E30 Zone

has any one ever de-locked the boot ? if so could you give me some help. i'm having trouble working out how to remote unlock it. i did it before on my wv golf cab that was easy but this one is proving a bit harder.

many thanks

make some sort of ring on the boot and a hook mechanism in the trunk and run a cable to under your dash or summit.

shouldn't be to haard I guess

thats the kinda thing i was thinking but i want to use the soildned (spelling lol) just cant see how to remove the button part whilst living the catch in place??

I had that soilenoid thing for opening the boot in my old 2 door E30, cause i replaced the numberplate and delocked it.

Still have the car here, i'll take some pics of it tonight.

E30Fred wrote:I had that soilenoid thing for opening the boot in my old 2 door E30, cause i replaced the numberplate and delocked it.

Still have the car here, i'll take some pics of it tonight.

top man cheers

My digi cam doesn't work, i'll try to borrow one asap.

The lock and the mechanism that opens the boot can be taken apart into 2 pieces.
The lock is just the black thing and the shiny round thing you see on the outside, it pushes a lever in the copper-like mechanism that opens the boot.
You can remove the lock with a 10mm wrench, but you do have to remove the entire thing first.
Don't remember how exactly..

When you get the whole thing out, there are 2 10mm bolts that holds the lock onto the rest.
Remove the lock, put the rest back in your E30, and push the lever in the hole.. Tada your boot opens!
You have to operate the lever with the solenoid..

And if you want to go a little bit futher, put a spring (or install an Autoloc doorpopper) on the boot lid, and if you have the M-tech 2 spoiler springs for the lid, but no spoiler, your boot pops open when you press a button..
You can use the pump thingies that holds the boot open in a cab aswell.

Ps, sorry for the English, don't know a lot of the technical words..

cheers giz your magic i'll be doing it tomorrow so i'll let you know how i get on.

cheers again

ps those vents should be here soon.

here e30fred all the bits worked fine but where do you attact the popper lol

i'm useing the popper in the boot already or is it best to get a dif one?

if any one can help that would be cool.

cheers

if you delock the doors and the boot.and your battery goes flat you can't get in. my alarm messed up locked the keys in with the engine running, I had brake in to my own car

steedymorgan wrote:here e30fred all the bits worked fine but where do you attact the popper lol

i'm useing the popper in the boot already or is it best to get a dif one?

if any one can help that would be cool.

cheers

The popper in the boot already is for the central locking. I used a different one.
Finally got some pic's aswell:



Test setup.. It worked great.



Just finished delocking it here.



With the M-tech II kit on.



The old one, with a M-tech I bumper.



Never got around to painting that bumper..

cheers fred good man. i'll be doing mine real soon.

Thats next on my list, Mine has started to rot around the number plate lights and around the lock!!

Going into bodyshop next month!!

reedy do you know you can get a black cover for inbetween the rear lights like the ones on the face lift models
http://img59.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... 25i4vz.jpg
my old one on the left had one on it ive never seen one on any other before

but i do like the idea of it flush though

Hello mate,

Can get that bit, Number plate base!

Ԛ£20 for cash!!!!!!!

Sorry to hijack the thread..

i have also a flushed back and delocked boot on my 325i cab... its a late mtec 2... now the problem im having is that the solenoid is buggered or something....and the boot does not open with the remote... and as far as i can see there is no manual release. So can anyone advise on how to pop it open?? Is there a way to get through from the under the hood cover??

many thanks

littlejim wrote:if you delock the doors and the boot.and your battery goes flat you can't get in. my alarm messed up locked the keys in with the engine running, I had brake in to my own car

There is a way to prevent this - all you have to do is lead a wire from the "+" of the battery somewhere out of the car - under the boot or somewere else. Then isolate the end of the wire so it cannot touch anything and create a short circuit. In case of emergency just cut off the isolation, attach + from another battery to the wire, "-" to any of body pannels and ur done.