Getting codes from 87 325is

depressing the throttle to the floor five times doesn't work.

try ten times and tell me did you get ti...

You need to be sure you go all the way down to the floor and then all the way back to the top each time you press the pedal. Since you need to do this relatively fast, it's easy to not go all the way on one or more presses and thus not enter the read mode. My old 89 325i was like this.

Kyle.

Nedavno Psycho pise:

| I'm trying to read the codes from an 87 325is but the trick of | depressing the throttle to the floor five times doesn't work.

What trick? How does it work? Please explain, or post a link to the explanation (hope I spelled this right :-)

Nedavno Psycho pise:

| This has been posted numerous times but in the interest of good will, | turn the key to the ON position but do not start the motor. You then | fully depress and release the gas pedal 5 time (must be done within 5 | seconds or so) and the CEL will flash out the code for you. I'm sure | someone can provide you a better link but

Thanks.

Your 87 has Motronic 1.0. Your 89 is Motronic 1.1 or 1.3

Brett Anderson KMS _ Koala Motorsport

I had already determined that it wasn't going to fess up any information without a code reader. It is nice to know why though. I thank you very much for that answer as I no longer have to wonder why...

The issue has been resolved and since the problem was the crankshaft position sensor I doubt it would have helped to have the codes...

A code reader would not have helped. There are no codes to be read.

Brett Anderson KMS