This BMW Tried to KILL ME! (Random Stall...Part 2 - Labor Day Special) 

Most shops won't deal with euro. If they do they just toss up a repair cost that is so high that the customer walks away

Ahhh yes...A senior moment 😂😂😂

😂 nice!!!!

@@dcomputers Same in Europe, straight to the dealer (or to the crusher) :D.

​@@NotAnonymousNo80014Dealer, crusher, same outcome.

it's a BMW, the problems are never solved, because there's always another and another...

Dan freezes components too. Dan is patient and incredible.

Exactly that’s what I just said before. I remember that exact same video that diagnose Dan did.

@@nowayout73 Dan's the Man!

I used the paint booth at my shop, leave the car overnight in the booth

What I'd do next is avoid auto auctions!

I am sorry but I would say forget it and tell the owner you are done.

FUNNY...LMAO

It must suck to be you.

@@timd1833 Great place to find a donor car for your project car. Sometimes you could get lucky too. Bankruptcy auctions could sometimes give you cheap machinery that not everyone knows what it is.

Sounds like a big potential nightmare haha

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics It is, that's why I bought it as a Project Car. I've had a lot of fun diagnosing it and repairing it. It's not for the faint of heart. The LR 4 Land Rover I bought is a tough one to work on too. You need a Slide Hammer just to get the Fuel Injectors out. I'm swapping out the Timing Chains etc. The Truck has a Ford Engine that looks almost identical to a Coyote 🐺 Engine.

Terminal 15 Cas 3 is related to the remote and stop start function also controls the transmission shifts.

That scope capture was crazy...at first I thought the scope ground was bad haha

Jessica you funny 🤣😂 lol

I was coming off of vacation a few weeks ago, and I stopped by a lab where one of my technicians was building an electronics package for an aircraft pod. He was slumped over the platform with both hands on his head having a moment of despair. I asked what's wrong. He said a particular box has a USB-C connection for power, and he was trying to feed it 5V but it wasn't coming on. He determined the 5V needed to be negotiated between the power supply and device. But all he had was a wall wart and no way to get 120VAC on the pod. I told him I would be right back. I went out to my truck to rip out one my 100W CoolGear USB-C PD power supplies that takes 9-28VDC in. Aircraft power is usually 28V. I've got a couple of them installed in my truck to power laptops and other high-draw electronics. A couple of days later he comes in with a Frankenstein power harness with resistors soldered to some of the pins. Turns out the USB-C PD spec allows you to add resistors of certain values to force the connection into a certain PD profile. He needed 1.5A @ 5V. He took both the Frankenstein harness and my little box to the ground integration test, but I haven't heard back about what the more permanent solution is. It would be fun to learn that a gadget from my F150 is powering a device on this pod that will be going into war. The airworthiness people would have a fit, though. But, like Red Green used to say, it's only temporary unless it works.

@@major__kong So you're just a PCB with some nice mounting holes and a bunch of pretty silkscreen logos away from a $10,000 product*! Jokes aside, I'm shocked anything military would use USB anything. Well, other than drones I guess, the new military aircraft...but surely ones made in western countries are full of overpriced proprietary junk too. *And being friends with a Congressman of course.

The two VINs in the computer together with the fact that the CAS was messed with makes me suspect one thing: I'd double-check the title papers on that car. Might have been stolen, recovered by the police, and then sold at auction.

Could a module downstream that had been replaced with a junkyard module, registered to a different ECM, possibly return a VIN during the scan?

The CAS is a normal problem on that era bmw, if you have terminal 15 problems it's the CAS about to die, the only solution is replace it

The second VIN is actually in the FRM (lights module), not the engine ECU (the VIN is in there but not all info required to identify the car). Although the engine ECU is usually replaced together with the CAS and keys to avoid programming. I highly suspect that in this case the FRM was replaced or reprogrammed at one point since the FRM is one of the worst modules in terms of failure rate and the CAS VIN is the primary anyways.

@@tomvleeuwen Makes sense to me, but still - is the VIN from the FRM or the engine ECU the "real" VIN. Just the VIN visible through the windscreen isn't enough, it could have been transferred and only the frame stamped VIN is the correct one. It's at least worth to investigate to make sure that there aren't any foul stuff going on, even though it probably is the FRM that's replaced and improperly reprogrammed (or maybe it's a 1-shot for the VIN.)

Yeah. The last bmw i owned was a e46. I got to fed up with that car that i switched to Volvo (old 940's) and then Lexus. Specially the Lexus has proven 2b bombproof reliable. I really recommend those.

People think Cars with more buttons is better

BMW has forced AllData to remove service manuals for newer vehicles, so it's even worse than you think.

Yep ! The best !! With a big bag of popcorn and a note pad ! 🙌🏼

haha I'm a sucker for a good cliffhanger xD

He did say it's clicking, but maybe not when it's supposed to... good idea.

As a last ditch effort we can ship it to Diagnose Dan in Holland. The man's a Mechanical genius.

And Volvo

Land Rovers are sophisticated too.

@@davidhall3747 I do have a modern beached whale Land Rover case study coming soon :)

@@PineHollowAutoDiagnostics Great. Can't wait to learn more about the Land Rover.

Probably gets 50mpg too...without using the A/C haha :)

In 67, both BMW, and Volvo made a great car. I owned a 67 Volvo, it was black. I was interested in picking up chicks, I did not want to look like one. 😅😅😅

Or almost any new car. That is what I would do if I had to have a new vehicle today, also make sure the lease states that I can turn in the car at the end and walk away.

That's pretty cool that BMW has a special code for a parasitic draw :)

Good point. But Diodes rectify AC voltage to DC voltage.

I am half way through this video. A few vids back he worked on a car where the wiring was wrong because it was a frankensteined car. I believe he said this came from an auction. Thats where the problematic vehicles and frankensteins end up. Just a thought.

Really?

@@mmichaeldonavon Yep, the heat is causing higher resistance and a lower voltage through the relay.

@@du7ch384 OK, but what about those BIG ignition pulses showing up in the D.C.?