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FAQ / REFERENCE => M42 Reference => Topic started by: Febi Guibo on March 09, 2006, 09:11:03 PM

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: Febi Guibo on March 09, 2006, 09:11:03 PM

E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual (http://ee1394.com/bmw/docs/e30_91.pdf)
Radio wiring diagram (http://ee1394.com/bmw/docs/radio/radio_diagram.pdf)
Power Mirror wiring diagram (http://m42club.com/reference/wiring_diagrams/51160_PowerMirrors.pdf)

.pdf-format files, enjoy

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: dude8383 on March 09, 2006, 10:42:21 PM

woah thats sick! you wouldn't happen to know where i can get a bentley manual in pdf format? I dont feel like paying for the e30 bentley manual cause it doesn't even cover our engines..

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: Eurospec on March 09, 2006, 11:05:06 PM

I don't think the bentley exists in electronic form. I do however have the Haynes   (~7mb). Anyway to host it here?

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: bmwman91 on March 09, 2006, 11:17:42 PM

A Haynes PDF would be handy.  We need to be careful though, let's try to avoid posting copyrighted material in the club forum.  Now, i cannot stop anyone from emailing such things!  hint hint

admin@e30tuner.com for reference

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: dude8383 on March 10, 2006, 12:40:18 PM

heh i've got the haynes manual d/led already..the bentley is soo much more thorough, i guess ill have to buy myself a copy.

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: asubimmer on March 10, 2006, 12:47:56 PM

I have the bently but I prob need to get the e36 one also.  I just don't want to spend the $ on it right now, haha

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: Febi Guibo on March 10, 2006, 12:53:04 PM

I don't think these are from the bentley...

but, until we get our class-action lawsuit going again Bentley for omitting our cars from the E30 manual... you can go to the bentley forum, request content from the E36 manual, and they will e-mail you .pdf's of the relevant pages for free.

I have the E36 manual also, but it's not as much help as you'd think... and it was $42 when I bought it.

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: asubimmer on March 10, 2006, 01:01:21 PM

awsome thanks for that info/saving me $

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: kowalski on March 10, 2006, 02:37:06 PM

thats just what i was looking for! thanks!

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: dude8383 on March 10, 2006, 06:28:41 PM

from what i remember the E36 manual covers the updated m42, with one serpentine belt..

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: thumper3ld on March 11, 2006, 08:08:14 AM

I have the e36 in pdf if anyone is interested.

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: asubimmer on March 11, 2006, 11:32:49 AM

Quote from: thumper3ld

I have the e36 in pdf if anyone is interested.

I use it...

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: ak96ss on March 22, 2006, 03:59:49 PM

The reference above doesn't have page 5116-0, covering the power mirror circuit.  I found that page in the manual for an '89 ix, and it seems to be the same.

Too big to attach, Febi can you host it?

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: dude8383 on March 22, 2006, 04:05:54 PM

Quote from: thumper3ld

I have the e36 in pdf if anyone is interested.

send it to me!

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: asubimmer on March 22, 2006, 04:22:08 PM

I want it too, I don't know why I said "I use it"!?!?

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: 1991318is on March 22, 2006, 10:49:19 PM

Quote from: thumper3ld

I have the e36 in pdf if anyone is interested.

I'd like it also, my email is tennis_13@msn.com thanks if your able to, if not, it's no big deal.

Brendan

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: Febi Guibo on March 23, 2006, 04:27:35 AM

Hey, post at top updated with power mirror wiring diagram... thump, email me the e36 doc and i'll put it up too... thanks

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: Febi Guibo on March 23, 2006, 11:21:44 AM

e36 manual posted... don't fall in love with that link, i'm going to move it in a bit... thanks

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: doubled on January 20, 2007, 08:15:10 PM

maybe someone have any wiring scheme for C101 pin? or engine wiring?

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: ak96ss on May 17, 2007, 10:42:03 AM

Anyone have page 6210-2?

I have something on Fuse 21 that is on and draining power from the battery, and in the process of tracing circuits, discovered that this page is referenced as a connection from fuse 21 (on page 0670-10), but is not in the ETM we have.

Thanks!

Edit: And it's not the trunk light switch! Unless that pulses about 3 times per second when it fails, and continues to do so when the trunk light switch is physically removed from the car.

Title: Does this help?
Post by: kona2four on May 17, 2007, 06:04:50 PM

(http://www.peakadvisors.com/misc/bmw/fuse21.jpg)

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: ak96ss on May 17, 2007, 07:22:41 PM

Not really, no. I know it goes to pin 2 in connector C1 of the instrument cluster - I am curious where it goes from there...  :)

Thanks, though!

Title: Sorry, got lazy with conversions
Post by: kona2four on May 18, 2007, 06:40:28 AM

I am the village idiot when it comes to anything electrical (sounds like you're speaking Greek to me) but I do think I have all the wiring diagrams - just not sure what you need (the numbers you gave don't correspond to my schematics)

Part 1 of 2

(http://www.peakadvisors.com/misc/bmw/fuse%20block%201.jpg)

Title: Part 2 of 2
Post by: kona2four on May 18, 2007, 06:41:12 AM

(http://www.peakadvisors.com/misc/bmw/fuse%20block%202.jpg)

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: Frankie on May 18, 2007, 12:59:57 PM

For 318is you need Bentley service manual for E30 AND e36, since the m42 engine is found only from e36 manual-

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: ak96ss on May 19, 2007, 05:57:49 AM

OK, I found what I was looking for, in the manual for the 1992 E30 318ic, so it should be the same in our cars.

It's not the Bentley I'm looking for, as I have both the E30 and E36 Bentley's - it is the particular page I asked about in the ETM.

I've extracted the pages to a .pdf file containing just the Instrument Cluster pages, but I can't attach it because of the file size limitations - it is about 800k. Febi?   :)

Title: How does the ETM compare to Mitchell?
Post by: kona2four on May 19, 2007, 07:33:32 AM

Here is the instrument cluster schematic from Mitchell

(http://www.peakadvisors.com/misc/bmw/instrument%20cluster.jpg)

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: ak96ss on May 19, 2007, 09:36:54 AM

This is the page from the ETM.

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: ak96ss on July 21, 2007, 07:53:38 AM

I have modified the ETM we currently have to include a lot of the missing pages - however, I don't have a means of hosting the file. Anyone care to host it? It is over 16MB.

Title: E30 318is Electrical Troubleshooting Manual
Post by: wrcarter on October 24, 2007, 08:47:53 AM

Is that bently manual still available?