hey everyone hoping someone can help me out here, ive just bought a bmw 318is coupe 1994 as my run around car, the car had a slight misfire the other night for a few seconds then cleared up and ran away fine. but today the car has suddenly stopped altogether and wont start, ive checked all the vaccum hoses and pipes, cant see any splits, i checked to see if the coil was sparking and it would only give a spark at number 1 and 4 cylinders, is this the coil pack gone, any help would be great.
thanks

 

It's looking that way fella. If you have a search on some of the BMW forums for 'Bentley workshop manual download' it tells you in that how to test it to see if they're breaking down.

 

hey mate thanks for the reply, i ordered a coil pack today as it takes about 3 days to get parts upto shetland, it was really wierdhow it just cutout on me when i was driving along??!! im wondering if its a camshaft or crankshaft sensor?

 

It might be worthwhile investing in a fault code reader, I've got one of them Peake ones but you can get cheaper.

 

ive just read on the internet on that i a can check my codes without a machine. just by pressing the pedal etc...

 

Only on US spec cars fella................

 

god dam it!! lol well ive ordered a new coil pack should be here on tuesday then i will hopefully have a running bmw again, if not then im going to keep on hunting down the problem, maybe have a word we me ex boss see if i can get a loan of the boston diagnostics, or dus it have to be a special bmw plug diagnostics?

 

It needs to fit the BMW round plug.