[horse9118]

Two weeks ago I took my 2008 328i to a local BMW dealer to take care of the 2 factory recalls, PCV Valve Heater and the Blower Motor Wiring. First time I went back to get the car the check engine light came on and there was a rattling noise from the engine at start up. I immediately went back to the dealer and they took the car back in. Dealer called me a few days later and said the issues were due to the technician forgetting to plug in a connector in the engine during the repair process and everything is now good.

I have the car back for a week now and the engine just feels different, almost as if it has less torque. Before this car can get to 80-90 mph on the highway without much effort and now its seems like I got to really work the throttle to get up there. Another weird thing I noticed is that my rpms goes to 6-7k really easily where as before unless I floor it, my rpm stays below 4k. I'm not sure if I'm going crazy or if there is something there.

The check engine light is not on but I'm not sure I can trust the dealer to resolve all the issues. I mean, the shop clearly didn't even bother to start up the car and check everything after doing the repairs since I had to tell them about the check engine light when I went to pick up the car the first time.

[Mosaud1998]

You could try taking it to another BMW dealership and explain the issue to them.

They might be willing to take a look at the issues at no cost.

[Pittz1]

This is why I won't take my 06 330xi in for those two recalls. 185k and runs great. Don't want them messing it up.

[Love The Drive]

Is it a manual transmission? Did they potentially burn your clutch? Not exactly sure what you mean by RPMs going up really easily.

I also don't want to take my car in to the dealer for these recalls. 2011 with 198k miles. No major issues, and want to keep it that way.

[W37V]

Originally Posted by horse9118

Two weeks ago I took my 2008 328i to a local BMW dealer to take care of the 2 factory recalls, PCV Valve Heater and the Blower Motor Wiring. First time I went back to get the car the check engine light came on and there was a rattling noise from the engine at start up. I immediately went back to the dealer and they took the car back in. Dealer called me a few days later and said the issues were due to the technician forgetting to plug in a connector in the engine during the repair process and everything is now good.

I have the car back for a week now and the engine just feels different, almost as if it has less torque. Before this car can get to 80-90 mph on the highway without much effort and now its seems like I got to really work the throttle to get up there. Another weird thing I noticed is that my rpms goes to 6-7k really easily where as before unless I floor it, my rpm stays below 4k. I'm not sure if I'm going crazy or if there is something there.

The check engine light is not on but I'm not sure I can trust the dealer to resolve all the issues. I mean, the shop clearly didn't even bother to start up the car and check everything after doing the repairs since I had to tell them about the check engine light when I went to pick up the car the first time.

Pure speculation, but did they flash your engine ECU? One of the troubleshooting steps is to update all modules. If they did that, you might have a new revision that might not be as "strong" as your old one.

Or maybe they just reset your adaptations.

[bluewater328]

Originally Posted by W37V

Pure speculation, but did they flash your engine ECU? One of the troubleshooting steps is to update all modules. If they did that, you might have a new revision that might not be as "strong" as your old one.

Or maybe they just reset your adaptations.

Agree with this. I would check your checkout sheet they provide. It will list everything they did. Esp during recalls, they want to list everything as they get credits from BMW NA for it. So they wont try to hide it if they updated something. The recalls themselves do not affect anything performance related unless they somehow didn't put back the pcv correctly.

[rjahl]

Originally Posted by W37V

Pure speculation, but did they flash your engine ECU? One of the troubleshooting steps is to update all modules. If they did that, you might have a new revision that might not be as "strong" as your old one.

Or maybe they just reset your adaptations.

If the car was tuned by the previous owner, the dealer could have "wiped it" with a standard flash.

[aphael]

Originally Posted by Pittz1

This is why I won't take my 06 330xi in for those two recalls. 185k and runs great. Don't want them messing it up.

Those recalls are actually quite important, wouldn't want your car to catch on fire wouldn't you. They also replaced my faulty airbag which is really important if you have a sport steering wheel.