E36 Service Reset Tool

Dec 05, 2005 22 Replies

Well, ok. From what you said it would seem that the Peake tool is actually better. It's telling you *specifically* that the secondary air pump is not feeding air to cylinders 4-6 properly during startup. *Minor leak detected* means what? where? what system?

It apparently is not uncommon for the secondary air pump and/or its vacuum valve to fail from condensation, so unless you think there is an error in the Peake code sheet, I'd pull the vacuum valve and look for crud in the system.

Again, the Peake tool only reads codes from the DME, any issue about the code being too vague or whatnot would seem to be the fault of the programmer for the DME.

Frank

Your reasoning makes sense, but......but in my case, it just so happens that the seconary air pump, and valve, are still new, and clearly work just fine. The original pump on the car clearly crapped out (was making a racket and then stopped working) and had to be replaced.

I agree, it's a little vague. They can't find the leak (not without an extensive search that I don't want to pay for right now), but sometimes I seem to get the faint whiff of gasoline when idling with the door open. I'm waiting for it to get worse so as to detect it easier.

-- Cliff

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