E30 Zone

does any one know what the small white plastic thing in the rear tool kit in the E30 is ? it looks like a plastic wheel nut with a cylinder coming out of it !!!! in the middle it has a very small threaded allen headed screw in it !!!!! please help !!!!

Hi pod

Is it this your on about


Its for winding up the windows if the window motors pack up, hope this helps you out

Martin

They say you learn something new every day, and that's my thing for today.
What are you supposed to do with it?

wind up the windows

Brianmoooore wrote:They say you learn something new every day, and that's my thing for today.
What are you supposed to do with it?

Brian,

It only works on cars that have the blanking hole in the door cards.

I believe it screws into the place a manual winder would be, and you then use the spark plug socket thingy from the toolkit to wind the window up if the motor or electrics fail.

Ian.

Is that a thing for later cars, cos my '85 just has a hex socket behind the blanking plug that you bung an allen key directly into.

my tool kits only got one bent screwdriver in it and nothing else

scottybeemer wrote:wind up the windows

Maybe I should have put that, "how do you use it?"
Does that only work with the very early design of electric windows then?
Can't think of anywhere from memory, where that would fit into the newer mechanism.