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Cyclotourist said:
Found the problem, can you see what it is?

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Clearly your hobnostal defosticator is wangfungled!

I am thinking at least one of those parts should be attached to something in order to function as designed.

One of the water pumps is Chinese and the other is German? Wait - or are those turbos?
 
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herzalot said:
Clearly your hobnostal defosticator is wangfungled!

I am thinking at least one of those parts should be attached to something in order to function as designed.

One of the turbos is Chinese and the other is German? Wait - are those turbos?
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Close! It's the blinker fluid injection fortifier and progressive containment relay nubulizer, and is fully borked.

The bigger problem is that previous owner cheaped out and bought Sh!t Chinese parts for that as well as the water pump it is attached to. Which left us nearly stranded in Palm Desert last week.

Yeah, they probably saved a whopping $300 of what would have been a $2,000 job.

Remember kids, German parts for German vehicles!

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Cyclotourist said:
Close! It's the blinker fluid injection fortifier and progressive containment relay nubulizer, and is fully borked.

The bigger problem is that previous owner cheaped out and bought Sh!t Chinese parts for that as well as the water pump it is attached to. Which left us nearly stranded in Palm Desert last week.

Yeah, they probably saved a whopping $300 of what would have been a $2,000 job.

Remember kids, German parts for German vehicles!
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That's what I thought. Chinese parts on a German car...., what could go wrong probably will...... And did.
 
Cyclotourist said:
Close! It's the blinker fluid injection fortifier and progressive containment relay nubulizer, and is fully borked.

The bigger problem is that previous owner cheaped out and bought Sh!t Chinese parts for that as well as the water pump it is attached to. Which left us nearly stranded in Palm Desert last week.

Yeah, they probably saved a whopping $300 of what would have been a $2,000 job.

Remember kids, German parts for German vehicles!

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I know for VW/Audi one of the faults is plastic use on the water pumps, causing them to wear prematurely. I have heard of people using aftermarket to correct it, but i doubt it is the cheap chinese stuff
 
We had to replace the water pump on my daughters 13 Jetta 2.5 and at the time an OEM was not available for months and happened upon a ECS aftermarket pump and it was pricey, but worth the money. I personally always try to buy OEM or better.
 
Danmtchl said:
We had to replace the water pump on my daughters 13 Jetta 2.5 and at the time an OEM was not available for months and happened upon a ECS aftermarket pump and it was pricey, but worth the money. I personally always try to buy OEM or better.
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Conti is original equipment, in fact you can see where they removed the BMW logo and part #.
Just annoys me to no end that cheap crap was used. I don't believe a reputable garage would install such a thing, so it must have been a really shady shop.

JimN said:
POS replacement thermostat from 'CHI-Na' failed?
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Hard to imagine, huh!

Derkderkall said:
I know for VW/Audi one of the faults is plastic use on the water pumps, causing them to wear prematurely. I have heard of people using aftermarket to correct it, but i doubt it is the cheap chinese stuff
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Typically the electronics in the BMW electric pumps fail. Usually they'll throw codes on the way out so you'll have some warning. That is a bigger problem in older cars, and our '13 shouldn't be having this problem so soon, but here we are. Or here they were, as we bought it with 72k on it. So it went out sometime before that.

Here's why Conti is the way to go:

 
just got a 2016 BMW i3, cute little car mostly all carbon panels. the battery and motor will give it about 150 miles, but WTF, the price is right and it'll suit the wife for 90% or more of her driving. ordered a level 2 charger and need to have it installed. The house only has 110 but the Edison bill says we have 220 service. We shall see how it goes.....:eek::cool::)
( and now she won't drive my 335is )

( dipping the toes into the EV world :oops: )
 
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Danimal said:
just got a 2016 BMW i3, cute little car mostly all carbon panels. the battery and motor will give it about 150 miles, but WTF, the price is right and it'll suit the wife for 90% or more of her driving. ordered a level 2 charger and need to have it installed. The house only has 110 but the Edison bill says we have 220 service. We shall see how it goes.....:eek::cool::)
( and now she won't drive my 335is )

( dipping the toes into the EV world :oops: )
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Congrats, hope it is a great car for you/her!

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Danimal said:
just got a 2016 BMW i3, cute little car mostly all carbon panels. the battery and motor will give it about 150 miles, but WTF, the price is right and it'll suit the wife for 90% or more of her driving. ordered a level 2 charger and need to have it installed. The house only has 110 but the Edison bill says we have 220 service. We shall see how it goes.....:eek::cool::)
( and now she won't drive my 335is )

( dipping the toes into the EV world :oops: )
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Check out Rich Rebuilds on youtube if you want to improve your range*. He rigged up a second fuel tank and jury rigged a switch to top up the primary tank while he was driving.


*Don't do this to yours, it was a proper bodge!
 
Lost Kiwi said:
Check out Rich Rebuilds on youtube if you want to improve your range*. He rigged up a second fuel tank and jury rigged a switch to top up the primary tank while he was driving.


*Don't do this to yours, it was a proper bodge!
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I already have a hitch on it and towing a trailer with a 50 gal tank of fuel. What could possibly go wrong?? :gotnothing:

Had to do something. She drove my car and curbed the wheel after 3 days. :facepalm: it's just stuff, but still...
 
Danimal said:
just got a 2016 BMW i3, cute little car mostly all carbon panels. the battery and motor will give it about 150 miles, but WTF, the price is right and it'll suit the wife for 90% or more of her driving. ordered a level 2 charger and need to have it installed. The house only has 110 but the Edison bill says we have 220 service. We shall see how it goes.....:eek::cool::)
( and now she won't drive my 335is )

( dipping the toes into the EV world :oops: )
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Installed the level 2 charger yesterday, which was a pain in the a** mainly because the 6 gauge wire is tough to work with and run through the conduit ( had to add 240v breaker ). The charger itself, easy to install and set up. It’s done, the Car charged pretty quickly, so that’s a win!

Did get a notice from BMW that the battery in the car is warrantied to 150k miles, so that’s a win too.
 
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