Stupid BMW owner

[crayzayjay]

http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=311931




Check out the pic on page 6

[Banchi105]

Just another kid to young to have the car he drives...

[5vz-fe]

Poor guy, I think he just didn't have a clear mind after having engine light poping up while driving. F**ked up his car and hope for advice, and these 1 post, 2 post ppl just coming down on him.

[sentra_dude]

I think this guy says it well:

Man, Poor guy is asking for advice and admits it wasn't his brightest moment. Knowing he may be clowned he asks anyway. Now everyone is spreading it through all the forums.....Like no one participating in this has done anything stupid? Maybe not car related but something? Unless you are perfect you all have no right to capitalize on his mis fortune like this. I read some of the posts in the other forums and geez! You don't know if he bought the car or had it given to him. No idea his age or anything but everyone is making assumptions his parents bought it for him ect. Whatever makes the story sound better I guess right guys? Have some class and when mis fortune strikes you I hope someone is kind enough to help you out instead of laughing at you.

[styla21]

Poor kid.. I do feel sorry for him though ops:
Live and learn...

[ZfrkS62]

LMAO!!!! I'm on page 4 right now.

Before you know it, we're going to see this one tested on Mythbusters

[Zot09]

It's horrible how this story is spreading throughout the internet. I even found it on my schools forum:

http://www.anteaterforum.com/showthread.php?t=21494

:roll:

[saadie]

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Tell us the sock story again!!!" :roflmao:

[AlienDB7]

Originally Posted by ZfrkS62 LMAO!!!! I'm on page 4 right now. Before you know it, we're going to see this one tested on Mythbusters

Who knows, may be the dinosaur caddy engine will run fine with a sock in it.

The guy could have tried duct tape instead... they do fix everything right?

[ae86_16v]

My old my. . .

[ZfrkS62]

Originally Posted by AlienDB7 Originally Posted by ZfrkS62 LMAO!!!! I'm on page 4 right now. Before you know it, we're going to see this one tested on Mythbusters Who knows, may be the dinosaur caddy engine will run fine with a sock in it. The guy could have tried duct tape instead... they do fix everything right?

One of the guys on there mentions that BMW's have high crankcase vacuum and that it is possible the sock got sucked in. I say BS to that theory for 2 reasons:

1) BMW specifies 3-6in of water (vacuum) present at the oil filler cap during a slack tube test. I doubt that is enough alone to suck in a sock. If you take the cap off a running S54, cover the opening with your hand. You'll find it's not sucking all that hard.

2) the filler hole is not a perfect circle. there are 2 tabs opposite of each other for the cap to lock itself to the valve cover. so no matter how he stuffed the sock in, he wasn't going to make a prfect seal that would allow for enough vacuum to build up to suck it in.

My theory is this: when he stuffed the sock in, there was enough hanging down to get physically caught up in the timing chain and sprocket and that's what pulled it in.

OR

his sock was never big enough to plug the hole in the first place and the vibration of driving for those "5" miuntes was enough to cuse it to fall in on its own.

either way, he pwned himself BAD

[SilviaEvo]

hahahhahaha he got OWNED!!!!

[blinkmeat]

[ZfrkS62]

ok, an M3 finally rolled into the shop (after weeks without seeing one and i checked it out trying to see if what i posted was right, and the only thing wrong with it was that the oil cap is actually directly above the intake cam, not the timing chain like i thought. I had the cap position confused with the V8s which is above the chain by about 3mm.

It IS possible to get the sock wrapped around the cam if enough of it is hanging down, as stated