E46 M3 Engine problem?

[Indo Audio]

Just wondering if the newer m3's production from now on have fixed the rod bearing issue that has been blowing up many m3 engines?

Thanks,

[porkyzilla]

what you say? i never heard of this.

[Indo Audio]

Umm, you haven't heard of them? A LOT of them are going.

http://members.roadfly.com/jason/frame1.htm

[Blitz]

No i dont think it has been resolved yet

[Kaisake]

Here are some more links concerning the problem of grenading E46 M3 engines:

BMW Service Bulletin 11 08 01 clipping:http://members.roadfly.com/jason/roundel202P100.jpg

Pie graph of reported engine failures, http://forums.roadfly.org/bmw/forums...=446349&page=1

More Info:
http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...threadid=31459
http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...threadid=29657
http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...threadid=31488
http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...threadid=30415
http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...threadid=28164
http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthr...ight=M3+engine
http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...&threadid=7161
http://forums.roadfly.org/bmw/forums...=431590&page=1

Visit :THE E46 M3 FAQ by loki for more info about everything E46 M3 related.

Hope this helps.

Peace,

Ben

[porkyzilla]

im afraid now of fear of my M3 engine blowing up now when i get it, if i miss a shift. or the rev limiter not working ive been reading storys all day long on that, well question is, is it really a faulty rev limiter? and another problem ontop of that? that the tachometer is off? i remember reading that mustangs have the same problem with their factory tachometer being off by 500rmps sometimes, so maybe thats the same witht he M3, so what im gonna do is buy a high performance tachometer and i would love to test it once my 02 m3 comes in next month after 3300 miles that is, i noticed that over half were 01's with the bearing problem and bmwna claiming "over-rev" but i saw a few 02's, how many people on dtm have had this problem?

[LightWeightM3]

Man, this is really starting to worry me. Has anyone tried to petition the NHTSA to issue a recall? There seems to be quite a bit of anecdotal evidence to support that there's a manufacturer's defective.

[changs4]

There're 38 blown engines so far on bimmer.org(acutally 39, because a friend of mine just blew his M3 motor too). All of them got the rod bearing issue basically.
Here's the link concludes all the information:
<a href="http://members.roadfly.com/jason/m3engines.htm">M3 Engine Failures</a>