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      11-06-2018, 03:32 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by BunkerJ View Post
If that's the case that they're white, then they must stain easier. BMW revised the guide and chain supposedly.
I trust that the guides were revised at some point, it's just weird that the facts are so inconsistent.

Maybe what you said is the answer though: the newer plastics implemented in the new guides stain less easily and appear lighter in color (EDIT: or they're just newer so less stained regardless of plastic used ) ? Like the video in the first page of this thread shows, even the old guides were white at production.

Still confused that the revision date is 01/2015 though. Like I said, at that point we were only months away from the LCI hitting dealerships, so why even bother revising the N20 so majorly for a couple months of production.

The whole timing chain issue is just a crap shoot.
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