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Broken Charge Pipe Club 35i
Well, that's a bummer. Bought our 2014 X3 35i 3 months ago with 29,000 miles. Heading out to Moab, Utah Saturday afternoon from Columbia, Missouri. Pulled out to pass a slower vehicle at about 3/4 throttle to make sure I was going to clear another vehicle heading up behind us in the left lane and there was a monstrous POP and huge power loss. My first thought was that the transmission just ate it because it was so jerky and violent. I drove about 3 miles to the next exit and had it scanned. MAF errors, so now I'm thinking turbo failure. We had to drive a bit further before I could really look at it. Thanks to this forum, I zeroed in on the charge pipe. Bingo. Creative use of zip ties is holding the pipe back upon the thottle body pretty well. I am gonna have to limp it to a independant BMW shop about 40 miles away on Wednesday because I'm literally vacationing in a ghost town in Utah. I say Limp, but it actually drives fine, I just need to keep my foot out of it. I do not have time for the shop to order a strong aftermarket pipe so we're just going OEM. I just have no choice at this time. I may replace it later myself and sell the OEM pipe. Anyways, just thought I'd chime in. Hopefully, this will be the last problem with it for a good while.
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2 questions; 1, Were you able to pass the car after the charge pipe blew? 2, Is your name MacGyver?
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Haha! Yes and maybe. My wife called me that after the “fix.” You’d be amazed at what a 7-11 in the middle of the desert has for tools, honestly. I keep my travel tool kit in my Tundra so had nothing on me. The BMW didn’t seem like it needed a big tool kit, but it will from now on. Of course, since these tools were purchased at a convenience store they were crazy overpriced, so they gave me a free soda and free coffee.
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Got it fixed. Great Euro shop in Grand Junction, CO. They saved my bacon and the mechanic commented he was impressed with my “repair.” Ha!
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