I need help with a oil leak
05-29-2013, 05:26 AM
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My Ride: 2005 545i Sport
The reason it's important to know where the car spent its life is to narrow down shops it was worked at to get records on the car.
I did some digging on my 545i and found every maintenance record of the car since new. This is a good place to start as far as estimating oil leaks.
Other leaks likely coming up;
- valve cover gaskets
- upper timing chain cover gaskets
- alternator bracket gasket
- valve stem seals
- coolant valley return pipe gasket.
That's $6k worth of work - minimum.
I did some digging on my 545i and found every maintenance record of the car since new. This is a good place to start as far as estimating oil leaks.
Other leaks likely coming up;
- valve cover gaskets
- upper timing chain cover gaskets
- alternator bracket gasket
- valve stem seals
- coolant valley return pipe gasket.
That's $6k worth of work - minimum.
If you can locate what city/state the car spent its life you can narrow down your BMW dealership search to that area and learn about previous maintenance work.
It's a fun/fast car to drive, but it does have "issues".
Good luck.
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