[nos4seasons]

Originally Posted by Stück

N20's are garbage engines, yours did what N20's do. I beg and plead with my N20 clients to come in every 7500mi for an oil service, so many of them drink the 10, 12, 15k BMW oil service koolaid and I've seen 3 total engine failures in the last 2 years. The N20 also uses a ridiculously obscure 0w20 LLFE14++ oil that chain oil change places don't have, don't care to have, and aren't putting in the engine.

I must admit I'm always amused when someone asks why there isn't an emergency shutdown feature on these cars incase there is a major failure. That feature is positioned behind the wheel :-)

It is normal for the transmission to not go into neutral when the engine isn't running. The 8HP automatics have a pressure reservoir that must be primed to allow gear selection. This reservoir is what allows auto start stop to function, but you only get one hit out of it. When the engine stops while road speed is detected it dumps its charge as a parting gift so you can hopefully coast to a place you can secure the vehicle.

It sounds like your situation turned out as well as it could all things considered.

Yes. Driver is the emergency shut down mechanism. Good thing I pulled over when I could safely, although it didn't do me any good.

So though, what you're saying is: change the oil a lot sooner, and BMW has these long intervals to eventually tank engines and benefit from the replacement cost. Are you a tech?

[TZ]

Yes, he is a knowledgeable BMW tech

[BigKutta]

Originally Posted by Stück

N20's are garbage engines, yours did what N20's do. I beg and plead with my N20 clients to come in every 7500mi for an oil service, so many of them drink the 10, 12, 15k BMW oil service koolaid and I've seen 3 total engine failures in the last 2 years. The N20 also uses a ridiculously obscure 0w20 LLFE14++ oil that chain oil change places don't have, don't care to have, and aren't putting in the engine.

I must admit I'm always amused when someone asks why there isn't an emergency shutdown feature on these cars incase there is a major failure. That feature is positioned behind the wheel :-)

It is normal for the transmission to not go into neutral when the engine isn't running. The 8HP automatics have a pressure reservoir that must be primed to allow gear selection. This reservoir is what allows auto start stop to function, but you only get one hit out of it. When the engine stops while road speed is detected it dumps its charge as a parting gift so you can hopefully coast to a place you can secure the vehicle.

It sounds like your situation turned out as well as it could all things considered.

Stuck - As you've seen from this thread, I suffered from the dreaded whine and BMW applied the SIB and replaced my timing chain and guides, etc., just within the extended warranty. I agree with you that the N20 is a garbage engine, both from a performance and reliability standpoint, but we are stuck with it. For owners like me, whose F10 has been otherwise flawless and would like to keep for a long time, what do you suggest we do? Do you think this engine is ok once the issue of the guides has been corrected? More frequent oil changes? With 0W20? I've always gotten BMW or a BMW indy to change oil, but I'm not sure its 0W20. What else can we do? Thanks

[Imbohori]

Originally Posted by nos4seasons

Ahw man. 74K miles.

It's crazy to me how this timing chain fails exactly after the extended warranty... my 528i 2013 was just in BMW with this issue, I'm lucky it did not destroy my engine...yet.... but am in talks with BMW.

My car is at 78k

Shocker right

There is a class action lawsuit I spoke with one of the lawyers heading the operation.

[nos4seasons]

Originally Posted by Imbohori

It's crazy to me how this timing chain fails exactly after the extended warranty... my 528i 2013 was just in BMW with this issue, I'm lucky it did not destroy my engine...yet.... but am in talks with BMW.

My car is at 78k

Shocker right

There is a class action lawsuit I spoke with one of the lawyers heading the operation.

Awh man. Yep. Interesting timing. Hmmm. But yes, I would follow my exact protocol which I laid out here, and then MAKE SURE you convince someone at your dealership to advocate you. Get the "service manager" involved. Ultimately, he or she is the only one that can get corporate to help.

[Imbohori]

Originally Posted by nos4seasons

Awh man. Yep. Interesting timing. Hmmm. But yes, I would follow my exact protocol which I laid out here, and then MAKE SURE you convince someone at your dealership to advocate you. Get the "service manager" involved. Ultimately, he or she is the only one that can get corporate to help.

Yes sir I will take a read.

Thank you 🙏🏽

[nos4seasons]

Originally Posted by Imbohori

Yes sir I will take a read.

Thank you 🙏🏽

You got it! Keep us posted.

[BigKutta]

Originally Posted by Imbohori

It's crazy to me how this timing chain fails exactly after the extended warranty... my 528i 2013 was just in BMW with this issue, I'm lucky it did not destroy my engine...yet.... but am in talks with BMW.

My car is at 78k

Shocker right

There is a class action lawsuit I spoke with one of the lawyers heading the operation.

What were your symptoms? What happened?

[Imbohori]

Originally Posted by BigKutta

What were your symptoms? What happened?

Car was serviced at multiple BMW Dealerships since I purchased the car.
Took care of everything BMW told me.
Car drove amazing all the time.
Just took a cross country trip with my father last Summer from New Mexico to Miami.

Brought it in in November 2018, spent $2000 on what BMW suggested I complete

Then, rough idle started in January 2019, family members told me to bring it in.

Brought in in because I picked up a nail (AS USUAL with me) bought two new Run Flat tires and had alignment and then the SA said, btw there's about $6000 worth of work that needs to be done on the engine...

Complete surprise to me...Nothing ever seemed wrong until it started vibrating. No warning lights, no error messages, just great performance like I always expected from a 5 Series.

Currently in talks with Service Manager and BMW Customer Relations.

My car issue is Timing Chain, Engine Oil Housing and Engine Mounts.

[BigKutta]

Originally Posted by Imbohori

Car was serviced at multiple BMW Dealerships since I purchased the car.
Took care of everything BMW told me.
Car drove amazing all the time.
Just took a cross country trip with my father last Summer from New Mexico to Miami.

Brought it in in November 2018, spent $2000 on what BMW suggested I complete

Then, rough idle started in January 2019, family members told me to bring it in.

Brought in in because I picked up a nail (AS USUAL with me) bought two new Run Flat tires and had alignment and then the SA said, btw there's about $6000 worth of work that needs to be done on the engine...

Complete surprise to me...Nothing ever seemed wrong until it started vibrating. No warning lights, no error messages, just great performance like I always expected from a 5 Series.

Currently in talks with Service Manager and BMW Customer Relations.

My car issue is Timing Chain, Engine Oil Housing and Engine Mounts.

That's interesting. I'm not sure if your issue is the same as mine where the time chain guides are failing, for which BMW extended the warranty to 7/70. The early signs of this failure are an unusual whine when accelerating until the guides break and possibly destroy the engine. If the sound is caught early enough (thanks to this board I was able to detect the sound), then timing chain and guides are replaced. Maybe in your case its something else. But still, sucks that this engine a piece of shit, especially because I enjoy this car so much otherwise.

[concordealex]

I know that my engine will probably disintegrate tomorrow as soon as I post this, but I do want to say that my experience with the N20 has been overwhelmingly positive. Build date of 12/2013 and the car was started on a 5w30 valvoline synthetic and switched at around 75k miles to 5w40 synthetic coupled with mann filters. The car is now at 96k miles and does not use a drop of oil and feels like it did the day it was bought.

What is likely the source of people's problems are the 10k mile oil change intervals, as I have run 5k mile ones instead, as the 10k recommendation is just so BMW will have to do fewer free services during the warranty period. Also of critical importance is to avoid the use of the auto start/stop system, as this puts tremendous stress on the engine. Consider how once a motor stops running, all of the oil drains back into the pan, regardless of what BMW may tell you. Running through the startup procedure dozens of times in a drive is a recipe for disaster, as your motor is basically running without oil for a good bit of that time.

Meanwhile, after driving many 6-cylinder BMWs of olden days, I have determined the N20 to be one of the finest motors BMW has offered. The low revs and silent performance, as well as fuel economy (26.8 mpg in mixed driving) is a winning combo for me.

[KozikexF10]

Originally Posted by concordealex

I know that my engine will probably disintegrate tomorrow as soon as I post this, but I do want to say that my experience with the N20 has been overwhelmingly positive. Build date of 12/2013 and the car was started on a 5w30 valvoline synthetic and switched at around 75k miles to 5w40 synthetic coupled with mann filters. The car is now at 96k miles and does not use a drop of oil and feels like it did the day it was bought.

What is likely the source of people's problems are the 10k mile oil change intervals, as I have run 5k mile ones instead, as the 10k recommendation is just so BMW will have to do fewer free services during the warranty period. Also of critical importance is to avoid the use of the auto start/stop system, as this puts tremendous stress on the engine. Consider how once a motor stops running, all of the oil drains back into the pan, regardless of what BMW may tell you. Running through the startup procedure dozens of times in a drive is a recipe for disaster, as your motor is basically running without oil for a good bit of that time.

Meanwhile, after driving many 6-cylinder BMWs of olden days, I have determined the N20 to be one of the finest motors BMW has offered. The low revs and silent performance, as well as fuel economy (26.8 mpg in mixed driving) is a winning combo for me.

Hi , so You suggest to kill this" auto-stop-start system "using a Bimmercode app permanently ?