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Re: handling stripped oil drain plugs
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 10/27/2009

The BMW pan plug is an M12 thread. You can either go to an M14 and use a Mercedes pan plug or helicoil the existing hole and keep it M12. There is sufficient meat for either approach. Of course, the "best" fix is to replace the pan.

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