Result of cheap illegal mod......

 

That guy is nuts the way he opened that hood.
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Theres more to this story, this is just a short fragment of the video. Just before that he was racing the Audi and two bikes. I don't have a standalone full version, but you can watch this video from 11:00 mark.

 

Is it leak from the cheap straight pipe? Lol!!

 

Maybe a factory flaw that happens once in a damn blue moon. If BMW did proper durability testing this might not have been a problem. I'm still convinced BMW engineers their cars to only be trouble free and last through that first 50,000 miles or so. As long as you are a lease slave, your BMW will be reliable. Just kind of sickens me the way they build their cars, and yet they have that enviable reputation of being a top tier luxury brand, despite their cars(for the most part, there are exceptions) being total money pits after year 3 or 4 of ownership.

 

About 15 years ago I was driving 1999 Toyota Camry. As I get out from a freeway and stop at stop sign I see flames hitting both outside mirrors. I moved left not to block freeway exit, got out of the car and looked under. A few minutes earlier while on a freeway I ran over a piece of cardboard and somehow it got stuck between the body of the car and exhaust pipe, right where it comes down from the engine and bends under.
So as I try to pull cardboard out and it falls apart under the car and keeps on burning. I got back into the car but it wouldn't start at that point. I push car forward and remember that I have a towel in the trunk. I get the towel and put the fire out right behind my car. At the same moment parking control pulls next to my car and without getting out of the car put a chalk mark on my rear tire.
It took me a few hours to find out why the car was not starting. There is some kind of vacuum tube that goes across the middle of the car, next to a firewall right at the top of the engine from left to right. Apparently when the fire was high it burned this tiny tube on one end and when you look at the engine bay from the front it looks normal, tube comes out on one end and goes down. Surprisingly there was no damage to the car paint at all. To this day I still remember as I am putting down fire behind my car and that person (without a soul) pulls next to my car and leaves a chalk mark. Los Angeles at its best.

 

Let me convince you otherwise. I once leased a BMW 740i and put more miles on a Hyundai from rent-a-car (paid by dealership). That was first and last BMW for me.
But their 3 series has been rated highly by consumer reports for reliability lately.
One thing about Russia is they use lead in their gas so they have to remove catalytic converters from all imported cars, who knows if that has anything to do with it.

 

Just curious, what year was your 740i???

And you have to be kidding me about Russia still using leaded gas and removing emissions controls from all newer imported cars. That would probably have to be almost all new cars that they remove the cat converter from, unless European manufacturers make cars without cat converters just for the Russian market.

I know a lot of the western European cities like Paris, Milan, Rome, London, Hamburg, etc suffer from some bad smog, but its mainly due to them subsidising diesel fuel. Thus allowing about 100 million 1.4 liter Fiat/VW Polo/Renault, etc turbodiesel type of cars on the road that just make gross pollution until they are warmed up after 5-10 miles, yet a lot of people in those cities never drive more than the 5-10 miles that allow the engine to warm up and burn cleanly. I mean those Euro Zone countries mean well with their diesel tax breaks and pollution credits to diesel, but the science doesn't add up to real world results.

And the Russians, they just run with no cat- converter, no emissions controls at all??? I mean WTF???? Can I register a ****ing big cube, dual carb 426 Hemi under the hood of a 1997 BMW 318i as a legal car there??? Seriously, no pollution controls on new cars at all???

 

Russia does not use lead since 1998. In fact, the unleaded premium gas in Russia has an octane rating of 95 and 98, whereas here in the US it only goes up to 94.

 

Meter maids are usually undereducated and underpaid city employees where the job qualification is basically the ability to drive, breath, eat, and write a ticket. Compassion isn't something you expect from them.

 

who here even carries an extinguisher in their car ?

and how many people with high powered cars actually get to use all that power? not including racing from redlight to redlight.

 

In Russia its the law to carry a fire extinguisher in the car, and all cars sold there are equipped with one.