just picked up a new car and need some help please!

[SSR-125]

Got it all together, needed a head. When i try to turn it over cant even here engine trying to want to start. Took the linkage cover plastic cover off (auto) and the 2 wires that go to that connector are cut. I figured the car wouldn't start because it wasn't sure if it was in park or not? But wouldn't i still here it trying? lol

[SSR-125]

help.. anyone?

[Bullhead]

The wires to the starter are cut? or the wires to the transmission? And is it spinning over and not starting or it won't hit a lick?

[SSR-125]

Not the starter wires, the wires when it says like park drive and all that, the shifter cover there, if you lift that theres like a little white plug from body harness and the wires from the actual linkage you do with your hand to the harness is cut. start just keeps spinning. i cant even here compression.

[Bullhead]

Have you checked for spark or to see if the coil and distributor are getting voltage? It may be some neutral safety switch thing, but I have never had an auto so idk.

[BMWManiac]

I think that white plug, if anything like a manual, is too the reverse lights and has nothing to do with starting the car

You said you hear the starter working but the engine won't turn over?

[Quinthirty]

If you have pics, then that would help.

I'm making an assumption here...

I suppose that you have an automatic? Those wires are probably from the Neutral Safety Switch. But IIRC, if those aren't connected, it wouldn't even crank because it is probably telling the ECU that the car is in gear, and not in N or P.

[Navarone]

What part is borked?

[pbraeckel]

Are you saying the starter is spinning but the engine is not turning over? That's how I read it. If that were to happen to me in any car, my first thought would be to check the starter solenoid. Sadly that could mean removing the starter. But the solenoid is what fires the gear on the starter into making contact with the flywheel and turns the motor over.

I am new to the car and BMW's in general so I don't know if it's a little different, or what the auto trans affects, but starters are all quite similar.