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What’s your fuel range on your 550? Cheers!
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Nice write up. Glad to hear from a long term owner that did not have to replace the engine. I have had my 2011 550i xdrive for 2 months. Reading the treads make me hyper vigilant about owning the car.
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Mike, I could not be HAPPIER to see your pics as I have the same space gray color 2011 550i and have been contemplating the Agency Power vented hood. It's fantastic to see yours in the same color as mine would be, and I like the profile it has in our color. Thank you very much for posting that!
In other news, did you have your valve stem seals replaced, and if so, at what mileage?
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Simon, I average about 21 MPG both city and highway. I get about 380 miles on a full tank which gets me where I need to go even though I throw it into sport and drive it hard on a regularly consistent basis.
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Hey Perry, the last sentence to my response to Fro is also for you!
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Ha! yeah, I had the same thought about rain getting in, then again the components under those vents are running at what, like 2600 deg F (lol!), so any water would just instantly turn to steam. ha!
I've read of some owners of vehicles with N63 that have your kind of mileage and never had an issue, then others like me that had a new engine put in at 77k. I bought another 2011 550i with 50K on it in March this year. Within 1200 miles of me owning it it was gobbling oil (likely why it was traded in) and I had the seals replaced on it then sold it (no cost to me on the seals due to the N63 campaign). I only sold it because I decided to keep my 6-speed manual 550i instead. Anyway, it just seems to be hit-and-miss with the N63 issues. I do believe that if you drive it like a gramma, you will have more issues than if its stomped on somewhat regularly. In other news, I can fully recommend putting the M5 exhaust on it. I have no tune and stock intake at this point, but adding the M5 exhaust system (non-competition pkg, full system after the stock downpipes, replace resonators with straight pipe and replace stock x-pipe with full-diameter x-pipe) eliminates any turbo lag and the sound of the exhaust finally does the 550 right.
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I had it easy, mine has the M-sport pkg so no cutting required, just had to buy the the M5 diffuser and that plastic piece that goes behind the bumper cover. Did you put those Alpina bits on your car?
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No not yet, I plan to come spring time. I want to have the spoiler installed by the same people that painted and put on my hood and they're slammed this time of year. That's pretty much all I am waiting for.
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My 2013 was consuming 1 qt oil every 2000 miles with 60k. BMW decided to replace the valve stems instead of new engine. Since it's zero cost to me so I went for it. This is about 3 months ago. So far so good, and I hope it will last another 60k.
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Me I changed the oil every 5k miles, did the occasional Italian tuneup through backroads, took it to the track a few times, and also used it as a commuter. Ended up needing a new engine due to rod bearing failure. Reading up on it, rod bearings tend fail due to a lack of lubrication and is usually related to over revving or being low on oil. It was strange for me since I didn't have the oil burning issues described by others and only ever needed to put a quart after 3-4k miles, and mostly in OCIs where I took the car for more spirited driving sessions. |
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