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Originally Posted by suffolk boy
pleased for you i really am.the bmw engine if looked after it as good as any i have come across.but like every thing else there are good and bad as with your k series engined car enjoy.ps i am posting this as a BALANCED view as belive me these types of threads are prone to turning into a mud slinging matches.we all drive a 75 and no matter which engine your car has enjoy driving it. as long as you are happy with thats all that matters.
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I would state that owning a car with the BMW M47R powerplant attached to it, I would state that so far (knock on wood) I haven't had any major issues with her, but all engines have their weaknesses. It seems that the engine is fairly "bulletproof", but it seems to be everything that is attached to the engine that is the problem! Rover really did a number on the ancillaries and these problems could inturn shorten the overall life of the BMW powerplant! But I will state that once I have done the various service to the parts, replaced this and that I am very happy with her performance and am very sure that the engine would be able to last until maybe six hundred K to seven hundred K or somewhere inbetween, before the engine would need a major over haul and the car need a replacement power plant (usually it may not be worth spending the money on a car that has done this kind of milage unless that its a very rare model or has some famous provable history attached to it!
I love my car very much and I will service her within reason and would want to keep her on the road as long as possible, but everyone has their limits to how much they are willing to spend on their motor and if it is too much it may not be worth it in their eyes, but in which case may be worth it in somebody else's eyes! I believe the BMW unit is much more reliable than the other power plants that were available for the rover 75 series cars,m but that is really how you look after the car and how you use the car, as that will chronically affect how the lifespan of the engine will last! The BMW for example has a metal chain as opposed to a drive belt and this lasts much longer than its rubber counterpart, also the engine is made by german engineers (not saying that english engineers are bad at making things, the germans on the other hand are very good at mechanics and making tooling for the mechanical industry! I also know people that still have BMW cars and their engines working that have been running since the early 70's and still working with very much little work having been done to the power plant itself and most of the work being done to the chassis, steering, suspension, exhaust. etc.....
So in this respect BMW have a very good name for themselves and their products really have lasted the ages and test of time, unlike some car manufacturers that make most of their money from selling substandard parts so they can make more money in the long run, then compare to the likes of BMW that even have a program that helps to keep BMW cars on the road opposed to people going out and buying a completely different car and paying dearly for the privilege! (I have never heard of a car manufacture doing this before BMW and I have never heard of a manufacture doing this since, just a shame they won't extend the same loving hand to Rover owners that run on their pride and joy, which was created out of their finest experience and their companies ethos!
I guess as long as you look after your motor it will look after you, but it seems that BMW products seem to be much more lean and trustworthy in the car industry than most of the bad excuses that are currently clotting up the car industry and are obviously not helping our environment and our wallets in the slightest!
Thanks for reading if you have been able to hang on, but I feel very much for the BMW unit that has had the blessing to have adorned our cars with power and reliability, when others out there definitely do not have this view and love ripping owners off and making as much money out of people from manufacture to the crushed cube.
Yours stu!
