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    auomatic shutting off

    so my fiancee just bought a e30 and ,as she wanted, its an auto. well it has been giving her problems and its been frusterating, she will back out of the driveway and the second she puts it in Drive it will shut off.

    other times she will start the car and it will just die out/ multiple times, but if she starts it up and puts it in reverse/drive it does not die. i really dont know my way around the auto transmissions on the e30 and i dont even know where to start. This is her DD and these issues are making it more and more unreliable. i dont want her to end up stranded. please help me out

    thanks.
    -FREEDOM- is cruisin at 80, windows down and listening to the perfect song-thinking "this is it"
    -The Beauty in the Tragedy-
    MECHANIC SMASH!!- (you all know you do it)
    Got Drop?? ;-)
    Originally posted by JinormusJ
    But of course
    E30s are know to be notoriously really really really ridiculously good looking
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    I don't see any direct way for the transmission to be causing the shut off. My suspicion would be that there is an engine management problem that is robbing the engine of idle power and the load from the transmission going into gear is killing the engine.
    The car makes it possible, but the driver makes it happen.
    Jim Levie, Huntsville, AL

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      #3
      so you think its more of the ECU? any way to check that? does the e30 have a BCM?
      -FREEDOM- is cruisin at 80, windows down and listening to the perfect song-thinking "this is it"
      -The Beauty in the Tragedy-
      MECHANIC SMASH!!- (you all know you do it)
      Got Drop?? ;-)
      Originally posted by JinormusJ
      But of course
      E30s are know to be notoriously really really really ridiculously good looking

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        #4
        It could be any of a number of things like intake leaks, bad ignition components, a dirty or bad ICV, bad TPS, etc
        The car makes it possible, but the driver makes it happen.
        Jim Levie, Huntsville, AL

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