Quote Originally Posted by Peter-E36
Quote Originally Posted by Venom
All engines/cars have common failure points or pattern failures. Are you referring more so to design flaws?
Yep, design flaws, known faults. Anything that goes wrong on several examples that shouldn't go wrong on a new car basically!
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Quote Originally Posted by Dave
M57 is pretty hassle free.
Are they not affected by timing chain issues as well? Or which 6 pot diesels have the chain issues?
Valdas posted an example of an M57 with timing chain issues but it subsequently turned out that the car had 400k km on it, so not really a fair example.

The N57's have problems though.