» Site Navigation | | » Recent Threads | | 1999 M3 Swap 09-07-2023 10:10 PM 05-02-2024 08:18 PM 6 Replies, 401,259 Views | | | | | 07-09-2015, 09:11 AM | #1 | Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: CT Posts: 14 | cali top I'm looking for a California top motor or gear replacements please help daughter is driving me crazy | | | 07-11-2015, 04:20 AM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego Posts: 179 | Gears Sometimes if you disassemble the motor & gears, you can flip the plastic gear over and get it to run for a while longer. At the same time, clean and lube everything because once it strips the gear again, it is said to be a $700 - $800 motor assembly from BMW... Good Luck __________________ 98 318ti MSport M52, 88 M3, 97 M3/4 | | | 07-11-2015, 05:55 AM | #3 | Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: CT Posts: 14 | cali top Thanks I'll try it and see hopefully I can find a replacement | | | 07-11-2015, 06:40 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 2,451 | Just looked it up on getbmwparts.com. $407 -$10 off coupon. __________________ 1998 318ti Sport - "Cali" Schwartz II/Schwartz sport interior, Cali top 1998 318ti Sport - "Max" Schwartz II/Schwartz sport interior, S52 1997 318ti Sport - "Tiny" Schwartz II/Schwartz sport interior 1995 318ti Active - "Blanca" Alpineweib III/Schwartz leather interior Other Current Bimmers: 2006 530i / 2000 2.3L Z3 / 1997 1.9L Z3 / 1999 540it 1997 318ti Sport - "Huera" - RIP 1995 318ti Active - RIP 1995 318ti Sport - "Tiny" Sold 1994 325i Sedan - "Jade" - Sold 1991 318ic - "Bert" - Sold 1985 635csi sold 1984 533i "Max" Sold 1984 318i sold BMWCCA #160411 SUPPORT 318ti.org! CLICK THE LINK ABOVE! Hosting a forum like this is not free. 318ti.org is one of the best BMW forums on the web because it is member supported, not vendor supported. The cost to become a Supporter is a nominal $10.00... A YEAR! DO IT! NOW! | | | 07-11-2015, 03:48 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Rocky Mountains Posts: 610 | Did you check eBay? I found the motor for the ti sunroof there. I had to rebuild it with parts from the old one, but it worked fine. Since I'm a girl, it's not really that hard. | | | 07-12-2015, 06:54 PM | #6 | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: Independence Oregon Posts: 29 | Quote: Originally Posted by milehigh96caliti Did you check eBay? I found the motor for the ti sunroof there. I had to rebuild it with parts from the old one, but it worked fine. Since I'm a girl, it's not really that hard. | You were able to do it with your girl brain? wowee. I failed at a rebuild, but mostly blame it on overly stripped plastic gears, even though I flipped them. Been a year and don't remember, but can the top gear 1/2 be moved to the bottom, thus giving a good, bad, good, bad pattern rather than a good, bad, bad, good pattern? Found my replacement motor laying in the pan of a junkyard Cali and thought it was a side window motor and swapped the gears into my bad motor. Was going to post the side window motor parts # here as a gear source but when I looked the number up discovered I had disassembled a perfectly fine sunroof motor! | | | 07-13-2015, 12:12 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Rocky Mountains Posts: 610 | Quote: Originally Posted by calmloki You were able to do it with your girl brain? wowee. I failed at a rebuild, but mostly blame it on overly stripped plastic gears, even though I flipped them. Been a year and don't remember, but can the top gear 1/2 be moved to the bottom, thus giving a good, bad, good, bad pattern rather than a good, bad, bad, good pattern? Found my replacement motor laying in the pan of a junkyard Cali and thought it was a side window motor and swapped the gears into my bad motor. Was going to post the side window motor parts # here as a gear source but when I looked the number up discovered I had disassembled a perfectly fine sunroof motor! | | | | | Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | Posting Rules | You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts HTML code is Off | | | |