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Originally Posted by atlas
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Originally Posted by Poochie
Good that there are other intake options now but Dinan makes the best intake for this vehicle..
I know this forum is infested with Dinan haters but their fit and finish on par with BMW standards and more important than everything else; No CEL light! Which will guarantee happen with any open intake due to the sensitive MAF sensor mapping.
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Not true. The Eventuri and CTS intakes don't throw CEL codes.
And the Dinan requires you to modify or remove a brace... |
Eventuri yes, I know it's doesn't throw a CEL, since it's practically a close set-up anyways and I can't speak for CTS intakes.
You believe what you want, it's your car. But before you doubt me, you should educate yourself on the subject.
Factually, an open intake does cause a CEL due to MAF sensing a surge of air not prevalent to the stock mapping, so the vehicle throws a code because it assumes there is a defect in the system. It's not that they're essentially a bad product, it's just the nature of open intakes on BMWs.
I went cheap before, got an open intake and my first WOT I had a CEL. I contacted the manufacturer and he said "you need a tune"
After some research, I learned that BMW MAF sensor is sensitive to open air intakes. The only way around a CEL is a tune to disable the MAF sensor.
Any close setup will mimic a stock air flow, thus no CEL.