Double take

[goon]

Was reading a Bmw Car magazine M special yesterday and got to the " Battle of the beasts" article pitting the Z4 M coupe against the earlier Z3 version when I saw the pics of the cars,the Z4 was imola red reg no YF06USG I had to look twice,mine is virtually identical bar two letters and was first registered by BMW UK,I wonder if the current owner of the test car is a member of this forum. The articles also mentioned a possible reliability problem with "crankcase ventilation oil separator" which I assume is the canister like item on the r/h wing of engine bay. Does anyone know what goes wrong with them and can they be periodically maintained at home or is it a replacement only or dealer strip job?

 

[Wondermike]

The round thing, if you're talking about this below, is an emission control air pump. Never heard of anyone reporting any problems with it, on here anyway.


Emission control-air pump - BMW parts catalog

The oil separator is


Crankcase-Ventilation/oil separator - BMW parts catalog

 

[Adamski]

Which zed won the battle? Z3 or Z4?!

 

[srhutch]

Andy's was a press car, so it could be his.

 

[pvr]

It is a known issue with the 3.0 pre facelift Diesel X5, but not heard of it before with this engine.

 

[Ali_Z4C]

From chatting to the previous owner of my Z4C he said mine had started life as a press car and was first registered to BMW UK... my reg is YF06UZC so fairly close as well!!

Ali

 

[cj_eds]

I always assumed press cars were driven to within an inch of their life (and beyond sometimes) and probably not sold to the public afterwards as a result! Does make you wonder who's driven your car before you if it's an ex-press car?

 

[goon]

Which zed won the battle? Z3 or Z4?!

The Z4 obviously!