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Congratulations! Your knowledge of BMW maintenance, repairs, and running costs is essentially zero- thus you qualify for the heralded...

What are those repairs? Can you enlighten us here who are such fools for driving BMW's, IDK, last 25 years?

Finally- a true expert weighs in!

Overall, reading this thread, the difference in mentality between Americans and Germans is very apparent. In turn, that difference...

Owning both the W211 and the W212, I'd say the W212 is better than the W211, slightly less maintenance on it. The W213 seems to be even...

Having owned MBs I can tell you that they are no longer the cars of the 60s & 70s, bulletproof and long lasting, the biggest fall...

We have recently covered this in some detail. Here: https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/mercedes.339383/ Part of the problem...

It would, a large portion of their population is still living like it's 1740. Per capita energy use during the time of the Soviet Union...

I have owned a couple of these engines. Pretty rock solid. Very few things to look out for.

This is one you need to check for sludge, this has a front mounted turbo and small sump, the hot pipe runs right under the oil pan. I...

Dump and fill on our BMW X6, X5 and both 3 series. Can't do it on the 5 series as it's with my son at university. Used Liquimoly 1800.

They had very good reliability, were super strong and parts are still available. The problem with these cars (and most euro cars) is...

These have gone on clearance here. I just picked up a set for one of my cars at almost 40% off. I have these tires on a few of our...

Most plants currently operating are nowhere near 54% efficient and peakers aren't even close. Then you have transmission losses to...

Of course moving electricity a long distance is not efficient … so get ready to see power generation everywhere you turn …