[uucdigest] Thursday, March 2 2000 Volume 03 : Number 371 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 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: RE: [uuc] Re: E36 Cooling weirdness Re: [uuc] Even more new M3 Pics [uuc] Tim Ng [uuc] Re: [<E28> Yooouuu light up my life.. [uuc] Brake service [uuc] Touring Poodles [uuc] RE: Yooouuu light up my life... [uuc] RE: [uucdigest] V3 #370 [uuc] <MISC> more on car sales [uuc] <all> How do I store my car? [uuc] some questions [uuc] <All> Kuhmo Tires [uuc] <E30> Mr. Jack Money's Exhaust R&R [uuc] <WOB> ADMINISTRATIVE Poodles, sheep and so on [uuc] E36 M3 Prices ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:16:18 -0700 From: "vanderHeide, Alain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] Re: E36 Cooling weirdness > -----Original Message----- > From: Brett Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > From: "vanderHeide, Alain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [uuc] E36 Cooling weirdness > > > > [pump problems snipped] > > It came with what ????? > > OK folks, cheap is never best. I'd be calling Bavarian right > now and asking > for a refund on a water pump that comes with instructions > stating that it > MAY LEAK!!!!! > > [snip] > > Do the job again, correctly this time, and next time you > decide to order > from a catalogue, think about this job. Ya know, when one talks to a customer service rep and he says "well maybe you should buy a pump from your dealer, and just return ours" (which is the conversation I just had), one should, perhaps, take that as A Sign. The fact that they shipped the wrong gasket with the thermostat ain't exactly thrilling either. > > >(Bentley also claims that the M3 > > housing has a bleed screw, but mine sure don't - more > digression, sorry). > > Writing repair manuals is not as easy as one might think. It > gets quite > difficult to justify buying 12 different E36's to write a $69.00 book. > I found the same problem whilst writing the E30 M3 manual. > Even within that > limited production vehicle, there were quite a lot of > differences that only > became apparent once the manual was produced. I understand that. In this case, though, they singled out the M3 as being unique in having an apparently non-existent feature. I've learned to ignore such things and move on, but I will comment on them. > > Think of it this way, your choice is Bentley or Factory. > When did you last > see a factory E36 manual? Good point. My wife's car is a '98 Passat. You think BMW is reticent about releasing repair info? VW ain't much better. Ah for the days of my '79 Civic. The official shop manual for that explained not only procedures, but the theory behind them (which was real handy when dealing with the nightmare of hoses, valves, and fixed orifices (not neutered poodles) involved in the intake/pollution control systems). > > Brett Anderson > www.koalamotorsport.com > Home of the E30 M3 CD-ROM repair manual > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:32:17 -0600 From: Luis Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Even more new M3 Pics I can already imagine it: First autocross. Full lock left... Full lock right... Radio turns on and off, volume goes up and down, cell phone calls 911, and the horn goes off intermittently. It could be amusing to the corner workers. Do we really need _that_ many buttons in a steering wheel? - -Luis Marques '97 328i [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > These have a close up of the gauges. No, I wasn't on the Honda page. > A friend sent it to me. > > http://honda-acura.rely.net/ubb/Forum25/HTML/002974.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:38:16 -0500 From: "James Clay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Tim Ng Hey Tim, I need you to e-mail me your address. Or if anyone knows Tim's address can they give it to me. Barry http://www.bimmerworld.com Quality Used BMW Parts Engineered BMW Performance (540) 639-9648 Please copy original message text in all correspondences. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:46:57 -0800 From: John Edward Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: [<E28> Yooouuu light up my life.. > Are the stock female headlight connectors, the parts which fit onto the > blades of the stock H5006 and H5001 sealed beams, a direct plug in for > the respective H4 and H1 bulbs, or will I have to come up with my own > connectors? I'm afraid I don't recall specifically what's in the E28 cars, but if the car uses standard sealed-beams, then yes, the connectors will fit H4/H1 bulbs w/o change. > Are the Euro 5.75" high beams, with 55 watt H1 bulbs, significanly > brighter or of better pattern than 50 watt H5001 sealed beams? This one's > more for curiosity's sake, since if I'm dropping the bucks on the Euro > lights, I'm damn well going to put illegal bulbs in them too. ;) If you're pinched for cash, buy the H4 (low/high) lights now, and worry about the H1 (high beams) later. The important one is the *low* beam, which in sealed-beam lights is almost useless, and it's the one you use 99% of the time. The high-beam lights are brighter (and if you've got the wiring and alternator for it, you could run 55/100W H4 bulbs and 100W H1 bulbs and go around melting guardrails) but the big win is in having good low beams. > If I'm making my own wiring harness with relays and fuses, should I take > switching power for the relays 'upstream' from the stock relays? It seems > a bit silly to run relays through relays, especially when the stock high > beam relay appears to either be on its way out, or just naturally be > very, very slow to wake up in cold weather. This does sound weird to me; every Euro car I've played with the wiring in (and that doesn't include an E28, alas) has had good enough electricals that you didn't need extra relays unless you were running a ton of wattage. My Taurus SHO, on the other hand...needed relays and heavier wiring just for the stock 9004 lights (which were awful, and are still not great, but that's all you can get...) Hint: Peugeot 405s have a nice, universally-sized relay box under the hood if you can find one at the junkyard. > Finally, if anyone's used both the Cibie flat face 5.75" and Hella 5.75" > high/lows, did you notice a difference in their aiming between high and > low? Specifically, I've been told that the Hellas have a bit of a 'beam > separation' problem, where if they're aimed properly on low beam, the > high beams are up in the trees, and if they're aimed well on high beam, > the low beam's too low, and that the Cibies do not exibit this tendency. I haven't noticed this problem, though maybe I'm just not sensitive enough. With the quad-light arrangement you can use the H1 lights to fill in wherever the H4s don't anyway, and as mentioned above the total amount of light available is highly configurable. John. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 09:57:22 -0800 (PST) From: t k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Brake service Hey Guys, I have a simple question on servicing brakes. Every about 5-10k miles I change the fluid, remove the calipers, clean things up and put them back together. My question is about the type of lubricant I should be using. I bought a tube of high temp superlube from kragen and I apply it generously around the brake pad sliding and contact points. And I use high temp bearing grease for the caliper bolts. Is this wrong? Cuz when I come top relube and clean up the lubricant I use for the pads are usually gone. Am I using the wrong stuff? If I am what should I be using? What do you guys use to lube that area? TIA Tarek '90 325i __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:17:43 -0500 From: "Eric Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Touring Poodles Jerry Chyo wrote: "PS I pointed out a Touring to the SO last night (After telling her that a few Bimmer Buddy's had purchased same. Keith and Rob) and now she wants one. Thanks." Jerry, I'm in the same boat. My better half has an Avus blue 95 M3 and when I emailed her the pic's of Rob's new toy, she said "since it's the same color, I wouldn't really be changing cars. My birthday is coming soon, and you really should buy me the M5 Touring in Avus, it'll hold both poodles with room for you, too" Anybody got any leads on a slightly used M5 touring in Avus? Rob? Eric (looking at smaller bank account soon...) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:22:00 -0500 From: "Lin, Gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: Yooouuu light up my life... Wierd, mine are the opposite, flat Hellas, domed Cibies. The Hellas have a sharper cutoff and beam distinction while the Cibies are more smooth all over. > Gary Lin National Capital Ch. '88 325is street '85 325eis track ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:24:25 -0800 From: "Jerry Chyo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: [uucdigest] V3 #370 Steve wrote: > You'd never see a MOPAR parts builder/tuner who joked around like this... You'd never FIND a MOPAR parts builder/tuner who understood the humor. Now elephant humor... Jerry Chyo '88 M5 '72 tii ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:24:59 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curtis A. Ingraham) Subject: [uuc] <MISC> more on car sales Don's and Brian's car sales advice is excellent. Brian wrote: > 7) Have a plan in place for how you will handle the buyer's > mechanic inspection. Will you take it there? will you allow > them to take it there? Do you have them buy it and then allow > them 2-3 days to return the car? Just know how you want to > handle this. I submit that it is best for the seller to take care of this and to do it before 'delivery', the time at which the car and the money irrevocably change hands. As a seller, you do not want the buyer to have the car before delivery for any reason except a test drive. Also, make it clear that the sale is "as-is", no guarantee, and final. And to amplify an earlier point about evaluating potential buyers: a person who calls in response to an ad and is interested primarly in the price is not a likely buyer for a nice car. Don't waste your time talking to them. Likewise, a caller who tries to negotiate a price without having seen the car is also not serious. I once got a drunken-sounding message on my answering machine that went like this: "How much dya want for da bEEEmer?" That was it -- no other questions, no name, no phone number. Curt Ingraham 72 2002tii Oakland, California ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:32:59 -0500 From: "Jim Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <all> How do I store my car? So I get a promotion at work, but along with the promotion comes relocation too . . .from USA to Japan for two years. Now I have to figure out how to store my '88 M5 while I'm gone. I've got some general ideas, but would prefer if someone out there could point me to a good source of information on this (maybe a webpage, magazine article, or chapter from a book). The car is going to be in a non-heated garage with the wheels off or sitting on jackstands to raise the tires off the ground to keep them from flat spotting. I also know about emptying the gas tank, but that is about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Jim Herman '88 ///M5 <---gonna miss this for awhile '88 Nissan pick-up <--- donating to charity before I leave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:45:35 -0500 From: "Weimer, Matt J. .(SE_ENG)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] some questions Fellows, The other day there was some talk regarding purchasing BMW stock and the ticker symbol was posted along with some other info. I was wondering if someone could send me that info again because I accidentally deleted it... Second, I am interested in running my two Bimmers VIN's through Carfax, if anyone has this service would be kind enough to help me out please contact me. Thanks. Matt Weimer Hoosier Chapter '89 M3 '81 320i ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:50:36 -0500 From: dstevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <All> Kuhmo Tires Hi Does anyone have a source out there for Kuhmo R compound race tires? I need 3 205/50/15 v700s. The tire rack says not until may at the earliest. I need them for April. Let me know. ______ o/______\o (Oo=00=oO) []=****=[] Thanks Don Stevenson/BMWCCA Boston Chapter 1988 325IS, (too much to list), should have stayed the street car. (Sharked) 1987 325IS, project, should have been the track car. (Sharked) 1988 Volvo 240 Wagon 5 Speed. (Green Wheels) This message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author by replying to this message and then kindly delete the message. Thank you. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 13:49:31 -0500 From: "Neil Deshpande" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E30> Mr. Jack Money's Exhaust R&R Jack Money and I worked on replacing the exhaust (cat-back only) on his 89 iX last evening. I'll comment randomly since most have an idea on how to do this anyway. 1. Rubber doughnut hangers go on easily with soap. Dawn. Without soap it is very tough to get them on. Just use soap! 2. One of the muffler hangers had been removed. Seemed like it had never been there in the first place. Strange. 3. The new exhaust ($204) looked kind of cheap. Like inexpensive exhaust tubing at an Auto Zone. Slightly disappointing. It was a Boysen, maked with BMW and the Roundel. 4. The hanger kit should have included new bolts, but did not. New nuts in copper were supplied though. 5. Removing the nuts and bolts that held the cat-back section to the cat was a pain! We had to death-wheel off everything. Even after cutting and drift punching two of the bolt sections in the flanges did not come off. We used a C-clamp, socket and pushed one through by force. The other one we had to drill out after removing the flange from the exhaust. Not easy and very tedious. All this corrosion was very very disappointing. I helped KC Boyce do his exhaust and it was much easier. 6. The exhaust did not line up right and will most likely bang against the heat shields. Jack and I could not figure out what went wrong. Ideas anyone? 7. The exhuast is slightly tilted. I imagine we could tilt the muffler in its hanger and might do that next time we meet. 8. In the end, I felt the job was well done, but the results were not up to expectations. I'm hoping my install week after next will go better. The car was quieter and now intake and engine mechanical noise dominate the car's acoustic signature! Neil Deshpande 1988 325 iS - new exhaust soon 1989 325 iC - big exhaust problems ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:49:39 -0800 (PST) From: BMWuuc Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <WOB> ADMINISTRATIVE Poodles, sheep and so on Sometimes enough is too much. This is one of those times. Remember, this is the BMW UUC Digest. No more posts on sheep, poodles. That's it. ===== Your BMW UUC Digest Monitors __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:58:03 -0800 (PST) From: Joe Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] E36 M3 Prices Is it me or are people really paying over $30K of a 5 year old E36 M3? I mean, when the E36 M3 came out they the MSRP were in the low 30s. DO they think that the M3 are so reare that they keep 90% of their value after 5 years? I am just venting. I'll get out of my soap box now;) Joe Tan. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! 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