[uucdigest] Friday, February 4 2000 Volume 03 : Number 192 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | For all available Digest commands including unsubscribe/subscribe, | visit the BMW UUC Digest page: http://www.uucdigest.com | Send SUBMISSIONS to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Complaints? Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you must. | Visit http://www.bubbaclub.com | www.bimmers.com - "serving enthusiasts on the 'net" | Visit http://www.bimmer.org - ultimate BMW bulletin boards! | Subscribe to the Zionsville Autosport Parts Digest: | http://www.zionsvilleautosport.com/majordomo.htm ����������������������������������������� In this BMW UUC Digest: [uuc] RE: riceboy question [uuc] Re: BMW Alpina style wheels Re: [uuc] RE: Oktoberfest chat preparations? Re: [uuc] 535i hesitation solved, Steven Bernstein laughs. Re: [uuc] RE: Oktoberfest preparations? Re: [uuc] Rice [uuc] Re: Non-Warranty DIY work RE: [uuc] Rice [uuc] e36 alignment [uuc] WTB:E36 gauge cluster [uuc] Oh, Gawd! Not the Riceboy topic again! [uuc] Re: <wob> fish & chips boys Re: [uuc] Rice RE: [uuc] Rice [uuc] Oxygen sensor [uuc] It's Friday - let's lighten up! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:33:34 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: riceboy question Hmmmm....can't we all just get along? =) It's really strange that anyone (of asian decent or otherwise) would get offended by the term. Perhaps it's just because I'm confident in myself and I like to do things with a tasteful manner. So lessee....what do I consider a riceboy? Anyone who: - - has a low performance car put blue lights in the turn signals and headlights (that actually hinder nighttime vision and annoy the hell out of other motorists) - - puts a wing on the car that is all show (and it usually more than 6 inches high) and doesn't do damn for performance or if it did, it would be so unbalanced that at actualy high speed, would probably make the car lose control because there was no downforce in the front (remember, if you put the LTW wing on with the spacers, you need to put the snow plow front splitters on....but that's only if you're serious about performance and racing). - - puts huge slabs of vinyl on the body panels. Do you think anyone takes you seriously with those stickers? Pulease! If I go to a fancy place and pull up in my non-stickered (save for the 'lil shark on the window) car, I wouldn't be humiliated at all. Now place myself in a car that has swooping racing stripes; Chinese characters up the wazoo; etc; etc, I would feel way stupid in a formal event. Now, I would understand if you were factory sponsered and stuff - - puts huge slabes of vinyl of products that you don't even have installed in the car! Putting a stupid "Type-R" sticker to make up for the fact that your car isn't? That's just plain stupid. - - puts a 6" diameter exhaust on the car. Hmmmm.....my car get's perfect performance from two 2.25" (or was it 2.5") outlets. I don't think a 4 banger 1.5 liter engine that originally had a 3/4" exhaust outlet will face that much back pressure with a 2 - 2.5 inch exhaust. They sound like bees in a coffee can and sound extremely obnoxious. Anyone who thinks a Honda with a 6" diameter exhaust can sounds "mean" has got to get an insanity check. - - puts a wheelie bar on the back of a FWD car! ...I've seen it done. Basically, what it comes down to is calling the person an idiot. Someone said that he knew a few upright people who weren't riceboys. Do they have bluelights? Maybe it was from ignorance. If you fill them in on the facts that blue light isn't good for night vision and they still don't listen, then they are morons! So if you were to call someone a boy racer instead of rice boy, it's just another way of calling the fellow an idiot, right? I'd like for you to go up to the owner of such a car and call him any of the different names: idiot, riceboy, boy racer, ad nasuem. It will still result in the same effect, he/she won't like you and will probably want to kick your ass. The same thing goes for those who own a 318i and modify the external stuff to look like an M3. You call the person a poseur, no? At any rate, it's all in good fun and I call riceboys as I see them...even if they aren't of Asian decent (which is even worse because you know they can't read the Chinese characters they stick on their car). Which reminds me...maybe UUC Motorworks should come out with a few stickers that sez, "I'm a dickhead" (loosely translated of course) and see how many gobble them up and put them on their cars. Heh heh....well, maybe we'd have to sell them in JC Whitney's catalog or Import Tuner... Flame suite on....just be forewarned that I'm only kidding. Have a good weekend, Chester ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 13:37:14 -0500 From: "Joseph C. Volpe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: BMW Alpina style wheels WTB-4 15 inch (or 14) BMW Alpina style wheels to fit 72 CS Joe BMW CCA Member NJ 92 535i 72 3.0 CS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 10:35:45 -0800 From: "Ray Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] RE: Oktoberfest chat preparations? Thank god...I was getting tired of chatting up Helga, She-Wolf of the SS... - -----Original Message----- From: Rob Levinson - UUC Motorwerks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Hmmm... maybe tonight I'll be a 16-year-old lesbian, yeah, that's it! > >- Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 21:15:58 -0800 From: Doug Cefali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] 535i hesitation solved, Steven Bernstein laughs. So, sounds like Steven believes his brilliant response is way below any type of dignified reply. Maybe Steven can explain for all of us how these "hilarious levels" are so easily explained. Should be easy for such a technically gifted individual. Now, if I had noted that the filters were dirty, or some other obvious problem was present, the diagnosis would be easy, and even steven would have understood. But everything was clean and new. C'mon BMW genius boy, explain the obvious engineering phenomenom at work here. Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Way to go, Steven! Instead of educating Doug, let's make fun of him! Oh > boy, it sounds like such fun to sit back and laugh at people for their lack > of knowledge - I can't wait to start! > > *retch* > > Scott > 1985 535i > > Doug Cefali wrote: > >> > >> I also put in new plugs, (old ones looked like new), and a dist cap and > >> rotor, new air/oil/fuel filters, and changed the oil, but I don't see > >> how those would affect the hesitation. Might have unplugged replugged > >> something in the process that cleared the problem, but the problem is > >> gone. What an awesome car > >> > >> '92 353i sharked > > > >This note was hilarious on so many levels, I just don't know where to > >begin! > > > >8^) > > Q: How do you drive an engineer completely insane? > > A: Tie him to a chair, stand in front of him, and fold up a > road map the wrong way. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:35:24 -0500 (EST) From: Moe Drippins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] RE: Oktoberfest preparations? Rob Levinson - UUC Motorwerks writes: > ...and quickened it, and made it work well, and do really cool > things, all for free. As much as I hate MS, I have to concur. It can only be a conscious move on Netscape's part to make Navigator suck so badly. They went out of their way to make it worse than IE. > Thank goodness Netscape/AOL gave us chatrooms - now THAT is a > contribution to society we can all appreciate. Hmmm... maybe tonight > I'll be a 16-year-old lesbian, yeah, that's it! OhMyGod, that's YOU?!? I feel so...dirty now. - -- Just Moe '95 540 6 speed, BL/SS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:37:25 -0500 (EST) From: Moe Drippins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Rice > >Or my favorite fish & chip boys - English I hadn't noticed this before, but how many Jags and Bentleys do you see with the VTEC stickers, mega-exhaust tips, and the "I'm So KEWL LOOKIT ME!" Asian character decals on their windshields? - -- Just Moe '95 540 6 speed, BL/SS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:03:10 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: Non-Warranty DIY work The dealer is well within its rights to refuse to warranty parts that you've carried in. While you know that you wouldn't cheat the dealer, what guarantees the dealer that these parts aren't from a junker that you're selling parts from or otherwise. In addition, there may be other problems that you aren't able to ascertain which would make the dealer (and ultimately BMW) liable for not taking care of the entire problem. Considering that replacement of those items would have been covered under warranty (the entire job, not just the parts), it would have been wiser to have the dealer perform a check for a problem. - --- James Dye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my M3, I replaced the suspension myself and took the bad rear > shock > mounts to the same dealer that I purchased the replacements from > and > they REFUSED to cover then under the warrantee because they did not > do > the work themselves. This kind of made me upset, so I think I will > take > my business elsewhere in the future. ===== Matthew Yip [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/mgyip/ '87 GTi 16v - x2 '88 M5 '99 F350 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:10:25 -0500 From: "Binder, Larry - Paoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Rice How about Renault, and Pugeut (sp?) ************************************************************************* The opinions and statements expressed above are mine, and do not reflect that of my employer. ************************************************************************* > -----Original Message----- > From: Moe Drippins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 1:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [uuc] Rice > > > > > >Or my favorite fish & chip boys - English > > I hadn't noticed this before, but how many Jags and Bentleys do you > see with the VTEC stickers, mega-exhaust tips, and the "I'm So KEWL > LOOKIT ME!" Asian character decals on their windshields? > > > -- > Just Moe > '95 540 6 speed, BL/SS ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 19:14:16 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] e36 alignment I am new to the world of BMW having just purchased a 92 325i sedan. The car seems to wonder to the left slightly, so I decided to have the alignment checked. I've taken the car to numerous The alignment shops in my area and was told that they can't align my car because it requires special weights in the seats and trunk. I thought I read somewhere that only the M3's required weights in the car for proper alignment and my car is not an M3. Should I have the dealer align the car or find a more competent alignment shop? Thanks for any help. Chet Stoney BMW CCA #179573 81 Porsche 924 turbo 87 GTI ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 12:14:57 -0700 From: "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] WTB:E36 gauge cluster I need a gauge cluster for a 325 or 328. If you have one let me know..... thanks Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 13:17:43 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Oh, Gawd! Not the Riceboy topic again! Wading through the "my center back vents only blow cold air" stuff for the third time was bad enough. Can we just talk about dead wabbits and soaking them in Coke and stuff? Robert Blakeney '90 535i - rear center vents cold as my wife ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 14:20:42 -0500 From: ben keyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: <wob> fish & chips boys Moe - check out an issue of "Max Power" & tell me that most of those cars are not "rice'ed" out ;-) I do not believe that the term is not used over there, tho - I think they just call them "hopeless wankers" <vbfg> Ben Moe Drippins wrote: > > >Or my favorite fish & chip boys - English > > I hadn't noticed this before, but how many Jags and Bentleys do you > see with the VTEC stickers, mega-exhaust tips, and the "I'm So KEWL > LOOKIT ME!" Asian character decals on their windshields? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:22:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Rice I've seen some of the older series III Jags in and around Andrews Air Farce Base with the 3-spoke Anteras - chrome ones, no less. Remember, these cars ARE British - they mark their territory with grease and oil which is more than fitting for a fish & chips special. - --- Moe Drippins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Or my favorite fish & chip boys - English > > I hadn't noticed this before, but how many Jags and Bentleys do you > see with the VTEC stickers, mega-exhaust tips, and the "I'm So KEWL > LOOKIT ME!" Asian character decals on their windshields? ===== Matthew Yip [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/mgyip/ '87 GTi 16v - x2 '88 M5 '99 F350 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:25:05 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Rice Baguette Boys. And it's Peugeot - --- "Binder, Larry - Paoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about Renault, and Pugeut (sp?) ===== Matthew Yip [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/mgyip/ '87 GTi 16v - x2 '88 M5 '99 F350 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 14:26:55 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Oxygen sensor I have a 1990 535i with a manual transmission. Does anyone know the Bosch part number for the original equipment oxygen sensor ( the one with the BMW plug on the end of it)? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 15:11:10 -0400 From: Roger Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] It's Friday - let's lighten up! Another George Carlin Theory > > > > > > The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. > > > I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. > > > What do you get at the end of it? > > > A death. > > > What's that, a bonus? > > > I think the life cycle is all backwards. > > > You should die first, get it out of the way. > > > Then you live in an old age home. > > > You get kicked out when you're too young, > > > you get a gold watch, go to work, get a Bimmer. > > > You drive your Bimmer, work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. > > > You do drugs, alcohol, you party, drive your Bimmer, get ready for high school. > > > You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, > > > you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, > > > you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating... > > > > > > you finish off as an orgasm. ! ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #192 ************************** _________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | Bonneville Motorwerks . http://www.bonnevillemotorwerks.com | Circle Tire Co. 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