re: <E36> Profile Gasket failure question

[john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

>Is the 1.8l from the '95 318ti subject to the infamous Profile gasket
>failure?  A friend of mine had her engine die and we are replacing it with a
>used engine also from a 318ti.  The way she described what happened to the
>engine sounded suspiciously like profile gasket failure.

Only M42s made before 10/93 have the old gasket. The new gasket is meant
to be OK.

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