Article Archive for January 2009
Very useful document for GM and ZF transmissions
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Official BMW documentation about retrofiting the navigation system into a E38 (7 series).
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Very useful if you have lost the user guide for the sat nav of your car.
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Detailing Your Car
In this version of the Great Paint Project, I will build on the experience that I learned when polishing Barb’s 1994 Mercury Topaz to do a complete strip down, polish and wax of …
Tools Needed:
3M Adhesive Remover
Hair dryer (Heat gun is preferable though as it is more powerfull, will make your life easier)
Dental floss or fishing line
Soft terry cloth
Car Wax
Do not try to remove the badge with a …
Official BMW document. Usually only US owners are affected by this as the alarm is optional in the US.
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Be sure to have a 10 mm socket, a T25 torque bit and flat blade screw driver.
Firstly, slacken all the screws shown in the first picture. Then lifting the air filter cover you will see …
This document provides an overview of the automatic transmission maintenance for the 3 series E46 models.
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These are general codes that can be read with different solutions (OBD II scanner and such). Those instruments sometimes only give you the code, so now you can see what the code means.
P1083 Fuel Control Mixture …
What’s a vanos?
Vanos is BMW’s name for its engine variable valve timing unit.
What’s variable valve timing?
Variable valve timing is a way of modifying the engine intake and/or exhaust valve opening/closing timing dynamically to provide improved …
I’ve had it with the rattles. I decided to find every single rattle and fix it. My father took the car for a ride on a pretty bad road and I was sitting in the …
Always wanted to know everything about the E36 M3, there you go.
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