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Originally Posted by aloyouis
I would like to do this. I just bought a used 2013 and was not aware of this potential issue. What am I looking for under the cap?
Thanks.
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Just to update everyone on the situation:
I called a few BMW dealers in the region regarding this and elite BMW Ottawa said to wait until June as there might be some news on whether a recall will happen or not, if it doesn't, then we're $hit out of luck. I also realized there is a recall for the driver side airbag so I have to bring it in anyway...
Furthermore, I talked to my mechanic about it, his shop specializes in european cars like BMW and Porsche, VW, Audi etc. He said for me personally that there doesn't seem to be any issue at present (I'm @ 67K-kms) and he said usually it's an issue of abuse or not doing proper oil changes that leads to the timing chain failure. So I shouldn't worry that much about it. But having said that, he did mention that the N20 engine is the worst engine BMW ever made. lol.
As far as how to check if things are ok, listen for a clatter and whining noise when the engine is running, that's the loose timing chain and it should be fixed right away if that's the case. You can youtube search video's to know what to listen for. General consensus seems to be that it's less likely to happen with more frequent oil changes and not using the stop start function, BUUUUUTTTTT there have been cases where even then, people have still ran into issues.
Personally, I'm going to sit on it for a while, as I'm fairly low km's and I just finished changing coils and some other $hit so in no rush to spend anymore money but I most likely will have it done before 100km's, whether BMW pays or not, I'm budgeting for it already.