Jacko

Do you have a scanner? If not, scroll through the "check" on the OBD menu. Hold the button in, and it will display a code. Something will be logged as not working.

Hmm, could be anything, doubt its that though. Plug scanner in and see what its says is wrong.

You mean the difficult one at the sump? It'll make a snap when its on correctly, and it wont pull off without releasing the tabs.

https://www.ecstuning.com/b-genuine-bmw-parts/angle-connector-with-heating-element/11618638014/ - that what your pointing at? Worst case, if it doesnt get connection is the heating circuit for it doesnt work, I have no idea if the DME has some sort of impedance checking for that circuit or not.

Thats the factory earth strap location. The throttle body looks normal, push it open and give it a wipe out they normally collect black grime around the sealing area. All it does on the N52 is control idle and if it goes into limp mode on valvetronic failure.

Heater elements, no idea why they're needed... but apparently they are The aircon fitting tool should work, it presses up on the centre, worked fine on the couple Ive pulled apart.

The aircon tool I linked too awhile back Those plugs, nope, they're all in parallel

ooohh.. a speedster!

Its actually a staple, the rest of the cover must have been stapled to it at somepoint... also note next to the self tapper, the old self tapper which must have been rounded out.. and then had the head cut off

Not really. Just another one of the umpteen squillion people who go to a car dealer and buy a car, and expect to be "fully serviced" and good to go. Any PPE would have flagged it on any of the 100s of e90/N52 common problems, of which this one has them all. Big problem with these cars is the price of fixing them, even for basic stuff the price of parts is often 1/4 the price the paid for the car... which many arent prepared for. This thing has had a lot of work done on it by a "real" professional mechanic, new starter motor and water pump for sure, and the butchery that was left by them is amazing (the intake manifold is siliconed to the head... I guess they didnt replace the O rings...). The waterpump is "new" as it has "new" written on it in wreckers pen, however the thermostat is original and throwing errors. Apparently the oil was "topped up" by the same mechanic, I guess they didnt realise the bar graph on the dash represents 1 litre, and not 6.. Really reinforces the crazyness of buying a car based how many numbers are on the odo, it means jack sh*t

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Hacked out all the rot with a dremel, coils now fit... Hopefully it lasts another round! Patient survived surgery, no oil leaks from the new gaskets... Valvetronic limits reset, and discovered it has 91 octane in the tank after reseting the DME adaptations and trying to accelerate.. Can literally feel the DME recoiling in horror as it pulls timing to stop detonation.. Also dumped 8 litres of crude out of the sump, may explain the oil leaks...

Need it now unfortunately... Even new would be coming from Malaysia. Looks like this one is getting Macgyvered If it was my car id be ordering a new replacment from fcp etc, but that'd be 1/4 the value of this 325.. makes no sense.

None ive called, few dont want to pull apart engines. Im about to bust the dremel out and hack the corrosion out of this one.. it might last another round. $989+gst new....

Bump, anyone? They should all the be same across all "silver top" N52s (circa pre 07), 125/130/323/325/330/530 etc.

Interesting, N52 speed holes...

Anyone got one?, need one quick!

This is one of the better thread derailments in recent memory To the OP, stop driving a turbo six. Take the train. But only if its got good occupancy, is locally assembled, the driver is paid a living wage and has good conditions... and make sure its not one of them filthy diesels.

Not mine, but fixing friends jap import e90 325. Oil leaks and butchery everywhere

You could solve all this with a jack and a jiggle stick.

Yeah, ive been wearing the google out, found lots of threads however they all dither out without a solution. The Torque Pro forum should be used an example of how not to forum, its entirely spam. Flicked a msg to the dev, no response... Found Btool, another BMW OBD2 app that also has the params figured out for oil temp etc, same as Carly though, it sucks as a "dash"

Shhh, the gubment will force us all to drive leafs with that sort of carry-on. Think of the children in the cobalt mines of the Congo!

Looking at Carly's diagnostic parameters, everything is there from oil temp to DISA valve positions, just need to find the magical string and PIDs to get it working in Torque Pro. Tried running Torque scan, whilst driving, for 40min and it found nothing....

Spent 30m this morning trying to get the BMW ELM327 specific initialisation string to work, I want oil temp on my "dash" , but cant get it to output anything with this string, default works fine but is missing all the manufacturer specific goodness. Has anyone managed to get this to work? AT PB E1 01\nAT CRA 612\nAT SH 6F1\nAT FC SH 6F1\nAT FC SD 12 30 0F 02\nAT FC SM1\nAT CEA 12\nAT CM 600\nAT H1\nAT SP B\nAT BI\nAT AL\n