MPOWER97
04-14-2009, 12:29 AM
The car is a 1998 328i 5 speed.
I drove in the car once and the kid who owns it says..
3500rpm engine viberation, and around 6k or 7k it makes a noise and had a seems to be a power lose. The owner complains of bad gas milage, rattle/tick/knocking from the motor, and says the car feels a lot slower.
After searching I believe it is the vanos. I was thinking of replacing it with a stage 1 kit from dr. Vanos. I was going to bring the car to autozone to ha e the engine light scanned, hopefully the codes will lead toward the vanos.
Can any one tell me the code I should be looking for in the engine light. Also is there anything I can physicaly look at to see if it's gone bad? I was going to listen to the car tomorrow with the good popped to confirm were the noise is comming from.
I drove in the car once and the kid who owns it says..
3500rpm engine viberation, and around 6k or 7k it makes a noise and had a seems to be a power lose. The owner complains of bad gas milage, rattle/tick/knocking from the motor, and says the car feels a lot slower.
After searching I believe it is the vanos. I was thinking of replacing it with a stage 1 kit from dr. Vanos. I was going to bring the car to autozone to ha e the engine light scanned, hopefully the codes will lead toward the vanos.
Can any one tell me the code I should be looking for in the engine light. Also is there anything I can physicaly look at to see if it's gone bad? I was going to listen to the car tomorrow with the good popped to confirm were the noise is comming from.