My car runs so well now

Anothermidlifecrisis · Post by **Anothermidlifecrisis** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:00 pm

Hi,

Took my car for inspection 2 to dmworx.

While it was there Mr Vanos came down and did my vanos. He also changed the timing chain and did the shims.

My car is like a different car. Much smother and is now very fast.

I need to take it back as I have a diff leak and get the geometry done.

Russell from DMWorks was a pleasure to deal with and is passionate about the cars.

Steve (mr vanos) did a great job and I can’t praise highly enough.

Happy days!

Simon

Ed Doe · Post by **Ed Doe** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:48 pm

Glad to hear Mr Vanos did a good job for you - can I ask how much it was including the timing chain? I've had a quote for just the vanos and shim adjustment from him and was planning this work for early next year to coincide with bringing the M out of hibernation

Anothermidlifecrisis · Post by **Anothermidlifecrisis** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:04 pm

It was £1250 with the new chain.

Lot of money but he has developed a method of removing chain and joining it. Normally the chain alone is 2k.

Simon

crustyclown777 · Post by **crustyclown777** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:23 pm

Ed Doe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 5:48 pm Glad to hear Mr Vanos did a good job for you - can I ask how much it was including the timing chain? I've had a quote for just the vanos and shim adjustment from him and was planning this work for early next year to coincide with bringing the M out of hibernation

This is exactly what I’m planning. I already can’t wait

firebobby · Post by **firebobby** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:23 pm

How many miles has your car done, is it a 3.0 ?

buzyg · Post by **buzyg** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 6:37 pm

Good hear your S54 is enjoying good health.

Mangozac · Post by **Mangozac** » Sat Oct 05, 2019 10:14 pm

What's the reason for changing the timing chain? I'm not aware of it being a weak point on the S54 and in fact I don't think I've heard of someone changing one before...

Anothermidlifecrisis · Post by **Anothermidlifecrisis** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 9:11 am

My car has done 64 k. It’s an m (s54) engine.

My timing chain had stretched slightly and this guy has a way of changing without removing engine.

mmm-five · Post by **mmm-five** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:39 am

Sounds an excellent price for all that work.

AndyBeech · Post by **AndyBeech** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:38 pm

Anothermidlifecrisis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 9:11 am
My timing chain had stretched slightly

How did he know this out of interest?

Anothermidlifecrisis · Post by **Anothermidlifecrisis** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:51 pm

No idea, sometimes you have to trust people.

All I can say is car is running great now and that’s all I care about

AndyBeech · Post by **AndyBeech** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 6:57 pm

Anothermidlifecrisis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:51 pm No idea, sometimes you have to trust people.

All I can say is car is running great now and that’s all I care about

That's cool, not knocking it, Steve's a good chap, just wondered if there was an obvious way to tell.

Mangozac · Post by **Mangozac** » Sun Oct 06, 2019 10:42 pm

It's really strange to hear about the stretched chain. Some quick googling has indicated that while very rare, it does happen. It's apparently obvious by looking a the way the chain sits on the sprockets - a stretched chain won't sit properly. It's also likely to give intermittent error codes due to degraded timing.

mmm-five · Post by **mmm-five** » Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:18 am

I’ve heard of timing chain tensioners needing doing - which would probably show the same symptoms as a slightly stretched chain - but not the timing chain itself.

Not saying it doesn’t happen, but in about 400,000 miles of driving S38 and S54 engines cars - and having friends with another couple of dozen of these engines) I’ve never heard of one being needed.

Mangozac · Post by **Mangozac** » Mon Oct 07, 2019 5:20 am

mmm-five wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 1:18 am I’ve heard of timing chain tensioners needing doing - which would probably show the same symptoms as a slightly stretched chain - but not the timing chain itself.

Not saying it doesn’t happen, but in about 400,000 miles of driving S38 and S54 engines cars - and having friends with another couple of dozen of these engines) I’ve never heard of one being needed.

Indeed, there are many mechanical faults that can happen in very rare cases, but I certainly won't be losing any sleep over this one

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