New member from NZ

[zeroyon223]

Hi all,

I'm Cole, from New Zealand, just brought a 95' 318ti earlier this month. It's alaska blue, manual, sports seat and suspension package, done 225k km. Neat little car, bit more lively than the e36 320i I had a few years back. It's a typical BMW in that it's been oil changed all it's life, but nothing else, so have full cooling system ready to go in and some gaskets and seals to do too. I've already done a vented disc front swap, solid front discs are terrible! It has its fair share of problems, which I hope to learn about on the forums here...

Cheers

[anassa]

Originally Posted by zeroyon223

Hi all,

I'm Cole, from New Zealand, just brought a 95' 318ti earlier this month. It's alaska blue, manual, sports seat and suspension package, done 225k km. Neat little car, bit more lively than the e36 320i I had a few years back. It's a typical BMW in that it's been oil changed all it's life, but nothing else, so have full cooling system ready to go in and some gaskets and seals to do too. I've already done a vented disc front swap, solid front discs are terrible! It has its fair share of problems, which I hope to learn about on the forums here...

Cheers

Welcome!!

I hope you enjoy your stay and share your knowledge and experience. It looks like you have a good find, post up some pictures once you get a chance!

[zeroyon223]

Originally Posted by anassa

Welcome!!

I hope you enjoy your stay and share your knowledge and experience. It looks like you have a good find, post up some pictures once you get a chance!

Hmmm good find, I'm not so sure now!
Maybe the wrong forum to post this, but two things have happened to the car today, I went to start it this morning and it wouldn't start, tried cranking it 3 times and it began cranking for a moment but then stopped abruptly, and the OBC started beeping because it thought it was -10 celcius, when it's about 20 here! Finally started... and ran on 3 cylinders for around 30 seconds until it cleared itself out. Since then it's been running like a dog when you leave the car and go to drive again, ticking in the valvetrain somewhere, until it clears itself out. No white smoke, or milky oil or water, so hopefully not a H.G/ coolant leaking in to a cylinder... Thinking it may be the timing chain/tensioner and or lifter assembly? As for the OBC and stuff playing up, who knows, fuses appear all ok, maybe the chip in the key playing up?
What have I gotten in to haha?

[anassa]

Originally Posted by zeroyon223

Hmmm good find, I'm not so sure now!
Maybe the wrong forum to post this, but two things have happened to the car today, I went to start it this morning and it wouldn't start, tried cranking it 3 times and it began cranking for a moment but then stopped abruptly, and the OBC started beeping because it thought it was -10 celcius, when it's about 20 here! Finally started... and ran on 3 cylinders for around 30 seconds until it cleared itself out. Since then it's been running like a dog when you leave the car and go to drive again, ticking in the valvetrain somewhere, until it clears itself out. No white smoke, or milky oil or water, so hopefully not a H.G/ coolant leaking in to a cylinder... Thinking it may be the timing chain/tensioner and or lifter assembly? As for the OBC and stuff playing up, who knows, fuses appear all ok, maybe the chip in the key playing up?
What have I gotten in to haha?

Wow strange gremlins you got there. I never had those problems so I can't help from my experiences, maybe someone else will chime in with their opinions. Ideas: check your plugs? wires?

[zeroyon223]

Well to follow on from this, I pulled the head off the car yesterday, and to my surprise it has a crack from the number 3 exhaust valve seat to a coolant passage (common apparently). I pulled the motor and have another m42 with much less km's on the way, will do a complete coolant system refresh, and all new gaskets to boot. Not giving up on it! Might post some pics soon.