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Which BMW Has the Updated B58TU2 Engine? And What's Changed

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  Image: BMW B58B30C Complete Engine with just 30K miles for sale at MT Auto Parts  The BMW B58 engine is the 3.0-litre turbocharged straight-six that most BMW enthusiasts consider the pick of BMW's current petrol engine range. It went into the M340i, M440i, M240i, Z4 M40i, and a handful of other models, and it has been quietly updated twice since it first arrived in 2016. The latest version is the B58TU2, also known internally as the B58N. It arrived between 2022 and 2023, depending on the model. If you are buying a newer B58-powered BMW, working out which version you have matters, particularly if you ever need to look for a used BMW engine or specific parts. This guide keeps it simple. The B58 Family in Plain English The B58 has gone through three generations. The original B58 (sometimes called B58A) launched in 2016 in the F-chassis cars. Then, from 2018 to 2019, BMW updated it to what most people call the B58TU or B58D. This is the version that went into the G-chassis M ...
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Which BMW Has the S85 V10 Engine? Full M5 and M6 Breakdown

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  Photo by Shooting Tyre on Unsplash  There is only one BMW road car engine with ten cylinders. One. The S85. BMW built it between 2005 and 2010, fitted it to exactly four models, and then never made anything quite like it again. The engines that followed were turbocharged, smaller, and objectively faster in many situations. None of them sounds like this. If you are searching for an S85 engine for sale, trying to identify whether a car you are looking at has one, or just trying to understand what all the fuss is about, this guide covers the full picture. Which cars it went into, what makes it special, what goes wrong, and what to check before buying. What Is the BMW S85 Engine? The S85 is a 5.0-litre naturally aspirated V10 petrol engine. No turbochargers. No supercharger. Just ten cylinders, individual throttle bodies for each one, and an 8,250rpm redline that BMW arrived at partly by drawing on its experience building Formula One engines through the BMW Sauber F1 programme i...
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Which BMW Has the B38TU Engine? Full Model List Explained

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Image: BMW B38A15P Complete Engine for Sale at MT Auto Parts for £2,799.99   The BMW B38 engine is the 1.5-litre three-cylinder engine you will find in the smaller end of BMW's range: the 1, 2 Series Active Tourer, X1, and a handful of other BMW models. It is not the engine that tends to grab headlines, but there are a lot of them on UK roads, and if you are buying a used BMW in this part of the range, you will almost certainly encounter one. This guide answers the question that comes up most often: which BMW actually has the B38 engine, and specifically the updated B38TU version? It also covers what you need to know about reliability and what to check before buying, explained simply.  What Is the BMW B38 Engine? Simply put, the B38 is BMW's three-cylinder petrol engine. It is 1.5 litres, turbocharged, and sits at the bottom of BMW's modern engine family, the same family that includes the B48 four-cylinder and B58 six-cylinder, just with one fewer pot. Three cylinders sou...
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