E30 Zone

My car didn't start yesterday and these are symptons,

- Instrument lights cloving while I start and after I have tried to start, a couple of seconds later they come back + sometimes when I put siderepeaters on they make a strange noise (relay?).

- Starter doesn't make any sound when turning the key.


Car starts from diagnosisplug pin 11 and 14 immediately, not any problems at all, lights work etc. until I press brakepedal, engine stops!

After I removed rearlights and started the car again using pins 11 and 14, pressed brakepedal again and no problems??

When engine is really warm, it sometimes (just once) starts from ignition lock, even when rearlight was on place, but after a couple of hours, nothing happened.

- Battery is new
- 100% original what comes to electrics, no alarm, no retro fitted stereos.

Ps. rearlights checked today, no visible problems and no water in a boot.

Problem was rusty nut under fusebox.

Rusty nut under fuse box............can you elaborate on that?

Im interested to see what this is?

Missed this the first time around!
Power to the fiusebox comes from one of the two smaller terminals on the battery + terminal, and the other end of this wire is fixed to the circuit board inside the fusebox by a cap bolt, which is visible from the top of the fusebox, and a nut underneath.
There shouldn't be any rust in an E30 fusebox, but I think what probably happens is that sometime in the cars past some muppet has loosened he bolt from above in an attempt to open up the fusebox.