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No change. Anyone handy have the right box of tricks to reset the adaptation on DME? Edit - Anyone know if Carly can do this? Been playing with the idea of buying one.

Eccentric sensor plug is dry, was a nice pool of oil beneath the valvetronic motor and down the sparkplug tube for #4, doesnt look like the valvetronic seal is leaking, just that someone decided that oil belonged on the outside of the engine and not in the sump. Will clean it all up and see what happens.

Eccentric cam sensor seal leaking and filling the plug with oil ? Seems plausible.

Car has done this for awhile, mechanics couldnt find fault, its a little disconcerting sometimes as it can do it when acclerating from lights/crossing a road/going around a round about. Under no/low load, WOT only, from idle only, the engine hesitates and splutters around before accelerating. Sometimes it lasts seconds, sometimes its just a cough. Only does it from idle, and otherwise works perfectly. No fault codes. Nadda. Ive reset the DME by pulling the battery. No change, No change in fault code logging. Ive pulled the vanos solenoids and cleaned them. No change, didnt look dirty either. Done the throttle calibration thing. No change. According to service history plugs are less than 20k old, everything else has many thousand k left on it. Doesnt feel likes it misfiring anyway (and surely the DME would pick a misfire up) Any ideas? My next step was to just change the vanos solenoids and cross fingers. Anyone come across this before? Im trying to avoid unleashing the parts cannon at it to solve!

I need this.

Name and shame! Is it just me or have the number of half pie auto service companies quadrupled recently.

All going in the skip in next two days if anyone wants any of this... free upgrades to your pov pack 1 series

Theyre not perfect, as you only get half turn by half turn as the allen key/cut out interferes, but it works

Yeah no worries, flick me a PM, am in south auckland.

I have one of these https://www.ecstuning.com/b-schwaben-parts/strut-nut-socket-22mm/003046sch01a-04/ if you wanna borrow it, can leave in my letterbox or something.

Looks easy, if you need em done I can take em to work and get our guy to do it (hes fn good ) flick me a pm if keen

Can you throw some pics up and p/n of the mosfets (if you have them), electronics guy at work might be keen for a cashy

i agree with the above, an old bmw with a tight budget is no fun, and will be very frustrating, unless you already have spanner twirling skills.

It looks like godzilla stood on it

Maybe in 10 years time, stuff like the i30N and Stinger will help change the enthusiast publics opinion, but most people still think beaten up daewoo with the bumper falling off when "korean car" is mentioned

Yeah gone sorry

^ Me 3... I wish my bank balance had more 0s at the end.

Bump Theres also a still working (high ks) waterpump, standard diff centre, dead DMF, etc.

Can you PM me contact details? Ill get the wife to take it to him next time if hes keen.

Live south, work north Anywhere inbetween works.

This has probably been discussed before, but - Who is recommended? Specifically for the E91 330 that the wife drives, it needs someone to look after it long term. Previous place dumped oil down the side of the engine on the last service, made a mess and stunk. Only noticed when I took it for a drive and went wtf are you driving this like this for...) Ive just cleaned it up and the underbody covers havent been off in years (corroded siezed fasteners etc). I dont have the time to look after 3 cars, so farming this one out is the plan More than happy to pay someone for the extra 15min to do a decent job. Edit - @B.M.W Ltd - Is Wayne still in the BMW fixing industry?

I keep seeing a lady put 91 into her E90 M3. Is this a situation like having sh*t paper stuck to your shoe, or spinach on your teeth? Do I say something? Do I take her keys away?

Epic. It looks factory. I want one Whats it like to drive? Do you notice the extra weight over the front end?

E60 540 on Wiri station road this arvo, who wanted to race at the lights. You drive like a f**ken bellend, GTFO the road before you end someone elses day prematurely.

At the moment, I pay rent to BP, simply as good coffee Have had the AA card up to $1.8x, but that was just in an effort to see what happened if I got over the price of gas (do they pay you to fill up!?) Failed though.