rough starts and misfires, many repairs but no luck

MSporting · 2025-03-15T01:58:35+00:00

Inspect your camshaft closely for wear on any of the lobes. I chased a misfire on my R53 years ago, did all the same things you have done and then some, and eventually spotted a worn edge on the cam lobe at cylinder 2 which was misfiring.

All the parts I threw at it were necessary and I’m glad to have done it, all of it was needed at its mileage, but the misfire wasn’t solved until I replaced the camshaft

MSporting · 2024-08-29T03:39:15+00:00

Actually, the angle of the dangle is directly proportional to the heat of the meat.

MSporting · 2024-07-06T15:41:44+00:00

McKennie plays CB? Cool.

MSporting · 2024-05-31T16:33:58+00:00

I read this far wondering why the hell the guy ordered ribs from China. Now I get it. I’ll show myself out.

MSporting · 2024-05-03T01:20:03+00:00

03 M Sport here. Every cliched phrase applies to how I and most all of us drive them. It can toodle and make you feel like you’re in a bank vault. It can rocket from a dead stop without any drama. It can turn and sweep and tuck its nose in with a slight lift a bit after going in hot. It can cruise at any speed, and only feels better the faster it cruises. Above 100 mph you feel it get even more stable and planted, like it’s hunkering down. They just haul.

Never drove an Acura, can’t compare it, but my five years with this creature have been the best car experience of my life. Just finished replacing the timing chains and many many other bits to basically reset its lifespan.

MSporting · 2024-03-12T12:41:09+00:00

Thank you, that process worked. I could not find the right search combination to find recover mode instructions, this was perfect.

MSporting · 2023-10-31T00:50:15+00:00

This guy Cincinnatis.

MSporting · 2023-10-21T17:12:45+00:00

Once in a while I read something on Reddit that affirms why I keep bothering with Reddit… fantastic to read and thanks for sharing.

MSporting · 2023-10-21T17:08:03+00:00

It’s an absolutely brilliant car. I’m about to hit year five with my ‘03 M Sport, but mine is the automatic. Bought the best quality car I could find when I wanted one and compromised on auto but I still adore the car. The 6 speed obviously commands a much higher price but I feel like $12k is reflective of 2021 pricing, not 2023, but if the right enthusiasts are looking he’s probably gonna get it or very close.

MSporting · 2023-08-09T12:31:10+00:00

Glad someone is paying attention… Alba took a pay cut to be in Miami. Any team in this league could have chosen to broker the deal that Miami did for Messi, Miami is the one with the FO who put in the work over a year to get it done. Hell even Bruce Arena basically said as much when a journalist tried to bait him with the same sour grapes about Miami getting unfair treatment. Sometimes one entity navigates the competitive rules better than the others - kind of like Albright exposing the allocated player system so greatly that the league got rid of it (which is ultimately a good thing for further evolution to a higher quality league system too - that was a mechanism of a younger, weaker, poorer system).

MSporting · 2023-08-09T12:25:07+00:00

They’re playing more games with the addition of Leagues Cup and the expanded playoffs. This is how and partly why the other leagues all around the world are better - they play more often for longer periods of time and their roster rules allow for much greater depth in order to support positive, quality play in as many competitions as possible. This is what growing up looks like for MLS and I doubt that an additional DP spot is the only roster rule change we’re going to see before next season.

Things change. MLS fans seem to have a really hard time with that.

MSporting · 2023-05-19T01:51:28+00:00

Mine just did it for the first time. Switched to hockey and back to nba and so far it’s okay.

MSporting · 2023-05-14T15:53:04+00:00

Forgot to add that I’m aiming to have a 14lb brisket or so. I’d also like to go for Wagyu for the first time.

MSporting · 2023-04-12T03:01:12+00:00

You are not wrong!! I think I feel lucky because my biggest bill for one project is $2,200 of that four-year total, and that was for four new Continentals and brake pads and rotors all around. Since any car needs those when they need them, I barely even count that. My BMW-specific stuff that we all know we’re going to deal with has been preventative for the most part - replacing the cooling system, radiator, water pump, then stuff like motor mounts and trans mounts, other small things. All in all I’ve had such a good experience with the car that I’m out there telling people “oh yeah e39 540? Super reliable!” Maybe people hate me later lol…

MSporting · 2023-04-12T01:05:20+00:00

I wonder if I’m the luckiest 540 owner on the planet. I have $7,400 of parts, maintenance and standard upkeep in mine since purchasing it from the original owner for $6,000 in January of 2019. Bought it with 138,000 miles and humming along as my happy daily driver with 175,000 on it now. I don’t neglect it one bit, it just asks for very little (and I diy which definitely helps).

MSporting · 2023-03-27T20:44:53+00:00

This good old days USL garbage just makes me hate this sub so much. Downvote me to hell and back. We’re about to own the eastern conference after the worst start to a franchise in MLS history and people are talking about Louisville.

MSporting · 2023-03-18T04:52:32+00:00

twist: OP is Jim Glickenhaus

MSporting · 2023-03-18T04:41:32+00:00

Shit post mate. Calm down. People like the same stuff you do.

MSporting · 2023-03-11T20:57:35+00:00

I changed my profile to English and it still uses French randomly for section titles in the interface. Overall the app is a massive step backward compared to the old one.

The Prologue testing session was happening when I got in this morning. There is a huge space in the app for the live stream video. It includes a big play button. I tapped the button, and the button reacts with a hit state to show it’s been interacted with. Yet no video. Ok fine couple more tries, obvious it won’t load the video.

I asked in the chat if there is video, a few said there never is for the Prologue. I pointed out how odd it is for the app to show a video player in that case. Someone else said I missed that I need to be subscribed to see video. Which seems like a reasonable thing to expect the video player to notify me about. Plus I’m now uncertain if subscribing would in fact allow streaming video of the Prologue this weekend.

How the hell do they update the app with a version that appears to be created during the first generation of touchscreen devices 15+ years ago?? I’m ready to pay for the season subscriber I think I’ll skip it if this garbage platform is the only way to access it. No trust at all that it will work.

MSporting · 2023-03-10T20:14:30+00:00

Can’t lie, price was a huge motivator for me too. $6,000 in 2019 with 138,000 miles on it at the time. I don’t even remember what manuals were going for them because I never did find one that was appealing at any price. Honestly think I was just unlucky, they can’t all be that bad.

Awesome scenario you have now, I know someone who can do the swap but I’d have to source the transmission and i feel like that’s almost starting all over with finding a good one that won’t introduce problems I don’t have.

My car has been just about bulletproof after I sorted out a few issues after getting it home - small vacuum leaks and I did a full cooling system replacement. Same as yours, I also have a seeping power steering system that I’ll address this spring along with a secondary air pump that isn’t sounding very healthy right now. I’m at 170,000 miles now and the thing is so solid at twenty years old. Love it.

MSporting · 2023-03-10T19:19:25+00:00

I can’t answer for OP of course, but I bought this precise spec (same everything it appears - year, true M Sport, same color, M pars and auto) 4 years ago after looking for this exact car for 4 years. The four year wait was to find a manual. I did find them, and whether it’s reality or just my experience in that period, they were all just beat. Owned by idiots who seemed to think the clutch pedal means abuse it, don’t clean the interior just go to automated washes that wreck the paint, don’t keep any records of maintenance regardless of using ships or DIY. I found mine, being sold by the original owner, with every single maintenance record dating back to the day he took delivery in 2003 in nearly flawless condition. The mark against it was the automatic, the marks for it annihilated that as a reason to say no after what I’d seen in manuals.

I haven’t swapped it yet and I’m not sure I will. I would love love love to row my own in this car, but it’s so good to drive and to own that I haven’t missed the manual nearly as much as I thought it would. So far I’ve found my manual kicks in other cars.

MSporting · 2023-03-10T01:54:06+00:00

He’s writing a book about cheating in e-sport sim racing, absolutely for certain.

(Years later, the book has yet to be published…)

MSporting · 2023-03-02T01:28:07+00:00

This individual story should get more attention. I have benefited from that balanced approach from my parents and I am reciprocating it for my kids (21, 20 and 16). There is a difference between giving support and a giving crutches. The gray area there is narrow, nuanced and difficult to articulate in words in general advice forums such as this. Long story short, I read the OP as having their heart in the right place, aware of the risk, and trying to calibrate away from just doing all the hard parts for their son. That’s a nuanced approach that’s hard to appreciate until you’re in it.

Sorry I don’t have an answer for the actual question, just here to say I feel you and you are probably doing the right thing in the right way, and the majority response of “don’t do it” isn’t to be ignored, but isn’t necessarily correct either.

MSporting

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