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Old 11-16-2021, 03:51 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by equ View Post
This is what my buyer wrote back, he is not very technical:

They said that the drive shaft malfunction-was shredding metal into the oil flow
and that the engine needed replacing


I did not expect that for n55's. He got some help from bmw and his son is a mechanic so I guess he came out ok. I felt bad that the engine did not make 90k.
I interpret that as rod bearings. I see a lot of rod bearing failures reported for N55s. I bet he meant crankshaft.
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