The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 519 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: What would you get for 10K? Re: What would you get for 10K? Re: What would you get for 10K? Re: What would you get for 10K? FS: CM race car and Ford F350 tow vehicle Re: FS: CM race car and Ford F350 tow vehicle Re: FS: CM race car and Ford F350 tow vehicle <E36> Outside Mirror <E36> Stock Alarm 94 E36 325iA heater valve Ticking from under steering wheel Re: Ticking from under steering wheel Re: Ticking from under steering wheel Crayon or Wax on Leather seat Rad or oil catch can needed for 98 M3 in CR?
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:21:29 -0500 From: Phil Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: Re: What would you get for 10K? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 1/30/05, David Thomas wrote: >The current Roundel has a few comments on the E36 being a P.O.S. >when compared to other BMW's. For me, someone who has never taken a >car to a mechanic, this may not be a problem....or is it? Where are the comments you mention? Letters from members in Tech Talk? I sold BMWs from 1976 to 1998. The E36 does have it's flaws and weak points but it's a hell of a buy in the $5-10,000 range. That being said, a 325i is usually no cheaper than a 525i of the same year and I know which one is built better! Unless you just like the little car, there are some great buys on '95 525i 5-speeds and with a chip, some M3 cams, and a suspension refresh, it's a damn nice car to drive and built quite a bit more solidly than an E36. But no BMW is bullet-proof, short of an E28 535i! Heck, there are even some pretty damn good buys on E39 528i's out there under $10k right now. Against my better judgement, I bought an E36/5 318ti for my kids to drive. A '98 with around 120k, one owner, very well maintained. Bought if from a Club member for just over $5k and had to put tires, brakes, and a driver's window regulator on it right away. Certain items such as door panel are generally cheap on the E36 and even more so on the ti. The headliner is also junk on the ti and I don't think it's terribly different on the non-hatchback cars. Depending on where you are, the AST traction-control which became optionally available on the E36 in 1994 is a must-have. Mine has been a blast in the snow recently and we all like it in spite of its flaws! All E36s have crappy headlamps in the US so be prepared to upgrade to the very expensive European lights, be blind at night, or check an upcoming Roundel for Don E's tale of how to upgrade the sorry units on a budget. -Phil ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:41:54 -0800 From: David Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: Re: What would you get for 10K? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 20:21 -0500, Phil Marx wrote: > At 1/30/05, David Thomas wrote: > >The current Roundel has a few comments on the E36 being a P.O.S. > >when compared to other BMW's. For me, someone who has never taken a > >car to a mechanic, this may not be a problem....or is it? > > Where are the comments you mention? Letters from members in Tech Talk? The comment(s) were in Tech Talk from Mike Miller. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 19:35:24 -0800 From: "Scott & Charlotte Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: What would you get for 10K? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:51:03 -0800 >From: David Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com >Subject: What would you get for 10K? >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dave, so far I haven't seen one important question addressed. What do you plan to do with the car? And then this follow-up, do you plan to keep it stock? My next BMW will be a 4 door. My friends and family are all getting too old to climb into the back seat of a 2 door - except for our daughter, and I feel bad even when she needs to climb in back. So I'd buy a 4 door. Will you be carrying more than 1 passenger often? If so, I'd look for an E34 535i. In fact, a list member has a nice 5 speed for sale right now (hint hint Karl). Is this mainly for yourself and the occasional single passenger? Then the E36 would be hard to beat. It does have its weak points (plastic water pump, radiator neck), but those can be fixed easily enough. If you plan to use the car for autocross or on track, look into getting the floor reinforced around the area of the rear sub-frame. It is a weak point for cars that see high g loads. The E36 M3 comes already reinforced, but it will be beyond your price range. Also, be aware of the lifter ticking after an autocross run. Some owners slightly over-fill the crankcase to counter this. If you plan to make lots of mods and the mods have to fall within your $10K budget, then an E30 325i or an E28 535is would be better for your budget. Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA 2 E30s ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:04:53 -0800 From: David Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: UUC Digest <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: Re: What would you get for 10K? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 19:35 -0800, Scott & Charlotte Miller wrote: > Dave, so far I haven't seen one important question addressed. What do > you plan to do with the car? Drive it. I already have three cars...a Toyota MR2...a E30...and a Land Rover Discovery...so I am pretty well covered for car 'types'. Primarily we are looking for something to play with as we don't really 'need' another car but I am getting bored of driving and wrenching on what I already have. Need something 'new'. Just got the itch for a new model. > And then this follow-up, do you plan to > keep it stock? Probably not. I am not interested in keeping anything for sale at a later date so any mods that catch my fancy would be game. I am not into staying stock for the sake of being stock but I don't have plans for any major mods. > My next BMW will be a 4 door. My friends and family are all getting > too old to climb into the back seat of a 2 door - except for our > daughter, and I feel bad even when she needs to climb in back. So I'd > buy a 4 door. > > Will you be carrying more than 1 passenger often? Not real often. We are a family of three and we already have a 4dr E30 and the Disco can carry seven. Plus, I work from home, so my wife is the only person that needs to drive anywhere each day...so its not often that we need to carry many people. > Is this mainly for yourself and the occasional single passenger? Then > the E36 would be hard to beat. It does have its weak points (plastic > water pump, radiator neck), but those can be fixed easily enough. Most often the car would carry a single person and perhaps a passenger or two from time to time. > If you plan to make lots of mods and the mods have to fall within your > $10K budget, then an E30 325i or an E28 535is would be better for your > budget. I am not factoring immediate maintenance or mods into the price...I am looking to spend the $10K on the initial purchase. Every few years we like to buy a 'new to us' car and pay cash. We are not big fans of car payments in this house...not when so many great cars can be had for so cheap these days. Dave > Scott Miller > GGC BMW CCA > 2 E30s ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:49:08 -0500 From: "Jack - Elephant Motorsports Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: FS: CM race car and Ford F350 tow vehicle Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A new family member will arrive any day now and I spend a lot more time with my kids (soon to be 3 under the age of 4!), and life is just generally much busier these days. So......time to sell off the toys right now and take a couple years off, you know, til the oldest is old enough to spend time at the track with me. ; ) Anyway, here is a link to the webpage with tons of pics and details: http://www.elephantmotorsports.com/forsale/racing_stuff_FS.htm Some details..... Truck: Ford F350 4X4 crew cab SRW w/approx 47k miles, black exterior w/matching Leer cap, Rhino Liner since new, pretty much all power options including pedals and both seats, gray cloth interior, towing package w/3.73 LSD, upgraded aluminum wheels, much more. There has been a fair bit of interest in the truck, both local and through the web but no one has pulled the trigger. I'd rather sell it than keep making payments...and putting miles on it. Was asking $31k, now lowered to $29.5k! Buy it, you won't regret it and you'll never think about towing again. Car: 1995 BMW M3 prepared for CM. Euro 3.2l (3.0l bored and stroked to 3.2l), intake/head work, custom tuned (dyno sheet available for those who are serious), euro 6spd, custom 4.27 diff w/cooler, FG fenders/hood/decklid/doors, CF PTG wing, 2 sets of 18x9 wheels, 5 sets of tires (3 are competitive, 2 are for practice), Brembo front brakes, stock rear, lots of pads, JRZ remote reservoir shocks, world challenge sway bars, MOMO Acropolis seat, CF dash, spares...lots, see webpage for more details. Price is $34k which is a lot less than I paid less than on year ago, i drove it only 4 times in the last year! And I've put several $k into it. If you want a front running car this is it, no building, very little test/tuning required. Get in and drive and win, PERIOD. Please email with interest! Thanks! Jack Money #86 CM M3...FOR SALE '91 M3....project 06 Elephant Motorsports Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 20:58:30 -0500 From: "KMS- Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: Re: FS: CM race car and Ford F350 tow vehicle Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey Jack, Why not just keep it in your damn pants? Brett Anderson KMS > my kids (soon to be 3 under the age of 4!), and life is just ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 18:14:42 -0800 (PST) From: Tammer Farid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: Re: FS: CM race car and Ford F350 tow vehicle Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's tough to stick a race car in there, and there's no way the truck'll fit ... easier to sell 'em I guess. Oh! Just realized you weren't referring to the car. ;-) -tammer --- KMS- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Jack, > > Why not just keep it in your damn pants? > > Brett Anderson > KMS __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:17:05 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: <E36> Outside Mirror Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks guys (Jim Basset and Brett and whoever else I've left out) for the help on the outside sport mirror on the M3. It turned out the be the two wires shared with the mirror heater (blue and brown?). They were literally out of their connectors. I have this suspicion that the previous owner did some really crappy things with this car.(more later). The rear side of the motor/acutator module had the wire color guide embossed on the backside making things easy to put back together. -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:37:36 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com Subject: <E36> Stock Alarm Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> After fixing the M3 mirror I went to investigate the alarm siren. After peeling off about a rolls worth of nylon tape I found that the wires from the siren were just bare pigtails stuffed into the female part of the car's harness. I tested the siren (BMW# 82 111 469 447)with a 9V battery and it works. One item down. The problem is this, at the control end (female connector) which I assume goes to the alarm module, there is 12 volts across the connector but with the alarm in non-activated mode. With the alarm activated the voltage goes down to a little higher than 0.5V. This can't be right. Are the stock modules known to fail in this way. The other indicators work as expected, that is the side and parking lights flash. The previous owner (blockhead) gave me some kind of crap about burning out the siren. I can't quite figure out why he went through all the trouble of taping up the connection when, if as I suspect, the connector is always hot and would have kept the siren going all the time. -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:25:39 -0600 From: "Beaudette, Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Uuc \(E-mail\)" <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: 94 E36 325iA heater valve Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A coworker is not getting any heat to the passenger compartment. This weekend he replaced the thermostat, which was broken. Susbsequent driving shows the engine temperature regulation is working, but the passenger compartment is not receiving any heat. Is there a means to test the heater valve to diagnose whether it has died? Cheers, Roland ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:02:48 -0800 (PST) From: P Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Uuc \(E-mail\)" <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: Ticking from under steering wheel Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, I've recently noticed a ticking sound coming from the region under the steering wheel. It is fairly random; my guess is that it is an electrical relay/switch, but I have no idea which one. I've also experienced this in my cobra as well. Any ideas what it might be and how to get rid of it? -Paul 96 328i __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:28:49 -0800 From: JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: P Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[uucdigest]" <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: Re: Ticking from under steering wheel Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By any chance could it be your keychain swinging like a pendulum tapping against the steering column? Barry P Kroon wrote: >Hello, >I've recently noticed a ticking sound coming from the >region under the steering wheel. It is fairly random; >my guess is that it is an electrical relay/switch, but >I have no idea which one. I've also experienced this >in my cobra as well.Any ideas what it might be and how to get rid of it? >-Paul 96 328i > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:41:17 -0800 (PST) From: P Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "\[uucdigest\]" <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: Re: Ticking from under steering wheel Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No, I thought about that too. Thanks, Paul --- JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By any chance could it be your keychain swinging > like a pendulum tapping > against the steering column? > Barry > > P Kroon wrote: > > >Hello, > >I've recently noticed a ticking sound coming from > the > >region under the steering wheel. It is fairly > random; > >my guess is that it is an electrical relay/switch, > but > >I have no idea which one. I've also experienced > this > >in my cobra as well.Any ideas what it might be and > how to get rid of it? > >-Paul 96 328i > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:19:17 -0500 From: CsWs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: UUC List <bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com> Subject: Crayon or Wax on Leather seat Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gruppe, Was wondering what the best way to get some sort of waxy substance off a leather seat? I believe its crayon, but I am not sure. Not going to run it through my local crime lab to find out. Thanks Karl 91 535 FS 93 525 parts car 87 325 racecar ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:19:25 -0800 (PST) From: Vern Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bmwuucdigest@uucdigest.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rad or oil catch can needed for 98 M3 in CR? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello all, I'm finishing off my 98 M3 into an IP car for BMWCCA CR. Both the radiator overflow and oil breather seem to be closed (not venting to the atmosphere). Does anyone know if that is the case and if I need to add a catch can for either? Thanks in advance. Vern Anderson 98 M3/2 ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(15 messages) **********
