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tunnyx
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Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:02 pm
I just spotted this on a recent thread:
Ranchero wrote:
e30topless wrote:Went to a local breakers today in the hopes of plundering a pre-facelift bronze 320i Auto they had just taken delivery of.
What a piece of shit!! Only 62,000 on the clock but really nasty. One owner from new, the story went. Every part of the interior was worn to bits, cracks the size of the grand canyon through the dash and the seats were finished in labrador. Made mine look concourse, which gives me hope.
Anyway, I digress. The point being the engine wasn't the same as mine. Couldn't find the ICV or the Clutch fluid bottle and it only had one washer bottle.
Ranchero wrote: pre-facelift bronze 320i Auto
Ranchero wrote:Couldn't find the Clutch fluid bottle
they are very hard to find on an auto

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And it got me thinking. There must be hundreds of classic bloopers on these threads - anyone got any more?
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tunnyx
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Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:04 pm
and apologies to E30topless - nothing sinister intended, just genuinely laughed out loud at that one, sorry m8
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Speedtouch
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Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:07 pm
I spent quite some time trying the 'pump the throttle pedal 5 times' method to read my 325iSE's Motronic fault codes via the 'Check Engine' dashboard light, only to be advised by Brianmoooore that UK-spec cars aren't fitted with the lamp; it only applies to US spec cars - doh!
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e30topless
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Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:12 pm
tunnyx wrote:and apologies to E30topless - nothing sinister intended, just genuinely laughed out loud at that one, sorry m8
Ranchero wrote:e30topless wrote:Ranchero wrote: pre-facelift bronze 320i Auto
Ranchero wrote:Couldn't find the Clutch fluid bottle
they are very hard to find on an auto

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dowot
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Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:17 am
Speedtouch wrote:I spent quite some time trying the 'pump the throttle pedal 5 times' method to read my 325iSE's Motronic fault codes via the 'Check Engine' dashboard light, only to be advised by Brianmoooore that UK-spec cars aren't fitted with the lamp; it only applies to US spec cars - doh!
thanks...........that explains why it didn't work for me as well
