Best damn car I’VE ever owned.......and I’ve owned my share.......import AND domestic.
Ditto.
—”Best damn car “
Some are and some are not.
A friend had the hots for a new BMW, but the dealer only had automatics, against his better judgment he purchased an automatic. He loved it!
A few years later he calls and says that a tappet is making noise and he has set the clearance a few times and it comes back? So he brings it over.
A neighbor that owns a few BMWs stops over, and with a glance he says tappets and automatic.
It seems that the engine was designed to idle at ~1100 rpm but at that speed with the auto, both feet would be needed to prevent crawling, so the idle speed was lowered. The US market demanded automatics, so they stuck one in there.
A bad idea.
At the lower speed, oil does NOT make it to the top of the engine and things wear out up there.
He still loved it with the ticking and drove it for a few more years.