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Re: loose bolts
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 4/30/2009

The unsettleing trend is that on the newest BMWs they use aluminum bolts. They are torqued. I gauran-dam-tee you, that if you don't get new ones when you replace the water pump, you will be picking the snapped off remains out of the magnesium block. (for real)... Login to read more.