E30 Zone

You've got a humidifier for a garage which holds an M3 CS?

I'm speechless...

Thanks boys, all of ya

Wishing you all the best too

Cheers Si. I'll definitely be buying an E30 if I stay out there, so I wont be a stranger forever

Mr redcar, I have an M42 block bored out to 86.6mm with S50 lightweight high compression pistons (from a race engine), M54 aly conrods, custom gudgeon pins, M47N 2.0 crank with a full set of new big end and main journal bearings, M20 flywheel and starter motor Also, a fully stripped M42 lump. Eveyth...

Anyone interested in doing an M42 stroker conversion? I've got all the bits needed to do it, I'm gonna put it all on eBay as I'm leaving the country in 10 days and it needs to go. Just thought I'd enquire in this section to gauge interest, as I haven't yet got pictures of it all to start a 'for sale...

bss325i wrote:Hi Stu, yes it was Lee i spoke to, he is ex Cooper Tunbridge wells.

I'm at Chandlers Hailsham but i start at Vines Gatwick on Monday.

I know a guy who works there, his names Sean. I went through my apprenticeship with him, he's funny as f*ck!!

I take it you spoke to Lee then Barry? Proper nice guy he is, he's only worked with us for a couple of months, he was a Cooper's victim before, like myself!

Where do you work now?

I was looking through all the old catalogues the other day, there's some interesting stuff in there

A hand gun under the passenger seat of a car that came to a place I used to work at. The old bill were waiting for him as he drove away from our dealership, but as far as I know, no-one in the entire building called the police.... Dodgy!!

Dont shoot the messenger...

To be honest, the probably took the coolant change interval away because they knew we'd be taking them apart so often anyway and putting new coolant in it each time!

The microswitch in the boot handle strip is broken. Underneath the black rubbery pad you push in to open the boot is a level and a microswitch and its the switch thats broken. You have 2 choices... A) Replace the entire boot strip, you can purchase the unpainted part from BMW and have someone colour...

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stuartgallafant wrote:as we were using lifetime coolant in the cars anyway.

What does this mean?

If it looks like a bag of nails and drives like one too then i would suggest it is. However, dont disregard it completely. I've worked on a few cars recently that are 7, 8, 9 and nearly 10 years old, that havnt in broken the 50k mark... some people dont use cars as often as we do! As pete suggests, ...

I wouldnt say its that important to spend ages messing around with it. Take the bottom rad hose off and most of the coolant will empty out. when you put the new stuff in, it will circulate when bleeding it and when driving, then if you wanted you could do another coolant change IIRC after 2004 it st...

[quote='kos']as it stand the side walls seem to be too stiff...[quote/] Thats the whole point of runflat tyre... :mad: This arguement is crap and typical of what the zone has become. Bottom line is Runflats were invented to satisfy the market the car manufacturers build for. They work perfectly in e...

Sure, your runflats might last 20 miles with no air before they overheat and go 'pop' but tell me, what happens when this occurs? You'd call the AA and get a patrolman to come and change your tyre - only you can't because there's no spare wheel... Rubbish. We've had customers turn up to have a new ...

Runflats are not bollocks, theres a short video clip, about 15 minutes long, that was played to technicians in dealers all over Europe when Runflats were first introduced by Bridgestone on Porsches and then had their flame re-kindled by BMW. One of the scenes in the clip is a woman, driving an X5, g...

stu, i wouldnt call the people who complained about the wheels cracking dickheads, if you or i had purchesed a car for 30 grand i'd like the £2000 wheels to last. i think BMW GB failed them in this case. No, i would say its this shitty country failing people with the dire state of our roads despite...

T If your Cooper came with 16" wheels, which i'm 99% sure it will have done, it will be exactly the same setup as a Cooper S. Suspension and everything else are all the same across the R50, 52 and 53, except the steering rack and ARB's in the Cooper S. Sports suspension plus was a no cost option on...

The Cooper and the Cooper S both came from factory standard with 16" wheels and runflat tyres. The reason everyone thinks the Cooper S wheels are different, is because you very rarely see a Cooper S with a standard wheel, everyone who bought one brand new payed an extra £400 or something to upgrade....

Im a tester and I agree with Ant. MOT standards are set to a level just before the scrap heap. If it works, it passes... :mad: Things literally have to be hanging out there arse to fail and an MOT can only fail on a testable item. This item is not testable, therefore cannot fail a test, but the test...

sounds to me like it could be a throttle position switch fault or maybe an air-mass meter fault.

If you hold the throttle open gently whilst starting it, will it start and then run? If so, check if it dies when the throttle is shut off

Not all runflats can be repaired I think its Dunlop, Continental and Michelin that say you can repair them, along the same rules as other tyres. Bridgestone, Pirelli and Goodyear do not advise it and even have 'DO NOT REPAIR' written on the side of the tyre As a general rule, i'd go with manufacture...

What codes were in the DME when it was cleared?

My mistake wullie, the way i read it, i thought you had used all the components from the new engine... doh! As the dude above suggests, a tow-start may help to solve the bleeding. The pressure under cranking isnt quite substantial enough to remove any trapped air, it just compresses it! Let us know ...

Agree with that Andyboy, they're a great little thrash

off the top of my head, its located behind the boot trims on the offside

Why do you want to be able to reset the lights yourself?

The injectors are batch machined and come within a tolerance, so say the machine produces 1000 injectors, then the machine is stripped, cleaned and rebuilt, then makes another 100 injectors, and so on... On the top of the injectors is series of numbers and letters, 6 off the top of my head, which is...

nicely done Si

why is the rear spoiler white?

As Barry mentioned, they're dealer only. The reason for the expense is somewhat justified by the anti-trap technology used in the top of the seem for the window.

Fairly easy to fit though if you buy them yourself. Just use a rubber mallet to whack the excess seal onto the skirt

Possibly to keep the glow-plugs on whilst cranking and warm-up. I did think that alternator was a single rating, but couldnt fully remember

Scott, i've been working for BMW for over 5 years now, and these were a popular car around when i started out and even today we get a lot in. I also have 2 private customers which I look after regularly, and being humbly honest, there isnt a great deal I havnt seen on them. They are good cars to dri...

Racth, you're overloading the battery. The battery in yours is probably an 80 or 90Ah battery, with 570CCA. For all the things you've retrofitted, regardless of doing them uber-properly, there is a much greater demand for power, which the battery simply cannot provide. If possible, go for 100 or 110...

Tony, how do you propose to mate an M50 with a 4 cylinder box?! and if it does go on, i should imagine it would destroy it!!

BMW's acceptable oil usage is 1litre to every 1000 miles! Which is mad! Valvetronic engines tend to use the oil harder to make the engine run easier, allowing for the decrease in engine power loss, so a compromise has to be made somewhere! The oil that was designed by Castrol for use in the Valvetro...

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