Originally Posted by
big john
Hopefully you have a shop you can trust. I think it's pretty tough to find a shop like that.
I do.
But I did not take the care to that shop. That shop is somewhat far from my house, and the car was running so poorly, I didn't think it was a good idea to drive it that far, so I took it to a new place that sent me a mailer a couple weeks ago saying they work on BMWs. We will see how it goes.
I did google the issue when I got to the office, and found several videos and forum discussions that pointed to the spark plugs and the coils as the most likely culprit, so I was glad to hear that is what the shop came back with.
As for my wife's Honda, we found an awesome shop that services most Japanese models. They sold us when she brought her Prius there a few years ago, and the guy, after doing a fairly thorough test drive, came back and told her to sell the car. It wasn't worth the time or money to try to repair it.