[uucdigest] Friday, January 17 2003 Volume 03 : Number 6033
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HaH! [uuc] Seeking Sport Seat Recommendations Re: [uuc] BMW NA advertising rips off Jim C. [uuc] '92 325iS Smokes upon Start-Up Re: [uuc] uuc] E34 525i ellipsoid replacement [uuc] Rear Shock Mounts - Simple solution but found a Surprise (long) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:08:09 -0500 From: "Alex Cagann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] <E39 touring> options for roof rack OK, so this dude wants to tow a couple of kayaks on his 99 528iT. What is the guy to do? :-) As of now, all this particular touring has is two luggage rack type bars running the length of the car on top. I was wondering if there are other options than a factory item for this. Alex Cagann http://www.autoconsortium.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:25:56 -0500 From: "Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Where to find info.... Scott says > > 1989: First year of the plastic covered, body color bumpers; not sure if > the rear side windows still opened; otherwise the same as an '88. The rear side windows did still open in 1989. They don't in 1990. > 1990: First year of airbag steering wheels (4 spokes, not at all > sporting); no more elipsoids, back to sealed beam headlights used through > '87; rear side windows do not open. Also, my 1990 325is does not have the rear seat ducts under the front seats. My 1989 325is did. Regards, Rich ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:25:35 -0500 From: "Dorffer, Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] car washes... Gary Derian wrote: > One can do a very good job by hand, also a very poor job. Jay wrote >> >> family members report that this happened decades ago: one day when my mom >> got dropped off to work, my 2 aunties decided to wash her car for >> her...unfortunately, they used green scouring pads and brillo pads...they >> even got down to bare metal in some places...needless to say, my mom was >> upset when she got home =) My brother (15 years ago when he was something like 9 years old) washed about 1/2 of my sister's brand new Mercury Capri (maroon paint) with an SOS brillo pad before my father saw what he was doing. He used it since they used to let him clean the tires with an SOS pad. He decided to do the same car the same way after he got the tires clean and my sister had walked away to get the phone. It was really clean when he got done, at least 1/2 of it was. Regards, Rich - hates bad hand jobs... - doesn't use SOS type pads anywhere but in the kitchen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:38:44 -0800 (PST) From: david kroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Jim C borrows from SNL Was: BMW NA advertising rips off Jim C. Candygram... ===== David Kroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:06:16 -0800 (PST) From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: BMW NA advertising rips off Jim C. On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Mike Greto wrote: > Billboard on I-95 North just south of Boca Raton: Depicts a > Z4 with the caption LAND SHARK! There's one in Santa Clara, CA as well. I thought maybe they're selling a Jim C special version of the Z4 already. :) - -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:10:10 -0500 From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [uuc] <E39 touring> options for roof rack Are we going to get paid for coming up with these answers too??? Mike - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alex Cagann Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] <E39 touring> options for roof rack OK, so this dude wants to tow a couple of kayaks on his 99 528iT. What is the guy to do? :-) As of now, all this particular touring has is two luggage rack type bars running the length of the car on top. I was wondering if there are other options than a factory item for this. Alex Cagann http://www.autoconsortium.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:24:37 -0600 From: Sean Cordone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] Jim C borrows from SNL Was: BMW NA advertising rips off Jim C. ... ... Plumber, ma'am. david kroth wrote: >Candygram... > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:28:15 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Re: <850> Alex, according to the Amazing GGC Autocross Database (which is usually but not always correct), the U.S. '91 850i came with 235/60 tires on 16x7.5 wheels. And while I can't say that 19 inchers would be stoopid, you do wonder why the owner wants tires that are that much more expensive, and with so few options. The performance difference between 18s and 19s can't be that great. But anyway, maybe some X5 take-offs would work? Then the 850 owner can go for that sport coupe/SAV crossover look. Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA >Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:02:23 -0500 >From: "Alex Cagann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [uuc] <850> > >What is the stock tire size on the 91 850? > >Also, does anyone have suggestions on tire/wheel upgrades for this car? I >was thinking something 18 inch...however, my client wants to go 19 >inch....is that stupid? > >Alex Cagann >http://www.autoconsortium.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:28:23 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Re: E-code Headlights Tim, close, but no cigar. The H4s are the outboard lights, 2 filaments, one for high and one for low. The H1s are the inboard high beams (same bulb also used in some fog lights). The E-Code lights do fit in the same housings as the old sealed beam lights. Some minor wiring adaption is required on the H1s, no big deal. BTW, you can put a 9003 bulb in place of the H4. Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA >Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:45:28 -0700 >From: "Tim Pfister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [uuc] E-code Headlights > >I thought the E-Code lights were H1 (low beam) and H4 (high beam) bulbs.I >have heard they are also direct fir ,plug-n-play for the old sealed beams. >Tim Pfister ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:40:20 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Walrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Re: car washes... surface scratches? HaH! Jay says; my 2 aunties decided to wash her car for her...unfortunately, they used green scouring pads and brillo pads...they even got down to bare metal in some places...needless to say, my mom was upset when she got home =) **One of Sally's stories from when she was 5 is of being left outside in the '50s humpbacked Packard while Mommy and Daddy signed papers for the franchise on an A&W in Tucson. It was hot (duh), she has always been a busy and focused person, and time streched on..... When her folks finally came out she was proud to show her Daddy that she had removed nearly all the paint from the dashboard with only a quarter as a tool - never underestimate the power of a determined female! Tom _____________________________________________________________ Free email, web pages, news, entertainment, weather and MORE! Check out -------------------------------> http://wowmail.com _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:04:56 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [uuc] Seeking Sport Seat Recommendations Are there any relatively inexpensive aftermarket sport seats worth considering for mostly street use in my E30? Any Bay Area dealers where I could go see them? Why do I ask? 1. My BMW sport seats are Pearl beige leather, but the rest of the interior is Natur vinyl - mismatch. 2. The leather is cracked and in generally poor condition. 3. The driver's seatback is broken (the usual, back is twisted relative to the bottom cushion) I've found a web site with instructions on repairing the broken frame, but then there is the cost of upholstery and labor to install. Plus I can't weld (for the frame, not for the upholstery), so I'd need to beg another favor from a friend. If I could find a pair of beige aftermarket sport seats for <$800 ready to install, I think I'd just go that route and be done with it. And frankly, for my use, cloth would be just fine, I don't need leather. Most of the seats I've found so far (Koenig, Recaro) seem to run more than $500 each, plus the mounting brackets. I have a birthday coming up too soon, so I thought I'd ask my wife for the seats. Please let me know if you know of a source I might consider. TIA, Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA 1990 325i ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:07:51 -0800 From: "Scott Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] BMW NA advertising rips off Jim C. Candygram! Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:28:18 -0500 From: Mike Greto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] BMW NA advertising rips off Jim C. Billboard on I-95 North just south of Boca Raton: Depicts a Z4 with the caption LAND SHARK! - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:39:58 -0500 From: "Pat Donahue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] BMW NA advertising rips off Jim C. Yeah but that's LAND<space>SHARK not LANDSHARK right?? Geeeze (still a member of BMW<space>CCA) From: "Mike Greto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Billboard on I-95 North just south of Boca Raton: Depicts a Z4 with the >caption LAND SHARK! > _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 18:10:36 -0600 From: Jay Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] '92 325iS Smokes upon Start-Up I've got a '92 325iS w/ 90K I recently bought for my boy. I've noticed that after the car has sat a while, upon 1st start, there is a lot of oil smoke burn off. Is this a classic sign of leaking valve guides (or something else?)? And if so, anyone that has had this done, how much did that repair cost? And who performed the work, such as a dealership or a local BMW garage? Thanks, Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dorffer, Rich" wrote: > Gary Derian wrote: > > One can do a very good job by hand, also a very poor job. > > Jay wrote >> > >> family members report that this happened decades ago: one day when my mom > >> got dropped off to work, my 2 aunties decided to wash her car for > >> her...unfortunately, they used green scouring pads and brillo pads...they > >> even got down to bare metal in some places...needless to say, my mom was > >> upset when she got home =) > > My brother (15 years ago when he was something like 9 years old) washed about 1/2 of >my sister's brand new Mercury Capri (maroon paint) with an SOS brillo pad before my >father saw what he was doing. He used it since they used to let him clean the tires >with an SOS pad. He decided to do the same car the same way after he got the tires >clean and my sister had walked away to get the phone. It was really clean when he >got done, at least 1/2 of it was. > > Regards, > > Rich - hates bad hand jobs... > - doesn't use SOS type pads anywhere but in the kitchen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 19:44:18 -0500 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uuc] uuc] E34 525i ellipsoid replacement On my way to court today, I recalled that the name was Depo. Ed Rob Levinson wrote: >Marx Brothers lights? > >- Rob > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >>Maybe it was Crappo. >>Gary Derian >> >> >> >>>Jon, >>> >>>I e-mailed the seller, asked the brand of the lenses, was given a >>> >>> >>name, >> >> >>>seached with Google for the name and found out that they were a >>>Taiwanese company. I wrote them and they said that the lenses were >>> >>> >>made >> >> >>>from a mold taken from European lenses, which is why they called >>> >>> >>them >> >> >>>"Euro". >>> >>>I have fogotten the name, exactly, but it was short, sorta like >>> >>> >>"Denso" >> >> >>>or some such. >>> >>>Ed >>> >>> > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:12:24 -0800 From: Harvey Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [uuc] Rear Shock Mounts - Simple solution but found a Surprise (long) OK - the solution to the left side was simplicity - I simply backed the left rear wheel onto a ramp made from a pair of bevel ended 2x10s on the sloping driveway. Between the 3 1/2 inches gained from the "ramps" and the slope of the driveway, I had easy access to the bottom bolt. Left side took all of maybe 20 minutes including putting tools away. However - all you convertible owners - did you know you are lugging around maybe 30 lbs of dead weight in the right rear corner of your trunk, under where the battery is in the sedan? I found this out the hard way. After I changed the right shock mount, before I could do the left side or test drive the job on the right side, the wife takes her car (it's actually hers, I just get to fix it) and me for a ride to see "Chicago" this morning. Great movie by the way. Oh the pain of hiring cheap unskilled non union labor! Every bump/rough spot there is this continued horrible clunking from the right rear. Damn pseudo mechanic must not have done the job right and left untightened hardware. Serves me right for being such a cheap so and so. Checked the shock and trunk for loose items at every stop along the way home - NADA, except, seems to be coming from under the carpet BEHIND the wheel well. So get home and peel back the trunk liner and find a black plate secured by 4 bolts that seems to be "spring loaded". What the H??? Got out the 13mm socket and 1/2" ratchet and pulled the bolts. 3 came out normally, but #4 was hard coming out all the way, when it finally came out, the threads were "stripped city" - BIG TIME. With the bolts out, the black battery sized plate came out easily, and here was this hunk of cast iron, sitting there, kinda "springy". It would not lift straight up and out, I had to kinda finagle it to get it out but I did. There are 4 rubber inserts with steel sleeves that the bolts pass through, and they end up on the bottom kinda like an upside down mushroom. OK - shock absorbers for this hunk of metal? But not NEAR "springy" enough to allow that thing to move enough to slam into the body and make the kind of noise I was hearing and movement I was seeing when I wiggled it. A closer look at the attachment points of the body provided the explanation. The threaded holes that the bolts go into are mounted in a "top/forward" and "bottom/rear" sheet metal pair of brackets welded to the body. The front bracket had fatigued and failed across most of the long edges front and rear, so that the outer threaded hole could move up and down maybe as much as an inch! My solution was to measure and cut a block of scrap Oak and glue it to prop up the broken end to support the weight. The bottom outside mounting threaded hole was stripped, so I found the nearest size fractional drill that would pass through one of the good threaded holes without cutting the threads and cleaned up the stripped hole. I then used a 8x1.25 metric tap driven by a socket and ratchet (because there wasn't enough clearance to swing a standard tap handle) and rethreaded the hole. Everything has been re assembled, but I haven't had time to do a test drive yet. I am pretty sure this is fixed, because there is nothing else I can find to bang around back there, and both shock mounts have been replaced. By the way, they BOTH have cracks in the rubber surrounding the steel insert, but neither is completely broken free. The replacement parts I used are what I believe to be the E46 variety as called out at: www.uucmotorwerks.com/html_techtip/techtips/rear_shock_mounts.htm Time will tell how well these do. Thanks all for your inputs. Hope this helps others. I have digital pictures, but no way to post them. If anyone is interested, contact me. Harvey ------------------------------ End of [uucdigest] V3 #6033 *************************** | | In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of the BMW CCA. |________________________________________ | Please visit these UUC-approved BMW parts vendors/service providers: | (listed alphabetically) | | Autoscope-Motorsports - http://www.autoscope-motorsports.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 |__________________________________________
