id consider bosch platinums to be pretty ghetto, they suck
Here’s my story, what’s yours?
So my 530i has been running real rough lately and feels like it was only using 6 of its 8 cylinders. Not only that, but my check engine light is on and my gas mileage and power dropped drastically. I started with checking out all my vacuum lines and hoses. Everything looked okay so I took the ignition coils out. Here is my problem! On all 4 cylinders on the driver’s side, there were holes in each coil. The spark was going right through the sides! Here comes the ghetto fix; I took electrical tape and wrapped it around each coil about 10 times. Each layer of tape can take up to about 600 volts I believe so that should hold for a while
Then I took my spark plugs out and it looks like detonation. I bought 4 new ones and now the car runs perfect as it should.
Good thing this motor won’t be in there for long!
Zac
id consider bosch platinums to be pretty ghetto, they suck
all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it
Likewise - NGK coppers FTMFW.Originally Posted by winfred
Winfred - you read my post about my clutch!? They sent me the wrong damned one! Got the trans out in 2hrs excited to do it, and then the clutch they sent (240mm..... m3) doesn't fit!
Antrieb - that doesn't look like detonation - looks perfectly normal for shitty plugs. Also, if your coil boots are splitting it's usually because you have oil pooling in the spark plug hole. I just did my sisters spark plugs on her V8 yesterday and not a single one is split. Car has 125k.
Well they may look normal, but is it normal for them to look like that after only 5000 miles? Probably not.
Aren't platnum +2's OE? Will NGK coppers work on my v8?
Zac
bkr6ek ngk is one of the factory plugs, f7ldcr bosch super is the other oem supplier
Originally Posted by Antrieb
all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it
yea that sucks ass but whatta ya gonna do
Originally Posted by Jon K
all america wants is cold beer warm cat and a place to take a poop with a door on it
That sucks... that car has been jinxed from the start.
Hopefully the transplant will cure it.
Not from a car but a dirt bike. Took a rock to the case of a bombardier can am. trans fluid pouring out. Cut a mtn dew can open and cut a strip of it to cover the holes. JB weld and 45 mins later the bike worked fine! It still doesn't leak and you can see the green/white of the soda can on the outside of the case.
most ghetto fix would have to be using metal gardening wire to fix the laser drive of a sony portable cd player. that was years ago and i STILL cannot believe it worked.... or even remember what the hell i did to fix it!
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One time I had blown some of my RAM (talking about a 32MB SDRAM module here) due to static electricity from installing some hardware into my computer and not grounding myself properly. Upon closer inspection, two leads of one of the ICs had completely disappeared -- singed or burnt right off.
My dad had a look at the DIMM, grounded his soldering iron to a thin tip, grabbed a magnifying glass and after grounding a corner of the IC where the leads were missing, made solder bridges to replace them.
The DIMM still works to this very day. My dad did almost exactly the same thing the other day to a 512MB DDR DIMM that a friend of mine had that stopped working -- a resistor on the module (those micro ones) had burnt off. He got one off another old DIMM module, soldered it on and the module works again.