For the past couple of weeks my car has made a "wooshing" sound on start up. Sounds just like starter overrun, but I hadn't had time too completely diagnose it. Now in the past couple of days, I have had a couple instances of the starter's pinion not engaging the ring gear on the first try. My searches of our and e46fan sites of starter info hasn't yielded much. Seems like our starters are pretty reliable. My car is at 93k miles, which I am assuming is low for a starter's life. I wonder if the added load of the supercharger is not helping.
It also looks like from what I've seen online, is that R/R the starter is a PITA. Although, the BMW manual online makes it look simple. I guess getting the performance air box goes on hold.
Steve
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