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      05-07-2014, 05:24 PM   #94
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Originally Posted by Delnari
This was an important outing for BMW given a new model that has won over journalist and buyers from the start. Having a failure of the car less than 1/2 through could result in some really bad press.

Not having a clue what the issue might be I would like to throw out a wild guess and say it was VANOS related failure.
It has Valvetronic, doesn't that negate the need for vanos?

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