1987 BMW 528e Service and Repair Manual

This factory service and repair manual for the 1987 BMW 528e covers a four-door sedan in a single trim with the 2.7-liter single-cam inline-six, naturally aspirated, running on gasoline. The specification leaves nothing to determine before work starts. One engine, one body, one equipment level, so the procedures, torque values, wiring diagrams and diagnostic routines in the book apply to the car on the lift without any preliminary sorting of variants.

Engines covered

• 2.7L inline-six — SOHC, naturally aspirated, gasoline

Body styles covered

• 4-door sedan

Trims covered

• Base

Known issues on the 1987 528e. A single owner complaint stands against this model year, with no one system standing out within it. That leaves the manual's ordinary coverage as the reason to have it: engine mechanical work with clearances and torque sequences, valve and ignition adjustment, fuel and cooling specifications, transmission and rear axle procedures, brake, suspension and steering figures, and wiring diagrams for the sedan body. On a car of this age those diagrams do as much work as anything else in the book.