E30 Zone

Can't say i spend alot of time on this site but have been wanting to come to one of these for a while. Am a little short of money atm though so hasn't really been an option but next month, i'm in!

Cheers Raf.

Just a thought, when i first start my car it idles at the same speed as it does when it's warm. So when you go to pull away etc it splutters and generally don't like it. Could this be the temp sensor or something? I have heard if these go then it can give incorrect signals to your ecu and cause bad ...

well i did a run from my house to london and back the other day, turned out to be about 180 miles round trip, but i suppose alot of that was heavy traffic, which isn't good. Now i think about it it was worse on fuel on the way there when the traffic was really bad than it was on the way back. I dunn...

Or is anyone else getting crap fuel consumption? I only have a 316i and just got 218 miles for 40quid of fuel

. Seems pretty terrible in my eyes. I don't exactly srive like a hooligan either.

Have just fitted some new wheels and noticed there isn't alot of clearance between the inside of the wheel and the strutt, but they don't seem to rub so i thought i was alright. Drove it around abit on Tuesday and apart from wheel wobble there was no rubbing. So i took it in yesterday to get a coupl...

What products do you reccomend? Gonna take a trip to halfords tomorrow and treat it to some decent cleaning products.

Should really give it a clean but seems like such a waste of time in this weather Black cars can look so good when cleaned up properly :cool: Very true, looks the nuts when it's been washed and polished. May get on that tomorrow actually as i have the day off work. It's just so annoying when you cl...

Made a few changes to the beemer. Smartened up the front end abit but best of all got myself a set of wheels. Some Borbet C's 17x7.5j 8) Also got a subtle lip spoiler. I'm well pleased with how it looks! http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q113/raf16_2007/DSC_0266.jpg http://i134.photobucket.com/albu...

just make sure you get decent spacers, cheap ones will wobble like feck and prob kill you :D good luck dude 8O Oh well can't be anymore dangerous than the tyres i have now, they should definatly come with a 'slippery when wet' warning :) Cheers for your help, will get some pictures up when i get th...

Reminds me of mine atm. But i don't like the sound of lexus lights.

yours may be a funny offset tho from a VW. put em on and see :D Yeah i had thought that. I have a mk1 golf and i put one of the wheels from that on to the beemer just out of interest and bordom and it was just rubbing on the strutt, and they were 7j so i am thinking i'll need abit of a spacer. Hope...

So assuming yours are 7.5" wide, did you need a spacer? Is your car lowered? And did you need to roll your arches?

hmm maybe i should have words with them about it then. Will have to wait till monday anyway but i'm not gonna keep paying this guy labour if hes just gonna keep doing the same thing.

Had exactly this problem (though I didn't pay a garage for it) when a little black clip on the adjuster had died - meant that the adjustor was loose and within a few minutes it just spun down and left a load of slack again. Really frustrating. Felt fine when you tensioned it, but just slackened off...

I dunno, i have done handbrakes myself before and could understand if he said the cable was seized or the adjuster screwed but the fact he said 'It was working beautifully when we put it back together' then when they moved it the few meters into the test bay it's not working again. I can't understan...

drums, only a 316i

Took my bm in for its mot on Thursday morning. Knew it wasn't going to pass as it needed a small bit of welding doing that i was planning on telling them to to do after the mot. So i called them up Thursday afternoon and they tell me it failed on the welding it needs and hand brake effort on one whe...

they look cool on yours Charlie. The car is away having a little work done for the MOT atm but hopefully tomorrow i'll have it back and be able to try the wheels on it. What width are yours Charlie?

Also anyone got any pictures of them on E30's?

A mate of mine has a set of (what i believe are) Borbet C's. They are 6 spoke, 17"x7.5j. Don't know much about them though and can't find any information on them. Says i can have them for Ã‚£150 which i think is cheap and has given them to me to try out but i havn't had a chance to try them on the c...

That'll be the gearbox on the bulkhead. Try loosening the gearbox mount and jacking up the front at the same time to let the front of the engine twist. Might be best to use the trolley jack on the gearbox, undo the mount, lower the gearbox slowly (engine will tilt on it's mounts) keeping an eye on ...

? wait a minute, if it's a m40 its easy, i did it and there are 3 steps that you have to remember, if you skip one you cannot get the job done. 1. Unscrew the bolts 2. Change oil pan 3. Screw bolts Pah, did you do the top and bottom parts of the sump? If you did both parts that easily you are some ...

Haha cheers for the advice guys but was none of the above, i had forgot to undo the engine mount dampener things (Dave

) so when they reached there max travel they pulled the car up with it. Anyway shes back on the road again now finally. Cheers for everyones help!

Ok getting real annoyed with this now. Managed to release both engine mounts and have raised the engine buts it's only raised it like an inch and half or so and now instead of just lifting the engine its taking the car up with it. Can't really work out why but it means that i can't quite get the sum...

I have this lovely job this weekend. Only the bottom pan though. Bottom part is a 10 minute job :cry: I thought i would only have to do the bottom bit but then when i took off what was left of the bottom part i discovered it had taken some of the top part with it :roll: Will try the jacking it up t...

Yeah was thinking of just undoing it from another place and leaving that mount alone but my problem then is that that mount is a little loose now and i cant tighten it cause the stud just spins. only think i can think of doing is jacking up the engine to take up that bit of loosness so theres alot o...

ok so only had about an hour free today so couldn't do much but thought i would unbolt the mounts at least, first one came off fine, but the second one loosened slightly but now the actual 'bolt' going through the mount is just turning so i can't undo the nut. What can i do? Nothing ever works does ...

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Alright cool, cheers for your help guys, i'll let you knwo how it goes.

I see, so what if i jacked up the engine put a couple of blocks between the mounts and then let the engine rest on them so i have the clearance to change the sump then jack the engine up again whip the blocks out and bobs your uncle?

Ok so i'm thinking i'll get hold of one of those engine braces but my dad is saying would it not be possible to jack the engine up from the bell housing?

looks like a worthy investment actually, cheers. Will have to see what my dad reckons on it cause i'm pretty skint.

haha, you have a valid point there sir. Hmm looks like i'm gonna have to hire a hoist then. Grrr, when i busted it i thought ahh sumps got a hole in it that'll be a 20 minute job. Couldn't have been more wrong.

is there no way of unbolting the engine mounts and jacking the engine up?

I'm down in kent unfortunatly. So theres no other way of doing it than raising the engine or lowering the subframe. I was looking at it today trying to weigh up what to do and was gonna try lowering the subframe but it was starting to get dark. How/how hard is it to do? I'm pretty good with the span...

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