Word of Caution to 545i Owners
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sorry to hear that and thanks for sharing
. too bad your car was stalled at that spot, otherwise you just tell your service advisor not sure what happened and the car just stalled
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Originally Posted by JDN' date='Sep 18 2004, 02:09 PM
Don't even worry about hyrdoplaning with the Dunlop 18s, at least while they are new.
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Consider yourself lucky.
I drove through standing water in my minivan and it stalled in the middle... Then me and my 2 friends pushed it out of it into a parking lot and let it stand for 2 days. I tried starting it and it didn't start. Then I had it towed to a workshop. When they first looked at it, they told me 99.9% of cars with this problem are junk and they can't be fixed... After about 5 days, they called me and said that they drained a lot of water and it has been fixed. Although it is now fixed, the engine sounds 'wierd' when it is idling.
Luckily my car was .1% that CAN be fixed..... and I thought american cars suck
I drove through standing water in my minivan and it stalled in the middle... Then me and my 2 friends pushed it out of it into a parking lot and let it stand for 2 days. I tried starting it and it didn't start. Then I had it towed to a workshop. When they first looked at it, they told me 99.9% of cars with this problem are junk and they can't be fixed... After about 5 days, they called me and said that they drained a lot of water and it has been fixed. Although it is now fixed, the engine sounds 'wierd' when it is idling.
Luckily my car was .1% that CAN be fixed..... and I thought american cars suck
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I have always thought that as long as the water hazard was only a small length say 25 to 30 feet you were better off taking it at some speed rather than slowly idling through. The less time you spend in the water the better?
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escuse my ignorance, will the same apply to snow?
Also, this would be more of a problem with cars with sports package because they are lower.
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Originally Posted by DXXXi' date='Sep 19 2004, 08:45 PM
escuse my ignorance, will the same apply to snow?
Also, this would be more of a problem with cars with sports package because they are lower.
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Originally Posted by Iceman' date='Sep 19 2004, 01:49 PM
But they are not testing their cars in rivers...
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it may just be a 545 problem, when we had all the flooding in Va last month i was out in it and had to get home that day police had blocked off every concivable road but i found one and with a mini van leading the way to see exactly the depth. I ventured on at one time water was almost upto the door seal oh sh_t i continued to say, i made it home in a couple of hours and the car has never missed a beat then or now. Now i consider myself lucky and next time will probably park it and drive the e34. I think the fact that the car underside is completely covered helped alot. Sorry about your loss though and hope the future is great for you and your car
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I doubt that it was 4 inches deep of water. I bet it was more like 12 inches of water !