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I'm one of the victims of the rod bearing failure. I had JB4, intake, chargepipe and a dp. I'm still not sure what happened exactly but my theory is that when my belt slipped because of the OFHG leak, the belt was sucked into the front main which then sucked into the oil pickup tube and the engine lost oil pressure for a slight moment which caused 2 of my bearings to spin. Gonna do a tear down of the old engine but not anytime soon. Whole thing costed me $11k. I had no choice but to fix it because the car is financed. I cannot stress how important that $5 gasket is to fix. Huge design flaw by BMW to not put a blockplate behind the front main. I owned the car since 60k miles and who knows if the oil was changed regularly. Huge financial mistake by me to get one of these cars without an extended warranty from BMW.
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