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Hi Rob, I’m sure it said just wait, when I saw it last week. I can ask him, as I live nearly 200 miles from my dad! I will get him to disconnect the battery and retry it. Alternatively I will send you a mail if it doesn’t work, as I know he wants the unit to work. What do you want for your tape unit...

Hi, I’m enquiring if anybody has experienced this. It’s my dads 2002 2.2 z3, that he has just bought back from the guy he sold it to a couple of years ago. It still has the original tape/6 stacker CD player in the boot. He has the code for the stereo, but when you switch it on it just displays “wait...

Just an update on the z3. Picked up the car this afternoon, after having the head skimmed and all put back together. All seems well, temperature gauge steady at 12. Total cost, £70 for head skimming from a pal of mine, and £530 for the engine stripping and rebuilding again c/w all new gaskets, antif...

Hopefully, the car will be ready this week. I’m sure he will have it idling outside for a couple of hours to make sure it’s all ok.
Fingers crossed.

Hi Eric, thanks for the advice. At this moment in time, I’ve had the head skimmed and pressure tested and should be all going back together in the next week or so by the mechanic that’s stripped it down. He did say the head had been leaking in several places, and the guy that skimmed it said there w...

I’m planning to do just that, have the head pressure tested and skimmed. I don’t want to think of the cost at this stage, but it’s no use to anyone in this state.
I’ll have an update in a few weeks.

Thanks for the replies.

The thermostat was changed a couple of years ago when the water pump and belt was replaced. I was talking to a colleague this morning whom has an engineering business and he went through how the system works and came to the conclusion that the problem is definitely the head gasket, and the head will...

Hi, just an update on the overheating z3. Took it to my local garage, the guy has just done my van and his pricing was realistic. Anyhow, I took him a new hella fan and Kerr nelson fan switch. He fitted them both, filled up and then left it a few hours, temp guage steady at 12 o’clock. I ran it home...

Thanks for the advice, I’ll take off the unit this weekend and have a close inspection.

Hi, my 2001 z3 unfortunately has to stop out over the winter. I have just recently noticed water in the nearside rear light. It looks like it maybe comes in when running down the side of the boot and do I take it a gasket has given up and it’s getting in there?

Thanks, Mark.

Ok, that’s great. I’m wondering if the temperature switch may be faulty then. Is this a simple thing to replace? It doesn’t seem to leak water anywhere when parked up. I wondered if there was some kind of blockage maybe in the radiator due to the age of it also, so it’s not circulating. I think I ne...

Hi,I’ve had my 2001 1900 z3 sport for approx 4 years. About 2 years ago it was taken out for the day, ran faultless until we met some slow traffic a few miles from home when I noticed the temp gauge in the red. I stopped, but in the end got towed home. I ran it to my local garage, whom put a new wat...