Welcome back to Sipa's garage.
As you may see from all of this, it's now fall at Finland and it's the best time to buy the winterbeater before the snow comes.
For the previous few winters I have used my e36 to get around.
But if you watched my previous video, there was strange noises coming from the engine. And there also starts to be small rust damages.
So I put that to garage for some fixes and that means I had to get another car to drive for winter.
Genuine winterbeater.
And what did I get. This "prices starting at" 520i e39.
Why e39 you ask?
Because normally you would get something like e36 or e30 as winterbeater.
Well mostly because I think that these are the best cars to drive that BMW has to offer.
And the prices are now at the all time low.
For this I only paid hair over 1000€ and that's not much for running and driving car with passed MOT inspection.
Well yeah it hardly has any options at all and only 2 liter engine. But it's still BMW with straight six.
And no major expensive faults.
Someone might think why would I make a video about this kind of basic e39.
Well it's because this seems to have quite many of the basic problems that you could have with e39.
So I decided to do video about how you can cheaply and easily fix these problems.
First of all the engine doesn't run very well.
It starts quite strangely, misfires, has lot of hesitation when pressing throttle and most of the power is missing.
And it gives some fault codes.
Power steering pump makes noise and leaks.
The blower fan makes lot of noise and even did shut off completely.
Outside temp meter shows -40
Airbag light doesn't go away.
Only thing missing would be ABS light that won't go away.
So lets start fixing those faults.
I need to start from the blower fan because it's now almost at zero degrees Celcius so I can't drive without working blower.
So that needs to be sorted first.
So lets go.
We are now inside my small home garage.
And to fix the broken one I bought this used but working blower fan from eBay.
And now we need to change this inside there. How that is going to happen.
Well I have to take apart the whole dash to do that and it's not very small task.
If you know how these BMWs are built. They just start with this blower fan and then start assembling the car around it.
And that's why this is so hard to get to.
Well not really, but it could be.
But I will start disassembling this and lets see hot this goes.
This kind how taking apart the dash may seem like really big project.
But once you start doing it, it isn't that big thing to do.
I spend about 2 hours doing this blower motor replacement so it didn't take very long.
To simplify it you just take off the panels underneath the dash, take off the trim panels.
Then take off the instrument cluster and you can just lift off the upper dash panel.
And then you can change the blower.
I don't do more detailed how-to video about this because there is already any more on YouTube.
I will link here one video where the guys spend 5 hours doing this. I don't know if they drank beer half of time or what.
But they show all the screw locations, what needs to be taken off etc. So that might help if you are going to do this by yourself.
Now finally we have the blower motor on hand.
This doesn't look that bad. The bearings are ok and no cracked blades etc.
Strange that this made all that noise and vibration.
And also did shut off completely.
But there seems to be lot of black dust in here so maybe the brushes are gone.
I would guess. And this component may have been cracked.
Don't know.. But still lets change this and then test before reassembly.
So now I just need to open these 3 screws to change this and then test.
It works. Now unplug the batter and I can reassemble.
Yeah the blower now works so then just reassemble in reverse order. Nothing else to be done.
As you did saw i did proper test for the fan before going further because it wold be very annoying to get all back together just to notice that the fan doesn't work.
But well. After this the fan still wasn't perfect. All other problems were gone but it did still shut off occasionally.
So came conclusion that the Blower final stage was also busted.
So I needed to replace that also.
It's located on passengers side and you need to take off two interior panels to reach it.
Then just take of the connector, push the clip and pull it away.
Some may have two screws holding it but this didn't have those.
So this took only few minutes to change.
Then to the next fault. As you can see the outside temp shows -40 degrees Celsius.
Normally that is caused by the temp sensor in the front bumper. It tends to break off when the plastic cover where it's mounted just flies off or something like that.
So lets take a look at there.
Lets see here.
And it looks like I guessed right.
There is the connector.
The connector is broken and the sensor has gone missing.
But I have solution to this.
I bought this sensor with the connector in advance for this.
So i just need to solder these wires to replace that broken connector and it should work then.
And would you look at that. It now shows -10 degrees and it is really how could here is now.
So the fix did work.
And then because this is car for the winter I need proper winter tires.
The car came with these BMW e39 15" original steelies.
Well not really because if you look more closely, these are almost 5mm thick.
That's because these are really aluminium even thought these look like regular steelies.
I like these because these are really light compared to steel ones or even normal alloy wheels.
So I will use these and they came with the car which is also good.
Yeah these are ugly but functional.
And for example If you need really light track wheels and don't have money to buy real ones.
Then just get set of these e39 aluminium steelies. These are cheap and very light for track use, if you don't mind the looks.
As for quick tip.
But back to this subject. These were the winter wheels that came with the car.
But if we look here.
You need to have quite good imagination if you can see any studs in these tires.
The seller said that these are good for winter or two. But I don't want to drive even for meter with these kind of winter tires.
So lets put on new winter tires.
And now if you have watched my previous videos, you might think that we are going to change the tires by hand.
But no! We now have proper tire changer in here.
Which looks like this.
Here also seems to be Petri's part pile for next winter.
I don't even know what is here.
Just little sneak peak....
Those are then for some other video.
But yeah we have tire mounting machine here.
But... yeah.. I haven't used this yet.
But using this shouldn't be that hard.
Because Finnish man only looks instructions after fucking up everything, I will try my luck with this. Maybe I can get new tires on without injuries.
I you know how to use these, don't laugh at me..
And now that we have old tires off, I have new ones here.
I did order these from all the way from Estonia.
Only about 50€ a pop.
Someone might have some stereotypical thought about ordering stuff from Estonia, but these were the real deal.
And no two by four in cigarette carton.
... it bit sad. What did they sell us..
No fucking way...
So lets put these on.
... he thought that there was some major electrical problems because the lights didn't work.
But only problem was that every wire to rear hatch was broken inside the rubber tube.
And tires are now on. Then to the next problem that makes driving this on winter quite challenging.
Which are the front lights that are really bad in this.
So that you can see how bad the lights are, I have here on left the beam from our e39 touring which has good facelift lights.
And that is how it should look like.
Nice sharp and bright. And lets see how the lights on my car look like.
I will put lights on and have manual settings on my camera so that it doesn't show wrong.
And I will now turn to my lights.
Tada!
No any light pattern visible and very dim.
When driving that's horrible.
No wonder i can't see at dark.
That is how it should look like and I only got that dim glow.
Maybe that tells best that I have blinkers on and those light up the wall more than the driving lights.
From that you can imagine how bad those are on road that has no lights.
So... Lets put on new ones.
So yeah. When I was buying this I quickly looked these and noticed that these have new covers so i thought that the lights might be quite good.
Because normally the main problem is just the "sandblasted" covers
And it wasn't dark then so I didn't notice how bad the lights really were.
But if i zoom you probably see what is the problem in these particular lights.
As you can see all the reflective coating has fallen off.
So these are done..
There is only one solution which is to replace these.
But yeah. As I said the main reason why e39 lights normally suck is the covers that have been "sandblasted" dim.
Or then the mounting brackets for the inner structure have snapped.
You can check it going here.
And just grabbing the bulb socket. And if those brackets are broken the whole thing is just flapping in the breeze like this this.
But this is easy fault to fix because you can get those mounting brackets from eBay for example.
But those are not going to save these ones.
So lets put in new lights.
Which is pretty easy. You just loosen these...
Oh there isn't even screw there anymore.
Well anyway. You need to open these two screws.
Unplug all connectors.
And then open these two and you can pull the whole thing out.
And here I have the new lights I got.
I won't be getting new OEM lights for this kind of car.
So I got these TYC branded aftermarket lights that are copied from the OEM pre-facelift lights.
I could have gotten facelift lights but those wouldn't be appropriate for this kind of grandpa car.
These older model lights fit the car just perfectly.
And these are normally lot cheaper than the newer facelift lights.
But still I got these ones which were 20€ more than other because of these gorgeous orange indicators. Just look at how good these look.
Old cars should all have orange indicators.
All new cars have clear ones and those are so boring nowadays.
So even when these are cheap as possible fixes, I had to pay more for these.
BTW these look really good, even that these aren't OEM lights.
Hopefully I can also see in dark with these.
So first unplug the connectors.
Those are off and now the screws.
There was 4 of those. Or 3 in this case.
Just like that.
And with e39 you need to also move this plastic strip from old lights to the new ones.
Push the clip in.
And from the bottom also open two clips.
These ones.
And it popped out.
And put this to the now light.
And these are too good looking for this car..
And that was all for this part.
In next part we will look at the engine problems. Those didn't prevent me driving the car so I left those last.
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