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Is this the Crown Majesta? For any goons not reading the 'Lets import vehicles from Glorious Nippon for fun & profit' thread. Go. Go Now.
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Just hope that it isn't an injector. They have to have a matching index with the others which usually means replacing all 6 and having to have them coded as well. BMW.txt
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Jul 2, 2018 13:51
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Maybe it was for low speed communication power?
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Jul 7, 2018 10:31
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Big Taint posted:It’s like playing BMW Bingo, which well known issue will pop up next? When I test drove a 135i coupe, it was 1: hard starting, 2: sticking parking brake, 3: slow/bad window regulators, 4: HPFP failure. It's like it told me to go away in German.
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Jul 15, 2018 20:56
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Seminal Flu posted:
I can't say I've ever heard of a MK3 Focus having this problem, and they're all direct injected. What about the Isuzu Axiom? Or a bunch of KIAs with that GDI stuff. It seems to me it's more of a German car issue, as VAG cars are well known for coking up, and apparently so are BMWs. Does Porsche or Mercedes to this too? I know toyota takes care of it by having a second set of intake injectors.
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Jul 19, 2018 17:01
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Seminal Flu posted:I took on too many jobs at once with this one, I'm burned out with car stuff. BMW_out_of_warranty_ownership.txt Goddamn I'm glad I'm reading this thread when I was pining to have another E46 coupe. At no point during my ownership of my previous one did it go 24 hours without something broken.
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Jul 22, 2018 11:22
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Seminal Flu posted:
When I test drove a 135 coupe this was the first sign that the HPFP was on it's way out. If it's not that, perhaps the throttle body was doing its homing procedure. The EJ25 sohc(2008) and the MZR both need to home the throttle body after the ECU has been reset or battery unplugged for a few hours. It's usually 30 seconds of ignition on, no run and then proceed to start.
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Jul 24, 2018 13:20
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What's that aluminum/black plastic device on the front of the engine? I want to say oil filter housing but then it looks like a coolant hose goes to it. What's going on there?
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Aug 4, 2018 10:54
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Larrymer posted:Dare I ask how much the water pump replacement is? Sounds like it's an electric pump so maybe it's not mounted in a totally not terrible spot. If I recall correctly, it is indeed mounted in a total fuckfest of a spot. E: from bimmerfest, on an X3, Maybe an x5 would be a better match for you? https://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=347412 E2: maybe your pump was just never coded to the system and initialized. Kinda like how modern BMWs are with batteries needing to be coded to the charging system. BloodBag fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Aug 16, 2018 |
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Aug 16, 2018 20:14
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This is why I always am weary of working on my cars, because of the dread that I'll make them worse instead of better.
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Sep 21, 2018 13:22
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Minnesota Mixup posted:Could be a front wheel bearing. Mine sounded like that when it started to go bad, got louder the faster I went. In my experience, wheel bearings sound like tire rumble. I had two bad fronts in a subaru and it sounded like a B17 flying overhead. My wife's mini needs a new right front and it sounds like it's got a muddin' tire over there.
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Sep 22, 2018 13:00
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Have you ruled out the alternator or belt tensioner? Isn't that engine known to have leaks off the oil filter housing onto the belts? A neighbor had what sounded like a mad transmission whine from her car that turned out to be the alternator.
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Sep 24, 2018 19:59
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Having fun? That's a mil for you. I got one good pull out of a 135 coupe before it popped a mil and went into reduced power mode. loving BMWs.
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Sep 25, 2018 15:29
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sirr0bin posted:https://www.princessauto.com/en/detail/cadet-6000xl-mid-rise-scissor-lift/A-p8442444e I can't imagine that lift being useful for anything. It's got the lift guts right where all the poo poo you'd need a lift to work on is located. I'd get quick jacks before that thing. E: for me it would be useless since an RWD car like a miata would have the drivetrain right above the lift mechanism. For a FWD car it would be useful up until you'd need to access the exhaust.
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Sep 28, 2018 12:52
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sharkytm posted:Last I checked, very few other cars have a sophisticated current monitoring circuit built into the negative battery cable... That's crazy complicated and unnecessary. My truck has what looks like an amp clamp around the negative battery wire. I guess it monitors amperage draw, but there's no gauge for it.
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Dec 2, 2018 12:57
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meatpimp posted:
 
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Feb 5, 2019 20:12
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Sounds like the caddy has entered the realm of 'will run poorly longer than other cars will run at all'
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Mar 4, 2019 20:38
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meatpimp posted:But after that, I'm finding that the car no longer sparks joy for me.  I just want a sensible daily to keep miles off my truck now. I'm becoming what I hate.
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Mar 8, 2019 19:00
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meatpimp posted:It may not be as bad as it sounds. I've been thinking about selling both the Escalade and the BMW and getting a Cayenne turbo, so... welp. Looks like someone's been reading Bajaha's thread. I had no idea so much overengineering could be contained in one vehicle.
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Mar 9, 2019 11:35
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glyph posted:Apparently there’s an intermittent issue with the transmission where it will sometimes feel like a tire has a flat spot (?). I have a feeling it’ll be either something simple and inexpensive, or, uh, the polar opposite. Willing to bet that's a driveshaft issue. Arent the AWD systems from the 5/X5 notorious for making GBS threads the u joints out?
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Mar 17, 2019 10:46
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Same as my '02 325 ci. Only one 24 hour period of ownership in two years where something wasn't wrong with it in some way. Awesome car to drive, terrible car to own.
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Apr 9, 2019 21:10
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BMW maintenance needs only seems to accelerate as the car ages. My wife's mini has a cracking water pump pulley, that's right, they rubber coated the water pump pulley for reasons. The serp belt is cracking. The right front wheel bearing is really grumbly. There's now a rattle from the front suspension that I suspect is swaybar bushings that requires a loving subframe drop to fix  The washer pump has stopped switching to spray the tailgate glass. It's only 6 years old and I already fear it. I wish she'd let me replace it with a cheap econobox. My 2002 protege had less sunroof issues than my stupid 2002 bmw did. If mazda can move a piece of glass more reliably than a company that bills itself as luxury, someone done hosed up.
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Apr 9, 2019 21:34
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Loco moco is spanish for crazy booger.
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Apr 12, 2019 17:54
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meatpimp posted:Well, last week the independent VW shop said they'd have the Passat ready on Wednesday or Thursday. I called yesterday and the "were working on it." I called this morning to give them an alternate contact number for me and they said that they took it to the VW dealer yesterday to have the module coded and the dealer triggered the immobilizer and it's still there. The VAG ownership experience is off to an expected start.
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Nov 8, 2019 15:05
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All this because they put the key in the dash instead of in the column with a mechanical cylinder/lock. I'm looking forward to our next episode of 'poo poo that doesn't need to be electronic' when we visit electric parking brakes.
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Nov 12, 2019 12:13
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Few things are as expensive as a cheap German car.
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Nov 20, 2019 13:58
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meatpimp posted:
BloodBag posted:All this because they put the key in the dash instead of in the column with a mechanical cylinder/lock. I'm looking forward to our next episode of 'poo poo that doesn't need to be electronic' when we visit electric parking brakes. 
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Nov 23, 2019 11:45
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drat they riveted the gently caress out of that thing. I thought it would be like 3-4 rivets around the basket, but of course it's a VW, so we can't have that.
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Dec 10, 2019 18:48
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Didn't Porsche do the same thing? My 914 did yeah.
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Last time I trusted the seals during a rainstorm I ended up with a stinky rear end car and now the whole thing is torn apart to repaint and buy a complete set of new seals. And by that I mean every piece of weather stripping on an NA miata.
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