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Old 04-03-2014, 10:26 PM
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Wink interpretive breakdown lol
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Originally Posted by TiAgX5 View Post
BMW waterpumps don't use a surface gasket that needs to be scraped off, they seal with an o-ring seated in a groove, that "tight slip fits" into the engine block waterpump bore.
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Yup OP the waterpump on these motors is easy to get to.

Pretty much at the top front of the block.
I wasn't referring to the water pump gasket , I was clearly talking about the thermostat gasket

My question/inquiry still stands unanswered though. Replacing a water pump is standard maintenance around 100k miles?
That's somewhat discouraging for a german engineered machine lol
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