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Team California
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: los angeles, CA.
Posts: 41,404
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It does seem that you had some type of catastrophic internal engine failure from your description. I had not heard previously of water pumps disintegrating and polluting the coolant passages like that. That's a new one.
Most M96 motors have been OK, the failures trend pretty heavily on the earliest engines. You cannot gauge the reliability of anything by simply reading Internet trouble-shooting boards. They are obviously slanted towards representing owners with problems...depending on the popularity of the car, there could be 100 or 1000 people who did not experience the given issue for everyone who did. Your issue could be extremely rare if I'm reading your description correctly.
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