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Dilinger said:
I have a problem that i want to share with you. I trust you have some technical knowledge so i though, what the heck .
Yesterday i run out of gas with my other car (its a BMW Z3 Ac Schnitzer 2.1 LT) . So a friend brought me gas and the car could not operate well. I could barely start it. The noise was very heavy and i called a mechanical. With great difficulty we managed to drive the car to the service dealer.(thanx god it was close -half kilometer.) So when i brought the car there, it seemed that is was working only with two cylinders. After we run a diagnosis test we found out that the engine flange was burned. How the hell can this happen to a car with 70,000 km only?? And moreover how can possibly be a coinsidence that it happened when a run out of gas. Not to mention that i had never seen a high temperature warning.
Please share your opinion with me
Dilinger,
When you say that "engine flange was burned", does that mean that the cylinder head gasket had blown?
If so, I don't think that the problem arising at the same time as you ran out of fuel was a coincidence. The engine might have been running on a lean mixture for a while, due to fuel starvation, and that could cause local overheating around the combustion chamber. Since the overheating is "local" - only in the metal surface of the cylinder head - it would not show as a high water temperature on the temp gauge.
Just a guess.