E36 Stalling...??
Discussion
I suffered the well documented Nikasil bore wear problems on my 323i coupe last summer, so here's this summers little gem....
Basically when cold and waiting at junctions the revs fluctuate around the 500 to 1K rpm range and the car often stalls after 30sec to a minute? When warmed up the problem seems to disappear, albet it becomes much less apparent. I have just had an inspection two and made the dealer aware of the problem, they said that all the systems were reset and if the problem continued then the likelihood is the VANOS was on the way out.....?
Does this sound plausible?, could this simply be due to a faulty sensor or has anyone else suffered this problem? The car's an automatic and the doesn't tend to stall when the neutral position is selected. I've also noticed that the car now runs slightly cold, according to the temperature sensor, may this be another contributary factor
Any ideas anyone? Regards.
Since this was posted original on roadfly.org the ICV was suggested but I've checked this and it hasn't cured the fault....
Basically when cold and waiting at junctions the revs fluctuate around the 500 to 1K rpm range and the car often stalls after 30sec to a minute? When warmed up the problem seems to disappear, albet it becomes much less apparent. I have just had an inspection two and made the dealer aware of the problem, they said that all the systems were reset and if the problem continued then the likelihood is the VANOS was on the way out.....?
Does this sound plausible?, could this simply be due to a faulty sensor or has anyone else suffered this problem? The car's an automatic and the doesn't tend to stall when the neutral position is selected. I've also noticed that the car now runs slightly cold, according to the temperature sensor, may this be another contributary factor
Any ideas anyone? Regards.
Since this was posted original on roadfly.org the ICV was suggested but I've checked this and it hasn't cured the fault....
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