p1zl3
05-08-2006, 11:07 PM
Hey Motorheads,
--I need some help with my baby (the car, not the girl). It's an AT '97 318ti which I just drove across a few states (996 miles to be exact) so that I could attend college. The little beast did the whole drive straight OK and in record time, but the day after I arrived, I went to drive her to the store and noticed she was sluggish...very sluggish. So, being the complete "mechanical-moron" that I am, I couldn't find the problem by simply looking under the hood, and was forced then to limp her into my local european mechanic.
--This is what my mechanic had to say: "Well, we ran the diagnostics-computer on er' and your car's computer didn't return any codes, so we thing it's something that the car's computer doesn't monitor (duh). We did notice that your car isn't using it's first and second gears in the standard drive mode and that from a dead stop it begins in 3rd gear, which explains it's sluggish nature. The gears work fine though if you manually shift em', so we don't think it's the tranny. If I had to guess it's some traction controller somewhere's on the car, but it's gonna cost us $200 past the $100 you've already payed to have the diagnostics computer hooked-up, just to check er' out."
--SO! can anyone help me out? Is there a way to fix this from home? Is there a way to bypass the traction controller? Is it even the traction controller that's the problem? What can I do for as little money as posable (besides sell it)?
Thanx in advance!!!
dru
--I need some help with my baby (the car, not the girl). It's an AT '97 318ti which I just drove across a few states (996 miles to be exact) so that I could attend college. The little beast did the whole drive straight OK and in record time, but the day after I arrived, I went to drive her to the store and noticed she was sluggish...very sluggish. So, being the complete "mechanical-moron" that I am, I couldn't find the problem by simply looking under the hood, and was forced then to limp her into my local european mechanic.
--This is what my mechanic had to say: "Well, we ran the diagnostics-computer on er' and your car's computer didn't return any codes, so we thing it's something that the car's computer doesn't monitor (duh). We did notice that your car isn't using it's first and second gears in the standard drive mode and that from a dead stop it begins in 3rd gear, which explains it's sluggish nature. The gears work fine though if you manually shift em', so we don't think it's the tranny. If I had to guess it's some traction controller somewhere's on the car, but it's gonna cost us $200 past the $100 you've already payed to have the diagnostics computer hooked-up, just to check er' out."
--SO! can anyone help me out? Is there a way to fix this from home? Is there a way to bypass the traction controller? Is it even the traction controller that's the problem? What can I do for as little money as posable (besides sell it)?
Thanx in advance!!!
dru