Dancing with the wipers !

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haffeel
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:49 pm

My temperature guage needle swings rapidly left to right when ever I switch on my windscreen wiper.

Now is this a bug or feature in an E30 vehicle?

thanks
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 2:53 pm

haha, sounds like new in-car-entertainment

bad earth may be? normally the cause of most faults. i wouldnt know where tho, sorry.
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:39 pm

New one on me! There's a whole bunch of earths above the glovebox inspection panel. Worth a try.
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:57 pm

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Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:45 pm

you taken the cluster apart and checked the bolt's tight on the back of the temp guage? check for dry joints on the board too. my bro's old 318is used to do this many years ago, not with the wipers though, just when it felt like it!
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Mon Feb 20, 2006 12:48 pm

thanks everyone
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