front towing eye location?

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328ibarneysport
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Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:54 pm

just after purchasing first e30 318is. car over heating, think it could be the head gasket. just wondering is there a front towing eye and where abouts is it
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Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:56 pm

There is a little, square plastic cover in the black bump strip, behind which is the threaded socket for the towing eye you, hopefully, have in your tool kit.
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Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:58 pm

drivers side front bumper
should be a small plastic cap
if your lucky the screw in tow hooks in the boot

if your unlucky its not and your fecked 8O

also the thread that the tow hook goes in could well be rotten

hopefully not if your lucky

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Mon Feb 05, 2007 9:58 pm

I think you will find there is a little square cover in the black trim in your bumper.You pull this off and then there is a hook in your boot that you screw into the thread behind the cover.This is if my memory is correct as mine was written off 4 years ago.
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Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:12 pm

cheers boys. hopefully i have eye
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Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:32 pm

careful when you're towing, a few jerks off centre and you can have a towing eye at a jaunty angle....
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