Many thanks for your instructions. I would have had the dash apart (in the same way as the E36) had it not been for this helpful article.
It is hard to discover much about the Compact - it's sort of E36 and sort of something else ! I have to be very careful when looking at the manual.
My car had been regularly serviced by a BMW main dealer up to 12,000 miles ago. I don't think they found out where the filters were either as the assembly clearly hadn't been disturbed from new (100k MILES ago). They are BLACK and full of seeds and hairs and other detritus that can only have accumulated in 100,000 MILES.
So many thanks for the message - regards from Jim B |