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Looks great. Do you get the chance to put your foot down on the empty Scottish roads or is it easier just to go along with the flow at the speed limit? Empty roads can be wonderful but if there's the chance of a copper with his radar around the corner then............. Thanks. There is very little ...

If the gauge pegs to the right it means the sensor connection has been grounded. If you disconnect the sensor connection and turn the ignition on the needle should move to the rest point at the left of the blue segment. If it still pegs to the right even with the sensor disconnected then you will ne...

Very nice, looking good Nick. Have you lowered it at all? I like the alloys, are they 16's? Thanks. No, the suspension is all original and almost every part has been replaced in the last four years. I wouldn't want to lower it because in terms of a practical touring car it's almost too low already ...

Very sharp looking 6er you've got there mate. What colour is it? Looks like graphite black..... Fancy seeing the queen on a casual drive. LOL Thanks! The colour is diamond black which is pretty much graphite black as you say. It's done thousands of miles of road trips this year and will do the same...

A few pictures from my third Scottish road trip. Stayed in the Cairngorm National Park near Aviemore. Did quite a bit of walking and quite a bit of driving; almost 1500 miles in 5 days. A walk on the Balmoral estate took us down a narrow dirt track which we had to move off when a couple of Range Rov...

Paris was a bit of a free-for-all in parts, you just had aim for a particular road junction and go! A lot of the hotels we stayed in had no on-site parking so the 6er had to be left in public car parks surrounded by cars with dents and scratches on almost every panel! I have to say that parking was ...

This was a 2900 mile road trip to Spain from England taking in France and Andorra along the way. The journey started in Suffolk and from there to the channel crossing at Dover. The ferry took us to Calais where the trip really began. We drove through Paris (which was interesting) and then onto Toulo...

The cover is not supposed to come off but mine did the same. Luckily the spring was not lost but the little flap was. I made a new flap and used epoxy resin to stick the cover back on. I think the cover is pinched onto the barrel but quite often falls off. Part no 11 would have the spring, so you co...

Yes, removing it is fiddly. If you're lucky you can get it off without removing the main intake hose from the airbox. A little 10mm ratchet spanner helps. A new AFM from BMW was about ?290 and was well worth it; I wish I'd bought it sooner.
You will have a 1.3 motronic unit.

My rich running was caused by the airflow meter. A new one sorted it out. I discovered this after replacing just about every other part of the injection system!

Mine does the same thing and it's the actual gauge itself rather than the sender or SI board. I found this out after I had replaced the SI board with a reconditioned one. I'm going to buy and install a new gauge soon! You might be lucky and find it's the sender.

Ok, seems like 1000 miles is about the most in one day which is good going. I was reading an old review (1970s) of a Rolls Royce Corniche in which the author drove from the North of France to the South and back again in one day which totalled 1330 miles - utter madness. Not much scope for such long ...

I had my system converted to R134a about 8 years ago. All they did was suck out the R12, dump in some ester oil and refill with R134a. System has been working well ever since. I now have my own A/C repair equipment and changed the dryer earlier this year as you should replace this every couple of ye...

Just got back from another epic road trip in the 635 clocking up some 2900 miles in just under two weeks. The journey across Europe covered four countries; England, France, Andorra and Spain. The return journey to England from Northern Spain was made in one day, a distance of 832 miles. It was tirin...

If the temperature control is set fully to the cold setting and assuming it is working correctly you would need a set of manifold gauges connected to the a/c system to diagnose the problem. Cold followed by warm air could be a sign of ice forming within the a/c system pipes. When did you last have t...

You should also cover all the refrigerant lines in the engine bay in something like cooltube or cooltube extreme. I did this some time ago and it helps the system to run cooler.

A little bit more data from the BMW Engine book: M30B35 Kat Bore: 92mm Stroke: 86mm Displacement: 3430cc Stroke/Bore ratio: 0.93 Piston speed: 16.3 m/s Valve Timing: IO/IC 20o BTDC/64o ABDC , EO/EC 64o BBDC/20o ATDC At valve lift: 0.5mm Valve lift I/E: 10.5mm Cylinder centre distance: 100mm Connecti...

How many miles did the car have when you bought it? Do you know much about the history of the car before you had it, ie servicing/overhauls? Is the car manual or auto and do you know if the transmission has been rebuilt/changed? Mobil 1 did a test a few years back which involved running an M20 engin...

You need to pull off the plastic handle from the tilt back lever first. Then you need to prise off the plastic lever surround from the bottom. You will then see a small philips head screw at the bottom of the metal lever which must be removed and this will allow you to pull the lever out. You need t...

I've been struggling with this for years! I had to weld up a cracked bracket before it was fixed. But first you need to remove the seat back and check the two bolts/screws that hold the seat back frame to the base. These are located at the bottom right and left corners of the seat and are easily vis...

It's essential to get good quality new ones otherwise it will leak. The only hope you have got of re-using the copper ones is to anneal them by heating to a cherry red with a blow torch and then letting them cool. When I was replacing the banjo fittings on my steering box I tried aftermarket copper ...

You need to get a voltmeter on the battery whilst the engine is running. If it reads less than 13 volts then you have a problem with the charging system.

So does this panel act as a complete overlay then? When I created my dash vent gauge holder, I scooped out the vents and used 1mm steel to create a gauge surround. The only slighty untidy part is the join between the steel and the plastic, but I was thinking about creating a small hood which would c...

That's probably a lot cheaper than a dealer would charge. I paid ?90 for the cap and arm alone without the leads. What year is your car? Are the leads actually damaged or giving incorrect resistance readings?

Take a spare set of keys and give them to your navigator to look after.