craig96

Thanks Guys! You were both right; spark. Now running. Very pleased 😃. I pulled the plugs, they were wet with fuel & soot gunge even after several days of not attempting a start. (Plugs not in fantastic condition to be honest, turns out they were original BMW plugs with 120k km on them). Brushed them up, dried them off & pumped a shot of engine oil into each cylinder via a plastic tube as @Spinner99 suggested and boom! Engine started (& yes, loads of smoke produced which was impressive). Engine light & a "misfire" code from one of the cylinders for a a few mins while warming up, then a good drive and now all seems well. Will purchase a new set of plugs next week, will see if I can find a more cost effective way than the $300 for a set from Repco. Thanks again guys, awesome. Good advice, really appreciated!!👍.

Hi Thanks for the response. Yeah, the parts cannon sure seems like a track I would like to avoid! Yes good call, spark-check will be next check to make. I do have an old oscilloscope I just need to retrieve from a local storage unit. Very Interesting your question about the previous runs before this happened. Yes, perhaps 5 runs that were all less than 20sec (Moving out/in/out of garage). Which is not at all normal for me, probably never done that before. What's are your thoughts?

Thanks very much for that, appreciated, tried it, Unfortunately no luck! So I'm stuck with the 323 in the garage for now. Crank and camshaft sensor my next thoughts, or complete ECU replacement (plus all the coding issues that go with it?) but really no evidence to go on without any error codes appearing so it would be a bit of a scattergun approach. Can anyone recommend a specialist in the Auckland area?

Hi Guys, When I moved the car into the garage a week ago, a bit of an odd splutter just before shut-down. Now won't start at all. Cranking nicely, unburned fuel vapor at the exhaust, but nothing. All fuses good, Pump seems to be working. No error codes on my basic cheap OBD scanner. Any ideas? Failing that, any recommendations for a mobile specialist who knows their stuff?