5 Signs My BMW Headgasket was FAILING (This Could Happen to You!)

Over the past few months, I noticed some strange things happening with my BMW X5 engine. The motor developed a misfire, was burning coolant, and seemed to be... off. After some investigating however, I found something surprising in cylinder 3 I think you will want to see.

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[patrickmoney]

This was very helpful. I had everything you listed plus leaking oil and smelling burning oil inside the cabin of my 535xi. Thanks again!

[jeffmiller]

Good luck. Fellow e53 manual owner here. Definitely worth the effort to fix, these are fun as heck to drive.

[pugs]

Man, that sucks. Glad to see more bmw vids tho. Can't wait to see the hg replacement. 😢

[amandakim]

Okay. So this is pretty devastating to me. I don't know for sure. I have a 2009 328 IPM W and I have replaced my water pump. My thermostat lower radiator hose and it seems to be OK. But I'm losing coolant. I'm not getting a temperature reading that it is overheating. But something is going on and I'm wrecking my brain around all of it. Trying to find maybe a faulty hose thermostat. Of course, so if I want to find out if I have a bad head guessed it would okay. What should I do first to be indefinite if it is a bad guess get I know that underneath my car? A couple days ago I seen a water puddle and it wasn't A. It wasn't for my AC and also I noticed there was water in my one of my pipes. My one of the exhaust pipes, the back of the car, but not both of them. There was a puddle of water and one of them, and I wasn't sure why because it didn't rain or anything. Is that a possibility that I have? Bad head gasket

[kasrabahmanyar]

that blows. how many hours would you say it takes to replace a HG on a m54?

[Smokeybear_j.b]

Why do you think your head gasket failed. Maybe a previous overheat or just wear and tear, from what I Under head gaskets are fairly uncommon or non existing for m54 that have not been overheated

[snowfox]

My 335i runs drives fine No overheating and What so ever, but Open today and Found Milky in the Oil so is it either Oil filter Housing or blown gasket?

[domingojaramillo]

Esos pinches carros son una pesadilla nunca acabas de repararlos tengo n 07 bmw 335i los compré con 730000kmt y es un desastre por qué asen cosas así batallosas todas esas fallas nunca las ves en otros carros nunca yo mi opinión nunca de nunca no quiero ni regalado ningún bmw ni regalados no gracias 🙏

[gregm]

I would be interested to see if it passes leak down and compression. I would think it doesnt with how much coolant was in that cylinder but it would be nice to know. Some cars I have worked on have had bad head gasket but havent failed compression/leak down. Thanks for the videos.

[Smokeybear_j.b]

How many miles did you drive the car in your ownership before the failure

[davidbuman]

Whats that scanner you were using ? And is it a good scanner to have for an e39 ?

[TheSeacretNINJA]

so when and how do you determine to do the headgasket or swap the motor

[maqimaqi]

Is this also a big problem on the e90 diesel?

[sebastianonita]

Did you have a massive coolant loss or just a little bit? Asking because sometimes on my 520d m47 the coolant level goes a bit down but nothing worrying tho and sometimes it's back to normal. I don't understand why

[ItsCheechFool]

How you could prevent having that problem though ?

[bigdeal]

My M52B28 had exactly the same water leak on cylinder 3

[ryanwells]

I'm pretty sure I'm losing I have no other symptoms....doesn't overheat....no rough idle or misfire....none of that

[Nico_i_DCT]

Great tips Chris. Thanks for sharing. Have a great week. Dutch regards Nico.

[Einer.Rodriguez]

Hey man completely unrelated but do you have any tips on bleeding your clutch?

[cooly]

I'm not losing coolant but system keeps massive pressure, is that a sign of a bad head gasket !!