deeveus 81 Report post Posted April 11, 2014 Yea, get rid of it before you get attached to it. Mine has leaked in many places and after fixing all the leaks we discovered the valve guide seals were toast and thats a $1600 - $2000 job on these motors. Have u got any smoke out the exhaust if you let it idle for 5 minutes and then rev it hard? Not that I've noticed. Had an airlock when we changed the hose pipe. Idled for 10 mins and revved it and would have noticed it. Yeah it's on borrowed time here. Once the gasket has been done and everything is above board it's gone burgers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KwS 2425 Report post Posted April 11, 2014 Are there any good points about these engines? You guys are portraying them like they are the worst engine BMW made! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ahmedsinc 414 Report post Posted April 11, 2014 Are there any good points about these engines? You guys are portraying them like they are the worst engine BMW made! Was thinking the same thing myself. Does the issue lie in the N series being the first vvt 4 cylinders? Or is something more sinister at play here? Is any BMW post 2001 safe to buy?? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MoJoJoe 46 Report post Posted April 11, 2014 wow! Guys does this valve guide seals or whatever affect older e36 cars motors as m52? that's what I drive. I am doing some maintenance on the car now so would like to know if there's something like this I should check? any smoke or something? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BM WORLD 1283 Report post Posted April 11, 2014 Are there any good points about these engines? You guys are portraying them like they are the worst engine BMW made! they make good torque and ecnomy etc thats it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KwS 2425 Report post Posted April 11, 2014 wow! Guys does this valve guide seals or whatever affect older e36 cars motors as m52? that's what I drive. I am doing some maintenance on the car now so would like to know if there's something like this I should check? any smoke or something? The M52 engines are pretty tough arent they? Dont hear of many with serious issues, unlike the N series (which shares nothing with the M series engines). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deeveus 81 Report post Posted April 24, 2014 (edited) And here we find the N42 in its natural stomping ground.. All issues fixed just can't sort the dawned brake sensor warning! Edited April 24, 2014 by The Diesel Guy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
euroriffic 607 Report post Posted April 24, 2014 Did you have Aaron on the case? Might be a plug in and see job... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
antil33t 90 Report post Posted April 24, 2014 Cut the wires for the brake sensor and tie them together. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deeveus 81 Report post Posted April 24, 2014 Cut the wires for the brake sensor and tie them together. We did all that "tripped the sensors" but nothing. Had to wipe the fault code in the end. End of the day the rotors and brakes have all been done. Turns out there's a faulty wire somewhere and we weren't prepared to pull all the carpet up and check all the wires. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zero 1162 Report post Posted June 5, 2014 Did you end up selling the car? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deeveus 81 Report post Posted June 5, 2014 Yeah I did, but cost a bomb to get up to scratch, and cost many headaches. Was working perfectly once we got it sorted. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
