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I was gonna put a profile pic of my car up but says I can only put up a pic 300kb in size. this is pretty crazy. Plus i see pics on here which are pretty big. My pics are around 1.5-2 mb which is a pretty small file really. My iphone doesnt have an option to change pic size/quality coz obviously if yr gonna take photos, why take sh*t,small,pixalated ones?? So, coz I really cant be assed trying to make my photos smaller and shitter, i just wont bother posting pics. Thats all.Rant over..

Glenn- MAF is 2nd hand (half the cost of new, plus just in case it didnt fix the problem I wouldnt have ended up down more coin than need be) roughly what would it cost to set the idle and clear the codes etc??

well guys I have sorted it. As I thought, it was the maf. Glenn's comment about the egs getting signal from maf pretty much confirmed it for me. Along with the error codes (which do seem to have been spot on, and do reinforce what Glenn said) I put new maf in this morning and BOOM- trans light gone and gear shifts are great. So thanks heaps for all the imput peeps (esp you Glenn.I will surely use your services if I do get really stuck in the future) I am a muppet for possibly fckng the maf in the first place, but I was making sure I did the research as to diagnose myself and to only get help when and if I needed. I dont have the cash to pay for mechanics etc, and have always done things myself. Being a boatbuider I kinda do have some sort of clue as the trade itself is really a few different trades combined.. Anyway, thanks again and happy new year fellow beemer heads..

so, now I need to buy a new maf. who to call for this?

yea, Nathan I wouldnt have thought so. It's just the fact once I had fckd about with the maf, the test drive straight afterwards was when I got whe trans light and issues. Thats why I figure the relationship to the events. OR its a huge coincidence .. The trans upshifts fine. both in auto and driving in manual mode. its just downshifting harsh from 3rd into 2nd when braking. it pulls pretty hard I very surprised really. compared to the flat spot/lag it originally had. I put that down to the higher octane gas I now using. Kinda hard to believe its only a 1.8ltr. As I said tho I quite new to the world of BMW. Inpressed and frustrated all at once. I do agree tho that I should get proper diagnosis and I intend to do so..

yea, 12.15 now. not original batt either by the looks. and poss not totally the right specs but at least am wary of it now..

yea, Nathan I checked while not running. I might check again now as I just went on a beer run so it may be different now

some good points there guys. thanks heaps. I poss will look into taking car to Glenn. Pretty positive I have dameged the maf now for sure. It makes sense.

hey Nathan, yea I did touch maf. paper towel wrapped around small screwdriver. prob a sh*t idea in hindsight. I have only owned car a few weeks so have been unsure of fuel. I called prior owner- he said 91 fine but i think he a muppet. after researching I did find that 91 isnt ok so have been putting high as poss in (95 usually. who does 98?Gull?) I think Ill get a new maf and see how goes. I just tested battery and it reads 12.06volts. ok? or too low?

thanks Glen I may do, tho I dont think buying a new trans is on the cards just yet i want to find what really is wrong. The scanner is a mates who does a lot of diagnostic/repair work on european cars. I'll post the pics of scan results, well, I trying to post pics. my f##kn internet is sh*t at mo

my 2000 318i e46 was running rough at idle plus had some acceleration lag. Reading forums led me to look at maf sensor, and also using higher octane fuel. I put some 95oct in and straight away it ran much better.I also took out the maf sensor and gave it a clean. Almost straight away when I drove car, the trans warning cog light came up and gear changes are very hard. Especially when am braking and the trans down-shifts. It seems to slam from 3rd to 2nd gear almost as if its changing while revs are too high still. I have the following codes come up- 7d&a9, which relate to the pre cat o2 sensor, and 78&79 which relate to maf sensor (now I was curious after this problem occured so I took car for a spin with the maf sensor unplugged and it seemed to make no difference to either engine performance nor the trans issue) The other code I getting(which seems more relevant to trans issue )is code92- CAN torque interface. I also had code 32- gear monitoring 1 but this came up in a scan done a week or so prior to the issues I now having. Thinking that it happened straight after I took out maf , I thought I maybe knocked another plug loose or something or that I made something glitch in a computer. I read that the codes possibly relate to the trans being unaware what revs/torque output the engine is doing. I have checked all fuses, and now want to look into any wiring/connector plugs that link trans to engine/ecu. Any help on where to look would be awesome.Or any thoughts at all on how to resolve this.If it is just a glitch type thing do I need to do a hard reset(disconnect battery??) as you might do when a laptop crashes? I oringinally thought it seemed like a low trans oil problem but , a)- the fact it happened in conjunction with me messing about under the hood, & -the car only done 170k kms with (supposed) lifetime trans oil, and no sign of leaks etc I very much doubt thi is the case.. Any ideas people??