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Electrical / Lights are being extremely odd

« on: May 18, 2012, 02:18:36 AM »

Just to be blunt, here's a list of odd things that my lights are doing.
1. left indicator flashes quickly, goes to normal, back to quickly and whatnot on random occasions. I have replaced all of my bulbs, I know that's out of the question.
2. Left indicator signal on the instrument cluster (the green arrow) stays on but does not flash, and when on, the left indicator does not work.
3. Reverse lights haven't worked since I owned the car, nor the fog lights.
4. The rear left brake light doesn't shine as bright as the right rear when my foot is on the brake. Sometimes, the left reverse light may want to work.
5. The light that goes off when the door opens is no longer being sensed unless I manually toggle with the switch but the right door light hasn't worked since I've owned the car.
1991 318is.

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General Topics / What part brands are you buying?

« on: February 05, 2012, 12:55:13 AM »

I always go with the OE brand and if not, you can do research and see what other companies supplied BMW during that perioud and buy from that company seperately for usually a little less

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Engine management / Oil type question?

« on: January 25, 2012, 09:15:17 PM »

I only use liquimolly 10w40 full synthetic. My oem filter works just fine and I've even gone from full synthetic to semi and I had no issues. Other oils just don't compare

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Engine + Driveline / Cine air filter

« on: January 23, 2012, 10:35:08 PM »

Thats my thoughts as well, if I end up putting one on, I'd much rather have it hanging around a cold spot then sulking by the radiator and engine.

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Engine + Driveline / Cine air filter

« on: January 22, 2012, 04:27:58 PM »

I already have the headlight panel, a sort of stock cold air intake. A friend of mine was giving me his extra cone filter for free so I was tempted to use that one but maybe I'll just do a DIY intake.

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Engine + Driveline / Cone air filter

« on: January 21, 2012, 07:53:37 PM »

I have a 1991 E30 318is and I'm not quite sure how to put on my cone air filter. I presume I need a conversion kit because of the location of the sensors. Any ideas? Thanks!

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General Topics / Uhh, help! Please!

« on: December 21, 2011, 02:00:37 AM »

My parts are coming in tomorrow morning and should be up and running tomorrow afternoon or thursday morning. They're doing a flush on top of replacing it all, I just don't have the time necessary for something like this. Will get back tomorrow!

Getting ceramics on all four corners though, so something good came out of this ^.^

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General Topics / Uhh, help! Please!

« on: December 20, 2011, 07:21:36 PM »

Well I just got the diagnosis, it was the master cylinder! So I need to replace that, the rotors, the pads and the calipers now anyway. I might be doing to the labor myself and with a buddy because they're asking shit tons of money.

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General Topics / Uhh, help! Please!

« on: December 20, 2011, 04:12:52 PM »

Dramatic update. On the freeway this morning it began to be very hard to accelerate and I decided I needed to get to school and finish my finals, so I ignored it. As soon as I got to the off ramp, my rear brakes started smoking and everything was just horrendous. Currently is in my shop getting looked at..

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General Topics / Uhh, help! Please!

« on: December 20, 2011, 10:28:39 AM »

Well, I got in the morning and tried to roll it, everything was fine, rolled in first and reverse. I'm almost positive it wasn't anything like cables or fluid because my mechanic just recently did a thorough bumper to bumper check and saw nothing wrong and neither did I.

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General Topics / Uhh, help! Please!

« on: December 20, 2011, 02:29:38 AM »

both were, although I have no jacks laying around to use.. and the one in the trunk is shit

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General Topics / Uhh, help! Please!

« on: December 20, 2011, 12:28:28 AM »

So as I was pulling into my driveway tonight, it felt a little tougher than usual and I was quite puzzled. I finished pulling in, turned the car off and back on. Rolled over and then went off out of nowhere. Tried again, rolled over and was fine, revved the engine, everything was dandy. Did it again, same result, just great. But I decided to try to see if it could roll, so I put it in gear (tried both first and reverse) and it felt like the car had the E-brake stuck on (it wasn't, I made sure) and thus it would not roll anywhere. The rear brakes smelled and were blazing hot while the front brakes didn't share the problem.. Quite puzzled.. Any thoughts would be awesome.

Currently just letting her sit in the driveway and cool off.

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For Sale / e30 parts (5) socal

« on: December 13, 2011, 11:56:48 PM »

Do you have fog lights or a rear bumper with its turning signals?

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Exterior / white accents

« on: December 13, 2011, 11:51:10 PM »

Well a friend of mine is photoshopping but I'd ideally like to keep the wheels I have, they're just the sporty bmw bbs wheels.

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Exterior / white accents

« on: December 13, 2011, 02:25:14 AM »

I have a black e30 and am considering adding some white accents, i.e. the grill minus the chrome kidney grill and the wing.

thoughts?