[uucdigest] Friday, August 3 2001 Volume 03 : Number 4098 _________________________________________________________________ | | 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: <RANT> Re: [uuc] jump starting from X5 [nJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] RE: [uuc] <misc.> toe gauge? ["Evan Arnerich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] RE: [uuc] E36M3 coupe vs sedan [Joe Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] [uuc] FS: 2000 X5 4.4i $42,800 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [uuc] Driving In and about NH (longish) [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [uuc] Re: Ofest routes [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Re: [uuc] Driving In and about NH (longish) ["Jack R." <jackrutherford@ea] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 17:52:22 -0400 From: nJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <RANT> Re: [uuc] jump starting from X5 Jay G, Yours is an interesting story, and a quick read. I've got one for you... (Yes I was stupid, and yes, I learned my lesson!) I let someone jump-start their car off my '93 325is. Bad idea. This GENIUS assures me that she knows what she's doing, then connects one lead to the negative terminal on top of her battery, and one to the negative terminal on the front of her battery! Needless to say, my system was not at all happy about this! Once *I* took over and connected it correctly, her P.O.S. van started and she went on her merry way. I get back in my car to leave, and the ABS light won't shut off! A sensor got cooked, apparently. Needless to say this cost me $$ and time (more $$) to get fixed. I take my problem back to this woman (who worked at the same facility), whom I had gone OUT OF MY WAY to help and she says, "I won't pay for that unless you can prove it occurred when I connected the wire." I said, "PROVE IT!?!? How about that HUGE RETINA-SCARRING BLUE ARC when you connected the lead incorrectly and almost blew yourself up!?!? How's that for PROOF that something went wrong AT THAT TIME!?" More similarly happy words followed. In the final analysis, I decided that pursuing reimbursement (and having to deal with her again) wasn't worth more time and frustration. I figure if Darwin has anything to say about it, she'll get hers soon enough! nJay Jay G wrote: > hey gruppe, if you're busy, hit the delete key now...if > you've got some time for an amusing story (a bit long), keep > reading... > > a friend of mine calls me and tells me she's in LA right now > (i'm in hawaii, if you couldnt tell from my e-mail > addy)...she says that her and her boyfriend are stuck > because he left the lights on in his plymouth laser and the > battery is dead...<snip> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 22:34:25 +0000 From: "Evan Arnerich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] <misc.> toe gauge? >What works really well is to stick a short push pin into the front >of each tire, measure from pin-to-pin, then roll the car until the >pin is in the back and measure again. No need to scribe the tire, >and you don't have to worry about tread variations. When I tried this the tires kept going flat ;^) But seriously, my toe gauge is a piece of rigid pvc sprinkler pipe (length ~= front track) with a 12" 1x4 securely screwed to each end like this: |--| pvc pipe |--| 1x8 wood ->| | | | | <- 1x8 wood | | V | | |--|--------------------|--| When I first started doing it at home, I put the gauge in from of the front wheel and mark each 1x8 with a pen relative to a reference point on the tire (e.g. like the tread edge), then move it to the back side (without rolling the car) and compare the marks using the same reference point. I did switch to the pin method and it's much easier to do, even though you have to rool the car between measurements. Evan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] E36M3 coupe vs sedan Additonal differences are: - -Coupe has a slighly taller and wider body (more clearence for wide tires on the coupe) - -Fold down seats are optional on the sedan - -coupe have framless windows - -Coupe have different front corner lights and taillights - -Sedan does not have the top hood vents > Can someone point out differences between the two? Other > than the number > of doors :-) The sedan has 1" more headroom than the coupe. The sedan gets different front seats - essentially the Sport seats from the "regular" 3 Series instead of the so-called "Darth Vader" seats in the coupe. I'm not entirely certain, but the coupe (and convertible) may have been the only ones to get the 3-spoke steering wheel(?). >From some limited research, the sedan has a different underpanel than the coupe - that's the panel under the radiator/engine that the coupes seem to lose on a regular basis :-) - see the following photos for the sedan version: http://members.home.net/jimbassett/Mvc-894f.jpg http://members.home.net/jimbassett/Mvc-895f.jpg I think that's about it. Cheers, Jim Bassett 1998 M3/4 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 18:11:47 US/Central From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] FS: 2000 X5 4.4i $42,800 2000 BMW X5 4.4i (V8) � Black/Black leather, dark wood trim, Xenons, Sports package, Activity Package, Navigation system, Premium DSP stereo, CD changer, Chrome OEM 19" wheels, 37,000 miles. Great SAV, a real head turner. Cost over $59,000 new Sell - $42,800 Bill Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, TX ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 19:49:43 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Driving In and about NH (longish) Just to recycle some observations I made about 3 weeks ago while vacationing in the Laconia NH area: ================== Monday, because this town does not have garbage pickup, we took our garbage and trash to the town dump/recycle center. I suppose the California route would be down highway 3, to Interstate 93 north, and then off at the second exit and down some local roads. We went the more direct, scenic, backroads route. Talk about convoluted! Brenda had me totally and thoroughly lost in seconds. However, after going down roads through pretty dense forests, we started going though New England farm country. Don’t misinterpret me – this is BEAUTIFUL country and VERY VIVIDLY GREEN (because it has been pretty humid and has rained at least once every day since I got here). Lots of good-sized hills and rolling country. There are abundant and very picturesque farms and an interesting number of very old buildings in excellent repair. The traditional mental stereotypical image of a private New England farm is alive and well. We passed some that were marked to indicate their age: 1800, 1895, 1812, 1776 - - -. All marked by cleared fields, whose boundaries are clearly marked by those stone walls made famous by Robert Frost. Doesn’t matter where you are off the main freeway – you see miles of low stone walls that go on forever – everywhere. Now I can understand when you clear a field of trees to plant crops, you have to get rid of the rocks and piling them around the perimeter into a low wall serves double duty – it gets the rocks out of the fields, and it very conveniently marks boundaries. But, MY LORD – you can be driving down a country road through a forest in the middle of nowhere and here parallel to the road, and a few feet off the pavement you find miles of these stone walls. Occasionally, one branches off at some angle from the road, apparently marking a boundary of some sort. BUT in the middle of a forest! ? It is hard to imagine the time and energy to gather the rocks from the middle of a forest to build all these stone walls in the middle of no where. (Or maybe these where the rocks that had to be moved just to put in the road?) Speaking of New England roads, except for the main North-South Interstate 93, almost EVERY other road in this state is two lane blacktop, or worse. These roads have stoplights, stop signs, cross roads, driveways, intersections etc. Of course, they ALL go through the middle of countless small towns. Unless you are going up/down I-93, you don’t get ANYWHERE in this state in a hurry! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:16:14 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Re: Ofest routes In a message dated 8/3/01 7:17:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KOHLBRENNER,MICHAEL (A-hsgAndover,ex1 writes: << I just did the Mapquest thing to verify and the route from the I84 entrance to the Mass Pike, I90, then I290 through Worcester, then I495 to I93N is 9 miles SHORTER >> If you rely solely on Mapquest you will be like the morons who take a right turn into the canals in the Miami area, a weekly event. Betcha 25� you cannot come to my home (150 Lafitte Road, Little Torch Key, Fl 33042) using Mapquest. The folks at Mapquest conveniently take you 5 miles down the road from my home. Should an emergency vehicle use Mapquest? Duhh? Mapquest managed to be 50 miles short on my route to Ofest last year using the Mapquest roads. They also have some rather creative directions from here to the Sam's Club in Miami. Gets you square into a residential neighborhood about 7 miles from the real location. Double duhh. 495 prescribes a wider arc than does 128/95. Looking at a real map (the kind you can fold up) will bear this out. I was incorrect in my 35 mile pronouncement. That was from my former hellhole in Massachusetts to Rye NH with a comparison of 128/495. A trip I made many times on Sundays to launch my boat, often taking one route up and another back to avoid the goddam tourists. To WV it probably is more like an extra 22-25 miles. And oh yes, in a previous life I was a very successful TSD rallyist placing Nationally in SCCA. Mapquest is convenient, sometimes accurate but is no substitute for actually having driven on the roads and paying attention. Michel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 20:20:05 -0400 From: "Jack R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Driving In and about NH (longish) Pardon the OT comments from a long time New Englander... The stone walls were made by the settlers/farmers as stated. They are everywhere (seemingly), as 80 - 90% of New England was cleared for farming. There is much more forest in New England now than there was when the European settlers arrived! By the late 1700's, early 1800's, it was almost entirely cleared. There is almost NO remaining original 'virgin' forest left. But, it sure is beautiful now! Jack R. 325Ci from CT (Not going to be able to get to NH next week) - ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 7:49 PM Subject: [uuc] Driving In and about NH (longish) > Just to recycle some observations I made about 3 weeks ago while vacationing > in the Laconia NH area: > ================== > Monday, because this town does not have garbage pickup, we took our garbage > and trash to the town dump/recycle center. I suppose the California route > would be down highway 3, to Interstate 93 north, and then off at the second > exit and down some local roads. We went the more direct, scenic, backroads > route. Talk about convoluted! Brenda had me totally and thoroughly lost in > seconds. However, after going down roads through pretty dense forests, we > started going though New England farm country. Don’t misinterpret me – this > is BEAUTIFUL country and VERY VIVIDLY GREEN (because it has been pretty humid > and has rained at least once every day since I got here). Lots of good-sized > hills and rolling country. There are abundant and very picturesque farms and > an interesting number of very old buildings in excellent repair. The > traditional mental stereotypical image of a private New England farm is alive > and well. We passed some that were marked to indicate their age: 1800, 1895, > 1812, 1776 - - -. All marked by cleared fields, whose boundaries are clearly > marked by those stone walls made famous by Robert Frost. Doesn’t matter > where you are off the main freeway – you see miles of low stone walls that go > on forever – everywhere. Now I can understand when you clear a field of > trees to plant crops, you have to get rid of the rocks and piling them around > the perimeter into a low wall serves double duty – it gets the rocks out of > the fields, and it very conveniently marks boundaries. But, MY LORD – you > can be driving down a country road through a forest in the middle of nowhere > and here parallel to the road, and a few feet off the pavement you find miles > of these stone walls. Occasionally, one branches off at some angle from the > road, apparently marking a boundary of some sort. BUT in the middle of a > forest! ? It is hard to imagine the time and energy to gather the rocks from > the middle of a forest to build all these stone walls in the middle of no > where. (Or maybe these where the rocks that had to be moved just to put in > the road?) Speaking of New England roads, except for the main North-South > Interstate 93, almost EVERY other road in this state is two lane blacktop, or > worse. These roads have stoplights, stop signs, cross roads, driveways, > intersections etc. Of course, they ALL go through the middle of countless > small towns. Unless you are going up/down I-93, you don’t get ANYWHERE in > this state in a hurry! ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #4098 *************************** ________________________________________ | 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 . 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