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General Topics / BMW Dealer Asking 40K Over Sticker for the BMW 1M Coupe

« on: August 04, 2011, 09:50:07 AM »

Whatever the market will bear. If there's an idiot willing to pay that markup then more power to the dealer.

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Engine + Driveline / Warm start stall

« on: August 29, 2008, 04:59:18 PM »

I've tried a camshaft sensor on mine and that didn't help. Also after today's hot restart the antilock brake light came on, that's a new one.

I had a Mitsu Galant VR-4 once and one time it started dieing and it turned out to be the alternator, reason I mention this is that the antilock brake light came on while this was happening, the alternator light never came on. Apparently the antilock system is much more sensitive to low voltage than the rest of the car.

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Engine management / Idle drops and engine dies...

« on: June 28, 2008, 07:38:18 PM »

Thanks Mike,

I look into that too.

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Engine management / Idle drops and engine dies...

« on: June 27, 2008, 07:33:18 PM »

Thanks, yeah I agree don't think a coil would make the thing die. Strange.

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Engine management / Idle drops and engine dies...

« on: June 26, 2008, 07:56:12 PM »

Haven't completely figured out the pattern yet but the engine has recently started to stall. It idles just fine but will die and then starts right up and runs fine after that. The check engine light comes on as this is happening  but then goes out.

Stomp test shows 1271 and the Peake Tool shows 37. Can't find either of these codes.

Car has COP conversion and the 93 Mark D chip and the ICV has been cleaned.

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Suspension / Here's a write up.

« on: December 08, 2006, 12:28:16 PM »

http://www.teamdfl.com/bmw/e30/rear_wheel_bearings/index.html

Looks simple enough, IF, you have the right tools.

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Electrical / Do You Have Jittery Guages?

« on: September 28, 2006, 09:59:50 PM »

My water temp and fuel guages have been intermittent and shaky since I got the car about 2 years ago.

The odometer quit so while I had the cluster out to replace the gears I took a look at the two trouble makers. Found that they just clip into the circuit board yet have a threaded shaft that sticks through the back of the cluster. The threaded shaft is part of the electrical circuit and there is a pad on the circuit board for it.

I cleaned up the contact pads and found two nuts and washers of appropriate size and locked the two guages down. So far not a jiggle out of either guage.

Also, while I had the cluster out, I spliced in two wires into the blue connector harness and added an additional low oil pressure light that lives next to the rear window defrost switch.

One of these days I'll install a proper oil pressure guage.


Hope this helps someone.

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Exterior / Dashboard strippin'

« on: September 23, 2006, 01:07:24 PM »

I see, thought you made the plate yourself.

Item 3 here?

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General Topics / tie rod removal

« on: September 23, 2006, 01:03:19 PM »

Here's a good write up on it.

http://www.esatclear.ie/~bpurcell/318ismaintenance.html#trackrods

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Exterior / Refinish Rear Spoiler

« on: September 23, 2006, 12:59:45 PM »

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a look.

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Exterior / Dashboard strippin'

« on: September 23, 2006, 12:02:51 AM »

So where did you get the material to make the cover plate?

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Exterior / Refinish Rear Spoiler

« on: September 23, 2006, 12:00:49 AM »

Any tips on refinishing the rear spoiler? Mine has fine cracks in it. I've tried a little sanding with no real effect. Is there something out there to fill the cracks.

Thanks.