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When crusing 35 to 37 mph my 545i hiccups ( brief hesitation or loss of power). If I drive the car at exactly in the 35 to 37 mph range I can dupilicate the problem easily, in fact it seems as though its timed about 3 second intervals, that is the hiccup. I use chevron techron 93 octane, and am halfway through a tank of gas with techron fuel system cleaner added. So far I have noticed more power but the hiccuping still happens. What could be the cause of this problem

Submitted: 259 days and 2 hours ago.
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2005 BMW 545i v8 (n62 )

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fuel system cleaner

Posted by Steve 259 days and 2 hours ago.

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Hi

Has this hick up started since adding this fuel or was it there befor ?

is the eml light coming on when this happens ?

is this hick up very noticable ie do other drivers feel this when they drive car ?



Edited by Steve Rai on 3/8/2009 at 5:40 PM

259 days and 2 hours ago.

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Steve: The hiccuping was occuring before I added the fuel system cleaner to my fuel. The eml light does not come on. No one else drives the car, however my friend can feel it while she is riding in the passenger seat. The tachometor does not change at all during the hiccup, even though it feels like a brief loss of power. I thought perhaps a dirty fuel injector or oxygen sensor going bad. Or is the some issue with the transmission since this only happens at the 35 to 37 mph range

Posted by Steve 259 days and 1 hours ago.

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Hi

Usually if you have a injector or oxygen sensor fault or any engine running issue with components like the ones mentioned this would usually lead to poor emissions and this being a BMW this has very strict emission monitoring system.This system monitors all components relevant to engine running and cylinder balance if the eml light is not on the only other thing i would recommend is that the engine management system fault memory is read as this would give very use full information of any faults that me be listed.

As for the transmission the only thing you could try is to drive car in sport mode if the fault does not occurs at all the switch back to normal drive if the fault occurs this could be the lock up clutch engagement that you can feel because in sport mode top gear is suppressed.What you may be feeling is what we call torque convertor lock up of the final gear.if this is the case only in extreme case should you replace the torque convertor.

259 days and 1 hours ago.

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Steve: The hiccuping occurs in the sport mode as well. I have not tried to figure out what gear the car is in when this happens, but I would have think 2nd or 3rd gear, probably

3rd gear.

Posted by Steve 259 days and 1 hours ago.

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Hi

at this stage i would reccommend having the engine management and gearbox management fault codes read as this info would be very usefull because there are so many factors that could cause the fault you are experiencing and guessing on cars like this can be expensive. I would run this by your local BMW main agent because they will know these cars inside out

259 days and 1 hours ago.

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Lastly, could you give best case v/s worst case scenerio as far as what the fault codes might be to cause such an issue.

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If there was a misfire fault stored the tester would be able to pin piont the actaul cylinder then you could work on that cylinder -swap or replace parts as necc.

Again if it was a oxygen sensor it should be able to identify which one.

 

thats why in my prev post i said it to expensive to guess this engine is usually reliable.

 

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259 days ago.

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Steve: Thanks for your troubleshooting.

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