The Most Reliable BMW Ever?!

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“BMW E90 335d LCI Exhaust sound (89mm Downpipe)” by Commonrail

“335d e90 0-300 PS” by Felix AM.K

[bzilla-di]

I have had my E46 330d AC Schnitzer since 2003, currently it's sitting on 790000km and my dad still drives it daily to golf, and running his personal errands. I have moved on to the F10 M550d touring, Twin big turbo swop, been dailying it for 5 years now.

[jools]

Can confirm. I have a 2009 E90 330d manual with a 300bhp remap, it's the most torquey, tractible and economical car I've ever owned, and beautiful to drive.

[MtER-X]

Proud owner of a 330d E92 with 231hp M57TÜ2D30. This engine is so smooth and powerful, it’s truly amazing and I never had a problem with it except for the valve cover gasket leaking a tiny bit of oil. 225k km and still runs great

[stephen]

I bought my 6 speed E90 330d M Sport because of the M57 engine and also the gearbox.

300 bhp and 742 NM and I love it, the clutch doesn't though.

[sirXeeD]

I have a M57D30N as well in my E46 330Cd. I’ve already bought the replacement - F13 640i but still love my old babe and can’t sell it.

[QBox]

I bought e61 530d 218hp automatic about 2 months ago and I'm in love with it. I actually like that single turbo lag on low rpm, but when starts pushing its guts moving

[mastathrash]

Buddy had a early 90s 5 series ( i think). It had a hot cammed straight 6, and until it was crashed it almost had 300, 000 Mi on it. Even with the hot cam it was Bulletproof. And it was sold after crash to a friend of ours who owns a BMW race shop. So all the parts went to a good home

[luckgrip]

I know quite a few whose M57's have gone +/-600k km and are still rocking perfectly fine, albeit after having some preventative work done like timing chain, unnecessary equipment removal like swirl flaps and egr, regular maintenance done - oils/coolant/filters/gaskets, thermostats, injectors, turbos
All that list is something that needs to be done over a long time

[RandGTFan]

I'd love one of those! The inline six diésel sound is glorious... 😍🤩

[aqibfreed]

M57 owner. One of the best engines built. But surely if we are looking at all categories i.e, power, maintenance, torque etc…. Then the E39 M5 v8 surely has to be the winner.

Its better in every way. Sure it may not reach the m57s milage, they still happily will reach 150000 comfortably. Now given the 400+ bhp stock and tuning potential. Yeah, its the best

[vxltxrrdd]

The engine lifespan is not 300k miles or 480k km, it is 600k miles or 1m km if driven gently. My dad's e39 530d has 600k miles and is still going strong. Maintenance done every 100-200k miles so you don't have to do maintenance very often if you drive like a normal person. If you do maintenance every 10-20k miles it is not dying.

[johncunningham]

The Older Mercedes OM606 is equally if not more Reliable and Factory Turbo Engines are good past 600 bhp and 6000 rpm .
No-one is building them like this any more .

[antoniosestar]

My 530D e60 big turbo got 600hp and 500k km, still running strong without problems

[crazygta]

You can’t go wrong with an e90 328i. N52 is a very solid motor. Take care of it and it will keep running

[beno]

Yes very good engine. Did road trip few years back with friends e60. Was amazed by fuel economy. Did under 6l/100km with 4 people and full trunk at 140-150km/h. Did the same trip other year in Audi A4 B5 with 110hp 1.9 TDI. Got similar economy but BMW had almost 3x the horsepower due to having torque pretty high up the rev range (unlike TDI with VGT running out of steam around 3k rpm) and almost 200Nm more torque. I know on the road you don't use all the power all the time but the response of those engines are almost electric with plenty of power from pretty much get-go

[kristiyanvladimirov]

I had one with 400k km, never opened the engine and was on original internals until I sold it at around 410k. Extremelly reliable engine when taken care with basic maintenance.

[leonyzhou]

Perhaps it is the most reliable BMW. A friend’s 335d keeps on having a long list of expensive mechanical faults from leaky injectors, to valves caked in carbon, egr issues, dry seals after only 80K miles, etc. He replaced it with a hybrid rav4 and never looked back.

[skocznia]

Personaly i have owned E46 with M47 (with injector pump) i made over 80k km with it, last year i get E38 with M67D39Tu i made 30k km so far aind it never failed me

[slagletoby]

2013 X5 35d @ 225, 000 miles and counting. It’s a diesel and I would not consider this to be high miles. Its been a great car with very little repairs needed. My key to success is staying away from the dealer. I’m not convinced they know what they’re doing. Get a laptop and dealer software, and make sure she breathes good.

[WolfGoneMad]

I have a love/hate relationship with my e39 530d. It drives great, it looks great, the butt massage still works. But often times I hear the engine and smell the exhaust and I get the feeling that something is wrong - Diesel... And sometimes there actually is, but i guess thats to be expected at 340'000 km, so it needs some love. Next car is gonna be a NA petrol again tho just for sound, smell and ease of maintenance