I've thought about doing this to mine also, how much is the kit from eurocarparts? As far as I can see it'll be the same as any other 'head to rebuild although the bottom end might need locking into to place (unless there are timing marks to work from?) to avoid any nasty fighting of the valves and ...

Hello folks I've got a 'H' plate 318iLux that has had a terrible habit of draining the battery with an end result of the car not starting, had a look at it today and found: 0.42A draining through the fuse box, so I started pulling fuses until this dropped, pulled fuse 21 and the drain dropped to 0.2...

I had a similar fault on my 318iLUX, whilst driving the lights would dim, the stereo would die and the wipers would go slow, and if left for more than 5mins would sometimes be flat enough not to start the car. It turned out that the new alternator that I had got from a motor factors and fitted was a...

I had this problem on my 318i, it was the main batt/alt/starter cable shorting to earth which in turn burnt the brushes out on the voltage regulator on the alternator. "with the engine off place a multimeter inline from the battery terminal to the positve lead you will find if ther is any current dr...