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Originally Posted by NSXR
Rebuild enough engines and you'll understand why.
No sense in arguing about it, time will tell this story quite clearly.
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I've driven about 1.6M miles in my lifetime on about 12 cars. Just on BMWs, of the 5 I've owned, just over 1M total miles. The average miles on those BMWs is 219,000 miles an 19 years average in age. I've never HAD to rebuild an engine. Nearly every car I've owned has reached a 150,000 mile milestone at a minimum.
If you are saying you've rebuilt a lot of engines that have cylinder wall damage because it came out of a car that has an ASS system, then post the data. ASS systems have not been prevalent in the US market until the last 5 years or so. There can be a good argument made regarding starter wear and increased battery replacements, but ASS causing premature engine wear is hard to defend. Just post the data that shows an increase in engine rebuilds in the last 5 years since ASS has become a US market standard.