The Random E46/ZHP Question Thread

[az3579]

lube that o-ring with some antifreeze. It will go in nice and easy

I simply can't see this any other way than as innuendo...

[Sockethead]

[johnrando]

lol

[NYRhockey]

So tonight took her out for a drive and sitting at a stop light i pressed the clutch to go into first and heard a soft squeak. When i heard it i started to press and release the clutch a couple of times and heard it both when pressing down and when releasing it. It's mild and can only be heard when at idle (or car turned off) since once you get going the engine noise drowns it out.

Quick search says it could be the spring or throw out bearing, the latter which i imagine would suck. Any other ideas on cause? at not even 53K i would not imagine needing clutch work.

[BMWCurves]

So tonight took her out for a drive and sitting at a stop light i pressed the clutch to go into first and heard a soft squeak. When i heard it i started to press and release the clutch a couple of times and heard it both when pressing down and when releasing it. It's mild and can only be heard when at idle (or car turned off) since once you get going the engine noise drowns it out.

Quick search says it could be the spring or throw out bearing, the latter which i imagine would suck. Any other ideas on cause? at not even 53K i would not imagine needing clutch work.

Mine does this intermittently at certain exterior temperatures, usually high 40s to low 50s. My car is low mileage like yours (55k+). I don't worry about it, but I'm interested to hear what other people might say.

[ZHPizza]

Would it not just be worn clutch pedal bushings?

[ELCID86]

lol

+1

[az3579]

So tonight took her out for a drive and sitting at a stop light i pressed the clutch to go into first and heard a soft squeak. When i heard it i started to press and release the clutch a couple of times and heard it both when pressing down and when releasing it. It's mild and can only be heard when at idle (or car turned off) since once you get going the engine noise drowns it out.

Quick search says it could be the spring or throw out bearing, the latter which i imagine would suck. Any other ideas on cause? at not even 53K i would not imagine needing clutch work.

I wouldn't worry about it. Mine's been very lightly squeaking on and off since I bought it at 75k, now with 262k and no issues. I think it's just noise.

[NYRhockey]

Ok, so the past couple of days my high maintenance trophy wife kind of car had a stutter in the 2500-3000 rpm range, particularly noticeable in gears 3 to 6, and if you set the cruise control when the car is at that rpm range it will run a little rough. Today on the way home from work the engine light came on so stopped by the nearest Autozone to read the code (haven't yet bought an OBD2 reader) and got a code P2237, which apparently is the oxygen sensor (bank 1, sensor 1 per the description).

Googling this stutter issue the oxygen sensor came up as a possible reason for the stutter, with others saying the P2XXX code is not a BMW code and the issue could be DME (whatever that stands for) software update. So, given this, which should i tackle first? i imagine a software update must be done at the dealer?

[az3579]

Googling this stutter issue the oxygen sensor came up as a possible reason for the stutter, with others saying the P2XXX code is not a BMW code and the issue could be DME (whatever that stands for) software update. So, given this, which should i tackle first? i imagine a software update must be done at the dealer?

A software update will not fix that kind of issue. The O2 sensor is more likely. Seems awfully premature for an O2 sensor though, considering your car has only 52k miles...