E46 m3 engine rebuild.

E46 m3 engine rebuild.

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SebringMan

1,773 posts

185 months

Thursday 20th October 2016
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TBH if it was an Inspection II like the ones I got offered by 2 specialists there is a chance that they were not even done!

They all said "If they are noisy we check them" and all of them said "it's a big job". When I was checking mine and went arond to ask one of them for shims due to my shim saga I got a suspicion that he didn't check them either and he then came clean and said the same as the first specialist.

Regarding the latter fella, I told him that 2 of mine were borderline (with the low end of the tolerance being .28mm, one of them was bang on 28 and the other on .27, smaller than the tolerance) he said I'd leave 'em.

It seems unless:

-You do them yourself
-Go to someone very reputable
-Go to a dealer and hope for the best

Not many people do them. The gaskets alone for the job are a minimum of £80.

If it were me I'd get the clearances checked before doing anything else.