darkwolf

I honestly believe your best bet is to just take it in. If you are worried about the problem get the service agent to tow the car in as apposed to driving it there. The missing cylinders suggests to me that it is more than the PCV valve, but this is only because I didn't have that. I had: Blowing smoke while not under load. Not little puffs, huge plumes of smoke. Squealing (noise coming from the back of the engine). Terrible idle. High oil consumption. I.E. just over half full (on the dipstick) before I headed to Hamilton. Pulled into Levin, I was warned to check oil level. Well below the low mark. Just over 1,000KM though I only noticed it 50KM before then (blowing smoke) I can't think of anything else. But I suppose the missing cylinders could be caused by fouling of the spark plugs if a lot of oil has gone through the engine. You say it is running low on oil and I would suggest that amount of oil wouldn't be good for spark plugs.

I read in a BMW mag (at the ford dealership where my car gets serviced) that there are genuine aftermarket performance parts available from BMW dealers (it was an ad and only available for the 3 Series (e46+). Could be worth a look? Though I don't imagine they'd be cheap and I don't know what was available. Are the ECUs in BMWs remappable? I know many of the toyota ones aren't and they are the only ones I know anything (if much at all) about. The reason I ask is that your ECU is likely to be tuned with a mix of reliability/engine life/economy/performance. The dealers may (hence the question above) be able to move the scale closer to a performance increase for a sacrifice of economy/reliability/engine life.

The train idea is cool. I hadn't looked into that. Any idea of cost for the car via freight?

I was quoted just over $180 for the part and a 4 hour job as per this thread: My PCV Valve Thread Which went with what I had seen on other forums. I wasn't too stressed. I have a warranty Still had to pay $250 for the excess though.

You'll probably find the 1000hp is available at a specific tune. I.e. when they put it on a dyno they gave it a few runs and found one that'd do it then dialled it back for reliability. But you can still claim the 1000hp I suppose.

As per the topic title I might be moving from Levin to Christchurch. I'm just looking at my options regarding moving my gear. I don't have a hell of a lot of stuff and I have already done some searching myself. At present I am thinking of using a freight company i.e mainfreight and the likes to move my big items, queen bed, chest of drawers, desk and recliner. I figure most things will just fit nicely in the 540i. How have other people done the shift. I guess it doesn't really matter which way round it worked N->S or S->N as you still have that standing body of water that gets directly in the way.

Just had the same thing happen on my 1998. Was just over the $500 mark for me.

I've always said that if you read the Bible you'll see that its really a book of fables (stories with morals to learn from). I'm sure there are many other religions that have a similar theme in their religious tomes. Many religions are based on the preceding religion. Example. The greeks saw blue as bad, the catholics see red as evil (hell fire and brimstone - usually red) and blue as good (the virgin mary is in what colour? Blue). The greeks underworld was cold, the catholics burning hot. For those who care their is a documentary called Zeitgeist which compares many of the religions against each other to identify similarities.

I know the GDI mitsi are notorious for issues. I'd be buggered if I know what it is though. Realistically they don't have the most bullet proof motors in the first place. But I also suppose an extra hole in the cylinder (i.e to put the injector into) is going to be an engineering nightmare anyway.

Can't think of anything I've done that was stupid while attempting to look cool. Maybe that's cos I just am and don't have to try.

1. BMW E39 M5 - Daily Driver 2. BMW E92 M3 - All weather toy. 3. Ferrari F430 16M Scuderia Spider - Treat 4. New Toyota Hilux - Towing.(don't know the chassis number.) 5. Audi R10 Le Mans - (Doesn't need explaining does it?)

Sorted.

Not to argue with Glenn, but if you find after replacing the knock sensor or the AFM it's still there. Just try the new leads. As I said, I had the same problem with my celica. When I got it checked by an auto sparky, they passed a consistency check but was told that for the cost of new leads I may as well give it a go as it was possible that the leads would pass a check but under consistent use would begin to miss. To be honest it sounded like complete bs. Nevetheless, I replaced them myself the following week and the problem went away.

I'm in levin. Pm me for more info if you like.

Surely they could use the excuse that the stig is (on his home planet) considered to be a girl?

Ha that's priceless. Maybe put that with the petition?

Holy crap. Where was this when I was buying my one? If I didn't have my one (and the debt associated) I'd be in with a grin, but I can't. I'd even have been happy with the 16K. How much is a radiator (even second hand). Would it be worth the work to prevent you needing to drop $2500 off?

Interesting to see the damage done (front v side impact). Goes to show crumple zones work.

No worries. Sorry for the tone of the reply.

A person walks down you long driveway, opens your car and steals only your amp and subs. What do you think it means? It means the person knew what they wanted, knew where to get it. And apparently came and got it.

That sucks. I suppose you've done the usual, call the cops etc? What type of amp and subs? Just in case they try chuck it on trademe etc and some one from here sees something similar.

But then how do you tell your parents? Seriously though, I can't stand networking on a MAC, everything is so locked down, you can't even change the subnet mask. Also I never questioned whether Bit Defender uses resources in real time, just that it may as well be turned off for all the protection it actually provides. Though this is only based on the amount of times I've had to fix my brother's and my flatmates laptops when they had it installed. In its defence, it did tell me that the virus was there, just refused to prevent it from doing anything or attempt to remove it. As for not looking at dodgy stuff - hence no need for an AV. I've been caught out by that before. Back in the days of my T-bird. I was never connected to the net, so didn't think I needed it. Until I installed a copy of some software to do an assignment and found that a virus had happily piggy backed itself to the installation file. I now use anti-virus regardless of the fact that my main rig usually never goes on the net anyway.

I think most of you are missing the point. Its live rather than periodical. With current anti virus methods it can take hours or days to respond to a new threat and that's only to those that have been reported. Whereas with this method, any possibly malicious behaviour is tested and identified, those that are connected will be automagically made aware of the fact that there is a new threat out there - if one is found. Effectively, the cloud is capable of responding as fast or even faster maybe than the code can spread. That's the theory. And as for bit defender, you may as well just turn it off. It'll do the same thing and use less resources.

First the links: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Panda-Ant...urity,7682.html http://www.cloudantivirus.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing I've just installed this at home. I think the theory behind it is brilliant. I'm not so sure about the long term outcome, but it looks promising. Basically, or as I understand it, the software allows a user to form part of a global computer community. This community shares all the information they have about malware (viruses, bots, rootkits etc). When a possible new threat is identified, the code responsible is sent to the cloud to be classsified eventually as either malware or goodware. This information is then sent to each node connected to the cloud to allow them to identify this code if it appears in their system. This is important because malware that is created today isn't designed to infect and spread like it was back in the days of the infamous blaster worm. Instead, it is designed to go undetected and the best way to do this is to ensure that they only infect a few nodes at a time. Because of this there is malware out there that can go undetected for months as it just picks the right nodes to attack. What this new type of anti-virus is designed to do, is recognise behavioural patterns in the programs to allow the program to then be analysed and identified. So as new malware is produced the 'Collective Intelligence' as they call it are able to identify and immunise the cloud almost instantly. For those of you who are star trek fans, you can liken this to Borg. In that when one encounters something new, they all encounter that new thing. Thus they can deal with it in an appropriate manner, easier. This new anti-virus is based around the same principles. The software is developed by a company called Panda Anti-virus. And to be honest it looks a little weak having a panda face in your system tray, but running a scan last night, the software found 21 infections (I can't remember what it calls it now) and I've run AVG for years, the last scan would have been done at lunchtime yesterday. The best part is that for the time being at least - it's FREE. Which made me wary of it but from it is from a reputable company, some I haven't worried too much. I'll let everyone know about how things go with it as I use it a bit more but for the time being I can't see any problems.

BBS RS-GT!!!