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Replying to: sdg380 (Jun 12, 2007 5:48 am) Best Regards, Shipo
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Replying to: shipo (Jun 12, 2007 5:53 am) Our current E46 330 has been down to single digits, with no ill effects. I've always heard you shouldn't run your tank near empty, as many cars use fuel to cool the fuel pump. No idea if that's how BMWs work, though. regards, kyfdx
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Replying to: kyfdx (Jun 12, 2007 8:13 am) I believe that is the case with BMWs as well. Regarding the incident I related above, I didn't really have an option as there was no way I was going to get off the turnpike at oh-dark-thirty in a rural area hoping to find an open gas station. I simply soldiered on to the next service area and got gas. Best Regards, Shipo
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Replying to: shipo (Jun 12, 2007 8:48 am) |
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I believe the fact that the fuel pump uses gas to cool. There has to be something going on. I ran out of gas in my '01 Prelude a few years back. The manual says my car has a 15.9 gallon gas tank. After I pushed the car down the block to the nearest gas station, it wouldn't take a drop more than 14.5 gallons. Before owning my Prelude, I leased a 2000 Saab 9-3 (36 months/36K miles). It had one of those DTE computers like the BMWs have. When I went to turn the car in, I hit a LOT of traffic and started sweating that I was going to run out of gas beofre I got to the dealership. I stopped and put $1 worth of gas in the car (back when gas was $1.50 per gallon). When I pulled into the dealership, the DTE said 0 and the odometer rolled to 36,000 miles. When signing the odometer statement, the salesman said he's never seen a car with exactly 36,000 miles (from a 36K lease). After he asked me about the mileage, he jokingly asked me if there was any gas in the car 
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Yesterday, with the A/C on high, I heard a loud bang, then the blower fan started making a loud clicking sound. With the fan at low speeds the clicking sound is very low, but after 4 or 5 bars it is very loud like the fan blades are hitting something. Any ideas as to what could have happened?
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Replying to: jdkoch (Jun 13, 2007 3:07 pm) Something has come adrift and/or a foreign object is stuck in the blower housing |
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Replying to: topspin628 (Jun 08, 2007 5:56 pm)
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Replying to: richardga73 (Jun 15, 2007 2:46 am) IMHO, the BMW is a better value, offers a world class sporty drive, which if you like, can't be beat (if road feel and steering feedback are important to you, BMW wins for all of their cars). In summary, I think the bmw 5 is a car that you could take to a track or a driving school and would really enjoy. I just couldn't picture taking an MB E Class to the same. Not that you couldn't, but to me that's not what the E Class is about.
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Replying to: dhanley (May 31, 2007 4:51 pm) Interestingly enough, the latest issue of Roundel mentions that the new M3's 4.0 V-8 is actually 20 lbs. lighter than the 3.2 I-6 in the E46 M3.
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