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[bmw] RE: 740i daytime lamps
Maybe they're burned out on your car. When the new full size Chevy truck
platform came out a few years ago, I noticed a lot of them driving around with
only one daytime lamp. Seems to me they like to burn out. Maybe that's
what's happened to your car. 60K miles is a lot on an '01 anything.
Ian Petersen
99 528i
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bmw-digest Thursday, November 20 2003 Volume 10 : Number 125
Forum for Discussion of BMW Automobiles
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Contents:
[bmw] Question on 740i
[bmw] For sale
[bmw] e30 head gasket
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[bmw] Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself!
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:58:43 -0800
From: "David Bokaie \(bokaie\)" <[email protected]>
Subject: [bmw] Question on 740i
Recently I purchased a used 2001 740i with sport package and I have a
few questions. It has the M62 (4.4l, V8) engine with roughly 60K mikes.
1- On other 740i of the same model year, I noticed that they have their
day light driving light on. On mine it is off (which would be my
preference). However I am wondering why some do have day light driving
light and some don't. I don't think that owners are turning the light
on just to make their cars more visible.
2- Service Engine Soon Light come on intermittently. I checked the code
and it complains about the pre Cat Oxygen Sensor failing on both banks
of the engine. I know some times these faults are false failures and I
hate to spend few hundred bucks and see the check lights come back gain.
Has anyone death with this in the past. Also I am curious why the
service light goes off when the fault code have not be cleared. Is
there a timer in the Fuel Injection brain that says, we have not seen
this fault for a while and lets turn the light off until we see the
fault again. If so, I would assume that the oxygen sensor is working
correctly most of the time. BTW, the car just passed smog with no
problem (Fortunately the service light was off)
3- Gas gauge occasionally shows incorrect fuel level especially right
after the fill up. On my 99 M3, I see the same problem as well. On the
M3 gauge occasionally jumps around between full and empty and eventually
shows the correct fuel level until the next fill up. On the 740, it
shows incorrect level (without jumping around) and after a few restart
it figures out the correct level (note that the distance to empty is
equally messed up).
4- At idle with the radio off, from inside the car I can hear a very low
level clicking noise. I can not hear that when I open the hood with the
engine running. I know it is difficult to diagnose these kind of issue
over email but was wondering if other V8 owners hear the same things in
their cars.
Thanks,
David
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:02:00 EST
From: [email protected]
Subject: [bmw] For sale
I am selling my 95 M3. It has 64k, is in pristine condition with 10-disc
Sony CD changer and Dinan chip. Black/black. Asking $17,900. The car is in
Richmond, VA. If interested, pls contact John at [email protected].
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 04:14:53 GMT
From: [email protected]
Subject: [bmw] e30 head gasket
What is the purose of the thicker head gasket after having the head
resurfaced? A used head was resurfaced to maximum spec for use on a
rebuilt m20b25 (325i) with a 276 degree by 10.2 mm lift cam, overbored
stock pistons. The machinist pointed out that there is an optimal
clearance between the piston dome and the head which will facilitate
combustion by squeezing the mixture into the area around the sparkplug.
The question is will the piston be too close to the valves and head with
the standard gasket? I don't want to decrease the compression with the
thicker gasket.
Greg with a project too
many
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 06:00:00 +0000
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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:20:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Clodfelter <[email protected]>
Subject: [bmw] Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself!
This morning I decided to drive my '89 325Ic to work
because it was going to be in the upper 60's this
afternoon. I get in the car and the battery is dead.
I put the car in neutral to try again. I hooked the
charger up to the battery and went to work. I stopped
home at lunch, hooked the battery up, and it was still
dead. I took the battery back to the parts store
around the corner that I bought it from 9 months ago.
It tested bad.
I took my replacement battery home, and the car still
wouldn't start. I took the battery back and it tested
good. I put the good battery back in, still doesn't
work. I consulted my Haynes manual. It listed the
ignition switch, wire lead, starter motor, and the
transmission park relay as possible failures.
"HMM, I wonder if I put the car back in park"? No, it
was in DRIVE!! I put the car in park and it fired
right up. Well back to my job as a rocket scientist!
Name Withheld to protect what is left of my pride!
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