Can anyone lend some advice?

colb

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When I get a chance will take some pictures of my 1.9 M43 and post them on here so you can compare yours. Don't be surprised if it fails on emmissions, until you have an airtight system its going to be running rich.
 
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That would be amazing mate - yeah I think I may need to make my own DIY smoke test. I will take engine for good run before MOT test but yeah I'm really glad you've given me all this advice because father in law said only down side to car was how poor it is on fuel - duh!!

Just had upholsterist tell me he needs me to remove whole roof and take it to him to restitch rear window and patch up tiny hole, quoted £40 which is great just been reading a guide on here on how to remove, not sure it's worth the hassle - going to shop around with another upholsterist as a few people have said you shouldn't need to remove roof if your leaving car with them to do the job.

Cheers guys
Jed
 

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Here are some pictures of mine, not very clear but may assist you.
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The lower hose from the filter box under the Maf electrical connector runs to the secondary air pump which has been removed from yours, just blank the vacant hole in the filter box with some good tape to seal it. The intake bellows fitted after the Maf fits to the throttle body, put your new one on when you get it and secure the jubilee clips to seal it.
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The ribbed plastic pipe is the one blanked with the bolt on yours, fit the blanking plate @t-tony is sending you and remove the pipe and the silver coloured valve unit, they are redundant.
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The pipe branching off the intake bellows is plugged in using a plastic connector, the hose then makes its way under the intake manifold and connects underneath, its a faff to get to that end, may need to lift the manifold up to get to it by undoing its retaining bolts/nuts. Clearer view of the secondary air pump in this picture that you no longer have on yours.
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Closer view of the hose on the intake bellows plastic connector for the hose going under the intake manifold.
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The hose at bottom right of picture connected to the manifold leads to the brake servo on the bulkhead the hose runs along the plastic channel at the back of the engine bay. The hose connected to the round crankcase ventilation valve runs to the rocker cover and feeds oily fumes from there back to the round valve.
Also check all the small thin hoses at the front of the engine for cracks or leaks, you should be able to get suitable sized pipe at motor factors locally if any need replacing, they sell it by the metre. Also worth checking at the back of the intake manifold for any rubber blanking plugs that seal off connections that are not used, these perish and fall off allowing air to get in. Can't remember if there are any of these on the 1.9 but they are on the 2.2 and 2.5 models.

Hope that assists, far easier to have hands on with it in front of you to suss it out than describe it all.
 
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Your a Saint, will blank off and plug up this evening. Owe you a drink or two. Fab!
 

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Hi Guys

Update: MOT Today - Needed alot more work doing than wishbone bushes and some other odd bits that i thought.

Failed on all brake pipes
Headlights
Both arms and ball joints
Antiroll bar linkage
Airbag light

So I went away and purchased the arms with ball joints, linkage, bulbs, pipes etc.

Garage did all of this, flushed coolant, changed oil and filter, changed fuel filter, bled new brake fluid and MOT incl in price, I did supply all parts incl the service parts, £200 for all. Happy with the price actually if i'm honest.

Now just need to fix up some smaller bits, engine is still a little rough on idle but I have my new crankhose to fit tomorrow. Tomorrow I have the wheel balancing and alignment doing at a local tyre shop after i've done that.

Colb - do you know once I have bought this airbag reader, it looks like there is a wiring issue with the airbag, is this something avaliable to buy and re-fit or an auto elec job?
 

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See what the code reader comes back with, it should point you to where the fault is, more than likely the wiring connectors under the seat gone bad, dirty or disturbed connections. If the wiring is not secure under the seat and the seat gets moved its common for fault codes to be set and the warning light gets lit. See what the code is, check the wiring only after you disconnect the battery otherwise you will cause the car to set more codes. Once you are satisfied the wiring is intact reconnect the battery and read the codses again, clear any that are there then scan it again to see if they come back.
 

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Airbag all sorted and light staying off so all good.

Still cannot for the life of me find where this second pipe connects up to though, gonna do more investigation tomorrow I think while I change spark plugs. I know in the pic it's aimed to the right but looking around it looks like it goes left and down into that way (since also replaced these pipes) just can't see where it could possibly go at the moment. Nearly there with the car, got a kit to machine polish the paintwork next week too :)

If anyone has any suggestions on the pipe that would be amazing.
 

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colb

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That hose is here on the diagram in oem parts site https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=CM12-EUR-12-1999-Z3-BMW-Z3_19&diagId=13_1738
It has a plastic joiner part item no. 4, is yours still there under that tape? On my M43 engine it runs under the inlet manifold, a bit of digging on the oem site revealed that the other end fits to the fuel rail, hose part number is the same in both diagrams. https://www.realoem.com/bmw/enUS/showparts?id=CM12-EUR-12-1999-Z3-BMW-Z3_19&diagId=13_1740
The angle your hose is wrong you might need to reposition the intake bellows and ensure you have that plastic angled joiner to send the pipe off in the right direction under the manifold and up to the fuel rail stub to connect it. Make sure its an airtight fit when you put it on.
 
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Your the man.

I'm gonna look for this tonight, looks like I can just bend it the other way securely and it goes on the fuel rail somewhere then, I swear that part of the fuel rail has something else already plugged on it though... Keep you updated.

Cheers mate
 

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Hope they didn’t tell you that they adjusted the rear?

Tony.
 

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Morning Tony

Said rear is slightly off but can be coped with, some buckling on one alloy which they said they managed to fix, removed a screw from a tyre too but didn't puncture and did tyre pressures. Rebalanced all 4 wheels as they were all over the place. Charged me £80 which I was happy with to be fair.

Next problem is getting EML code for Camshaft Position Sensor (135) but I have now connected this air pipe to fuel rail and is all tight, engine bay looks loads better, especially with a clean up with some gunk!! Just going to wait and see if EML creeps back...

Feeling really positive about this car today :)

Jed
 

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Hi Jed, the reason I asked is that there is no adjustment on the rear of a Z3 as standard. I’ve heard of people being told that they adjusted front and rear even though there’s no rear adjustment.

Tony.
 
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