Engine makes a whistling sound :S

[BMWDriver]

Have you noticed if the car only whistles when a hot chick goes by your car?

[whiskychaser]

I am not sure I can offer them alcohol or anything tho, kinda hard to get any when you're 19.

Think I had my first pint when I was 12 and I was in my school uniform. My dad had told me beer was made from crushed beetles. Think he may have been right about that stuff

[pgrindstaff]

Have you noticed if the car only whistles when a hot chick goes by your car?

Hah, that'd be a cool trick. Unfortunately, it only whistles when I let off the gas and sometimes at idle.

[Ross]

Hah, that'd be a cool trick. Unfortunately, it only whistles when I let off the gas and sometimes at idle.

That sounds like an intake leak.

[pgrindstaff]

Ok, I brought my car to the dealer this morning to let them have a look at it and am now back with the results. As expected there were multiple things wrong such as i need new belts, water pump gasket, and intake manifold seals. In the usual dealership fashion, they wanted to charge me an arm and a leg for labor for everything, so I asked about parts. Again, they were high on everything. Just an example, $260 for the waterpump and $80 for the belts.

Now, the noise that is being made is infact the pcv, he said it was a vaccuum leak in the manifold so I got it clarified it was the pcv. The mechanic I talked to said my car doesn't have a pcv per se but does have a combustion valve. I guess its basically the same thing.

The plan at this point is to do all this work myself. The water pump and belts are pretty easy, the things I am having trouble finding is the parts I need for the intake manifold and pcv. I think the link I pasted a few posts up had more parts than I am looking to replace. Also, does anyone know if there is a writeup for this? I guess in the bentley its probably the section about removing the manifold.

Thank you all for your help. Hopefully I can get these parts ordered tonight or tomorrow and get them here by friday so I have the weekend to work on everything. Oh, one more thing, how much more work is it to replace the valve cover gasket? It is seeping oil so if it isnt too difficult I could go ahead and do that as well.

The mechanic also said that the knock sensor is what threw the cel, which I already knew. He said it was most likely bad because of the code being inconclusive or something. He also said the only way to find out if it was good was to fix the intake problem

-Patrick

[pgrindstaff]

dont forget the front plate gasket, i replaced my intake and pcv plate but didnt think about the front plate gasket which now leaks and whistles throwing the lamda code also.

Do you have a part number for this? Cant find it on bavauto or bma.

Also, found a couple of links to instructions and the part list i found earlier is just what i need munus the front plate gasket

[Bin_jammin]

Are you located in the northeast US? If so I might well be able to lend a hand with repairs.

[pgrindstaff]

Are you located in the northeast US? If so I might well be able to lend a hand with repairs.

Actually I am in Georgia, so southeast. Thanks for the offer though, any help is better than none

[Barney Paull-Edwards]

the only time i've heard of a whistling sound is when the PCV plate goes bad... the white smoke is an indicator of oil being burned, no?

my uneducated guess is intake gaskets and pcv... a simple, inexpensive job

White smoke-unburnt diesel,water vapour.
Black smoke-excess fuel.
Blue smoke-oil.
Any more???

[repenttokyo]

White smoke-unburnt diesel,water vapour.
Black smoke-excess fuel.
Blue smoke-oil.
Any more???

Red smoke = burning rubber as seen through a police cruiser's flashing lights.