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Originally Posted by Daytona_John

That actually does help. Since loaner cars are hard to come by these days, I pre-emptively scheduled an appointment with my dealer for today to deal with the recall issues (thinking that BMW might have a solution and parts by this point). The dealership, which had originally confirmed that my vehicle was impacted by this bearings issues now says there's no recall on my vehicle.

Thanks John & V8Man ,, perhaps this does add further support then to the "idea" that the "stop sale" issued was a "catch all" scenario, but in reality only a small number of the original stop sale vehicles are actually affected by the "bad batch of bearings" which should in theory, given the time that has elapsed since issue of the stop sale, identify just the vehicles affected, these then being recalled to fix. If it is only a small number, a full engine swap out would be the most cost effective / efficient way of "fixing" this problem. Affected engines could then be returned on mass to BMW to strip and rebuild to factory controlled processes.

Looking forward to watching your review later DJ .... with a good curry and a beer living life at the dining room table