Introducing ManiacMatt!

[maniacmatt]

Greetings everybody. I've been told to introduce myself so here I am. Uh, introducing myself...

I've joined your forums to further my knowledge just like everyone else. To talk about whatever it is talk about. Primarily right now its my car. Whether to sell it or to keep it and fix whatever little problems will arise. I'm leaning towards the latter of the two.

I currently live in Massachusetts and last September I made the agonizing journey to New Hampshire to purchase my current daily driver, a 1984 BMW 533i. Its nice I like it. It was painted about a year ago a rich Navy Blue. The car has tan leather interior and the front seats have the sheepskin covers. Automatic tranny ( ) which I originally told myself I'd stay away from. But I liked the car so much I bought it anyway. Eitherway I should have looked at more cars before I jumped on this one. But here I am nonetheless happy and nearly broke.


The car needed a starter switch. The woman I bought it from told me this within minutes of talking to her on the phone when I called about the ad. My mistake here was taking it to the dealer to have this repaired. Oh well, no big deal. Might as well have its first repair done right.

Several months later here I am. I've had to replace the exhaust system from the cat back. And I've also had the front end completely redone.

I've been looking through some of the threads on the site and can't seem to find something matching my next issue with the car.

Now the heater fan doesn't properly work. This is weird. About a week ago my fan went - busted. I drove the car around for a day freezing my ass off. So, my dad let me drive his car for a few days while I brought my car to the nearby shop; where I had my previous work done. Estimate comes to $350 with parts & labor. I decline and decide to strive through the winter freezing cold. I picked up the car yesterday around 7AM. I drove to work (45 min) freezing, kicking myself for not fixing it. As I breathe the inside to the windshield freezes. I'm waiting at the intersection at Rt. 1 and then I feel some hot air, and I play with the fan control. The fan blows hot air.

Now I believe this is an electrical problem. Before the fan went, it used to speed up and then slow right down. There would be intermintent fluxuations in the fan speed. This still occurs now. The mechanic I talked to said my heater fan motor had burnt out. I understand this is a fairly common problem with these model cars at this age. Heh, not to say anything like this could happen to any car twenty years old. Any help/advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading and sorry this introduction turned out to be an essay.

ManiacMatt

84 533i Blue/Tan (stock for the most part )