Folks,

As you all know, my 16 valve still have the Idle blue. I decided to remove the electrical to the ICV. It actually not so bad, the engine struggle to maintain idle for the first 2 minutes but after that it idles mighty well. I just checked the mileage and it doesn't do too bad neither, about 20miles/gallon.

I bought a 97 528I 5 spd about 10 months ago, I like it very much very good on gas for a decent size car, very good and reliable but the suspension suckzzzzzzzzzzz, bad design, going through control arms like in no time and I thought Mercedes was hard to work on, BMW is the worst especially suspension, bad... bad design BMW. Still love my 16V
Alex