E30 Zone

Hi Touring breakers I am looking to find a right hand Touring load cover bracket in grey as mine recently broke. It's the spring loaded post that is secured to the rear right speaker panel by 2 set screws into which the load cover pivots into place. I have all the other clips and brackets - it's jus...

I took the trailing arms off and, with the circlip removed, found a short piece of scaffolding was just the right diameter to act as a drift. The hole in the back of the trailing arm keeps the business end in place while you bash the other end of the scaffolding. Others have used a large socket inst...

Just a quick note of positive feedback for Paul (Z3l) after e spplied me with a crackingly good space saver fuel can; his comms were good, the can was in great condition and arrived in good time.

Trusted supplier. Thanks.

Go for it. A well looked after one will last for years. If you are reasonably handy with the spanners you will have a car that you can maintain and fix for yourself; most parts are readily available (I needed a wheel bearing in a hurry last Sunday and was able to get a new one - though not a BMW man...

Not going to be the best ever on either count, but after a bank holiday getting it ready for the MOT I am really chuffed with my 91 325 Touring at the mo. With new front shocks, a wheel bearing, and a cam belt swap - and I've still got the oil under the fingernails to prove I did it, I took it easy ...

Getting sick of the bouncy front end (and before the MOT is due) I've finally stripped out my first front strut, slotted in a new B4 into my 325's strut and wonder how the new rubber bump stop sits. I've oriented the plastic sleeve the same way that it came off but as the original bump stops were no...

You can take a peek at the sunroof tray if you unclip the rear door rubber at the top of the aperture and remove the rear grab handles and then gently peel back the lining fabric along the top of the door opening on the wet side of the car and prise the liner down a little. This allows you to spot i...

I picked up a very clean 885 cylinder head at the scrappy that had been involved in a cambelt fail and there are a couple of bent valves and a snapped rocker arm. Would this be a scrap head or would a simple replace the duff bits rebuild sort it? Has anyone recovered from a snapped cambelt by just r...

My 325i sits at just above 1/4 on the temp gauge all day long, it creeps up a couple of needle widths in stationary traffic on a hot day but stays there until I get moving again. This it has done in the 107k miles since I've had it and returns 32mpg overall. I would hazard a guess yours is perfectly...

I fubarred both the Prop centre bearing and the Guibo doughnut between the prop and the gearbox when I had to replace the diff on mine with a smaller one and overtightened the flange bolts, this was at 8 am one hour beforee the car was booked for its MOT The noise was similar to that which you descr...

Replacing a rear wheel bearing is a whole lot easier with the trailing arm off the car. But, once you've undone the axle nut, the hub just a press fit into the bearing and the bearing is just a press fit into the trailing arm. And all can be done with the minimum of tools: Spring clip pliers; a hamm...

+1 for the advice to make sure the fill hole can be opened before you drain it.

Mine was so siezed I rounded the hex socket then smashed the case trying to knock it round using a screwdriver as a chisel. And that was with the diff off the car.

My 91, 325 Touring still has both Alloy wishones after 231K miles.

I cannot afford to buy new alloy ones and will be miffed if I have to replace them for the next MOT though.

Both aesthetically and driving wise, fitting BMW original 15" BBS alloys and 205/55/15 Toyo Proxes T1-Rs was best thing I ever did for my ”aPoverty Spec”a 325 Touring. That, and rear heads restraints make it look classy, even when parked. Unless your original wheels and tyres are an odd size, and as...

Mine did that for a good few months; a pint every month or so; no overheating; no visible leaks. Seemed to be rough in idle on cold start and for the first mile or so but then ran perfectly. Then one day a coolant hose blew, followed by another a month later. When I removed the coolant cap cold each...

I imagine it's whole lot easier with the trailing arms off the car. I did this last summer as I was replacing the trailing arm and rear beam bushes. I managed to replace both rear bearings with nothing more than a short piece of scafolding tube that was slightly smaller than both the diameter of the...

I got a perfectly acceptable fabric and the some high temp spray on glue from AS-Trim off ebay. Also look at wollies-trim.co.uk for more choice of original looking options. My only regret is that I hurried refitting it around the sunroof aperture and the fabric wouldn't stretch properly back under t...

Amazingly easy to deal with and stuff arrived next day.

Recommended trader by many - including me. Thanks AdiT

Try this, one side at a time: Unbolt the U brackets from the wishbones (make a note of which way round they are before you take them off as they must go back the same way) Loosely bolt the lower end of the drop link (with the tubular metal insert) into the U brackets with the handbrake cable clamps ...

Another common problem is inside the wiper motor itself where the seal around the wiper shaft inside the rear wiper motor gearbox fails and allows the washer water into the gears, from where it just dribbles into the tailgate.

I recovered my Touring's headlining last year; there's a wealth on info and tips on here if you use the search function and they're all good - that's what I did; the only thing I am unhappy with on mine was the difficulty of stretching the new fabric back under the corners of the sunroof aperture fi...

With everything else you have removed, and if you've already removed the 32mm drive shaft nuts, why not leave the diff in place and undo the output flange bolts to allow them to drop and then knock the splined stubs back into the hubs and remove the shafts completely. I found the best combination on...

If you've a sunroof, water running onto the off-side sunroof tray will drain forwards to a hole that is visible with the roof retracted and out of the sill behind the front wheel. If the car is on an incline draining water to the rear, there is a tube running inside the C pillar that connects the su...

I had exactly this with my 1991 Touring and it turned out to be a loose connector deep in the dash. I swapped out the indicator switch without affecting the symptom and, with the clocks out, traced the wires to find another connector deeper into the dash wiring loom - reseating this some 3 years ago...

Trailing arm bushes? There is a section of the M5 near me where one lane has visible grooves made by heavy lorries over which my car used to be very skittish - even in a straight line, which was quite disconcerting. I've just replaced both the Beam bushes and trailing arm bushes in one go and my Tou...

Another awsome Touring. That you have it under such circumstances is a challenge to keep it alive. but I agree with the suggestion, 15" BBS and the original fogs are an unbeatable combination. Am I alone in thinking we Touring owners ought to retain a low profile - otherwise prices will go through t...

Wouldn’t it be great if it was just 4 nuts to separate the prop from the diff; detach the two flexible brake hoses that snake over the beam to the solid pipes attached to the trailing arms; if you have them ”“ unbolt the two ABS sensors from the trailing arms; undo the handbrake cables at the handbr...

Stunning. I agree with Gazm3 on reverting to the chrome grill. Always wanted an autobox - it must be lovely with a 2.5 to stir it along. An acquired taste I know, but I think grey leather really suits the E30 and your seats look to be in good condition. But I'd retain the Alpinas if it were mine.

Thanks Daimlerman. It always was a short term expedient just to get the car through its MOT today. Having refurbed a complete spare rear beam and trailing arms setup, with all new bushes/footbrake and handbrake parts/ backing plates/ Slave cylinder seals, etc, I decided to have a go at the diff oil ...

My 325 Touring has the combi rear brakes with a main disk and integral drum for the handbrake. The pivoting actuator that the handbrake cable connects to and which forces out the lower ends of the handbrake shoes is capable of being fitted either way: with the pivot leading or trailing, is there a c...

If the Subframe mounting bushes disintegrate, as mine had - leaving the inner alloy tube attached to the chassis - simply put the steel bolt up from underneath approx 2-3 inches and tap the bolt head gently, side to side, back to front, in a variety of horizontal directions. Mine came off in seconds...

I always use BPR6ES on my 325. Be careful if buying them on-line - they come in 2 flavours: one has solid (bullet style) HTconnectors that cannot be removed and don't fit the plug leads and the other, the one you want, is labelled on the box with 7822 and has bullet connectors that unscrew - matchin...

Trying to undo the fill plug, I cracked my medium case diff rear cover today. The only option I had was to use a small case diff (same 3.91 ratio) that I had as a spare. All the bolts seemed to line up and it's on OK. Except, on tightening everything up, the prop to input flange seems to pull the pr...

Medium case diff requires 1.7L IIRC and make sure you can remove the filler plug before draining it. Best advice I ever took heed of; I bought a hex bit to do this job, but the gap between the diff and fuel tank prevented it being used on the fill plug. I rounded the inner hex socket and sheared al...

Picked up a Cruise Control actuator, column switch and control box (VDO Part 412.212/005/002) out of a sad beast of an E32, 7 series, from my local scrappy last weekend for peanuts. I know the column switch will not fit but I can handle that, and the wiring. Has anyone ever tried to fit a cruise set...

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Touring load cover mount bracket - Right side, and black plastic rear left carpet channel

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