Kannackas
07-14-2019, 12:25 PM
Hi! I recently bought my first e36 and have enjoyed it a lot. It's a stroked m52b28 with m54 rotating assembly and M3 headers, built by previous owner and so far it's driving smooth and all the important stuff is new or refurbished but as the car drove 300.000km's before the rebuild many small bits needs addressing. I have worked on a bunch of small stuff and for a few months had the car perfect in every way.
Considering the milage I guess things will continue to wear down that has to be adressed, but since all the big stuff are solid I look forward to learning by fixing the small issues as they come! The first issue is what I hope someone before me has run into so I can narrow down my searches for the issue and on how to deal with it.
The car is a 97' 328i coupe. It started a while back to make a loud noise when ever coming into full up position, so when I rolled it up while driving it made the grinding noise and when I pressed the up button again it made the loud grinding noise. Every time I got out and closed the door it made the noise when popping up which was awkward.
Then it got stuck completely in the up position, and didn't pop down when opening. At least that made it better to drive around with because I didn't have to hear the noise.
A couple days of more driving and the window started to go down as when opening the door when I drove over bumps and then on the next bump it popped back up with a grinding noise. This started to happen all the time when driving around with smal periods of the window stuck completely then to start with the issues again after awhile.
Now I have parked it and removed the panel, the window is for the moment stuck in fully up position and when hitting the buttons up and down the motor is clicking but nothing moves.
There are too many weird things going on with the window so I don't really know what to look for as I am not an experienced mechanic and not good at diagnostics, I can work my way around a car when I know what to do and what the problem is so I wonder if all the symptoms above have the same cause? Helpful for any advice, I have searched around for common faults in other threads but nothing seems to sound like what could be the cause here?
Considering the milage I guess things will continue to wear down that has to be adressed, but since all the big stuff are solid I look forward to learning by fixing the small issues as they come! The first issue is what I hope someone before me has run into so I can narrow down my searches for the issue and on how to deal with it.
The car is a 97' 328i coupe. It started a while back to make a loud noise when ever coming into full up position, so when I rolled it up while driving it made the grinding noise and when I pressed the up button again it made the loud grinding noise. Every time I got out and closed the door it made the noise when popping up which was awkward.
Then it got stuck completely in the up position, and didn't pop down when opening. At least that made it better to drive around with because I didn't have to hear the noise.
A couple days of more driving and the window started to go down as when opening the door when I drove over bumps and then on the next bump it popped back up with a grinding noise. This started to happen all the time when driving around with smal periods of the window stuck completely then to start with the issues again after awhile.
Now I have parked it and removed the panel, the window is for the moment stuck in fully up position and when hitting the buttons up and down the motor is clicking but nothing moves.
There are too many weird things going on with the window so I don't really know what to look for as I am not an experienced mechanic and not good at diagnostics, I can work my way around a car when I know what to do and what the problem is so I wonder if all the symptoms above have the same cause? Helpful for any advice, I have searched around for common faults in other threads but nothing seems to sound like what could be the cause here?