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27,000 BMW’s Banned From South Korea Roads :-0

Old Aug 16, 2018 | 12:32 PM
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27,000 BMW’s Banned From South Korea Roads :-0

My wife drives a twin turbo V8 X5 that burns oil like a furnace. My old V10 M6 burned a crap ton of oil as well. I am tempted to look at the M8 but not real thrilled with BMW right now. http://www.thedrive.com/news/22929/r...from-its-roads
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Old Aug 16, 2018 | 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Txamgtech
My wife drives a twin turbo V8 X5 that burns oil like a furnace. My old V10 M6 burned a crap ton of oil as well. I am tempted to look at the M8 but not real thrilled with BMW right now. http://www.thedrive.com/news/22929/r...from-its-roads
That's specific to some of their diesel cars...

Regarding their V8TT - you should be fine if you lease as most do. If you want to own for the long run, I would stick with their I6 engine.
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Old Aug 16, 2018 | 01:27 PM
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I prefer to buy versus lease and if it doesn’t have at least 8 cylinders I am not interested :-)
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Old Aug 16, 2018 | 01:35 PM
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I prefer to buy versus lease and if it doesn’t have at least 8 cylinders I am not interested :-)
That's doable if you don't drive the car much. For example, 6K miles per year, and keeping for 8 years shouldn't be a problem.
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Old Aug 16, 2018 | 02:19 PM
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True.......I haven’t written off the M8 yet. BMW has got to get it’s engine issues worked out though. Our X5 had the valve rework done a few months ago which fixed the rough idle, misfire & oil burn issue but the rough idle is coming back already. It is under factory warranty but it has still been a pain in the ****.
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Old Aug 16, 2018 | 02:46 PM
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True.......I haven’t written off the M8 yet. BMW has got to get it’s engine issues worked out though. Our X5 had the valve rework done a few months ago which fixed the rough idle, misfire & oil burn issue but the rough idle is coming back already. It is under factory warranty but it has still been a pain in the ****.
Agreed. They keep improving it with newer revisions of the engine - not sure which one your X5 has.
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