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Originally Posted by alexonahurry
Is your car a B48 equipped F3X?
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Yes it is, but that doesn't really matter unless you're measuring dicks or trying to invalidate my comment. Good luck with both, champ. People don't come online to talk about how trouble-free and/or amazing their cars are. They come to forums when they have a problem and are looking for a fix.
The coolant pipe is a thing. BMW is fixing them for $0 in the US.
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Originally Posted by alexonahurry
the cracked oil filter housing is a very common issue
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LOL. No. The link to the oil filter housing you posted is over a year old and has 5 responses and that's the most recent post about it on this forum. Googling shows 6 posts on the entire first page of results about current owners with the problem. The oil filter housing cracking is a rare failure. Pre LCI cars had a silent recall done on B48 engines in 2014/15 where the housing was replaced with a new and updated housing. I'd wager a guess that most of the (rare) failures are now due to apes overtightening the cap.
Valve cover gaskets usually start leaking at 60-70k. It's almost universal across all German cars. (Just had to do the VCG's on my Panamera at 63k.)