fiily

I thought 951 were harder to work on since all of the extra plumbing, cramped quarters concerning our engine bay, old wiring, bad solder joints on the dme and came across a thread for m5/m6's since I am considering buying one.

Rod bearings going bad and destroying the crank/engine with only 30k under their belts. I will not complain again, our 2.5/2.7/3.0L are a stout engine. I never hear any issues with bearings on 944's well into the 90-125k mile range.

944's are the easiest car to work on. Forgive my insolence porsche demigod's.

http://www.bimmerboost.com/showthrea...higher-mileage

Red1

My one-and-only experience with BMW ownership was enough. Never again.

Jay Wellwood

B-M-Trouble You

MockngBrd

I kinda think the opposite... maybe becos there isn't anywhere to get Porsche parts locally except from the dealership.

BMW parts are easily found/ordered here. (mine's a E34 )

EVOMMM

I think so also my e30 m3 has taken a beating in my 15 years 128k and only let me down 1 time my 944 T/s has been higher maintainece at only 35k and 6years but why complain you and I are lucky to experiance such hardships
Mike

blade7

IMO the the M3 engine knocks spots of the S2 and 968 engines, and a standard 944T engine too.

Voith

e60 M5 engine has a lot of parts and rebuilding them is wallet's nightmare.

That engine would be mindblowing in 500kg chasis of some sort.

fiily

I still would like to buy one.

After reading m5 forums, e60 m5 owners are dreading this and are getting out of their m5's before this occurs and kills the engine.

Sounds to me like most M/// owners are just not comfortable doing a bearing job and don't want to spend the money to change their rod bearings so they would rather take a bath on a trade-in or private sale.

My kind of owners!

divil

How do the E39 M5s compare? I've been thinking about one of those for a while.

PorscheFanatic202

I've been looking at some M3s recently and on the forums it seems like the e46 was plagued earlier by bad rod bearings. Seems like some of the e90s have some rod bearing issues as well. Kinda scary. On a different note, my e30 iX daily driver just rolled over 271k without touching the bottom end. I'm kinda curious what the bearings look like after the abuse I put it through.

FRporscheman

I know someone with an E39 M5, oil pump failed with something like 120k miles. The OIL PUMP! The engine is toast.

SamGrant951

I have a lowly E36 M3 and its just about the easiest car I have ever worked on. Im on my 5th BMW now - never had any problems.

James_98188

I had a 1985 1/2 N/A 944 some time ago, which I ended up selling to help raise downpayment money for a house. Currently, my sporting car is a 1993 MR2 Turbo, but I miss the 944's forged aluminum control arms and more stable handling with the mass not being all in the center of the car; so I'm considering getting another 944, only a Turbo this time.


Parts for my '93 Two are scarce enough, how's the available supply for the 944 holding up?

dcamco

I daily drove an e39 m5 for a few years from 150k to 162k. I had a coil, thermostat and power steering line go bad. Only the steering line left me stranded. These were not expensive repairs. I'd say about $700 total. I would not hesitate to own another one.

reno808

lol