Soft top rear deck storage panel

[E30Mark]

How do you 'lift' the storage panel on a soft top with out power to the car?. There is a cab in the breakers near me, the roof is up and i want to gain access into where the roof normally stores away to access some of the bolts in there... but i can't see how to lift the panel with out destrying it! which i don't want to do as it's mint...

cheers

[mrLEE30]

Are you sure if its electric, ie check if there is a door handle behind passenger seat on the intewrior side panel!

[E30Mark]

There is no handle! but there are gear box motors in the boot... i thought only the early cabs had interior release handles? this is a '93 cab

Just had a thought.... if this was a manual roof car would there still be any motors in the boot visible?

[orangecurry]

if there is no handle it is electric

you have to disengage the motors - access is in the boot; it's kind of difficult to explain how... you move a lever on each motor and the lid should open easily

what colour is the car?

[E30Mark]

Cheers for the info! i managed to fiddle with the drivers side motor and it disengaged, but i could not see what to do with the motor in the middle... oh it's light metallic green, was in nice condition, but had a hard spank to the drivers front

[E30Mark]

Couple of pics of the car...

[orangecurry]

cool - right look at the boot picture - see on the central motor housing within the small rectangular hole there is a metal tube?

that disengages the hood-lid motor; can't remember if you push or pull...

where is this car please?

[BrAdZ]

what colour do bmw call that car because mine is the same but there must be a special name?

Adam

[orangecurry]

it'll say on your suspension turret

[DaveD]

so whst sre you taking off it ....hood motors are hens teeth and the flap motors are nearly as bad...how good is the hood itself

[E30Mark]

I'm going to grab the motors whilst they are still there

The hood is holed at the back, and the rear window is cloudy and split, i assume the frame is also bent, this car has had a serious whack... the photo's don't show how bad the floor / transmission tunnel is...

oh the car is at Trents in Poole

[GuyM]

E30Mark.........did you just stumble across that car or did someone tell you it was there? smacked up cabs with their hood motors still in there are like rocking horse poo....make sure you get all the motors, control arms/rods elecs and switches out....have you seen bmw prices for replacements!!!

[orangecurry]

too far away for me

be careful taking the main motor out

hexagon screws - I think 4 and accessed from the top

make sure you take the main rod connector off first - that main rod (mostly round but a flat bit) is over 30 GBP from BMW

it'd be well worth taking everything from under the flap; someone will want them

[E30Mark]

Right i'm back from the breakers...

Big up to orangecurry i popped off the centre motor and was able to lift open the lid

I got the motors, gearboxes, connecting rods, bootlid struts, boot trim, and a few odds and sods for good money, i'm well chuffed!

Now just need a cab

E30Adam & his lovely girlfriend (With a equally lovely motorsport) are having one of the motors, hope to get her hood working properly... the rest will be up for grabs!

Ziggy, there is a boot lid strut here with your name on it too!

It was just luck i found this cab, popped in Saturday for a bit for the g/f Rover, and there was this cab! I just hope no one was driving it at the time of impact, it's a right mess inside.

[orangecurry]

don't you people have jobs?

wish I could spend all day at the breakers mutter

[E30Mark]

don't you people have jobs?

Its the ONE benefit of running my own business !

Currently i'm having another unpaid day off

wish I could spend all day at the breakers mutter

I do hope your not using company time/machines to surf the net

[orangecurry]

err well I wouldn't put it quite like that erm ahh look at that interesting thing over there

well sort of - I write stuff for websites, so it's my PC and my connection but someone else is paying me in a 'lump-sum for doing it' sort of way

if the breakers are not too expensive, I'd grab anything left of the interior; the rear speaker covers for instance; easy to post on Ebay

[gazza]

looking at the colour i would say you have a 318 design motorsport edition cab its colour should be neon green metalic they are one of the last made and are a special edition in a limited number made .... i have one in neon blue they came with recaro interior black wth a neon green diagonal stripe mtec 2 steering wheel and gear nob also had 15inch bbs wheels someone said that either 200 or 500 were made as a end of line run with all the extra bits added definately a good find

[Ziggy]

Ziggy, there is a boot lid strut here with your name on it too!

Cheers mate!

Glad you sorted it all

[GuyM]

E30Mark.....could you give me first refusal on the hood motor (not the flap motor) if you and E30Adam don't need it (or even if the motor is broken, because i just need the casting/housing)
cheers