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Old 10-21-2019, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by crystalworks View Post
… I could easily see a well-maintained ($500-$1000/yr average) M54 e53 make 400,000 miles on original engine. N62 e53 could well do it if owner was willing to do some major repairs a couple of times. Actually, same goes for the M62 powered e53 I would think.
I'm hoping the M57 engine variants prove as long-lived - so far that seems to be the case - 232,000kms on mine and it's still running like new. I see a few M57s with over 300,000kms on them but they tend to be beaters by that point, due to so much "deferred maint.".
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