530i m-tech 2002

Hey all,  I have a 530i 2002 m-tech. was stopped at a set of lights this morning and the automatic transmission light came on now it feels like its pulling another car behind me...

Would anyone have any ideas what might be wrong???

Please dont say its the gear box or clutch!!!

I am hoping its the sensor!!

I have had alot of trouble with this car since I bought it in April, the trouble in the begining was coil packs but the garage sorted it out for me under the warranty.Now the warranty is out

Hey..

A very nice fella came up on sat and plugged the car in to a diagnostics computer and it showed up the fault is something to do with a speed sensor, anyhow he cleared it and all seems to be going well, hopefully it will stay that way..

Cheers for all the advise 

Cheers for all that info andrew.

I havnt been driving it all week but most likely will be back driving it next week, anything shows up and il post up,one way or the other it needs the tappets re set or what ever they do with them as there is a tappety noise out of her, she got all new tappets back in may this year and the donkey in the "BMW" garage told me they will be noisy for a while till they bed in, I am now led to believe thats a load of billix so shes needing a small bit of looking after one way or the other.

I have to say I have had 325i's, 528i and a 728i before this particular one and never had a days trouble with any of them!

This 530i is doing my head in since i bought it

There is only 69,000 genuine miles and one previous owner on her so thought I was getting a good one, oh well its probably just one of those cars i guess  

samantha wrote: it needs the tappets re set or what ever they do with them as there is a tappety noise out of her, she got all new tappets back in may this year and the donkey in the "BMW" garage told me they will be noisy for a while till they bed in, I am now led to believe thats a load of billix so shes needing a small bit of looking after one way or the other.

The tappets are hydraulic so cannot be adjusted.  They use engine oil as the hydraulic fluid.  What you may need is an oil change with good quality oil.  Cylinder heads have a small plastic valve in them that stops a certain amount of the oil draining back to the sump preventing starving the tappets on start up.  If this valve fails and allows oil to drain back to the sump the engine will sound tappety on start up.

Andrew

jetsetwilly2000 wrote: Newly-installed tappets might rattle when you first start it up, but not after that.

I did wonder that but that would imply that a new car would have rattley tappets.....but a new car doesn't have rattley tappets.  Until they fill with oil tappets will rattle, once they are full of oil they shouldn't rattle.

I know what will be up with it if its not sorted MACGIURE AND PATTERSON springs to mind 

Although I will not claim to know much about an engine but I didnt think tappets needed to bed in either but being a woman I was not going to say that and maby look like a right egit if I was wrong!!!

The BMW garage did put in fresh oil when that work was done on the car but what type of oil they put in I do not know..

I am wondering if maby it needs a lighter oil in it so the tappets will fill up????

Well even after being out i the car its still tappety when I get home.

Would 1 or more tappets maby need to be replaced???  

Dergside wrote: Re. tappet noise.  Have you dipped the car for oil recently? Being a 530i, these can be fond of a drop of oil.  I know you said that oil was changed along with the tappets but how much mileage has been completed since then?  A 530i can use a litre in a thousand miles.  A drop in oil level, and therefore oil pressure, may mean that there isn't enough oil circulating to the head and tappets. With my recently departed 330Ci I could always tell by the sound of the engine if it needed dipping and a top up.

Im not actually driving it at the moment as I have something else for a couple of weeks, so shes just sitting in the garden but did have her out for a spin on sunday!

Since they did the tappets that tappety noise is there,so brought it back and they told me the tappets have to bed in!! (rubbish) NO point in me bringing it back warrenty is out since July!!

Id say approx 1500miles since it got that work done.