Re: Making my '92 325i reliable

["G. Steinke" <g_steinke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's some common things:
* Water pump. Early e36s m50 (and m52s?) have a water pump with a plastic 
impeller. It breaks sooner or later. If you are lucky (as I was) this causes 
overheating only, and in fact I was able to drive the car to the shop by 
turning the heater on high and going under 60 mph. It was not a hot day. If 
you are unlucky then the pieces of the impeller lodge themselves throughout 
the cooling system.
* Radiator. The plastic neck of the radiator where water enters and leaves 
can break. Probably would render the car undrivable.
* Rear shock absorber mounts. They can break. Not catastrophic. Can be 
detected by a clunking sound from the back.

That's all I know of. I personally had a short in the instrument panel that 
caused the car to keep running when the key was removed, but I have not 
heard this from anyone else.

Good luck,
Greg

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>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:29:00 -0400
>From: "Douglas M. Max" <DMax@domain.elided>
>Subject: Making my '92 325i reliable
>
>I just celebrated 100K with my car and family and am wondering what I
>should replace to help it make the next 100K?
>
>In particular, those things that might go without warning and stop my
>car...fuel pump, alternator haven't been replaced, for instance.  Are
>they going to break within 20K anyway?


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