Timing chain slipped

sounds like a warranty claim to me... 3 years old, 45k on the clock?

snipped-for-privacy@EIRCOM-dot-NET.no-spam.>Hi All,

For a chain to slip (jump teeth) it would have to be SO slack that there must be another more serious problem somewhere - Like a faulty chain, adjuster (if any) not done up by BMW (unlikely) etc etc...

Wot he said - Warranty ?

Nick

i dont know that engine but i thought that BMW put belts in all the newer *vanilla* engines.. ie not the S series..

Don't know where you've been, but BMW went back to chains starting in '90 with the M50, and no current engine since then has had a belt - that includes all V8's, I6's, I4's (not sure about diesels, but I'd be surprised if they were belts.)

Floyd

ive clearly not been stripping down BMW heads.. :) I stand corrected, thanks Floyd.

keith

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The I6 diesels never had -fortunately- a timing belt.

I never heard of a slipping timing chain. So the OP was given a a kick or a run or smething like this.... Easy earned money, I guess....

Jürgen

It can happen, but the chain would have been *very* noisy for some time before this.

(not sure about

The 324 TD and 524 TD diesels from late 80`had timing belts since then all Diesels (4 and 6 cyl) have chains - fortunately