Are you sure it wasn't there before the problem started?
It may also be that your plugs are gunked up a bit from the engine having been run with an improper mixture for a while as a result of the vacuum leak.
No, the computer is just combinational logic. It doesn't have any nonvolatile memory at all, thank God.
I'd check for more vacuum leaks... then I'd do it again in six months or when you do your next scheduled maintenance. If there's one rubber part gone, there are more on the way.
--scott
The good news is that BMW still has just about everything available for these cars available, so _now_ is the time to totally replace all the rubber parts while new ones are still being made.
--scott
I assume that this car doesn't have a check engine light coming on, then? I have a Subaru which sometimes has this problem. Everytime it's happened, after a few times of it happening a check engine light usually comes on, and it indicates a faulty Oxygen sensor.
Yousuf Khan
Cripes, Yousuf. you ain't no Usenet Neophyte. You should know by now to follow an existing thread to the end first....
;-)
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