how-2-do section

Great idea! Definitely give it a go... there are lots of how-to articles on other sites, but most of them are either missing chunks of important instructions!

One suggestion if I may: All how-to articles should have a few illustrations and a list of any/all necessary part numbers! I dunno what other dealers are like, but my local dealer is much more cooperative in ordering parts (for older cars) if I have the part numbers ready for them; so part numbers would be dead handy!

Great idea, most other BMW sites have tech tips so i don't see why we should'nt have one on here. I have some links to helpful "how to do's" if they needed

Edited by Robbie Bradford

Hi all,

you may want to check the site:www.bmwe34.net.

it has some excellent guides under maintenance & upgrades.

kbannon wrote: I can easily develop something for this. Give me a week or so!

Thanks Kbannon,

I think in time it will become very usefull,and hopfully the people who post up will use laymans terms so as most every body will be able to under stand, as most manuals do tend to get unnecessarily technical, plus people will be able to print off these how-2-do`s and make there own manual of the most common fix`s/problems related to there car.

Edited by b8alk

All i was hopeing for was a section marked up as how-2-do, and when a person clicked on this they would be greeted by a list of how-2-do`s ie

e34:how-2-do

e30:how-2-do

e39:how-2-do

and so on

and when one of these was clicked on you would get a list in time of how-2-do`s for that car /so if i was looking to replace my heater valve on my e34 i would click on the how-2-do section followed by e34 how-2-do and then look for the one marked up as :

( how-2-do=ie heater valve replacement/hot-cold air fix.)

 followed by step by step instructions and acompanying small photos, no reply post available only by pm to the guy who posted the how-2-do

Edited by b8alk

owenw wrote:  Appologies to Killian if this proves to be a major undertaking!

He loves a challenge!

what an excellent plan

Sounds like a good idea to me

Thanks Andy! Will take a look.

Paul

Great idea as we all have knowledge of one thing or another through trial and error.

I find most jobs difficult to do when reading a workshop manual as they generally cover more than one model and so the pictures they show are never that comprehensive!!

A how to do section would make interesting reading for members new and old...

It get's the thumbs up from me