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Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home

by "Floyd Rogers" <fbloogyuds@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Apr 14, 2008 at 12:48 PM

"mark barron" <mbarron@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> Car has 90,000 miles. I run with 89 octane or better almost all the
time. 
> This was definitely true for this last incident today.
> I have had the car about 13 months. The first misfire codes (Cyl #2 and 
> Cyl #5) occurred at fairly high revs in 2nd gear in last October. Since 
> them I have have
> same error codes on same cylinders about 3 times. I stored the car from
> Jan 1 to March 15. Today for the first time I found a misfire cyl#1
code. 
> The car goes into Limp Home Mode and then seems to reset itself, if I
turn 
> the ignition off for a couple minutes. Seems to me the likeliest 
> candidates
> are the coil, plug and the connector between the two. But now that it
has 
> affected three different cylinders, I am thinking maybe it has to
> be something upstream of the coils? I don't like that thought.
> Any thoughts? Many Thanks, Mark

The spark plugs are 100K items and you're really close to that.
IME, 60K is a better interval - my mileage improved markedly
after changing them at 120K (were changed originally at 60K).

FloydR
 




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2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
mark barron <mbarron@[  2008-04-14 14:28:18 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
"Floyd Rogers"   2008-04-14 12:48:37 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home - I
mark barron <mbarron@[  2008-04-15 09:55:11 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home - I
"Floyd Rogers"   2008-04-15 09:06:20 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home - I
mark barron <mbarron@[  2008-04-25 22:26:28 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
"John Carrier"   2008-04-15 06:56:49 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
mark barron <mbarron@[  2008-04-16 11:42:55 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
"Floyd Rogers"   2008-04-17 22:08:42 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
kludge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-04-18 08:35:49 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
"Floyd Rogers"   2008-04-18 09:46:04 
Re: 2001 530i E39 Repeated Misfire Error Codes - Limp Home
"John Carrier"   2008-04-19 07:02:35 

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