SMG Gearboxes

[mattCSLnut]

Originally Posted by mil

Don't know exactly, I would guess that it's just an estimate by the mechanic after he dropped the engine back and not really measured figure.

I spoke about this last year already with Tom Schirmer at the Ring and I think he mentioned that somewhere after 100000km the mountings could need replacement. My problems started at 114k (incl. hundreds of Ring laps) .

//mil

I wonder if this engine mount wear could be measured from the engine bay strut brace to a solid part of the engine, like the cylinder head or something similar. Would be interesting to compare the figures of a 20K miles CSL to lets say a 60K+ miles (100K ish kilometres ) CSL with Track history. I don't have these SMG problems (that you've described) on my CSL (as yet) and I have BMW Warranty but I'm way past the 100,000 kilometres mark and have also driven a fair few laps at the Ring in the past few years
High time for some NEW engine & gear box mounts I thinks but I bet they are NOT covered by BMW Warranty on 60K+ miles cars Group buy anyone ?