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The self-park function depends on a spring arm making contact with a copper disc, this has a smear of grease to prevent excessive wear, but over the years the grease tends to harden and prevent good electrical contact. The first sign is often the intermittant wipe function failing but perhaps a faul...

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I am planning to sell this car which I have owned since 2015, details are as follows: Mileage 214,688 MoT to Sept 15” BBS wheels refurbished and with new centre caps, currently fitted with Michelin Alpin winter tyres DanThe has fitted an E46 rack, his uprated engine mounts, Z3 gear lever, eccentric ...

Perhaps the water pump, which is a bit of a weakness on the 6 sylinder cars in my experience.

Haqs it got bent?

You can get windscreen rubber sealant for just this problem.

Hopefully you have found the problem, but if not be a bit suspicious of the fan coupling, I have just had one fail after less than 50 miles!

According to the wiki, the pull rod can be adjusted to control pedal height. There's a small rubber buffer on the lowest part of the bracket that holds the brake light switch, and the rod should be shortened until the arm of the pedal all but touches this buffer. To adjust the brake pedal, slacken o...

Have you checked the thermal cut-out in the central locking relay? It has a strip of metal held to a connector by low melting point solder, if it gets too hot the solder melts and it springs away. Do not use standard solder on it, there is probably enough of the original solder remaining to use agai...

Did you adjust the pull bar that runs across the car from the pedal to the masrer cylinder as was suggested by Dan The?
On my car adjusting that cured the spongey brake problem that felt just as though the brakes needed bleeding.

There is a pull rod running across the car from the brake pedal to the M/C and if that is not properly adjusted it can give a very spongey feel to the pedal so that might be worth looking at, but would not account for the brakes being quite as bad as you describe.

Cloggy Saint wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 09, 2021 6:04 pm
What's a 'ratched'?

It's like a mouseched, but bigger!

Although garages are marking the pumps for E10, as I understand it, they will not actually be selling E10 until September.

You will come across on this board a poster called Brianmoore who is the ultimate guru on everything to do with E30's. I have been collecting bits of his advice for future reference, and one of his most comprehensive posts was on servicing the cluster. I am reposting it below in the hope that it mig...

The FBHVC fuel pages have been updated by our new fuels specialist LINK The important thing is that for those whose vehicles cannot cope with E10, the 98 grade petrol will continue to be E5 as a protection grade. I had a discussion with the previous fuels expert, and he told me that was very little ...

Have you tested the earth connection?

Would it not make more sense to swap your 316i to a bigger engined car that already has an electric sunroof? Personally I never use my electric sunroof anyway, I would happily do without it and its possible rust problems not to mention its channelling water down the A pillar, and go for A/C instead,...

I had strange effects on an E36 years ago which turned out to be the tyres deteriorating internally, while they seemed perfectly good on the outside. If your tyres are old it might be worthwhile changing them earlier than you might otherwise to see if that solves it.

If clutch fluid is leaking out, air might be getting in; try pumping the clutch a couple of times and see if that makes it easier to select first gear.

Cor, I got something right for once! Well done, that's good news.

Because biffer got away with it doesn't mean that you have, while there are all sorts of reasons why the lights may not come on, there are not so many why they should not go off, and the delay unit seems a likely cause to me.

You might regret installing different seats when the time comes to sell the car, while values of E30s have been climbing rather happily, buyers always look for originality.

A big obvious steering wheel lock, then hopefully no one will break in, and look for something easier to steal.

That's a useful warning. Perhaps also a warning against buying very cheap electrical products, there are a lot of very shoddy items of all sorts about now

I use a maintenance charger when not using the car for any lengthy period, in a garage with power that is no problem, outside you can get a solar powered one and you can put it inside the car and run the cable out of the door and under the bonnet, the rubber seals accommodate it easily. Having wreck...

Welcome to the zone, that is a very nice looking car, I have a very similar one in Dolphin Grey. When I bought mine 5 years ago there did not seem to be the same premium for the Sport over the 325i, at any rate I was not aware of paying it. I was certainly not expecting the value to more than treble...

OK, thanks. My email is chuntcooke@gmail.com

Hi Jon, unfortunately that is not the right part, it is the slightly earlier version that does not have the cut-out at the base of the reflector, which was introduced in about 1989. I have been looking at what parts books I can find on line and I believe the correct part number is 63121386635 or 631...

It is a Hella headlight and is the bottom of those illustrated on this page [url]https://www.e30zone.net/e30wiki/index.p ... Headlights[/u] so from the text, it should be the type fitted from 1989 onwards.

The reg number will not help as it is a pre-facelift car but I have fitted the later lights, the ones with the cut-out at the bottom, known as smilies. It is the left side.

A stone has broken the front glass of one of my dipped beam headlights, this is the "smiley" type, and is therefore changeable for LH/RH dip. I need only the actual insert or unit itself, not the mounting. Can I have a price for this please?

For standard work you could try A1 in Stevenage https://www.independentbmwgarage.co.uk/ ... pecialists but for anything modified go to BMR

My car sits exactly like this. It has mtech suspension from the factory as an option but god knows what’s in it now. Spring manufacturers will say “does not fit mtech” and I don’t know why. If your car had it from factory, the problem might be that. Mine looks identical and I hate it The mtech spri...

What does it take to get the engine running again?

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