hey, i hope i'm posting in the right area, i haven't been on here in awhile, since the last time i had a problem with my car. it's a 93 325is. anywho, it recently started having problems after a short four hour road trip. we went to get off at an exit and as we were stopping at the end of the ramp, the car just completely shut off. when we started it back up, it rev'ed up and down, and once again, off. so at stop signs/lights we basically just ran the accelator because we obviously needed to finish the road trip. anywho, my fiance who does all the repairs on the car said he was 99% sure it was the idle control valve. i went ahead and ordered one, we got it on the car, and the car definately wasn't fine. it felt a little stronger, but still did the rev'ing/stalling crap. so i was flying out of birmingham, al and there was a dealership about 15 minutes from the airport, so i made a diagnostics appointment, they only charged us $47 instead of $112, which was pretty nice, and told us it was the air flow meter (and i once again need a new o2 sensor). so all in all, i'm basically asking where the best place to find one is. the site i use to order parts off of went out of business i guess, it just disappeared. and then the place i ordered my idle control valve doesn't carry an air flow meter/air mass meter.
so if anyone could provide any insight on a reasonablely priced site, it'd be awesome. also, someone mentioned that with us driving the car with the air mass meter, it could mess another part up, but i forgot what part they said. does anyone know? i may just order a new one with the air mass meter and o2 sensor. thanks for any help you can provide. i don't feel like spending $500 on the part from the dealership.
so if anyone could provide any insight on a reasonablely priced site, it'd be awesome. also, someone mentioned that with us driving the car with the air mass meter, it could mess another part up, but i forgot what part they said. does anyone know? i may just order a new one with the air mass meter and o2 sensor. thanks for any help you can provide. i don't feel like spending $500 on the part from the dealership.