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Originally Posted by Skyline
To me, an engine should last 200k miles without having to come apart for multi-thousand dollar repairs. And there's no reason a transmission should not last that long either; with many car models, transmission failure prior to 200k is unheard of. With others, it's the norm.
I can live with an occasional gasket failure, but only random events, not if it's every one, (the failure rate of the valve cover gaskets on the BMW V8s is ridiculous).
I can live with water pump failures. Timing belt changes are OK. Valve adjustments are OK on performance engines.
But everything else is an engineering failure that should NOT happen. We always hear that these boards only report failures and not the good.
So lets hear it....Who has a high mileage N62 that has NOT had to come apart???? Or NOT lost a transmission?
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Good idea, N62 owners need to reply.
The N62 issues caused me to buy a late production date '03 4.4 X5. I avoided the N62 Xs like the plague, would not drive around the corner to look at an N62 yet willing to drive and view all M62 Sport Pkg Xs in a 200 mile radius.