Hints and Tips

[thirdmate]

A question for all you technical bods out there.

Has anybody got any comments/thoughts/experience/horror stories of BMW's D6 diesel driving a Z leg.

Andy

(And yes I do have a reason for asking, but you probably guessed that)

[Guest chriscraft]

i looked at a boat with one of these fitted,a very experienced boat broker told me to be carful.these engines are fine when running,but i would investigate the availability of spares?,also have heard that they are pigs,and to be honest havn,t had a good report of them,he told me to RUN!! a mile,didn,t buy it,and with just having the dubious pleassure of trying to keep a gm 6.2 running ,i d go for a more mainstream engine all in my honest opinion,if others had heard different experiences that,s fine ,but they are quiete a rareity

[thirdmate]

Thanks for that Chrisc,

I had heard they were based on the same block as the Volvo D6, not sure how true this is. Almost nothing on the web about them but plenty of aftermarket parts seem to be around.

Andy

[Antares_9]

I have known a couple of people with petrol BMWs Andy and they were quite happy and had no issues sourcing parts. I doubt it's based on the D6 as that is a D4 with a couple of extra pots on the end, as the D4 was designed exclusively for marine use by Volvo Penta with no commercial equivelant fairly recently, and BM having been out of the marine market for some time it doesn't seem likely.