i just bought my first e30 last week wednesday and it was running perfectly fine up until today.
i was teaching my sister how to drive stick because im going to the same college she is next year and we'd be sharing the car (i know, i was extremely unhappy when my parents told me this)
she stalled maybe 5 or 6 times for the half hour i was teaching her and she rode the clutch quite a bit.
i drove it the rest of the way home and parked it in the garage. 30 minutes later i had to take a trip to the grocery store so i turn the car on and the engine turns right on. i sit there in neutral with the handbrake up and the engine starts to rev to about 1500-2000 rpms by itself and then drops immediately down to 500 and keeps doing that a few times until it stalls.
i put it into gear and tried driving and it drove fine when i was in gear, but when i came to a stop with my clutch depressed, the car continued to rev between 1500 and 2000 rpms and eventually stalled.
what's going on? im going to upload a video on youtube soon.
i need the car by monday for sure and i only have time tomorrow to fix what needs to be fixed.
this is extremely stressful especially because this is my first car and i don't know much about the technicality of these cars. engine was swapped out of a 1992 325i m50b25
also, i was low on fuel the entire time but the gas light didn't turn on so i didn't think low fuel would be a problem.
CAR IDLING FROM INSIDE:
REV TEST:
CAR IDLING WITH POPPED HOOD:
i was teaching my sister how to drive stick because im going to the same college she is next year and we'd be sharing the car (i know, i was extremely unhappy when my parents told me this)
she stalled maybe 5 or 6 times for the half hour i was teaching her and she rode the clutch quite a bit.
i drove it the rest of the way home and parked it in the garage. 30 minutes later i had to take a trip to the grocery store so i turn the car on and the engine turns right on. i sit there in neutral with the handbrake up and the engine starts to rev to about 1500-2000 rpms by itself and then drops immediately down to 500 and keeps doing that a few times until it stalls.
i put it into gear and tried driving and it drove fine when i was in gear, but when i came to a stop with my clutch depressed, the car continued to rev between 1500 and 2000 rpms and eventually stalled.
what's going on? im going to upload a video on youtube soon.
i need the car by monday for sure and i only have time tomorrow to fix what needs to be fixed.
this is extremely stressful especially because this is my first car and i don't know much about the technicality of these cars. engine was swapped out of a 1992 325i m50b25
also, i was low on fuel the entire time but the gas light didn't turn on so i didn't think low fuel would be a problem.
CAR IDLING FROM INSIDE:
REV TEST:
CAR IDLING WITH POPPED HOOD:
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