Hello all. Have another easter egg hunt.
----- I can't find the screw part# for the wiring harness housing thing that sits at the back (in front of the cabin filter, above the valve cover).
I took the heat panel off that blocks heat from the cabin filter area (I guess that's the function) and lost them like the idiot I am.
HEATER PANEL:
https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=64_0092 WIRING HARNESS:
https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/sho...diagId=12_0624 The heat panel uses 3 screws and nuts for mounting to the firewall, but I have no idea what screws are used to mount the wiring harness housing back to it (mine is hanging in the bottom 3 pics below). I notice on the older ti's it has a bracket that it mounts to. It's greyed out in the realoem for the 1998 318ti and I also checked and mine doesn't have that bracket. I don't have the heater panel back in because I'm still doing the cabin filters.
I searched "12521724637" + "screw" and found "12521724711" in this link for the e36 320i:
https://www.shiftoem.com/dev/showpar...diagid=12_0394 which shows screws in theirs.
Red arrows below. Top picture isn't mine. Pulled that from a youtube video where it looks like someone used random screws I think. Thought of this but didn't want to strip anything. I already broke 2 valve cover bolts on this car.
Online parts stores want around $4-6 per screw for "12521724711" (not for the 318ti). So I'm going to try to find something cheap locally rather than shell out the $ for that. Just might end up buying an assortment screw set and see what ends up fitting.