1985 bmw 325e

I have an 85 325e, when accelerating the car seems to accelerate sluggishly. I push the pedal all the way to the floor and some times it will accelerate ok.

I thought maybe gas. I changed the fuel filter and the spark plugs. No change. I'm thinking now I need a manual to try and figure out the problem.

Help, I hope the motors not gone. It's strong when it is running, but now it seems to have no power sometimes.

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Fuel pump(s) ?

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Richard Sexton

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That's one failure mode but one pump can be dead and the other marginal and *can* produce symptoms exacly like this. The fact that it works normally some of the time is what gives me the idea that this could be it.

Worth checking at any rate.

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Do you know where both pumps are?, I know theres on in the rear of the car.

Also driving it today, the muffler seems clogged or something, as if the pressure is being restricted. Could it be the muffler?

Richard Sext> > >Richard why would you say fuel pumps, wouldn't the car not start or > >just die out?

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wiresonly

I know where they are on my car but it's not the same as yours. Or maybe it is, I don't know.

Could be a clogged cat. But that probably won't give you those symptoms as it's a steady state not intermittant failure. That is if it's clogged it's always clogged, not clogged one moment and free the next.

You should be able to *hear* both pumps working at least you can on my car. Silence, in this case, is *not* golden.

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It may be the distributor cap and rotor, I think there has been a previous post with a very similar condition and they found the rotor and cap were just about non-existent. It was amazing the car even ran.

Cheers, Bob

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I'd try a new rotor arm and check the distributor cap. When they're badly worn I've seen this fault.

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