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Originally Posted by oVeRdOsE.
more and more people hitting those mileage, and more people (including bmw tech) told me I ''should'' do it...
107k miles, on a zf8, wife driven, so the car almost never see high rpm.
Liquimoly + snakeoil every 5-6k miles or so.
the engine makes a little noise a starup, but assuming this is the tensioner getting his tension.
I think Ill push it to 130-140k
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I bet your bearings will still be working fine until then.
I think (at least for me) the thing is if you already have the pan off, it's very small additional investment to renew the bearings while your're in there, and so very appealing. I'm x-drive, so when my oil pan eventually needs a new gasket, I'll strongly consider doing the rod bearings "while I'm in there" since that's a lot of labor getting that deep on x-drive. Only thing I hesitate about is my current bearings obviously work well, and it seems like a bit of a gamble that something could go wrong when the new bearings go in. Not sure how likely that is, but I'd hate to cause myself a problem by proactively changing bearings that could potentially gone another 100k or more. Any thoughts on that from people more experienced with n55 rod bearings?