E30 Zone

My speedo has stopped working.

It started being temperamental at first but now doesnt move at all.

Any suggestions?

My cars a F reg 2.5i

Speedtouch wrote:0.25mm sounds fine, 0.25m on the other hand, is way out!

haha yeah wups missed an m out!

oh it says on that link use a 0.25mm feeler gauge to set the gaps

Speedtouch wrote:It is indeed. The M20B25 to give it its full moniker.

awesome

so 0.25m it is.

I best get started as it looks like it might take a while!

Thanks mate thats awesome

Sorry if i sound stupid but is the 325 an M20 engine?

I need to sort the tappets out on my 325

Does anyone know what the clearance distances need to be for the tappets?

pac1982 wrote:No i have a £300 excess and a fully comp policy for about £500 on my 318IS which also allows me to drive other peoples cars third party only

Sounds good
I will have to give them a call!

I paid £835 last year with Egg

So im looking for anything cheaper as their renewal price is over a grand!

I got my cheapest quote from Done Deal Car Insurance......... http://www.donedealinsurance.co.uk/ Thats who i'm with at the moment, never used them before and luckily up till now not really had to call on there services but they seem ok Did you have to set a high excess? They came up as the cheapes...

Falkster wrote:Peter Best

Just had a look at their site and they say they wont insure BMW's with an engine capacity over 2 Litres :/

magoo_1 wrote:
DougieN13 wrote:Im newish to this site.

Are there many meets around the Peterborough area?

so how many of us are around the peterborough area?

Not sure mate, not many i dont think ha

Its getting to that time of the year again when i need to renew my car insurance on my 325i E30

Just wondered if anyone had any suggestions where the best place to insure my E30 is?

willnz wrote:SI batteries are inside the instrument cluster. Arrowed in the pic below..

Thanks mate your a star!

Picked up my car from the garage this morning and driving back realized the rev counter and the computer isnt working now. So you take it to a garage to fix a problem and by fixing one they create two more. Awesome. This can be a by product of the main car battery being disconnected for a while whi...

I have a zoner local to me with the same issue. We have swapped the relay mentioned for the same one in my touring without success... As this car is also displaying all the faults that I would expect from an SI board failure we have swapped the cluster as well,still an ABS light when moving,no rev ...

mmmm yeah im not sure

Havnt had a good chance to have a look since picked it up as had to go straight to work, will have a look tonight.

Im hoping they have just missed something when putting it back together

I hope you haven't paid these muppets any great amount for their incompetence!! This is a very basic and easy fault to diagnose, and the relevant wiring is plainly shown on the circuit diagram. Oh and guess what Picked up my car from the garage this morning and driving back realized the rev counter...

Yeah im not planning on paying them much.

This is the one time iv decided to use a garage rather than do it myself with a friend because i thought would be easyier and quicker.

Well i know better next time ha

You lot were right

The wiring in that relay was dodgy, and the garage hadnt checked that one as was not directly involved with the ABS on the diagram.

Thanks for all your help

Now i can can get my beaut back on the road!

suzie650 wrote:What year is the car?

1988 i think, its an F Reg

Thanks Geoff

Il check that fuse out and hopefully will fix the problem

Will let you know, if you find where the fuse is will you let me know, save me searching aroung ha

Dougie

Heres a wiring diagram of the abs system for my car and iv put a selection around where the signal problem is i tried to describe
Click below to see
http://www.bigdealclothing.co.uk/abs.html

I couldnt go in the end as my car was still off the road, having problems with the ABS so the MOT people wont put it through grr

The ABS light has been on my F Reg 325i for the past year since i bought it. When i test drove the car the light wasnt on and then when i cam e back to buy it the light was on and the guy said was because he'd left the lights on and when they jump started the car it came one. I hadnt fixed it till w...

Im newish to this site.

Are there many meets around the Peterborough area?

hongkongfuey wrote:0.25 mm cold

Sweet
have you done your tappets before then?

Brianmoooore wrote:Fully adjustable, and part of the regular service schedule.

Thats good then

are there specific settings they need to be?

I need to sort the tappets out on my F reg E30, its a 325i because they are way too loud. Are they manually adjusted tappets so i can sort them out with feeler gages or automatically adjusted tappets so id have to get new tappets? Has anyone sorted out tappets on there's and could give me some advic...

Hyperion wrote:Bloody Miss Pickering, we should all give her a call and ask if she has tried to kill any BMW drivers today!

http://www.misspickering.com/contactus.html

Haha
do it!

i tried leving some commenst on her blog where she talks about how 'her van got hit by a BMW'
but she deletes anything i put!

ParksOfBathgate wrote:You know Katie Wong don't you? When I told her that I was getting an E30 she showed me the pictures of yours before and after the smash. Gutted for you.

Hey
i might do,

Wheres she from? whats her myspace?

Well it could have been a lot worse to say the least. At least you're alright, that's the main thing. Money / cars can wait. Some poor bloke I used to go to school with died in a car crash this week :( You have to be damn careful on the roads these days, people just don't pay attention because they...

Quote from her website... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Fw8biBy5Ras/R7V1l0ADxSI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/5tckoVUO3g8/S220/me1bw.jpg It is that time of year, resolutions, new starts and a desire to do something a bit different. Christmas was wonderful, very relaxing, and delicious food courtesy of The Mother Hen. Un...

georob wrote:Damn, that looked a sore one, glad your still here though to tell the tale, was a nice looking e30 beforehand too.

Hope you get whats owed

Thanks man
yeah i hope i get a big pay out!

iv already bought another E30! Black 325i this time

il put some pics up when iv done some work on it

That is a real shame! Glad your ok though! Any pics of your car when it was in one peice! :cool: yeah man they are quite old and before id done a few more things to it but here you go http://www.bigdealclothing.co.uk/pictures/beforecrash.jpg http://www.bigdealclothing.co.uk/pictures/beforecrash2.jp...

bss325i wrote:Looking at the grass, it was a frosty day? I guess that didnt help.

yeah man they hadnt gritted the road

which was why i was going like 30 on a 60 road but obviously the woman hadnt heard of driving to the conditions!

georgen wrote:Jeez Dude,

I think that you're lucky to be here !! Do you remember much about it or is it all a blank ?

dnt remember a lot, just remember seeing a van coming towards me then the next thing a man dragging me out the car and the taste of blood ha

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