Help! BMW fuel gauge!
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I think the guage is knackered in my new car. It's a K plate 325i, as some of you know.
Drove it a hundred miles and the guage didn't move from the middle point, and I also put a tenner in it this morning and it's still in the same spot.
Any ideas?
Drove it a hundred miles and the guage didn't move from the middle point, and I also put a tenner in it this morning and it's still in the same spot.
Any ideas?
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Woo you got one then? i remember you saying in my post about bm's not so long ago that you were looking for one too
Got any pics of it or is it more a track slag, i.e performance rather than looks
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It's my everyday motor now matey
Will go out and take some pics in a bit and add them to my "My New Car" post from a few days back
I just don't wanna end up running out of petrol somewhere. Everything else on the car is fine. Just the damn guage. May have to drive round with a Jerry can in the boot with a tenner of unleaded in it for emergencies
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Will go out and take some pics in a bit and add them to my "My New Car" post from a few days back
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I just don't wanna end up running out of petrol somewhere. Everything else on the car is fine. Just the damn guage. May have to drive round with a Jerry can in the boot with a tenner of unleaded in it for emergencies
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still no joy i take it? is the fuel tank the same as on e30 roughly do you know? just if it its its actually pretty easy to access if it is.just lift up back seat and theres an access hole.just take that off and your at the bit were you can access the pumps etc.maybe worth having a look at the wires etc around there as mines were a little squashed but still ok.maybe yours are fooked i dunno.hope it is the same type as if not Ive just talked alot of pish
but if it happened on mine thats what id first check and also take out the pumps and see if anything looked stuck or that
has to be worth a try and aint a hard
hope that helps a bit
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but if it happened on mine thats what id first check and also take out the pumps and see if anything looked stuck or that
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On the old ones (no idea if this is still current), a common fault was .. a voltage... regulator? or something? Stops the fuel guage working properly, anyway. I've had a sharknose 320 that was stuck on 1/4, and a later 325 that just lied like a sweaty politician on Newsnight.
Ring BM parts and tell them, if it's the same fault on the E36, apparantly it's a common thing.
Ring BM parts and tell them, if it's the same fault on the E36, apparantly it's a common thing.
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