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318ichris
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:53 pm

hi, was looking around in the engine bay this moring and noticed a couple of loose leads both coming from the top of the engine block, one runs towards the start of the air filter and has a connector on the end and the other is about 6ins long and has a screw in the end of it!

Does anyone why these are there or what they are for?
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:54 pm

what engine mate?
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:56 pm

318i m40
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 2:02 pm

the one with the screw is for the air flow menter. the other one hangs down on my m40 too.
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:35 pm

cheers mate, wonder wha the other one does then it must have some use?
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Tue Jan 19, 2010 4:18 pm

i did actually ask this not so long ago. the answer i got was...

daimlerman wrote:Often find a spare plug down there!
It's for the carbon canister,which your car probably does not have.
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Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:15 am

cheers mate that solves that one
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It's asked on average about once a week!
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Thu Jan 21, 2010 4:28 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:It's asked on average about once a week!
maybe it should be made a sticky then! lol
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