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Thread: I would like to share my short story

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    Quote Originally Posted by ///Sniper535
    The E34 535i is a great car.
    Great to hear! ...a great car indeed, but everyone should replace their throttle cable at 100k mi, it's tendency to stick is simply not safe! Cheers
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    Default I would like to share my short story

    One night a while back, I was waiting for my girlfriend to get off work at the mall. I sat in the parking lot for a lil bit over 2 hours listening to the radio. When she comes out we plan on leaving. I try to start my car and it doesn't have enough juice. Luckily she had jumper cables in her '02 Jeep Liberty 3.7L. When we hooked up the cars, i told her to turn on her car and rev it a lil bit. When I tried to turn on my car, there was a spark. That spark was caused from my accelerator cable snapping somehow. I said fudge. I had a wire in my trunk and I used it to tie my cable back on the throttle. It worked. So the next day I got a throttle cable repair kit and bolted a new cable on. What it did was limit my accelerator cables ability to go full throttle. So for the past month or 6 weeks I've been driving with a limited amount of power, and tonight I finally replaced it with a new cable form the dealer I bought 2 weeks ago. My car, yet again has plenty of torque to get up to 60 in about 7.5 seconds. All that power felt so good after over a month of it's absence.

    The E34 535i is a great car.

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    congrats, 535i is a great car!

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    Great car but why did it spark???????? Because your body to engine earth cable is weak , easy to test,jump from engine to body, if car winds easier then get a new cable, or bodge it and leave jump cable in place!

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    I noticed a slight increase in pick up with the new cable. The old original one was worn and needed replacing. I could only imagine what an E34 540 or M5 feels like. Haha

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