My 1988 e30 325ix - Garage'd

[jeenyus]

Here is how they turned out.

[jeenyus]

I decided it would be easiest to wrap my window pillars on that car. Did that yesterday and I'm happy with how they turned out!

[ThatM20Guy]

Thanks guys, gonna give them a call today.

Hopefully it gets sorted. Would be a shame if it's not. Such a clean car :/


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[jeenyus]

Thanks guys, gonna give them a call today.

[EyExR]

Call the tow company and send them the pic. They should have insurance for this type of thing...

[jeenyus]

Reason I haven't said anything till today is because I hadn't even noticed it till I climbed under my car to replace the filter.

[ThatM20Guy]

My 1988 e30 325ix - Manual

I wouldn't trust them to take care of it. Just compensation and then you take it to someone you trust. Just a super shitty situation all together :(


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[jeenyus]

yea i think i know exactly when it happened too. the guy was trying to tighten my car to his flatbed, got it pretty tight it seemed as my suspension was almost fully compressed, then it popped! now i know why it popped and you're right, they should have to take care of it or at THE LEAST compensate me for it.

[ThatM20Guy]

Holy shitdicks!!!!!!!!!! Why haven't you called yet? Not even sure how you would fix that. Peel the undercoating off and then bend back/reweld?


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[jeenyus]

So I could feel that my fuel pressure still wasn't what I was hopeful my it would be after fixing the fuel pump. I decided to check the fuel filter line. Turns out, that fuel hose was avocado toast.





So I put some nice new hose in there and the car seems to be doing fine/better. I noticed the issue after I replaced the fuel filter. When I moved the filter, I could hear pressure releasing from the hose. It could very well be a reason for fuel backing out after the car has sat for a while.

While I was under there, I noticed a not so nice surprise the tow-guy must have left me...


Would you take a look at this shit? This was probably from the same tow I received that my blinker lens went missing. That tow also took me for a ride to his house to drop his wife off... maybe I should complain.

[ThatM20Guy]

I FIGURED IT OUT!

The fuel pump wiring had a shit connection. A friend and i pulled it out last night and replaced the wiring with something more secure. Car is running solid now. I really think all my issues can probably be summed up in this issue alone. I'm excited though! Time to work on making the car look good i hope.

Good to hear! I'm going to be doing some cosmetic upgrades pretty soon to...maybe...


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[jeenyus]

I FIGURED IT OUT!

The fuel pump wiring had a shit connection. A friend and i pulled it out last night and replaced the wiring with something more secure. Car is running solid now. I really think all my issues can probably be summed up in this issue alone. I'm excited though! Time to work on making the car look good i hope.

[jeenyus]

Smh... this car.



Another day, another tow.

I wish I could post videos, but I guess I can't. Car was driving fine, then all of a sudden, died and had no gas pedal reaction. Tried to start again and it would turn them start (barely) then die, still no gas pedal reaction.

Car day for a while, while I was waiting for a tow and so I tried to start it again and the car wouldn't even crank at this point. Battery was fine cause my windows worked and everything else, just no reaction.

I don't understand how a car can go from running perfectly fine to completely dying without warning or obvious reason.

Sigh* any advise?

[jeenyus]

I am sad to say though, that replacing my injectors, aside from being fucking awesome, didn't remedy my issue on startup.

The car will die when i put down the gas pedal, OR it will rev to a certain point and drop back down, then rev, drop back down, rev, drop back down till it settles and then it will work just fine. It's the weirdest thing.

Unplugging the battery actually remedies the issue for a while till the ECU "adapts" and then it fucks up again. I'm reading through my Bentley as if i'm doing scripture studies and i cannot figure it out. It could be the ECU, but i don't want to assume anything at this point since I've replaced a lot of shit erroneously.

[jeenyus]

Good call on the injectors!

Were the original ones single pintle? New ones multi-pintle?

yea the old ones were the cooked M20 injectors. They were toast. The new ones are actually 4hole. A much better injector, they are also more quiet AND cheaper than most alternatives i've seen.

So far so good with them too! Car feels awake.