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I'm looking opinions on the z3 vs 'purple tag' steering racks, which is best for road, and which for track?

I've found a 2000, 1.9 Z3 breaking locally to me, but I can't convince the breaker to go and check the tag number for me... Is there a chance this vehicle would have the 2.7 turn rack?

Thanks Satan, Ok, so I had a check under the column, I can make an earth contact on the steering column all the way up to the section BEFORE the steering wheel section just behind the wheel, and presumably where the contact meets the splines to earth the horn. Before I strip off all the stalks and s...

Hey Satan, could you find a pic of where this point is? Is the earth original connection on the outside of the car (to the bottom of the steering column, that earths the splines)

Thought I would bump an old thread than make a new one. So I’m having horn troubles, the live from the push rod and brass ring is good. And I can earth it against the indicator / wiper earth connections on the dash to make the horn work... I’m not however, able to earth it against the steering colum...

Hey Mark, Yup continuity test revealed it was a problem with the board, found the rd/bu pin and couldn’t find any continuity from that to any other pin. So got a second hand board, built it up and it works again. Thanks for the info, was able to check the new board for these pins, and learned someth...

Hi guys, I'm not sure when this happened, but my left indicator light in the cluster has stopped working. This became apparent recently when trying to diagnose an indicator problem... My left hand side indicators would cause a buzzing noise under the dash. This turned out to be the passenger side wi...

@speedtouch - the car is a 92 convertible, and this was taped up in the left hand side of the boot. Good call regarding the aerial... hadn't thought of that! Had the aerial hole flushed so could be that! @Paul - it must be the photo / funny angle, those connectors should all be connected, I will dou...

Hi, Any experts here help me out identifying if a) the wires pictured below belong to the original loom and b) where they go? ok first up, I found these connectors, they share the same wiring branch as the rear passenger side window motor connection... Any ideas? One is considerably longer than the ...

ok guy, I'll hit him with a pm.

Thanks again for all your help.

If the electric hood works then it won't be for that, how long is the cable and is there a female part close buy for it to plug into, Brianmoooore will know so hopefully he will be along soon. the hood hasn't worked in some time now, i'll explain below. the cable isn't very long, maybe 20cm? I can'...

hey folks, While diagnosing a non-functioning electric hood... I came across a mystery connector coming from the underside of the fuse box, pictured below... http://www.simonsmyth.co.uk/stuff/cab/2018/may/1.JPG http://www.simonsmyth.co.uk/stuff/cab/2018/may/5.JPG http://www.simonsmyth.co.uk/stuff/ca...

thought I would throw my own in... plz excuse the ford in the background

bought a set of genuine cabriolet skirts for my own project recently from bmw

£400 for the pair

nice vid bud but not the same one... the clip I watched was recorded at a track racing event like silverstone or somewhere like that... its a pretty vintage clip, all out track racing

that e30 m3 is unreal!

saw a vid posted on here a while back of a black e30 m3 duelling against another vehicle in a circuit/track event... no idea of the name of driver or event (although the event and the driver were fairly well known on here, professional racing, the clip is fairly old aswell), all i remember is the m3...

i would give anything for a set of those centre caps!

ANYTHING!!

cant find a set anywhere...

Car looks stunning mate... credit to you!

could we see pics glenn?? Would be interesting to see how these are done!

last time I saw the cab... it looked like this...

you are a complete legend! keep the photo's coming!

my cab on toplines

I'm sure a few others will be along to post pics soon

love them personally... not everyones cuppa tea tho

do bbs do inbetween sizes?

as in 8.5" dish??

would be interested also in the rims also, could you pm or post a base price when you can?

Why when the coil is fed a live does the DME relay click and car starts? It must back-feed some how, only thing seems to connect the two is the alarm. Any ideas?

bump

Still no joy getting the car started.

@Brianmoooore - mate would it be possible to give you a call, willing to pay for your time, I'd rather see you get it than some garage?

utterly scunnered, the car was supposed to be going for a restoration short of month ago

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I think thats the thread brian is relating to... I know because its my own

you and i seem to have the same problem guss300, be thankful your car even starts!!

In relation to ECU's... 173 and 380 are interchangeable. so would this mean a 173 inplace of a 380 would let her turn over and start? the problem I'm having is the cabriolet is cranking over and not starting... shes getting fuel but no spark, we traced the problem back to the coil... when fed direct...

bumpidy...

we took the clocks out to check for a split on the drivers side/under column, we weren't able to find one anywhere, it seems solid all the way across from the multiplug to the above image

The wire from the switch goes through a plug and socket that should be clipped half way down the steering column, then splits a few inches later, at a soldered joint, between other ignition controlled functions and the feed to the engine loom. so we pulled the glovebox out today to trace the wire f...

does anybody know the colour of the wire from the ecu to the coil?

the wire is green coming out of the coil header for the ECU

but at first glance the only matching wire at the ecu end is green/blue

ok were pretty sure the relay is working fine when the relay is closed manually, clicking occurs, when earthed against the car, clicking occurs. car fires. so the relay is not getting triggered from the earth here... according to mr moore's previous postings the ECU earths the relay and coil? so wou...

ok, were thinking it must be a problem between the ignition to the coil... could it be the relay? when we turn the ignition on there is no click from this, then once the coil is given direct feed from the batt it clicks! car starts! were tracing our way through from the ignition through to the glove...

ok, so the alarm is now out... getting fuel now but still no spark... changed the distributer cap and rotar arm as these were corroded, still no joy. we tested the coil for power with ignition on and when cranking the engine, still no power to either side of the coil... now... when the coil is fed d...

your a gent! but to be honest I'l leave it with folks who know what they're doing lol as my wiring knowledge is limited to plugging stuff into a pc!

thanks for your help guys, I'l keep you posted!

@blingsta

yeah we had a plug off and is definately not receiving a spark, we had one of the fuel lines up at the front of the engine off and there is no fuel circulating round...

could it be a brain problem?

i think that might be a very real course of action... stripping it out completely

we had the battery on, then we had one off a new vectra on it, turned and turned... seemed like it fired at one stage but then died within seconds

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