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I have very happily owned a 1988 325i for approx. 1 year. All of a sudden it died on me. I have check for fuel and everything seems ok. It just turns over and will not fire. Someone has mentioned to me about the crankshaft sensor. Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with this sort of thing before??? PLEASE PLEASE HELP.
i have never had a problem with the crank shaft sensor? but i would check for compression check all features of electrical and you say its getting fuel....
what exactly happens when you turn the key?
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1995 BMW 540i/6: The Calypso Beast Vid 0-70ish 1987 BMW 325es: Face & Butt Lifted/M50tu Swapped*Sold* 1985 VW Scirocco: Too many mods, money pit*Sold* E34 Plate Filler Wanted!
__________________ Kyle Sutherland
1995 BMW 540i/6: The Calypso Beast Vid 0-70ish 1987 BMW 325es: Face & Butt Lifted/M50tu Swapped*Sold* 1985 VW Scirocco: Too many mods, money pit*Sold* E34 Plate Filler Wanted!
All the usual things happen, e.g all the dash lights come on and so i try to start it up but it just keeps cranking with no attempt to actually fire. I have taken it to a local garage and they put it on the diagnostics but it threw up no fault codes whatsoever. Totally baffled me!!!
make sure that the battery is fully charged and are you sure fuel is making it to the combustion chamber?
__________________ Kyle Sutherland
1995 BMW 540i/6: The Calypso Beast Vid 0-70ish 1987 BMW 325es: Face & Butt Lifted/M50tu Swapped*Sold* 1985 VW Scirocco: Too many mods, money pit*Sold* E34 Plate Filler Wanted!
Yeah the battery is 100% fully charged. Yeah I almost convinced myself that it was the fuel but I took one of the injector pipes off and there was definately fuel there. Totally confused. It wasn't as if it died gradually, it just went.
Check to make sure your timing belt isnt broken are missing teeth...
__________________ Kyle Sutherland
1995 BMW 540i/6: The Calypso Beast Vid 0-70ish 1987 BMW 325es: Face & Butt Lifted/M50tu Swapped*Sold* 1985 VW Scirocco: Too many mods, money pit*Sold* E34 Plate Filler Wanted!
I checked to see if it was still there but it was only changed about 5000 miles ago so as I expected things were all good there!!!! I did check the crank sensor to see if there was anything obviously wrong with it. I took it off and cleaned it!! I did a resistance check with a multimeter and only one of the connections was showing a reading, that is what has put my mind onto it!! But not totally sure whether both connectors are meant to have a reading or not??
im not sure like i said i have no experiance with crank sensors....
__________________ Kyle Sutherland
1995 BMW 540i/6: The Calypso Beast Vid 0-70ish 1987 BMW 325es: Face & Butt Lifted/M50tu Swapped*Sold* 1985 VW Scirocco: Too many mods, money pit*Sold* E34 Plate Filler Wanted!
i read all the responses and dint read a thing about spark plugs, i mite of skipped over it but thats the first thing to check man! lol also check your alternator
btw
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Originally posted by Slvr E30iS@Sep 13 2004, 11:39 PM i read all the responses and dint read a thing about spark plugs, i mite of skipped over it but thats the first thing to check man! lol also check your alternator
btw
i said all electrical :P thaat covers it all
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1995 BMW 540i/6: The Calypso Beast Vid 0-70ish 1987 BMW 325es: Face & Butt Lifted/M50tu Swapped*Sold* 1985 VW Scirocco: Too many mods, money pit*Sold* E34 Plate Filler Wanted!
aww...fine w/e but u dint say the consecutive words "spark plugs" lol :P
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Originally posted by Slvr E30iS@Sep 14 2004, 01:22 AM aww...fine w/e but u dint say the consecutive words "spark plugs" lol :P
your sig is crap...shorten it PLEASE!! for the love of god...and feel free to venture into other forums...:P so everyone else can tell you to shorten it too
__________________ Kyle Sutherland
1995 BMW 540i/6: The Calypso Beast Vid 0-70ish 1987 BMW 325es: Face & Butt Lifted/M50tu Swapped*Sold* 1985 VW Scirocco: Too many mods, money pit*Sold* E34 Plate Filler Wanted!
yeaaaah...ill make it longer just 4 you :P. bah ill get around to it
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