M3, 330d Touring, R53 S
Discussion
Court_S said:
Not sure what I did wrong but I never saw more than 31mpg from my M140i!
Looking viewed to hearing your thoughts on the two cars.
Tbh that’s taking it easy everywhere and other than the London bits it’s motorway miles at about 70mph.Looking viewed to hearing your thoughts on the two cars.
The remap might help too.. who knows..
So it’s been just over a month since my last update.
During November I was driving near Catford through South Londons finest roads when an amber overheating message popped up on the dash, “driver moderately” etc, 10 seconds later and the message changes to red, “pull over immediately engine overheated!” … ah crap, just what I need!
The AA were called out and the app made it very visible with how long it would be and the location of the driver coming to help, 45 minute wait meant a quick Uber order to the car was needed from a local McDonald’s.. trying to put a smile on my face after a bit of bad news I guess..
AA guy turns up, tells me to drive down road until message comes on again, I get about 3 miles with no issues, then it pings again, luckily managed to pull into a service station and the AA man sets about looking for issues.. he goes to pull engine cover off as he believes it’s sensor fault is the culprit because his temp gun was saying engine wasn’t that hot, then all of a sudden steam and coolant pissing everywhere, a pipe running from the coolant bottle snapped under the pressure..
Wells that’s me being towed home then..
Had to wait for a low loader but only another hour wait and it arrived..
My local garage fixed the pipe, topped up with coolant and plugs in their diagnostic machine and take it for a drive, no issues, all sorted, job done apparently..
I was sceptical but reluctantly took the car back, no issues for 15 miles and then it happens again, this time I had luckily just got home, so I parked up and took it back to garage Monday morning.
In the end it was intermittent water pump failure, tbh it had done 110k so not surprised it was starting to fail!
Unfortunately the pump had to be bought from BMW so was quite a hit on the wallet just before Xmas! Never mind, the car is back and working well.. driving back up to London on a daily basis!
As for the M3, I haven’t driven it for a month, the wife uses it for her short commute but that’s it, got a few days off now for Xmas break so hoping to take it for a run.. can’t wait, I miss that V8!
Let’s hope the snow stays away! Pic from last February..
Merry Xmas to all..
During November I was driving near Catford through South Londons finest roads when an amber overheating message popped up on the dash, “driver moderately” etc, 10 seconds later and the message changes to red, “pull over immediately engine overheated!” … ah crap, just what I need!
The AA were called out and the app made it very visible with how long it would be and the location of the driver coming to help, 45 minute wait meant a quick Uber order to the car was needed from a local McDonald’s.. trying to put a smile on my face after a bit of bad news I guess..
AA guy turns up, tells me to drive down road until message comes on again, I get about 3 miles with no issues, then it pings again, luckily managed to pull into a service station and the AA man sets about looking for issues.. he goes to pull engine cover off as he believes it’s sensor fault is the culprit because his temp gun was saying engine wasn’t that hot, then all of a sudden steam and coolant pissing everywhere, a pipe running from the coolant bottle snapped under the pressure..
Wells that’s me being towed home then..
Had to wait for a low loader but only another hour wait and it arrived..
My local garage fixed the pipe, topped up with coolant and plugs in their diagnostic machine and take it for a drive, no issues, all sorted, job done apparently..
I was sceptical but reluctantly took the car back, no issues for 15 miles and then it happens again, this time I had luckily just got home, so I parked up and took it back to garage Monday morning.
In the end it was intermittent water pump failure, tbh it had done 110k so not surprised it was starting to fail!
Unfortunately the pump had to be bought from BMW so was quite a hit on the wallet just before Xmas! Never mind, the car is back and working well.. driving back up to London on a daily basis!
As for the M3, I haven’t driven it for a month, the wife uses it for her short commute but that’s it, got a few days off now for Xmas break so hoping to take it for a run.. can’t wait, I miss that V8!
Let’s hope the snow stays away! Pic from last February..
Merry Xmas to all..
Lynch91 said:
Nice combination of cars, very interesting thread, keep the updates coming!
Thanks for the kind words.Court_S said:
That’s a pisser about the water pump. I assume it’s electric like the previous generation cars.
Yes they are electric, just glad there seems to be no issues from the overheating, although tbh it didn’t run for long at any point when it was hot Gassing Station | Readers' Cars | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff