HARD HITTING
22 One of the great things about the classic car scene has always been its constantly changing nature, as the inexorable march of time sees new, younger models welcomed into the fold once they make the jump from simply ‘old car’ to ‘interesting old car.’ Naturally that means the business of maintaining them is constantly evolving too, with diagnostic code readers no doubt living next to timing lights and grease guns in many readers’ tool boxes. Sometimes though, the old ways just can’t be beaten, something which was brought home to me recently when faced with a non-runner BMW. An example of the ‘E46’ 3-Series from the 2000s, it would crank but simply wouldn’t fire and having been online for ideas its owner was naturally full of complex theories relating…
