I'm really not trying to get into this again with you, but you don't make it easy!ESP wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2017 1:03 pmSo Have you owned or had a 2.0 BMW yourself?MACK wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2017 12:32 pm In the early/mid 2000's (before diesel completely took over) I worked for a company that ran many hundreds of BMW 318i with the N42/46 2.0 engine in its company car fleet. We also had hundreds of 3 and 5 series with various M54/N52 engines. Cars covered anything from 15k to 150k in a 3-4 year period. Yes its fair to say we had engine issues with some of the M54/N52 engined cars, but it was quite rare. The N42/N46 was a major pain with literally hundreds of cars having engine issues of one sort or another.
I am in no doubt that there will be break downs and 1 engine will statistically perform better than another, thats reality. What suggesting is there is some sort of Major engine issue that would require a total recall, and that 2.0 is prone, bound to and will eventually with out any doubt fail. Compare this to Ford, Renault, Vauxhall etc... are you suggesting there 2.0 or equivalent engine's dont have reliability issues.
1 example (all though there are thousands of others) would be VW's 1.8 20v engine that will very often (not always) require a new coil pack before it reaches 50000 miles, this happened twice on a Golf GTi we leased, after 3 years this car had covered over 110 000miles. This was then replaced by a 2.0 118I M SPORT, which after 3 years covered over 100 000, and we kept on the lease for a further 18month, finally returning the car with almost 150 000miles on the clock, with no mechanical problems.
Thats not to say someone else with a similar car might have a issues with in the first 18-24 months of ownership.
No one here is saying the 2.0 is a bullet proof engine, but no one here running a 2.0 seems to have these major constant, engine failures you keep telling us the 2.0 is "Well documented" to have?
Seriously mate your snide remark "well documented" WTF!
Your trying to make it sound like this info is buried on the dark web or something and you've got to be a hacker grade internet warrior to find it!
Google "bmw n46 timing chain"
this is first up
http://powerdevelopments.co.uk/bmw-318c ... eplacement
and that's just for starters. I think most folks will take more notice of them than you with biased opinion. Seriously are you going to pay someone repair bills if they buy a 2.0 on your advice that then had one of, as you like to put it "well documented" failures?!
No, didn't think so.
All this is about you and your ego, not the facts. It has been since your first post on this topic last week where you unnecessarily laid into people, which was bad enough, the fact you were and still are talking rubbish makes it all the worse!
Yes no car is perfect/immune to failure. But unlike you I can't with a clear conscious advise someone buying today that buying a 2.0 E85 with an engine that has proven itself to be less reliable and comes with less spec as standard when a better equipped, more reliable option is available for near enough the same money makes any sense, just to protect my ego/feelings!
That's not to mention the more subjective factors such as power and smoothness!
Plenty of 2.0 owners sell up and move on to 2.5/3.0 and M's. Never heard of anyone going the other way, clearly there's reasons for that!
But if reliability, power and smoothness etc aren't issues why would they?!
fair enough put look who talking!
