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The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 701 : text Format Messages in this Issue: Aftermarket passenger seat and SRS Re: E36Aftermarket passenger seat and SRS? Re: '99 M3 OEM Alarm Going Off Re: e34 Climate Control Problem car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court E30 ABS relay Re: E30 ABS relay E39 530i Engine Knock? Re: E39 530i Engine Knock? Re: E39 530i Engine Knock? -- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:03:29 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: Aftermarket passenger seat and SRS Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc - As I'm about to replace the stock seats in my 99 M Coupe with racing shells (+rollcage/harnesses and have looked into this. Apparently, an occupancy sensor pad is incorporated into the passenger seat's cushion. The pad is a foil contact sensor that is open when the seat is not occupied. When the seat cushion is pressed by the weight of a passenger, the sensor circuit produces a resistance that varies with the weight and/or movement. In the event of an accident, the airbag will be deployed at a rate based on the resistance. Some folks have fooled the SRS system to think the passenger pressure mat is there by installing a circuit that, as best as I can determine, involves two resistors and a diode. Neil Simon 99 M Coupe DC tags MDORPHN __ Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:40:06 -0500 From: Marc Plante [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: E36Aftermarket passenger seat and SRS? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I finally put the passenger Recaro SRD into my 97 M3/4, and came across an additional wire to be connected under the passenger seat (Beyond the two that go over to the seatbelt latch and tensioner). the cord is attached to a black box about the size of a matchbox. I'm assuming that it is a sensor for the front seat that is attached to the Airbag, and that I'm going to see an SRS light as soon as I fire up the ignition. Anyone BTDT that can tell me what measures I need to take to accomodate the seat in the car? Am I sacrificing passenger Airbag functionality since the sensor is missing? Marc Plante E36 M3/4, 65k Vienna, VA -- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:06:53 -0500 From: Neil Maller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E36Aftermarket passenger seat and SRS? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 6/20/05 12:20 AM, Marc Plante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally put the passenger Recaro SRD into my 97 M3/4, and came across an additional wire to be connected under the passenger seat (Beyond the two that go over to the seatbelt latch and tensioner). The cord is attached to a black box about the size of a matchbox. I'm assuming that it is a sensor for the front seat that is attached to the Airbag, and that I'm going to see an SRS light as soon as I fire up the ignition. Anyone BTDT that can tell me what measures I need to take to accomodate the seat in the car? Am I sacrificing passenger Airbag functionality since the sensor is missing? The matchbox device connects to the passenger occupancy detector mat. The weight of a passenger tells the SRS controller that there's a rider on board. You can either do what Jim Powell did, see: http://www.apexcone.com/JimPowellHomepage/Recaros/Recaros.html or you can do what I did, which is to install a stock occupancy detector mat (p/n 65778367600) under the seat cushion of your Recaro in order to keep the same airbag logic. Neil Fort Wayne, IN 96 M3 - Bastard child 03 525iT - Sterling Grey Metallic 77 MGB - Original owner, need to sell 05 Mini- Cooper S with LSD! -- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:26:29 -0500 From: Dennis Wynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: '99 M3 OEM Alarm Going Off Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WIth my E46 and E39 alarms you can disable the internal motion sensor and the tilt sensor just by pressing the arm button a 2nd time (once to arm, then a second to disable these). That should leaves just the hood, trunk, and doors armed. Might it work the same way on your alarm? If so, then try setting it this way and see if the false alarms go away. Dennis 01 M5 silver/black (sold?) At 04:07 AM 06/19/2005 -0400, you wrote: My '99 M3's alarm has been going off once or twice a night lately. It's never happened before until the other night. Is there some way to limit the sensitivity? Could a cat jumping on the hood make it go off? I'm sure cats have been on the car before w/o it going off. Is there another reason like a loose connection, battery drain, etc., that could make it go off? Just looking at the unit that plugs into the back of the glove box I don't see any
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The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 702 : text Format Messages in this Issue: Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: car's black box admissible in court Re: E34 aux fan -- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:18:59 -0700 (PDT) From: P Kroon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: UUC Digest bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: Re: car's black box admissible in court Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honorof ruled that the black box data were admissible, even though the police had obtained it before applying for a search warrant. Turning back Litman's argument that his client had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the car and its contents, the judge ruled that Soukup's operation of the vehicle on a public highway knowingly exposed his behavior to the public. Observed by at least three witnesses, his velocity was not a private matter, the judge said. Am I the only one that finds this logic strange? Yes, his velocity isn't a private matter, but the INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE BLACK BOX arguably is. -Paul 96 328i 03 G35 98 Panoz AIV Roadster --- Gary Derian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A decent crash reconstructionist can establish the speeds without a black box. Black box data can be helpful, but should not be relied on as the only basis for speed. Gary Derian Got this off another listserv and thought some of you may be interested. This kind of driving, particularly given the drivers' ages at the time of the accident, does not belong on public roads. I am so very thankful for DE schools for both what is taught, the safety of the environment, and the opportunity to speed legally. Clarence West Bend, WI * Car's Black Box Evidence Ruled Admissible by Andrew Harris copyright 2005 The New York Law Journal 01-13-2005 Evidence gleaned from a car's black box -- a computer module that, among other things, records a vehicle's speed in the last five seconds before airbags deploy in a collision -- will be admissible in the New York trial of two men charged with second-degree murder. The defendants, Kyle Soukup and Blake Slade, were involved in a fatal three-car accident while in a race on a Nassau County, N.Y., highway on a night in June 2002, authorities say. The ruling in People v. Slade, No. 0666-2003, by acting Nassau County Supreme Court Justice Alan M. Honorof followed a hearing testing the science behind the evidence. The decision following the hearing is one of the first of its kind in New York state. It's a powerful piece of evidence, said Assistant District Attorney Michael Walsh, the lead prosecutor on the case. Soukup's lawyer, Jack Litman of Litman, Asche Gioiella could not be reached for comment. His associate, Todd Terry, said that the firm was not making public statements about the case. Ronald Bekoff of Garden City, N.Y.'s Hession, Bekoff Cooper, who represents Slade, could not be reached for comment. According to the prosecutor, Soukup, now 19, and Slade, now 22, were friends racing in separate cars on Route 106 through Old Brookville, N.Y., in northeastern Nassau County. As they approached the Muttontown Road intersection, Soukup, driving a 2002 Chevrolet Corvette at nearly 130 miles per hour, slammed into a 1993 Jeep Cherokee, tearing that vehicle in half. A split second later, Slade, driving a 2002 Mercedes, rammed into the front end of the Jeep, knocking it 300 yards up the road. You see headlights in the distance, Walsh said of the Jeep driver's decision to cross the road. You can't image how quick they'll be on you. One of the Cherokee's occupants, Sophia Bretous, was dead at the scene. Her companion, Jean Desir, died later that night at the Nassau University Medical Center. According to Honorof's ruling, at least three other drivers say they witnessed the contest and the ensuing collision. Their testimony is important too, Walsh said, asserting that he could have built a case from those accounts and the testimony of accident reconstruction experts. However, the black box, formally called a sensing diagnostic module, enables the prosecution to establish the Corvette's speed, engine revolutions, throttle position and use of the brakes for the critical moments before the impact. Police officers removed the sensing module from Soukup's wrecked car after it was in their possession but before they had a search warrant. They later applied for and obtained a warrant based
