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Old 09-15-2013, 06:04 AM   #25
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This is a major symptom of a bad head gasket, if your coolant is a coffee colour it means somewhere in your engine coolant is mixing with oil. The M96 has been known for getting hairline cracks in the cylinder heads and having cylinder walls give.

Do you remember if the car was burning white or grey smoke? Did it feel like it was sluggish (while accelerating?)

There are countless things that could lead to coolant and oil to mix, head gaskets, piston rings, cylinder walls cracking, ect.. The next step in my mind would be to do a compression test and hope for the best!
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