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BMW E46 decoke engine in Cork area

  • 28-06-2012 2:59pm
    #1
    thornbury1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭


    Hi All,

    My BMW E46 engine needs to be decoked. Could anyone recommend a mechanic in the Cork area to do this?

    Thanks.
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  • #2
    thornbury1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭thornbury1


    Just an update on this. MMW motors on Monaghan Road (Cork) cleaned the manifold etc and the car is perfect again. The main dealer would have cost me 2K more to decoke the car.


  • #3
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    Why did it need to be decoked? That is something that went out the window in the 60s!


  • #4
    S28382
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭S28382


    Me thinks this could be a cheeky attempt for an advertisement for the said garage. :rolleyes:


  • #5
    thornbury1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭thornbury1


    I've nothing to do with MMW. Car was losing power around 2000rpm. Brought it to kearys and they didn't even look at it properly. They just said it was a build up of carbon and that it needed to be decoked and quoted me 2,300 euro. I brought it to a local garage and he changed the air mass flow, which cost a few hundred, but it didn't make much of a difference. I search boards.ie and MMW was mentioned so I brought the car to them and they fixed it for 300.

    Just posted this to try and save people with an old E46 a bit of money.


  • #6
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    That is the most bizarre thing I've ever heard, I have never heard of anyone decoking an E46! Why would anyone decoke a modern petrol engine that doesn't even have direct injection:confused:?

    All you need to do is give them an Italian tune up if they're getting sluggish (a bit of injector cleaner doesn't go astray either), and that sorts out all problems with lack of performance! Plus it only costs half a tankful of petrol!


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  • #7
    thornbury1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9 ✭thornbury1


    320 Diesel. From looking online, it seems to happen to a few of them. The build up of crap in the manifold seems to throws up a good few error codes. If the head needs to come off and be cleaned then it's a huge job.

    http://www.bimmerforums.co.uk/forum/f18/2004-e46-320d-missing-2000-revs-3ffo-fault-code-decoking-t93007/

    http://www.bmwland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=839947


  • #8
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    thornbury1 wrote: »
    320 Diesel. From looking online, it seems to happen to a few of them. The build up of crap in the manifold seems to throws up a good few error codes. If the head needs to come off and be cleaned then it's a huge job.

    http://www.bimmerforums.co.uk/forum/f18/2004-e46-320d-missing-2000-revs-3ffo-fault-code-decoking-t93007/

    http://www.bmwland.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=839947


    Happens to all diesels, especially if they get mostly shorter journeys. As above, a good long higher revs/speed drive would have done it for nothing.


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