This is why people think youre a faggot Germany.

Its an interference engine, this is another timing belt/chain except its not something that just goes, its something that goes in 10-20% of cases on an inline 6 and nukes your fucking engine if it does. And its a massive cunt to fix.

Huh? Someone said something? Can't hear anything over this hektik VANOS

>>28467866
>have m54 engine
>only vanos failures are easily replaced seals
feels good man.

>>28467868
More like can't move BECAUSE of VANOS :^)

>>28467876
My father died and put 5800$ into a BMW X3 2004, because bankruptcy ruled you could keep a single vehicle worth that much. He died 6 years after bankruptcy, Its sitting on a lot I cant even get scrap yards to pay me over 300 for it when each headlights 300 alone. Its just worthless, because xdrive and the transfer case. If I fix the thing I dont know if the transmissions damaged too on top of the transfer cases nylon gear thats stripped.
And then I find out theres actually reliable inline 6's with no xdrive - but they have this fucking vanos bullshit. Why are BMW so fucking gay.

>>28467881
you act like vanos killed your father and raped your wife.

>>28467887
It could have

>>28467887
I didn't know BMW X3 drivers posted here

>>28467862 (OP)
Vanos is fine most of the failures are from an o ring failing. It’s not catastrophic just makes it run like shit. All variable timing stuff is the weakest portion of any engine.

>>28467862 (OP)
I watched a IDoCars tear down a BMW engine.
That VANOS sounds like a nightmare.
Everyone says that system is reliable, but all I see are videos on how to fix it online.

VANOS is fine. It's been sorted for 20 years now. This is like crying about VTEC or VVT. Oh but the kikes on 4chan obsessively hate Germans. Death to the jews.

>>28468165
3 days later:
Guys is there a cheaper way to fix the VANOS?
I can't afford the parts and my landlord wants the car moved.

>>28467923
>All variable timing stuff is the weakest portion of any engine.
Except Honda & Mitsubishi.

>>28468271
In those things the whole engine is the weakest point, but their variable valve timing isn't helping

>Have to pull the engine out to get to the vanos on a m240i
>This has a maint schedule of every 50k miles
Why are bmw engineers like this

>>28467862 (OP)
This is old german tradition.

During ww2 essentially, Germans tried to make everything too precise. It’s nice if your tank can shoot a dime at 2000 meters, but all it has to do is shoot another tank. And a tank that is just accurate enough to hit another tank is going to have a simpler, more robust gun system than a sniper rifle masquerading as a tank.

https://www.quora.com/I-often-read-that-German-tanks-were-over-engineered-in-WW2-What-exactly-does-this-mean

>>28468326
>Honda
>engine is the weakest point

>>28467862 (OP)
Germans will take a water pump that could be simple as fuck and turn it into the most complex retarded bullshit imagineable (that will of course leak very early in the cars life)

>>28468271
God damn shut the fuck up. Nobody here even cares how good the VVT is on a 90hp FWD Honda

>>28468627
Mad

>>28467862 (OP)
>helical gear phaser driven by a linear piston
german moment. everyone else uses a vane-style phaser that rotates the cam directly.

>>28468271
the K-series had VVT rattle problems in every generation

>>28468627
D, B and F-series never had VVT, only VTEC. lowest power VVT honda engine is the R18A, which makes ~140hp in a tin-can Civic.
Seethe lol