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Originally Posted by ///Marshall
What the heck?!?? I'm sorry to hear you guys are having problems.
I don't get why Dinan isn't all over this. If I were in your situation I
would definitely ship it to Dinan. I would have low confidence that the
dealership would figure out the problems. Dinan should be stepping
up and making this process as easy as possible for you guys. I don't
get why you have to ship the car out on your dime but unfortunately
if that's what it takes I think you have to do it. 
BTW, perhaps this should be a separate thread. I had no idea you
guys were having problems until it was mentioned in a different thread. |
Dinan was made aware of this last Tuesday afternoon and I did personally get a call from Steve Dinan and their lead tech support engineer. Their first reaction was "bad gas", even though I explained it was affecting two cars that are parked in different areas of the metroplex (about as far apart as San Jose and San Francisco for example) and use different gas stations, and the fact that I just took a road trip over the past weekend and filled up at probably 3-4 different gas stations during the excursion.
So bad gas was not necessarily a likely culprit. Regardless, the next day I filled up at a Chevron and had a few gallons of race fuel put in to top of the octane level. Dinan also shipped a new tune they had been using on Steve's car only which was installed on Thursday of last week.
With the new ecu tune nothing changed even though I can see slightly more advanced ignition timing, the lack of performance is still the same.
I had my dealer replace the MAF sensors Saturday morning at the suggestion of another BMW tech shop (Performing Imports in ATL) which seemed a plausible solution, but unfortunately that didn't fix it either.
Steve Dinan personally offered to send me a new motor during my conversation with him Tuesday afternoon. I may follow-up with them on that offer. I'd rather go that route than send them the car, unless of course they want to pick up shipping.
I'll keep everyone posted as we progress through this situation.
Thanks again everyone!
Regards,
Darren
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