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Originally Posted by jdub486
How is the Litchfield crank bolt capture different than the Vargas one?
And wouldn't BMW engineer this $100-200 part if it worked after producing the s55 for 5+ years now?
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Not to mention it solves 1 of potentially 3 different ways it can spin... BUT I have yet to hear of a single car which has spun AFTER installing just the bolt capture. It's something I brought up in a thread and in an email with the vargas people who basically said it's better to be safe than sorry to do the whole thing, but after reading that blog post...
If someone spins it with the bolt capture installed it will finally rule that out as the final solution. Another guy somewhere in this forum had spun his 3 times before putting JUST the bolt capture on and it never happened again (that we know of). Until I see a bolt capture NOT solve the problem I won't go any further than that as a preventative measure.
The other question is what % of the failures result in engine damage vs simply limp mode. The dealer near me said almost always limp mode...