Barry

[Barry Meadows]

I am a retired Electrical Engineer who currently owns a 1997 2.8l automatic Z3 in Montreal Blue. Glad to become a member of the forum.

 

[PHILIP BAXTER]

Hi Barry, and welcome from me in Cardiff. Where are you located?

 

[Stevo7682]

Hi and welcome from me in Scotland.

 

[colb]

Welcome aboard the Forum, you have arrived at the best Z Forum on the Web, help and advice always available here.
As our membership is Worldwide its a good idea to update your user details with your location and model of your car, it assists us in answering your questions.
You could also add a signature to show these detail so they appear in all your future posts.
If you are lucky you might be close to one of the enthusiast run Zed Sheds where members meet up and do jobs on each others cars.
If your new to OBD2 you will want to bolster your toolbox with a decent Code Scanner, bound to need one sooner or later.
I can reccomend a Creator 310+ as a good all round scanner and easy to use.
If you want to go the Laptop route then find yourself a Windows laptop running Windows 7 or above and
purchase BMW Scanner 1.4 available on ebay for little cost, it comes with its Interface, cable and software on a usb stick, you will need a 16pin to 20 pin cable changer to plug
these diagnostics in to the under bonnet diagnostic plug (Pac-man socket) to read all modules on the car.
If yours has a 16pin obd2 socket under the steering wheel inside the car that will only read the engine and transmission modules,
the Pac-man socket reads all modules. If you get hooked on Diagnostics you may want to have a go with BMW software, INPA, NCS Expert, Winkpf and DIS, these
can be problematic setting up but usually due to configering the right drive and usb settings. Help usually forthcomming on the Forum if you run into install problems.

 

[Althulas]

Hi and welcome from me, any pics to upload?

 

[t-tony]

Hi Barry, welcome from me too near Lincoln.

Tony.

 

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[Shelly]

 

[Mint]

Hi Barry and to the forum from me too in Stafford.

 

[hard top]

to the Forum.

 

[Barry Meadows]

Hi everyone. I am from Wigan in Lancashire. Glad to be here and hope to get plenty of help and advice going forward. A couple of pics to introduce the car.

 

[Ian&Sue]

Hi Barry, from North Yorkshire. Got to love a Montreal Blue Z.

Ian & Sue.

 

[Mus Musculus]

to the forum from Cambridgeshire.

Nice looking car you have there.

 

[Rod and Kate]

Welcome from Rod and Kate in York

 

[Paul&Di]

Nice car.welcome from us in Lincoln

 

[Barry Meadows]

Hi everybody. I have finally taken of the hard top and found that I cannot set the alarm. It says that you can disable the internal sensors, etc, but it doesn't seem to work. How do you know which alarm type you have? My key fob is shaped like an oblong with the top left corner cut off and two pushbuttons. Could it be something wrong with the control module or am I just not doing it right?

 

[Ian&Sue]

Have a look in 'Articles' there's one about programming the fob, that might help?

 

[Althulas]

You have the 3G ews one, as suggested the article shows you how to re sync your fob with the system. To disable internal sensors you press in the red telltale light you should have on your centre console. If you have your documents you should have a yellow envelope with a card in with a security code. In the alarm manual it tells you how to input the code via the ignition switch but if you don’t have those you will have to follow the guide as suggested which in short involves taking the glove box out to get acces to the alarm module and flicking a switch then use your fob buttons to link to the module.

 

[Barry Meadows]

Thanks for that, I will try later today and report back on any progress.

 

[Barry Meadows]

First I opened the windows (hood up), pressed the red indicator, left the car and locked using the remote. Seems to be working . Why don't they tell you this in the manual!! Thanks for your help.