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Does anyone have these fitted and do they work? Last week I cleaned all my washer system & replaced the one way valves and everything worked well. I went to Cambridge on Saturday & parked the car outside for a few hours to find that the washers were frozen, they did not unfreeze at all on th...

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I removed our wiper arms by using a very small 2 arm hub puller, it worked well with no damage at all. Ian

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I think that it is now sorted. As Mike suggested, I took out all the sensors and one looked a lot different to the other 3, it was much whiter and more "worn" than the others. I bought 4 new Bosch sensors and a new Siemens MAF, fitted then, cleared the faults and the adaptation values and ...

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You can always colour code to the body colour and keep the leather gaiter to match the seats and door trims - works on a silver car with blue leather.

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Thanks Mike. I'll pull the sensors out and give them a clean and hope! Pity the 2 litre exhaust in in one whole bit from front to back.

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I've just run a diagnosis on our 2.0 facelift (90k miles) and have fault codes 202 & 203 (lambda regulation limit exceeded, bank 1 & bank 2 post cat). I've changed the CCV and checked & cleaned all its hoses & vacuum lines, cleaned the throttle body& idle valve and replaced all t...

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Hi Tim, I'm afraid I don't know whether it fits a 4 cylinder model. The label on the box just says - Strut tower bar, Item No STB-A08, Car model BMW Z3 L6, Front up (?), Colour polish. I had it fitted to a 2 litre, 6 cylinder. The person who sells them on ebay might have an idea about which models i...

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I've unpacked and assembled the strut brace and have attached a few pics to show it. Ian. http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac96/bowei001/Strut%20brace/PA122580.jpg http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac96/bowei001/Strut%20brace/PA122581.jpg http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac96/bowei001/Strut%20b...

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I suspect not. If you look up the ebay number I quoted before, the seller there says it will not fit models with ASC and shows photos of cars with and without ASC. As this is the person I bought mine from last year, his photos will probably answer your question.

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Hi Naeem.m.
Sorry, I don't have any pics of mine because I've taken it off and packed it up as tightly as possible to find out the (least) postage costs but if you go to ebay and look up item 360308428742, that's the one because that's the person I bought it from, in Cambridge, last year.

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I have a Chromiumtech strut brace for a 6 cylinder model for sale. I bought it a year ago and it has had very little use and is in near mint condition. £75 including tracked & signed for postage or £65 if you collect from Medway or Dartford areas. Ian

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If yours is the same as one from a 1999 2.0 (part no 21521159714), then Earls should already have a pattern as I sent them my old one 2-3 months ago when I had the same problem with their replacement (the 2.0 does not have the valve in the hose).

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Where in Kent are you? I'm in either Medway or near Dartford and could probably help you out.

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Say you have code 1234: push button No1 once, then button 2 twice, button 3 three times, button 4 four times and then push the arrow button which is at the bottom right of the radio (to the right of the "m" button). The radio should come on. If you see "WAIT" appear, you have ent...

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I have to admit that I'm not a lover of any kind of spoiler but it looks a lot better and more subtle than the one I saw on a local Z3 (5 Z3s within a 1 mile radius!) a couple of weeks ago which was bigger and more obtrusive - might have been an OEM one? The colour match looks good and it has gone o...

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The speed sensitive volume control on my Business RDS radio/cassette/CD isn't working. I've set the GAL to 6 but no luck. I can find the black/white wire that goes to pin 10 on the radio but can't trace it back through the loom. Can anyone, please, tell me what sort of signal is sent to the radio an...

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I'm not familiar with the M43 set up but I'm assuming it is similar to our 2.0. Have you tried the voltage across the connection to the air pump itself to see if it shuts off after a short while or does it keep giving you a voltage just like you have on the vacuum valve. I would assume that both the...

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Glad to hear that the pump is OK as that's the expensive part. While you are at it, don't forget to replace the vacuum line to the air valve if it feels a bit brittle and black stuff comes off on your hands when you touch it. It comes by the metre from BMW.

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Don't be surprised if you find a horrible, corroded mess in the air pump if you take it apart, we did on our 2.0. The whole system only runs for about 30 seconds on start-up to lean out the exhaust emissions. The DME sends a signal to a solenoid valve in the vacuum line so that it opens. This vacuum...

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Spot on Robert! I took out the radio switch and the plastic ledge at the base of the switch, where the radio anti-tamper peg sits, had sagged and the switch was in a permanent short-to-earth state so the control unit was ignoring the signal each time the alarm was set and so the bonnet switch , in p...

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Thanks Robert, I'll pull the radio out and check the switch. I've had the radio out before so perhaps I didn't operate the switch properly when I put it back. Ian

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Thanks for the suggestion but still no joy! I left the switch closed for 30 minutes this morning and the alarm still didn't go off when I untaped it. There is something strange going on somewhere but at least the cockpit has an alarm working.

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1999 facelift 2.0 My bonnet alarm switch does not seem to be working. When I set the alarm, the indicators flash and the interior sensors seem to be OK as I can set them off by leaning into the car and if I unlock the car with the non-remote key, the alarm goes off until I operate the ignition so th...

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I've just changed my clutch hose and decided to bleed the system by removing the slave cylinder and pushing the slave piston in as far as possible to reduce the chance of trapping air when bleeding. I tried a small G-cramp to hold the piston rod in but without much success but then tried a mastic gu...

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Can anyone tell me, please, if the the oil filter housing assembly from an e36 M3 saloon (European) will fit a 2.0 Z3 as I need the oil temperature and oil cooler ports? Thanks, Ian

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120 + or - 10 Nm or 90 + or - 7 ft-lb (according to Bentley)

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As promised, here are a few photos of today's outing: http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac96/bowei001/Cruise%2016%20May%202010/P5162186.jpg http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac96/bowei001/Cruise%2016%20May%202010/P5162184.jpg http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac96/bowei001/Cruise%2016%20May%20201...

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Thanks, Gail & Ron, for organising a great day out. It was nice to meet new faces and the rain held off despite what the weatherman said!
We'll have a go at posting our photos when we have sorted them out.
Sue & Ian

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Winning hand so far - 62 and we have had ours for 15 months!

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Ron & Gail, thanks for organising such a great day. The weather couldn't have been better and the route was ideal. It was nice to put names to faces and to see all the beautiful cars and we look forward to seeing you all again. Sue & Ian

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If it helps, we have just done a 300mile trip with new filter and new 0W-40 Castrol Edge Sport and at a running temperature of between 70 and 80 degrees C the oil pressure on our 2.0 M52TU was 1.2 bar at idle and 3.6 to 3.8 bar at 60-70mph. - and I've checked and calibrated the electronic pressure g...

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If it helps, we have just done a 300mile trip with new filter and new 0W-40 Castrol Edge Sport and at a running temperature of between 70 and 80 degrees C the oil pressure on our 2.0 M52TU was 1.2 bar at idle and 3.6 to 3.8 bar at 60-70mph. - and I've checked and calibrated the electronic pressure g...

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Thanks for the information, Mike. Now what was happening makes sense.

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Finally got it sorted yesterday. I had a MAF and a crankshaft sensor go intermittently bad but not always together at the same time which made diagnosis rather alkward. I've replaced both and the car starts & runs OK now. I tried one of those cheap (£33) MAFs off eBay to see how they go - worth ...

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I tried to start the car tonight and now it won't start at all, with or without the MAF connected. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll disconnect the battery tomorow and leave it for a while and also take off all the MAF hoses and have a good look at them. After that I suppose it's check for a spark, c...

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Yesterday I drove the car (1999 2.0) out of the garage and took the air filter box off to work underneath it. I also disconnected the MAF sensor connection to give a bit more room. It then started to rain and the window was open. I switched on the ignition to close the window and then tried to start...

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Received mine this morning. They look really good and I'm just about to go and fit them.
Thanks for your efforts, Nick, and for the express delivery.
Ian

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If the M54 engine if "fly by wire", I don't think that you need the list of bits you quoted. You might only need the cruse switch and perhaps the interface. The throttle housing (13547502444) looks to be electronically controlled to judge by the RealOEM picture and if so, you are one step ...

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I thought that I would add a few photos of the retrofit that might help to explain my previous post a bit more clearly: The slot to take the cruise control switch http://i889.photobucket.com/albums/ac96/bowei001/Z3%20cruise%20control%20retrofit/P2032003.jpg The switch in the slot http://i889.photobu...

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Estocks is right about fitting cruise control to an M52TU and I’d like to thank him for his advice and for supplying the interface. The BMW parts list & Real OEM are wrong as they treat the M52TU as an M52 and list all the cruise parts for an M52 – and there are lots of expensive parts! My BMW d...

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I fitted Mintex discs & pads all round as soon as I got the car last February - got them from a dealer on ebay for about £100 all in. They fitted perfectly and work well. I wouldn't hesitate to use them again.

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The "tinkling" rattle from the back might just be a slack handbrake cable. Drive along and when you hear it, pull the handbrake lever up very gently-just enough to take up the slack on the cable. If the rattle disappears you have found the cause.

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Thanks for looking, Aceman. Ian

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Does anyone have an old broken Wahler thermostat for an M52TU? I only need the thermostat heater part to be OK. I bought an all aluminium unit from the USA a while ago and whilst the lugs that hold the thermostat in place are never going to break, the heater has gone open circuit. The unit is based ...

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I've also just Gummipfleged my hardtop rubber and put the hardtop on and I have a creak that wasn't there last year. Mine comes from the passenger side rear. I was thinking that the rubber has been softened and allows a bit more flex. If I were doing it again, I'd fit without treatment and try it an...

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I don't think that the differences are major but I've already found that the radio wires on my car don't have the same colours as the US diagrams which makes tracing a bit more difficult. Also, all the electrics to the exhaust flap valve don't exist in US diagrams (not that I can find). The 2.0 wasn...

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Thanks, I'll try both sites. Ian

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I need a wiring diagram for a 1999 2.0 UK spec. The diagrams in the Bentley book are no good (all US spec) and an internet search just brings up US stuff. Does anyone know whether the WDS v12.0 CDs available on ebay include the UK Z3? - the list of cars given doesn't include Z3 or E36 but this could...

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