Blown E46 M3 Engine

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   I am new to this forum and would like to pass on a story from an E46 M3...his engine has blown at 6500miles.....this is one in a long line of blow-ups for the E46 both in the US and now increasingly the UK.
Full story at 
www.bm3w.co.uk
BMW are you watching, listening and hopefully doing.
I am looking forward to becoming an active member of this forum.

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Nostrils Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Really Senior Member II Joined: 27-October-2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 792	Topic: Blown E46 M3 Engine Posted: 27-October-2002 at 12:30
	I am new to this forum and would like to pass on a story from an E46 M3...his engine has blown at 6500miles.....this is one in a long line of blow-ups for the E46 both in the US and now increasingly the UK. Full story at www.bm3w.co.uk BMW are you watching, listening and hopefully doing. I am looking forward to becoming an active member of this forum.

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Webdunk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Moderator Group M3 GT Register Joined: 16-October-2002 Location: Central Scotland Status: Offline Points: 5245	Posted: 27-October-2002 at 17:18
	I've heard about a fair few self destructing in the US - particularly SMGII versions... hope this gets bottomed out by BMW.


343bhp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 22-October-2002 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 11	Posted: 28-October-2002 at 10:45
	I think that this has to be looked at in perspective. In the U.S. they are used to massively lazy engines, not highly stressed ones we are used to, and they drive their cars, in the main, as they always have been used to. If you take the number of engine failures as a percentage of cars sold then I think that really isn't a problem, only if it happens to you! Finally, every car and car manufacturer has a teething problem no matter how much testing they do before launch, even the superb E30. BMW do look at BM3W forum as I suspect they will look at this site when they become aware of it.

M3AG Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Really Senior Member II 7 series & e36 m3 registrar! (Madness) Joined: 17-October-2002 Location: Good Old Hertfordshire Status: Offline Points: 1644	Posted: 28-October-2002 at 11:04
	I though that the engine failures were due to a problem in certain engine batches built during the month of Nov 01, is it a more widespread issue than that?

Webdunk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Moderator Group M3 GT Register Joined: 16-October-2002 Location: Central Scotland Status: Offline Points: 5245	Posted: 28-October-2002 at 12:40
	The US failures I have read about were related to the SMGII box allowing drivers to shift to too low a gear which ended up sending the engine into mechanical over-rev resulting in failure.