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What is the tourque setting for the 3 top mount bolts on the front suspension (the bolts that come out the top into the engine bay) on a 2004 e46 bmw 330i ?

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Dec 04, 2008

SOURCE: rear lights

In the trunk you remove the light bulb housing. Once removed, there are 4 nuts inside the lens. remove these nuts and remove your lens. Install the clear lenses in reverse.

A nice look for a nice car.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jan 27, 2009

SOURCE: bmw e46 electric wing mirror wiring diagram

your mirror control switch has 9 wires.,your drivers door mirror has 5 wires color coded .from your mirror control switch to your drivers siide mirror / 0.5 black .0.5 brown. 0.5 brown. 0.5 black. 0.5 black.
your passenger mirror wires are 0.5 blue/black .0.5 blue/grey. 0.5 blue/white. the passenger mirror has a ground cable 0.5 brown.
the passenger mirror wire 0.5 green/white connects to a 5amp fuse/F25 onto F31 5amp to a wire 0.75 green/yellow.back to the mirror control switch.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 29, 2009

SOURCE: removal and replament of a 3 Series BMW E46 1998 saloon wing mirr

On the inside trim, you can remove screws that are by the door handle, arm rest, under door and side of door and then gently pull back on the panel as there will also be retaining clips attached and you don't want to break them. You'll need to lift the door panel upwards in order to get it off the window ledge. Then you'll need to manipulate the panel and disconnect the door handle linkage from the door handle and disconnect the wiring for your controls. Then you can access the bolts that secure the mirror onto the door

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 28, 2010

SOURCE: Sputtering BMW

this could be caused by poor gas, or intake and exhaust vanos solenoids, first try filling the tank with high test gas with low ethenol content,run through a couple of tanks, if still occuring your solenoids may be gummed up, they are located at the front of the cyl head and help in by 1 10mm screw, remove and blow clean with compressed,also be sure to change your oil more freequently than cbs indicator suggests.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 25, 2010

SOURCE: How often should I change the oil in my 2004 BMW

Yes it makes a difference. You can never go wrong following the manufactures recommendations in your owner's manual. Saying that, I recommend every 5,000 miles if you use conventional oil and every 7,000 miles if you use synthetic and drive normally. If you drive mainly highway driving you can extend these 1,000 miles. Just as important is to change the filter at every oil change and to use a quality filter such as Purolator, Wix, AC/Delco, Motorcraft, or Bosch. Avoid cheap filters. Also important to a clean engine is to change the air filter every 30,000 miles.

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Fig. 6: Oil pan mounting bolt locations-1996 3.1L engine shown

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