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    Could just be flooded if the plugs haven't been changed for a long time. Pull a couple of plugs and see if they are covered in wet soot. If they are you are probably due for a new set. Leave all the plugs out for a day or two and then try a new set (or clean the old set) and give it a try. If it starts, drive it until it gets up to temperature before putting the car away.

    Cheers...

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    So the car starts fine from cold, runs fine when up to temperature until you turn it off. Then it won't start if you stop at the corner dairy and then go to drive away a few minutes later. But if you let it sit for a while (say 20-30 minutes) and cool down, it starts fine ?? 

    Kind of unusual that replacing the battery should make the problem go away for a while. Makes me wonder if you don't have a bad connection in the wiring close to the battery or a bad ground. I'd check to see if any of the wires or connections near the battery are hot to touch the next time the car won't start while hot. Leave the battery cover open so you can check before things cool down. 

    Cheers... 

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    4 hours ago, GrandClam said:

    These hard starts range from splutters and stuttering into just plain not turning over.

    To be clear... does this mean (a) that the starter fails to crank the engine at normal cranking speed, or (b) that the starter cranks the engine normally but the engine fails to fire ? 

    Just trying to grasp whether it is a starter problem or an ignition/fuel problem.

    Cheers...

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    I'd be inclined to go with the advice given in the comments on that video. Get under the back of the car and with the trans in neutral, see if you can find any play in the rear universal joint. Look for signs of any powdery rust coming from the UJ caps. If you have play drop by a driveshaft shop (Beattys for example) and see if they can rebuild the UJ for you.

     

    Cheers...

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    Engine will have a lot of enrichment at cold start and cold running, and since it runs fine for a while it is unlikely to be fuel problem. That makes some kind of electrical fault the most likely suspect. And as the issue seems to be heat related it could be a bad soldered joint in the DME or a power switching relay. First thing to do would be to check all the relays in the main junction box after the car has been running for a while. If any of them are HOT (like too hot to hold your hand on the relay) then replace that relay. Going inside the DME is not recommended unless you are just doing a visual inspection looking for obvious faults (which includes leaking capacitors).

    Here is something I put together for another forum some years ago... information is still good :)

    Electrical Fault Finding 03 - DRY JOINT in Soldered Connections
    The problem of DRY JOINTS in soldered connections, particularly on PCB's, is
    well known in the electronics and electrical industries. This fault is responsible
    for a lot of the "Car starts and runs fine, but randomly shuts down, and won't
    start until it has sat for 10 minute... " problems.

    dry-joint_small.jpg

    This pic is lifted from a good article on a Honda site, but what is written applies
    equally to pretty much any older car that uses electro-mechanical relays. No need
    to read the whole thing as the first paragraph describes the problem in detail.

    http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq....html

    So before you go spending your hard earned cash on new relays, take a look
    inside and see if it has a dry joint. If it has, any electronics repair shop should be
    able to fix it for a couple of bucks.

    Cheers... 

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    4 hours ago, Ghenghis said:

    It has been a good reliable car till recently when i fixed an air leak that was making the car difficult to start when cold. The car now starts easily in the morning but when it gets to temp it conks out and wont start until its cold .

    I'm gonna assume that your car has an air flow meter and that the leak was downstream of the AFM. So the engine would have been getting un-metered air and running lean. Probably why it was hard to start. The DME would have been adding fuel, especially at idle and low rpm. It might take a little while to "un-learn" that correction. 

    Does the engine conk out when you are driving at motorway speeds or only when you pull up at a stoplight ? 

    Cheers...

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    4 hours ago, Ghenghis said:

    The radiator fan always runs even when the car is cold and the air con isn't running.

    I don't know what kind of control your car has for the fan, but if it has a simple thermoswitch, the switch has most likely failed. They are set up to fail in the "fan ON" state. If it has a thrmoswitch and the switch controls a fan relay, it is also possible that the relay may have failed. 

    Cheers...

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    Good example of how to develop a racecar. Modify everything and then test... find the weakest link and then fix it. Rinse and repeat :) 

    Not impressed by the youtuber's protective clothing... short sleeved teeshirt is not going to offer a lot of protection in a crash and burn incident. If he is going to make a living out of scrounging rides in fast cars, he should invest in a proper race suit and safety accessories. 

    Cheers...

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    More info Stephanie....     · Report reply

    FWIW my 335i had both turbos replaced (by the previous owner) at around 85,000km because of "wastegate rattle". Apparently it brought up a boost leak trouble code and the mechanical insurance paid. The other big ticket maintenance items are the electric water pump and thermostat, and the high pressure fuel pump. At 120,000km you are getting into the zone where the original parts frequently fail, so worth asking if either of these have been replaced. 

    Regarding the sound, I read this... "the noise is described as a clanking noise occurring up to six or seven times in a row during a deceleration from approximately 3,500 RPM, or during a heavy application of the accelerator without a drive gear being engaged".

    Also this... "It is a rattle under moderate load, for me the sweet spot was around 2k rpm with little throttle. You'll hear it from outside the car too. Won't even need to pop the hood".

    Otherwise looks pretty tidy for the money. 

    Cheers... 

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    1 hour ago, Vass said:

    The incentives baked into the system that have driven social media to what it is today? The drive for higher profits hijacking and weaponizing basic human psychology? The over-commercialization and commodification of literally everything? No semblance of any sense of a moral good, only what's good for the bottom line? Decisions, legislation, actions that are objectively necessary to curb any of that never being taken or implemented because they're "bad for the economy"? When you take a bigger picture view and look at the core incentives baked into the foundation of the economic system, it all becomes painfully inevitable.

    Actually, this pretty much covers the reasons why the world is so f**ked up today, and why it will never get any better. In a society driven by greed, this aphorism has never been more true... The LOVE of MONEY is the root of all evil. 

    Cheers...

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    10 hours ago, KwS said:

    No, its social medias fault. Social media is one of the worst things to happen to humans.

    Social media is a VIRUS.  Unlike covid, people welcome it into their lives like a drug and pay handsomely to be able to get their daily hit on the latest high tech device. Just take a look at the passengers disembarking from a plane at the airport... how desperately they reach for their phones to make sure they haven't missed any likes on their latest fb post :(  

    The animals that passed covid to humans didn't know what they were doing... the corporates that designed social media knew exactly what they were doing. Ultimately, social media will harm society far more than covid or designer drugs, and it is all for profit. Corporates doing the Devil's work. And you know who loves social media so much that he started his own channel... hmm ?

    This is the definition of selling one's soul... "Do or be willing to do anything, no matter how wrong, in order to achieve one's objective." 

    Cheers...

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    When it comes to controlling how people behave, new rules and laws only affect the people who actually give a sh*t about rules and laws. The small percentage that don't care (who are actually the target) simply continue to do what they have always done. 

    Legislators know this, but the government being driven by public opinion and politics, continues to believe that the all and any social problems can be solved by dumping money on new technology and passing new rules and regulations. This is how your freedom gets eroded away. 

    One unpopular (but surprisingly effect solution) is to simply put some effort into using available resources to enforce existing laws. Certain "clubs" are now getting some heat after many years of being allowed to proliferate by weak-kneed politicians. Just goes to show what can happen when a problem gets big enough to turn public opinion against a do-nothing government.  

    Cheers...

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