this has had those 3 gaskets replaced for what was "a pretty heavy oil leak", and it already has a minor leak in a sump gasket, if there might be other 100k mile items that should be preventatively checked out already too.
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