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oh oh oh, I just thought of another one. My oldest brother bought a new BMW 318i a long time ago and he called me to come look at it because he thought he screwed it up. It would start and barely idle, really rough. It wouldn't rev worth a crap. I checked over a bunch of stuff and started asking questions.
it turns out he was hauling butt on the freeway and took the off-ramp kinda fast, and the fuel tank was less than 1/4 full. Closer to 1.8th tank.
All the remainibng fuel had sloshed away from the pick-up and he sucked air into the injector lines.
I started the car up and gave it gas and held it at around 3000 rpm in neutral for about 10 seconds, and it cleared right up. I told him if he was gonna play rickey racer he needed to keep more gas in the tank.
That was prolly in the early to mid-90's or so.
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