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Originally Posted by Quinnhogue7
Drained the oil and there is no metal shavings in the oil or in the oil filter. I even held a 120 mesh paint strainer underneath the draining oil for the first half of the oil draining out and nothing in the strainer either, literally nothing.
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Replied to your PM but your mailbox is full, will talk with you more on it tomorrow but in your PM you said the crank slighly moves when trying to start: Everything you have described sounds like its seized, possible electric issues but highly doubt it. If you still have doubts, only way to be 100% sure is to pull a bearing cap off the crank and check out the bearings. Cant easily do this on the N55 in a X5, requires a subframe drop. You could inspect the cylinders for scoring too, which should be pretty heavy. You can do that with a cheap borescope that hooks up to your phone you can get off amazon for around 50 dollars and pull the plugs and see what it looks like inside. Will call/txt you tomorrow afternoon as its a bit late now and talk some more.