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>  All this talk about E36 conking out makes me a little worried.  Couple of
> days ago I was waiting for my girlfriend in my car, idling for about 10
> minutes to keep warm.  Suddenly, out of the blue, the idle abruptly died.
> I
> restarted the car and everything seemed fine.  Three minutes later the
> idle
> suddenly dropped again and the car almost 'choked' but  this time it
> quickly
> recovered.  The next day, while driving around town I felt that idle
> drop/surge one more time.  And again yesterday, the same thing happened
> while I was accelerating from a stop light.  The car 'choked' for a brief
> moment as if the fuel was cut-off for a second or so. 
> 
> Anyone knows what this could be?  I've been using "Price Club" gas (93
> Octane) on my last 2 fuel-ups and I'm wondering if this could be a case of
> bad gas.   I'm scheduled for an appointment with my dealer in January, but
> I'm worried that since it's such a random occurrence, they will come back
> to
> me with "cannot reproduce at this time."  
> 
> TIA
> 
> Rob Mudry
> '96 328is
> BMW CCA #135536 
> Northern VA  
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