BMW's travails with its N47 diesel engine failures, which had been thought sorted and finished with, are coming back to haunt the German carmaker. One Irish solicitor has told The Irish Times that he ...

My wife & I bought a BMW 118d SE two years ago for £13k as an approved used car with 23k miles. 3-6 months in the start stop function ceased to work - I raised this and we were told to take the car on ...

My 09 plate 74,000 mile BMW 118i has just been diagnosed as needing a new engine by BMW Maidenhead as a result of the timing chain tensioner failing and getting sucked into the rest of the engine, ...

Some BMW engines that tend to be more trouble than they're worth include the N47 I4 diesel, early variants of the N63 V8, the ...

I purchased a 2010 BMW 320D for my wife in January, but just six months later, in July, the timing chain snapped causing catastrophic engine damage, not to mention the dangerous sudden stop on the ...

Let’s talk timing chains and BMW. Last month three Hughes Limousines 7 Series BMWs were off the road with timing-chain issues. The three cars were repaired by BMW dealers. Within a week one engine had ...

A vehicle was recently towed in from another shop with a supposed failed timing chain. The previous shop isn’t an approved repair facility of the vehicle owner’s third-party warranty company, so it ...

BMW's F20-series 120i runs a timing chain on the B48B20 two-litre four-cylinder engine. Disclaimer: You acknowledge and agree that all answers are provided as a general guide only and should not be ...

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