Basically im at 98,900 and ive yet to have an issue, car has been a great car, Im looking for things to start watching, as well as other issues people may have with a hi mileage r53...
Thanks

 

Heh, Time start watching everything! This is about when the car turns into a money pit. Off the top of my head..

Supercharcher, which you can avoid with oil change maintenance.

Strut mounts

Control arm bushings

Power steering pump

Oil leaks from all over like SC, oil pan,and crankshaft sensor

I could go on, but congrats on your luck so far!

 

Yea a couple things on that list have already been looked at, like the bushings, and the ps rack, although i never had the ps pump give any trouble, the fan still works, supoercharger still boosts good, it has a 15% on it, and as of now all it needs is a oil cooler gasket, which is gonna wait until oil change time, and a coolant bottle

 

My idler pulley took a dump 2 weeks ago. The bearing suddenly made a terrible screeching noise that got worse and worse. I had to have my car towed back because I wasn't sure what had gone wrong. Diagnosing wasn't hard and I had the new part overnighted and was replaced in an hour.

I'm at 103,000 miles

Also have
leaking power steering tank
leaking oil pan gasket
leaking timing chain cover
leaking oil cooler/heat exchanger o-rings
clunking rear strut top mounts
off sounding power steering pump (fluid level is ok)
dual mass flywheel is not dampening as it should
chewbacca clutch cold, occasionally grabby - leaking rear main seal
grindy clutch pedal (release bearing slide)
vehicle speed dependent 'scuff scuff scuff ' at left rear brake, gone when brakes are applied
broken after market oil temp and pressure gauges
left front speaker cuts out from time to time
still have a mysterious rattle in the rear bumper area since 15k even after 2 rear endings

That's all for what is currently wrong.

I plan to pull the engine when I do the clutch and flywheel and replace all the gaskets and seals. It will be fun. All I need is an engine hoist and a long weekend... plus a few thousand dollars.

 

I have the chewbacca clutcg as well, but i didnt know it was causing a grabbyness, i thought it was just my foot, as i usually drive somewhat jerky to conserve the clutch

 

And by chewbacca, i mean its a very slight rattling only when the clutch is out

 

I'm at 99,980 right now.
I recently had to replace a bunch of gaskets and seals as well as the belt tensioner and crank pulley. Also, my s/c was leaking oil from the water pump drive end. This was very expensive and time consuming to repair and somewhat common on our cars. Keep an eye out for it! Sometimes it will leak into the intake and you won't even know you have a problem until the entire s/c takes a dump. I was lucky enough to catch mine early.
My suspension is shot and I'm about to do an entire rebuild, just waiting for the TSW springs that have been on backorder for 3 months WTF!

 

The rattle isn't the chewbacca sound. This sound is when you are in neutral and **** into first gear. It makes a sound that sounds like chewbacca, not a rattle.

The rattle may be your throw out bearing going or something of the like, my car makes the same rattle.

 

Yes, the chewbacca sound is when starting out, when the disk is being engaged by the pressure plate against the flywheel. Usually happens cold. It is one sign of an oil contaminated disk, as is grabbyness.

The grabbyness is an unusual roughness and jerkiness to the clutch action felt through the car as bucking that happens during normal shifting and pedal actuation when the same procedure usually results in smooth operation.


I forgot to mention that my passenger window motor is also broken. Each side is on it's second motor. So the new one will be that side's third...

 

I got a 2004, powersteering went out around 75k but the fan had went.out before i knew it had a fan. Alt and radiatior fan around 150k idler pulley shortly after and at 195k my clutch is a little weak if i dump it above 3500 rpm it slips. Its. Been leaking oil since i don't know because i park in grass so i didn't notice for years i suppose it never got low on oil, so i am gonna do all that this summer. I also got a it won't start problem. Got to get the scanner on There to check the sensors to narrow it down, maybe fuel pump crank sensor coil handfull of other.stuff.