e36

Hi guys I want to go about stitch welding my car's seams and weld in reinforcement plates. I want to ask for advice as how to do rust protection/prevention and sealing the seams again. How would you do it and what products would you use? Because after welding the seams i know the cars body would...

Hi all, I’m having a problem with my E36 (4 door) lighting. My headlights and brights work perfectly but my driver’s park light does not work all. It’s the same on with the driver’s side tail light, reverse light and indicator light work but not the park/brake light. Any idea what it could be...

Hey gents. I'm planning a 1500km trip due to relocation in my project e36 (recently finished). 1997 318is M44b19 mods: stainless steel exhaust, 17 inch motorsport wheels everything else stock. Rings and bearings, headgasket, valvecover, exhaust, timing cover gasket done and a lekke service. Car...

Evenings all i was busy overhauling my car and clumsily put the gearbox in wrong causing my inner gearbox pump gear to strip. So now I'm busy looking for a oil pump gear or oil pump for my bmw e36 316i gearbox GM4l30e P23 in cape town area. I'm willing to buy the box also if it comes down to it...

Hi guys, This is a strange one and I'm just about dying inside dealing with it. As the title says, the car cranks but does not start. This only happens intermittently. I replaced the spark plugs, battery and the crankshaft position sensor. This only started happening once it started getting...

Hi Guys I have been in the market for an E36 M3 for some time now and just never found one that met my expectations in terms of price, condition and mileage. One of my former work colleagues ( recently left) was the 2nd owner of a Avus blue M3 which from all our conversations, I could tell it...

Howsit Fanatics, Long time BMW owner and fan here. Over the years I've had a few beemers but always new and under motorplan with a few non-beemer toys on the side. Currently daily a G20 M340i with M performance exhaust (pretty nice sounding system), the wife has a 235i (f44?) and have a Birkin...

Hi Everyone ,so i recently bought an e36 325i as my first car for next to nothing. The car has 185 678 kms on the odo, but was left outside for 5 years. I plan to do a build on it and take it from a rustbucket to the ultimate daily driver. All by my self in my backyard (after hours). I will be...

Hi Fanatics. I recently bought a e36 318is and would like to get it through roadworthy. The car is perfectly fine I checked everything and fixed what was wrong. It's only problem is a saggy rooflining. Can I just remove the saggy material, brush off the degraded sponge flakes and put the hard...

Gents, my car jerks violently on acceleration regardless of the rpms and my rev counter plays. On idle it sounds normal, slot for coil number one fails even when i swap coils around, cleaned the MAF and still the issue persists. any help would be appreciated.

Hi Everyone I am building an E36 as the title suggests. It is essentially my interpretation of how things can be done effectively to provide a solid track day/race car for under R220k. Build Sheet: 1996 BMW E36 328i +- 250 000km 328 motor, NA with mild cams & head work (Numbers matching...

Hi Everyone Good to see everyone is having fun. I will be posting updates on my "Group N" style Frankenoster build. Thanks for having me.

Hi, I could use some help with figuring out what these connectors are suppose to connect to?

Hi BMWfanatics. I'm a new member and I need your help. I am a 21 year old student living in Cape Town and I've finally saved up enough money to buy my first car. I've loved bmw's all my life and of course I started deciding if I want an e36 or an e30. Having driven both models(e30 320i, e30...