[uucdigest] Friday, July 27 2001 Volume 03 : Number 4066 _________________________________________________________________ | | Search the ARCHIVES: | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] | | Visit Richard Nott's Ultimate BMW Database: | http://www.gis.nsw.gov.au/staff/rnott/bmw/bmw.html | | 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. | Technical Problems? Send 'em to [EMAIL PROTECTED] |__________________________________________________________________ In this BMW UUC Digest: Re: [uuc] Hang up and drive! ["Pat Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Carfax request [Bryan Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] Re: [uuc] Speedvision World Challenge [John Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Re: Duke brothers..was flaming M3 GTR ["DAVID NGUYEN" <ag3nt003@hot] [uuc] Re: lambos ["Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] Cup holder ["Christian Els" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] RE: [uucdigest] V3 #4065 - Fault Code 1224 ["M Hudson" <mlhudson@mi] [uuc] Re: Hang up and drive! [Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] E36 M3 sunroof problem ["Robert S. Hatrak II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [uuc] Lambo Miuras [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [uuc] Ferrari maintenance costs [Adam Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] re: Lambos as bumpercars [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:32:44 -0400 From: "Pat Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Hang up and drive! Ah. That also answers that eternal question: why do you turn down the volume on the radio when you're looking for an address? Geeeze '95 525iT - 4GTFUL '91 Gold Wing - GEEEZE From: "Don Eilenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Passed on from a BMW bike list.. it confirms what most beemer > riders have thought all along.. > > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/07/010727094311.htm > > PLEASE - Hang up and Drive (or pull-over-to-call..) > > > Don Eilenberger, Spring Lk Hts, NJ JMP#1 FOT2.A [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:41:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryan Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Carfax request Interested in this car and was wondering if anyone with carfax access could help me out. VIN#: WBSCD9324WEE09600 Thanks Bryan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:54:09 -0700 From: John Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Speedvision World Challenge > Yikes! I didn't notice that at first. There is some consolation in the > fact that his fastest lap was about 7.5 seconds slower than most of the > field. I guess he sucks wind ;-) Please note that said individual was driving basically a prepped *street car*, had a plate on it and might even be street-registered, not in any way comparable to the vehicles running even a few places in front of him. Appears he's just working on getting seat time in the class, and he did carefully stay out of the way of the faster hardware... ...and drove a much better line, from what I could see, than a couple of the C5 Vettes, one in particular couldn't find an apex with both hands and a flashlight. John. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:55:04 -0700 From: "DAVID NGUYEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: Duke brothers..was flaming M3 GTR > >Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:09:36 -0400 (EDT) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hart) >Subject: Re: [uuc] Re: Airborne, flaming M3 GTR > >Sorry, but, uh.. > who are the Duke brothers? Any relation to >Wright bros? Duke of York? >Serious answer welcome! >JOhn (wide flared name) > ... "i'll take poor assumptions for $800 alex!" ~sorry i just saw Finding Forrester too. i grew up on Dukes of Hazzard so i take it he's mentioning Bo and Luke Duke. don't think the general lee ever had fender flares but i could be wrong. it's been a long time! just remember i had a crush on Daisy Duke! ( i was only 8 years old) don't be dodging cops like the Duke boys there boy and girls! it gets your toys impounded! trust me i know! hahah and don't ask how i know!! anyone have any "duke boys" car chase sories but in a bimmer that can keep me entertained? this lambo thread starting to bore me. sorry. ~david '94 325is (18 more days 'til she flies again) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:58:11 -0400 From: "Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: lambos Pat lays in with >>Clearly Shane will never be Bubba material. >>Maybe I'll drive down and under the ruse of meeting Shane >>get to know his neighbor. :-) Shane counters with >...And now he's putting in a POOL. Can't wait >to see the hotties out there sun-bathing!! I gotta get >on an in-town project. Yeah right. Wishful thinking. I have heard that once you complete your current +1 year long Cleveland job, your organization has you heading off to some place like Hibbing, Minnesota or Mussel Shoals, Alabama for your next job. ;-0 Regards, Rich - Only lambos I see are on the Cleveland near West side near North Coast Exotics...coming from or going to being worked on. Every time I talk to the owner of NCE, he always tells me he is swamped (works on Jagyouar, the raging bull and the prancing horse marques only). Looks like he has the market cornered on high maintenance rolling works-of-art. Pretty good business plan when you think about it. Roughly the opposite of the infamous Maytag repair man's business plan. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:17:45 -0500 From: "Christian Els" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Cup holder >From time to time some of you post looking for these. I found this and thought I would share. <http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=593590751 > Would work very well in a low-placing GT LMS car, or maybe yours. Christian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:18:30 -0700 From: "M Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] RE: [uucdigest] V3 #4065 - Fault Code 1224 http://www.bonnevillemotorwerks.com/fault.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:23:35 -0500 From: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: Hang up and drive! on 7/27/01 11:15 AM, Don Eilenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Passed on from a BMW bike list.. it confirms what most beemer > riders have thought all along.. > http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/07/010727094311.htm > PLEASE - Hang up and Drive (or pull-over-to-call..) I see nothing in this report to suggest that talking on a cell phone is any more, or less, distracting than holding a conversation with a passenger in the car. It says: "...that attending to a conversation significantly distracts the brain from processing complex visual information...The researchers found that listening to someone speak consumes some of the resources that would otherwise be allocated to a complex visual information-processing task...Both conversation and driving skills take a hit. The research team found that doing a demanding visual task, such as driving, also distracts the brain from language processing." One might even wonder whether cell phones, at least in hands-free mode, aren't less distracting than talking to a companion in the car. Ask yourself how many times you've seen a driver turn away from the road and toward a passenger to make a conversational point. Sometimes that passenger is in the back seat. Now initiating a cell phone call, or answering one, may be another matter, since the user typically has to look at the phone for that. The study, which wasn't actually about cell phone usage as such, didn't address that issue. Because I find it distracting I've never much liked to talk while driving. My wife has grown used to long silences during driving trips, and doesn't take it personally. Of course she also says she doesn't like to watch while I'm driving...<g> Neil 96 M3 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:34:57 -0700 From: "Robert S. Hatrak II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] E36 M3 sunroof problem The sunroof on my E36 M3 (9/95 build) has developed a problem that I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with. The black fabric coved panel/liner no longer is attached to the metal sliding roof panel. At times, it will not move forward when the sunroof is closed. If I then push it forward by hand and then tilt the roof up and then back down, the fabric liner will move forward and backward with the metal roof correctly. All is fine until the roof is tilted again, and then the fabric panel disconnects itself again. I know this is an akward explanation of my situation. I hope someone has had some sort of similar experience that they can share. Thanks in advance! Rob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:01:58 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Lambo Miuras When I was in my "formative" years of 13-16 and got into cars, 1968-71 or so, there was a Lambo Miura in my neighborhood. And no, I don't live in Bev Hills, it was suburban Rochester, NY. The owner would fire it up, typically on Sunday mornings and we would hear it "ripping" as he blipped it to keep it running as he warmed it up. I can still hear that rrrrrip.....rrrrrip.....rrrrrip. Then he would pull out and go down our quiet street in 1st gear at what must have been 3-4K rpm, not all that fast, but MAN what a nice sound. He and his is family were kind of a "loner" family, so no one in the neighborhood really knew them, but one day my friend and I got up the courage to go knock on his door cold, and ask if we could see the car. He was really nice and we got to ogle that thing for a good hour, sit in it, etc. etc. It cost $20K when he bought it new, totally unattainable then it seemed. Sorry, but EFI will never replace a brace of Webers when the hood opens... I've lusted after one ever since. Chris Whitney waiting, as someone said, for ship to come in - --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Delmarva Online's Webmail. http://www.dmv.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:06:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Ferrari maintenance costs I can share a few things I've heard from my friend, who has an '87 Testarrossa, and an '86 328. The 328 had to have the 30K service (because of its age, not mileage) and the engine has to be pulled to do it. Of course at a certified Ferrari shop here in Chicago. Cost for the 30,000 mile service you might ask? chaaa-ching $6000 When he got the TR, he bought it from the original owner and there were some ugly trim panels on the inside of the doors, like a trim piece. Don't know why the owner had put them on, maybe something to do with a speaker install, but my friend thought they were ugly and wanted to put the originals back on. I don't know if they have leather from some endangered animal or something, but they were $600 a PIECE. He passed and learned to live with the carpet covered ones. Other stories I've heard include little things like $700 fuel pressure regulators, $4000 Tubi (spelling?) exhausts, etc. Adam Wilson '81 528i __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 15:20:30 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] re: Lambos as bumpercars In a message dated 7/27/01 9:47:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ben keyes writes: << wants to hear the rest of Michel's Italian rental bumper car story >> It was in London, 1983. I had a little Volvo 360 (?) hatchback (Daf) rentaracer. Holiday Inn, Marble Arch, London. That was a hang out for really obnoxious Arabs back then. The type which really have given Kuwait a bad reputation overseas. I was turning left into the drive way (U shaped). A Ferrari was parked at the outside apex of the driveway, illegally. As I was making the turn a Countach passed me on the right and deflected off my right front wing into the Ferrari. Dunno Ferrari models, it was the one with the cut outs on the side and horizontal lines. The pilot of the Ferrari and Countach knew each other, they were both apparently going to the disco at the Holiday Inn (to pick up hookers). Occupants of both cars emptied yelling at me and each other. I backed up and asked the doorman to call the constables which he did. I did not want to get engaged with the Arabs, so I faked being unable to speak English and jabbered on in French. One of them had studied French and it was awful, nearly incoherent. So they opted to wait for the cops. Cops arrived, a total of 7 in 3 cars. One of the Arabs was not a stranger to one of the cops. They interrogated them for nearly an hour. Suddenly a paddy wagon arrived and they all were hauled off. I marveled that moving violations would be taken that seriously. Well, turns out that the pilot of the Lambo, a Jordanian was in Britain illegally after being served with an expulsion order six months earlier. Another one's student visa had expired six months earlier and was no longer a student. Then the other two were arrested for filing a false police report concerning the accident. There were inconsistencies in their stories which were not borne out by the physical evidence at the scene. Upon colliding I stopped and turned off the car, the angle of my wheels was frozen in time. The cops judged that there was no way I was passing the Countach as alleged. There was also the issue of the Ferrari parked illegally with a cold engine too. It had not "just arrived" as the owner claimed. The doorman also confirmed it had been there for hours. I actually had very little conversation with the cops. What totally amazed me most was they said that I should not file an accident report with either them or the rental company. They came by in a few days and had me sign their report and told me to provide a copy to the rental company. That satisfied the rental company too, amazingly enough. I guess a police report is a really compelling document in Britain. That was a high point in my European vacation that year, first time I had been there since 1964. Playing with Falcons at the Raptor conservancy was the other high point. Michel ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #4066 *************************** ________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | Camptown Automotive - http://www.camptownauto.com | Circle Tire Co. (used & classic BMW parts) e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Detailwerks Chicago Inc. "Chicago's Premier Automotive Appearance | Center" . http://www.detailwerkschicago.com |==================================================== | Koala MotorSport . BMW technical information, special tool sales/rental | http://www.koalamotorsport.com |==================================================== | Taylor BMW - http://www.taylorbmw.com - Doc Bimmer! | UUC Motorwerks . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com |__________________________________________
