3 Series owners   E36  92-98

 Has your electric seat quit reclining?  The motor runs, but the seat back doesn't move.

We now have a fix for that, and you don't have to replace the seat and/or entire electric seat drive mechanism anymore!

 A plastic gear has been failing in the recliner gear box preventing the recliner movement via the motor.   

 We now have that gear, but made much stronger with better materials and we can replace the gear for you!  The seat has to be removed from the car, the motors on the gear box are removed to gain access to the gear  box screws.  The worm gear is removed that has the broken gear on it, the gear is replaced, gear box cleaned out, re-greased, the worm gear reinstalled, and the rest of the gear box reassembled on the seat.  The seat is checked on the bench for proper operation and then reinstalled back in the car. The total cost is for either front seat is less than $250.00 complete.

 Does your Speedometer work but the odometer doesn't?  Is your mileage is stuck on a number forever;  No; it is NOT!   We can fix it!   The plastic gears that spin the odometer mechanism around have deteriorated to the point where they have just fallen apart. That's right, the gear teeth just fall off, the pinion gear usually only has the brass insert still on the driven shaft with no teeth. There are two kinds of speedometers that go into the BMW,  Motometer and VDO.

The Motometer unit has four gears to replace while the VDO unit only has three gears to replace.

The instrument cluster will need to be removed from the vehicle and the speedometer removed from the cluster.  The gears are under a plastic cover on the side of the speedometer assembly.   Care must  be taken not to touch the front face of the instrument because finger prints will leave an impression on the surface.  Also, be careful of the sensitive electronics that are attached to the speedometer head.

We can do it for you!  We also bench test the unit with our special tester to verify that the unit is functioning normally before we install back into the car.  We can test the speedometer/odometer by themselves or installed in the cluster.