2013 BMW 125i 6 on the floor (N52)

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Trustmeimadoctor said:

issue with the e9* is the age of them they swapped engines in 2007 i think and the mrs deems them too old really she thinks even 2013 is getting too old but she likes the look of the coup and the vert so getting some wiggle room considering it will be mainly her driving it and im pushing her this way

she wants a polo

Always the 2 series - they started in 2014 on

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s m said:

Trustmeimadoctor said:

issue with the e9* is the age of them they swapped engines in 2007 i think and the mrs deems them too old really she thinks even 2013 is getting too old but she likes the look of the coup and the vert so getting some wiggle room considering it will be mainly her driving it and im pushing her this way

she wants a polo

What’s the situation with parts? For example getting hold of stuff like driveshafts etc if you want OEM ( looking at Iain’s update above )

I've not had any other issues for parts other than the driveshaft (and I could get 1 new OEM just not both)

BMW are normally pretty damn good - I don't think there was anything I couldn't get for my 99 740 when I was getting that back on the road so I think the driveshaft is a one off............ (Hope it was)

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Trustmeimadoctor said:

i dont see why 11 years after production a drive shaft would be NLA

Well I don’t either…..but trust Iain to tell it how it is

From BMW they are an exchange item and you pay a hefty surcharge - once side is available the other not - my only conclusion is that the returns weren't servicable for some reason

I could have bought two of the side that were available and rebuilt one of them with the actual shaft from my car and then exchanged them back so there was a way round it.

However there was actually nothing wrong with mine - it was just the reluctor rings that had expanded - I've rebuilt them - repainted them and put on new reluctor rings and when I get chance they will be fitted back to the car

Mines only done 77 K so I'd be really surprised to replace failed shafts at that miles - I've had cars with 250 K miles on original drive shafts as long as you don't run them with split boots and lose all the grease they are pretty robust items.

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Trustmeimadoctor said:

or silly high torque and get them all twisty twisty

Not a specialty for normally aspirated engines

They do like to rev but if you take notice of the "gearshift nanny" it'll have you changing up every time the rev counter hits 1800 rpm So they do have a reasonable level of torque if you don't need to spank the red line

Nothing like the level of torque you get from the 135i but that's what force feeding an engine does for you