E30 Zone

i have 2 '87 cars- the Dolphin Grey one has grey arches, and the Luxor Beige one has satin black arches

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Sat Feb 03, 2024 9:13 pm
Have you an E30 centre-console, black, RHD, with no holes for electric window-switches, posted to Hull, East Yorks?
I think so! Will have a look.

Thanks.

Have you an E30 centre-console, black, RHD, with no holes for electric window-switches, posted to Hull, East Yorks?

Dan's right

Mine is a single thin, black wire, a few inches long,with the blue connector on the end, and it hangs down either just to the left of the cluster,or behind it-can't remember which

On my car,the single cable you are looking for hangs down from where the main OBC loom loops over the top of the instrument-cluster

try part number 54311943752 described as 'pin,gas-strut' on real OEM. Comes in at a heady £20, if available at all.

on my '87 cab the pins are a separate item

Wind sunroof back a few cm then you can pull front edge of liner dowm with your hands to release the 5 spring-clips that hold it in place. Doing this bends/distorts the metal frame that the liner-material is glued to but it's easy to manipulate it back to the right shape when you finally put the lin...

1x 51451916579 works for me- it's similar to the 3 fixings at the top of the panel and you turn thru 90 degrees to lock.

Yes the screen is supplied from both reservoirs, and the lamp washers are fed by the hidden motor (next to bonnet-strut) in the larger reservoir

Perhaps rear screen is leaking somewhere? If you lift up the parcel-shelf and have a look for pools of water on the sheet-metal up there. On my saloon i have an unusual spot of rust- in the front n/s corner of the boot-aperture, where three or four layers of sheet-metal meet up. If i let this develo...

Leaky clips on the exterior C-pillar trim?

Something must be badly wrong- my F/L-arched car on -35mm springs and Style 5 wheels doesn't rub ar all.

thanks for that, already tracked the number down and ordered.

Knew about the trims for the front tow-eyes, but never realized there was one available for the rear one. Thanks!

Try pulling fuse no. 28 in the fusebox- i read somewhere this system runs off this fuse along with the electic aerial and cig-lighter.

i recently bought an 87 convertible fitted with mudflaps all round and the rear ones have the usual right-angled bracket fixings to the chassis, together with 10mm self tapping bex-headed screws instead of the spring clips on yours. The 2 square plates,2 four-sided nuts, 2 coach bolts and,i'm guessi...

Jacking stuff is stored in the N/S "pocket", and the O/S is opposite

When i ran thecar with no oil-cooler for a while i found the oil went dark noticably quicker than before- having to cope with more heat i guess?

Wanted- the key that fits the extra alarm- lock on the driver's door (usually convertible) -posted to Hull,East Yorks., please.

I've found that lubing all the pivots,levers etc. underneath /inside the seat with old engine oil can bring a sticking mechanism back to life. You have to take the seat out (4 bolts) and turn it upside-down to discover where all the many points that need a spot of oil are-they are usually stained br...

I tried Halfords dark grey vinyl paint aerosol and the colour-match was hopeless- was more of a muddy-brown than the dark grey/ anthracite i expected.
I eventually got a close match from a local paint supplier, i think the brand was Mirpa and the colour was 'Dunkelgrau'

The smaller white connector is to do with the courtesy-light switch on the A-post.

If your'e looking for a light-delay relay ,keep an eye out for an E28 unit aswell- they are the same.

My '87 car has just the one pump in front of the n/s wheel- under the seat there is just the fuel-gauge sender-unit. The way to tell if there is a pump in-tank is to check the number of electrical wires going into the top of the tank- if just 2(i think) wires are present then that suggests just a se...

I had a 60ma drain ,which i tracked down to the instrument blue connector/SI board- removing the board ( which had already had the batteries replaced) reduced the drain to a more normal 25ma.
Taking a chance on a second-hand board from Ebay cured it.

My July '87 sport came with an 073 ECU and ABS fitted, but that was about it- no power-steering, no electric windows/sunroof.

paultv had a thread going on this about a year ago.

i think your c/c ECU goes above the glovebox latch- plate ,top-right of your pic., perhaps using that pair of holes that is just at the edge-of-pic.

erm, i think so- O/S (R) should have an extra blue wire, N/S (L)should just have red/black/brown

If you were to mix up the motors so that the N/S motor was where the O/S one should be that would cause your problem- but one motor has 3 wires and the other 4 wires so i can't see how that could happen

When i had a mid-eighties Audi with an oil-temp gauge the needle hardly ever moved off its stop- i think the needle was only supposed to move when the oil was overheating.

Have been out to look at my July '87 325 engine and it also has that extra screw on the throttle-body.

Speedy Cables in London have been making speedo cables for decades

Sizes are 8mm internal diameter/13mm outer diam., and i found 2m was enough to do my car which has fuel-pump just in front of rear wheel. I avoided Ebay stuff and got Gates hose from local factor for about £4 per metre. Halfords sell this hose for about £7 per. m. Or BMW sell it for gawd-knows-how-m...

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