sheltered
03-01-2006, 10:28 PM
okay hey everbody, own a 90 525i 5 speed. i'm new here and searched for hours with no avail.:(
Well this is my problem, my car cranks (turns over) but wont start. My car was running fine and then one cold day , while at a red light, i went to turn the heater on and it killed the car! So i checked the fuses, all looked ok, and wiggled the relays and while wiggling the fuses with the ignition switch on position 3 it came back to life! ok so the same thing happened again but wiggling didnt work this time. so frustrated, i slammed the door with ign. in pos. 3 and that (slamming door) worked!?weird. So here we are at the present and it happened again, but i didnt touch the heater this time. i just went to start it and nothing.:(
i have noticed this little detail: while driving the car one day it stalled for a second then came back to life.when it stalled the dash display went out for a second also.but only the message display not the odometer display.
now, when i crank the engine only the odometer lights up.but no start.
okay, my car had major electric work done before i bought it. (i think) the main harness caught fire right under the steering wheel. and had to be partially replaced.and probably got hacked.so this is what i know.
please help anything will be greatly appreciated
Well this is my problem, my car cranks (turns over) but wont start. My car was running fine and then one cold day , while at a red light, i went to turn the heater on and it killed the car! So i checked the fuses, all looked ok, and wiggled the relays and while wiggling the fuses with the ignition switch on position 3 it came back to life! ok so the same thing happened again but wiggling didnt work this time. so frustrated, i slammed the door with ign. in pos. 3 and that (slamming door) worked!?weird. So here we are at the present and it happened again, but i didnt touch the heater this time. i just went to start it and nothing.:(
i have noticed this little detail: while driving the car one day it stalled for a second then came back to life.when it stalled the dash display went out for a second also.but only the message display not the odometer display.
now, when i crank the engine only the odometer lights up.but no start.
okay, my car had major electric work done before i bought it. (i think) the main harness caught fire right under the steering wheel. and had to be partially replaced.and probably got hacked.so this is what i know.
please help anything will be greatly appreciated