E36 328i died on way to work.

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Post Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:00 am

Driving to work this morning and the car died on me. The oil and battery light came on, the engine died down a bit. And the steering went heavy.

I reved the car and it was ok again.

Got to work turned car off and it started back up fine.

Any ideas what this could be.
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Post Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:33 am

Could be a few things, the alternator could of had a paddy, the earth straps may be on their way out, or it could of just been struggling to rev because of some crap and nearly stalling.
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Post Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:29 pm

Sounds like it nearly stalled, mate keep an eye on it, see how it goes.
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Post Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:22 am

How has it been, done anything like this again?
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Post Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:02 am

Hasnt done it since i think it may have just been fuel related. I just going to keep an eye on it.

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Post Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:46 pm

Sounds like bad earth to me?
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Post Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:06 am

Think ill check the earths at the weekend. The two cars your wanting are the two cars i have one of them will be up for sale after xmas. Dont know which yet tho.
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Post Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:05 am

2 cars Im wanting? I already have the sport (hence the sig pic) but I really fancy a nice 335.
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Post Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:53 pm

do you want to sell the style 5s on the sport?
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Post Wed Oct 29, 2008 9:56 pm

oldroydsr4 wrote:do you want to sell the style 5s on the sport?
Noooooo never lol.

Ideally I would like to take them to my grave after 3 months of refurbing but I will sell them with the car as it looks so cool with them on.
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Post Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:37 am

Fair enough, they look stunning. :cool: