Had an incident with the car last week. Set off early one cold morning and about 5 minutes into my journey I had a sudden loss of power. Not complete loss of power just a sudden reduction. It felt just like the traction control kicking in, which is what I assumed it was, but then the power did not return. In fact I had very little power and a new message on the dash "Engine System Service...
Car Logs
September 10, 2011, 12:41 pm
123,000 oil and filter change
123,750 low beam bulb replacement
August 4, 2011, 12:08 pm
Think this is my first log since owning the car. I have done about 8,000 miles in it already and have had to do a bit of work.
Work recently completed includes:
- New front wishbones, which include bushes
- New front lower ball joints
- New front drop links
- New front tyres
- Removed tow bar
- Installed Device to enable MP3 playback though the...
May 22, 2011, 7:43 pm
May 14, 2011, 6:50 am
This could quite possibly be the end of the E34 :(
This happened on 2011-05-12T15:30BST. Time of day is approximate (+/- 15 mins)..
It was parked outside a house, I was inside the house. Heard the alarm go off, heard the gasps from others in the house and shouts of 'Someone just crashed into your car!'.
So I went out and the person who lived opposite had reversed out their...
April 22, 2011, 10:10 pm
Got round to doing some work on the car. Finally fitted Lemforder upper control arms and bushes! After that went for tracking. Nearside ball joint was gone (had clunking from there) and bushes were easy to move by hand.
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February 23, 2011, 10:43 pm
The other week the car finally ticked over 200,000 miles.
I had reset the trip counter when it had ticked over 198,000 in anticipation of capturing 199,999 999.9 and then 200,000 000.0 but the counter...
January 15, 2011, 10:03 pm
A successful day. The handling issues (described here) induced by what I now consider to have been mostly related to the rear subframe bushes have been seemingly eliminated.
Here is the culprit:
December 24, 2010, 9:36 pm
Handling issues are developing, as always. I have been of the impression that all my handling problems have been related to the front end bushes. But a new noise has drawn my attention to the rear end of the car.
I am getting a very audible 'clunk' from the rear end every time torque is applied. i.e. every time I abruptly (although it is now getting easier to invoke it) de-clutch or...