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| 10-27-2011, 12:13 PM | #1 |
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Any N55 with long cranks??
Started getting them here and there randomly. Bout one every couple of weeks. I have a feeling i know what that is leading to, but wanted to know if any other guys with the n55 have experienced it, or am I just special?
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| 10-27-2011, 12:38 PM | #2 |
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Yes, and no. I had them, but they have been gone for several thousand miles now, with no work done to the car. Strange.
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| 10-27-2011, 02:08 PM | #3 |
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Yes I had it too, but now its fine and never brought it to the dealership! have about 11k miles and it happened around 8k
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| 10-27-2011, 02:32 PM | #4 |
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Negative, no long cranks here however my car barely turns over ever since the DME update. I hope the PPK fixes this.
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| 10-27-2011, 03:07 PM | #5 |
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At 450 miles, I started getting 2-3 sec. cranks almost every cold start. Now at 4k miles, I get them around 1/10 of the time. It doesn't really bother me anymore since I haven't experienced any loss of performance or CELs.
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| 10-27-2011, 03:15 PM | #6 |
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I had them for a few days at around 5000 miles. Took it to the dealership, and they found no codes, and it started fine for them for the 2 days they had it. The technician said it could have been bad gas. Has not happened since and I'm now at 7800 miles.
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| 10-27-2011, 03:25 PM | #7 | |
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I'm not complaining much, because the problem went away, but between my wife and I, we have had a couple dozen vehicles, for many hundreds of thousands of miles, and never had long cranks from "bad gas" with any of them. For awhile there, I was getting them every other week in the 135.
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| 10-27-2011, 06:07 PM | #8 |
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Yeah- I know what you're saying. Never had it before in any other cars in the past either. I thought it was the HPFP problem in our N55's, but that wouldn't just go away. I also haven't noticed any difference in the way it starts since getting the PPK installed a couple of weeks ago.
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| 10-28-2011, 06:38 AM | #10 |
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So far I have no cels...but i've had a couple cranks that took around 5 seconds.
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| 10-29-2011, 06:52 PM | #12 |
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I have been getting long cranks every once in a while and some sputtering at lights. I have approximately 16,000 miles.
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| 10-30-2011, 09:28 PM | #15 |
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Yep, I've had 5-6 long cranks prior to the new DME, and 1 extremely long crank since the new DME.
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| 10-31-2011, 12:55 PM | #17 |
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Yep. She's a little touchy, but so far been a very reliable car.
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| 11-01-2011, 07:31 AM | #18 |
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I've hit 14k just the day before yesterday. I've noticed the cranks seem to happen when my fuel starts getting low.
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| 11-02-2011, 09:43 PM | #20 | |
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If you need to get out of the way quickly, I recommend to never use that function. If you know that you will be stopped for longer than a minute and you just have to save a few pennies, you can simply shut the engine off with this little gadget known as the "start/stop" button. I guess car makers think that that is too complicated of an idea, so they invent auto stop/start. Yeah! I'm saved. Well, until I need to get out of the way quickly from the big a$$ truck who apparently doesn't see I'm stopped, and my engine decides it needs a long crank session. BOOM!  |
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| 03-03-2020, 12:35 PM | #21 |
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My 2011 135i has a little over 25k. Not a major use vehicle.
Ran the fuel tank pretty low the other day to get all the old gas out. Yesterday midday I was doing a lot of errands, so many start-stops without a ton of driving. I started noticing for the first time ever (I’ve had this car since new), more cranks before it started. After I parked it a few hours it fired like normal. Today, same - quick, short crank like normal. I have an upgraded (group 49 AGM, cored) in there, so I don’t think it’s a battery consideration. Bad gas perhaps... I’m wondering if heat soak or computer calibration might have something to do. It’s not common that I start and stop this car ten times with a mile or three between starts and stops. It also got up above 65 while the car doesn’t get a lot of use but the last number of uses have all been in much colder temperatures. Any thoughts? |
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