E30 Zone

my mates mate had a 318 tourer and was scrapping it so my mate bought it for a ton and used it for some fun in the snow for a week and had the intention of scrapping it and making a few quid that way. I offered him 140 which has subsequently saved it from the scrap yard. A big pat on the back for me. Its taxed and motd for a couple more week. Driven it and oh my god. What a wonderful drive. Smooth over the bumps. A pleasure to drive.
Thats not to say its without its faults.
So im wondering if anybody can shed light on the problems.
Horn not working,
Seems to only be 1 wheel drive, and leaking power steering fluid. However, its a more solid car than my 316 so im going to resurrect the tourer now haha. Will be a nice summer car me thinks.

Well done but

Hi, my cab was leaking PAS fluid and it turned out to be the pump which needed replacing which wasnt cheap! It cold just be one of the seals around the pump though which is a muc cheaper fix

pac1982 wrote:Well done but

Will put pics up when i get to a computer. Im on my phone at the minute

The reason your horn may not be working is that there may be water in their

madaboutthe30 wrote:The reason your horn may not be working is that there may be water in their

Talking about E30 horns do they all sound so weazley or is it just mine, sounds like noddys bloody horn

pac1982 wrote:

madaboutthe30 wrote:The reason your horn may not be working is that there may be water in their

Talking about E30 horns do they all sound so weazley or is it just mine, sounds like noddys bloody horn

Mine sounds stupid, too. Postman Pat would be ashamed.

Most E30's (along with most other cars on the road) are one wheel drive. You need a limited slip differential if you want two wheel drive.
Horn: Open up the fusebox, and listen to relay K2 when someone pushes the horn button with the ignition on. Does it click?
Alternatively, remove relay K2 and link together pins 30 and 87 of its base with a piece of wire and see what happens.
Most common steering fluid leak is from the ends of the rack, and the cure is to replace the rack, but the leak could be from anywhere. You need to clean things up and see exactly where it is.
Most E30s have a small leak where the hoses go onto the bottom of the resevoir bottle. This is easily cured by removing the crimped clips and replacing them with proper worm drive hose clips.

pac1982 wrote:Talking about E30 horns do they all sound so weazley or is it just mine, sounds like noddys bloody horn

Only on the ones without proper engines or bodies!

One of the little jobs on project cabbie was to remove the pathetic offering that lowly lesser engined cars got for the pair of proper windtone horn that I rescued from the 4 door!
Then I was bought an 'aruga' vintage sound horn for Christmas.....

Brianmoooore wrote:

pac1982 wrote:Talking about E30 horns do they all sound so weazley or is it just mine, sounds like noddys bloody horn

Only on the ones without proper engines!

Are you taking the piss or do 325's come with better horns???

Brianmoooore wrote:

pac1982 wrote:Talking about E30 horns do they all sound so weazley or is it just mine, sounds like noddys bloody horn

Only on the ones without proper engines!

Tut, tut, Brian. Mine has a 'proper' engine and a toy - town sounding horn (unless of course the humble 325 engine has been relegated to being a 'rubbish' engine during my brief break from the zone ).

I shall listen for clicking relays as your previous post

pac1982 wrote:

Brianmoooore wrote:

pac1982 wrote:Talking about E30 horns do they all sound so weazley or is it just mine, sounds like noddys bloody horn

Only on the ones without proper engines!

Are you taking the pee pee or do 325's come with better horns???

There are twin tone horns on the 325. I swapped my single tone for a Nautilus air horn - noisy, sounds good and fits behind the centre grill.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STEBEL-Nautilus-A ... 01fc14b718

I only have four saloons; two 325's and two 1.8's. They both have 24 valves between them , though.
Both 325's have twin horns, under the panel beneath the headlamps, and both 4 pots have a single horn behind the kidney grill.
If you have a 325 with a "toy town" horn, then probably one of them has quit.

Pm'ed you RE: the 316 your breaking

My horn sounds like a horn

Brianmoooore wrote:I only have four saloons; two 325's and two 1.8's.

Dont you mean tourers!!!

Sanchez wrote:

Brianmoooore wrote:I only have four saloons; two 325's and two 1.8's.

Dont you mean tourers!!!

No, that's just the saloons. I've over a dozen tourings tucked away! Just the one cab, though.

Sanchez wrote:

Brianmoooore wrote:I only have four saloons; two 325's and two 1.8's.

Dont you mean tourers!!!

he also has many many tourings (not tourers, tut tut)

pac1982 wrote:Talking about E30 horns do they all sound so weazley or is it just mine, sounds like noddys bloody horn

The horn on my iS is pathetic too. I'm thinking of changing it for twin-tone horns from an 8 series. They sound the business!

Brianmoooore wrote: I've over a dozen tourings tucked away!

ive retro fitted 4 horns on my touring as for some reason people like to pull out on me so i needed something to let them know they are in the wrong

Brianmoooore wrote:I've over a dozen tourings tucked away! Just the one cab, though.

Brian,are you some kind of E30 cleptomaniac??

[quote="Brianmoooore"]Most E30's (along with most other cars on the road) are one wheel drive. You need a limited slip differential if you want two wheel drive /quote]
I dont get that? A 2wd car actually being 1wd? Could someone please shed light on how that works? Ta

when you lose grip on one wheel, a normal open diff will simply spin that wheel uncontrollably. a LSD will lock up and apply load to both the wheel with grip and the one without.

so is this normal. Heres the scenario. Left wheel on snow, right on tarmac. Left wheel spinning, right doing nothing hence i go nowhere. Is that correct then and it aint broke? Even when both on snow only 1 wheel spins

e30316coupe wrote:so is this normal. Heres the scenario. Left wheel on snow, right on tarmac. Left wheel spinning, right doing nothing hence i go nowhere. Is that correct then and it aint broke? Even when both on snow only 1 wheel spins

Yes

Just to add some spice to the horn debate, my 318 cab (which 'should' be gone today) has a bloody loud horn so I'm guessing it's the twin thingy.

All cabs and tourings, along with 325 (and probably 320) saloons should have twin horns. It's just 4 pot saloons that have the single.

My 93`318 cab had a single horn and sounded like it was pissed,so i fitted the two horns off my E36 that i broke for my conversion.
Sounds like a proper horn now