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Re: HELP: I lost the horsepower, the engine is col (archive)
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Posted by Bert Smith on February 16, 2001 at 18:25:23:

In Reply to: HELP: I lost the horsepower, the engine is cold :( posted by Rudy on February 16, 2001 at 18:14:06:


Hello everybody,

I drove tonight with my car and the car made a strange noise, I lost all the horsepower!!!
Suddenly at one time the power came back and later it was gone again.
I drove about a distance of 50 km. and when I came home the engine was cold…..
Normally I can’t touch my hands on it because I would burn them!
The temperature meter was standing between zero and the middle, normally it always stands in the middle.

Please can anybody tell me what is wrong with my car

BMW850 iA
1992
130000 km

It seems likely that your enging went into "limp home mode", that is, only one bank of the engine was operating. The fact that the engine felt cold is significant. Did you feel the other side as well? Check the archives to learn what could cause one bank of cylinders to stop operating.

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