As I was perusing ISTA to find repair manuals for my car, I thought that it's wild how much free (but illegal) information there is for us enthusiasts from BMW AG. Sure, one can pay a lot of money to access official ETK and TIS, but my and everyone else's software is really just pirated from somewhere in Russia... as are realOEM and all the other online versions of BMW ETK which was unfortunately pulled from BMW.de in 2020.
There's not a lot of brands around with this much free knowledge. Where else would Sreten and us here find torque sequences for the valve covers?
One of the reasons BMW is an enthusiast brand. Let's hope it stays that way.
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