The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 326 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: E34 1990 525iA window trim Re: =?ISO-8859-1?B?oFRvbyBnX2RkX21uIGZ1bm55Li4uIFtOTyBDQVIgQ09OVEVOVCBXSEFUU09FVkVSXQ==?= Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Re: [bmwuucdigest] <E36> Where to buy Z3 reinforcement plates for RSMs More E30 black smoke Re: 6er and moronic reviews Re: 6er and moronic reviews Re: 6er and moronic reviews Re: 6er and moronic reviews dual zone temp controls... Re: 6er and moronic reviews
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:01:21 -0500 From: "Beaudette, Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Uuc (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: E34 1990 525iA window trim Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I recently lost part of the rear window trim on the highway. The PO somehow broke all the clips that retain the strip into the window track. When I obtain a replacement piece of window trim, what is the best way to secure it to the window? The clips appear to be installed prior to the window and I would prefer not to remove the window. If necessary can I leave it as it is? Cheers, Roland ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:52:57 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: =?ISO-8859-1?B?oFRvbyBnX2RkX21uIGZ1bm55Li4uIFtOTyBDQVIgQ09OVEVOVCBXSEFUU09FVkVSXQ==?= Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good on ya....... Sould have said somthing.....I am in Sydney 2 times a year....my GF is an Aussie. It is a very special place. Were you able to go up to the gold coast or Byron bay. I am leave for our visit at the end of the month for our 3 week stay. I will Live there one day!! Fletch Ct USa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:00:50 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is it possible on the M20 motor to block or reroute the coolant connection to avoid the "leak" or coolant degradation of the fuel injection connector below the intake? This would be for a Calif. car that would not see freezing conditions. -Kevin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 19:36:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Derian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yes. Its better to change the gasket on the throttle body every 10 years or so :-). But the water flow isn't critical. The hoses can be blocked off. Gary Derian --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it possible on the M20 motor to block or reroute > the coolant connection > to avoid the "leak" or coolant degradation of the > fuel injection connector > below the intake? > This would be for a Calif. car that would not see > freezing conditions. > > > -Kevin > > Search the > ARCHIVES:http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, > founder of the BMW CCA. > > UUC Motorwerks - BMW Performance Fine-tuning and > home of the Ultimate > Short Shifter - accept no substitutes! > 908-874-9092 . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:16:39 -0700 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 06:00:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > is it possible on the M20 motor to block or reroute the coolant connection > to avoid the "leak" or coolant degradation of the fuel injection connector > below the intake? > This would be for a Calif. car that would not see freezing conditions. I just bought a barbed hose conector and stuck the 2 hoses together rather than to the throttle body. It seemed easier. Also, since the incoming air isn't heated, you gain 5 or 10 HP. :) :) -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 07:45:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Derian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sounds like a $400 cold air intake. Gary Derian --- John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just bought a barbed hose conector and stuck the > 2 hoses together > rather than to the throttle body. It seemed easier. > Also, since the > incoming air isn't heated, you gain 5 or 10 HP. :) > :) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:13:00 -0700 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: E30 throttle body coolant connection Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I will sell you my cold air intake kit - gold (only looks like brass) custom low restriction laminar flow hose connector and a high performance flex-strong durable mounting system (zip tie). For only $375. On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 07:45:55AM -0700, Gary Derian wrote: > Sounds like a $400 cold air intake. > Gary Derian > > --- John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just bought a barbed hose conector and stuck the > > 2 hoses together > > rather than to the throttle body. It seemed easier. > > Also, since the > > incoming air isn't heated, you gain 5 or 10 HP. :) > > :) -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:10:41 -0500 From: "Dave Swingle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [bmwuucdigest] <E36> Where to buy Z3 reinforcement plates for RSMs Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But then the threaded part is outside the car and gets good and rusty for the next time you take the shocks off, helping insure that you'll snap the studs off. At least up here in the rust belt. Unless you change the shocks often or keep the car in for the winter. I'd prefer to keep the threads inside the car even though it makes more work. Dave S - 99 M3 ------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:19:09 -0400 From: Brian Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <E36> Where to buy Z3 reinforcement plates for RSMs Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lots of other places have them as well. A nice feature some of them offer is that the plates have studs pressed in. That way you drop the plate in from the top and the nuts go in the wheel well. That way next time the RSMs need replacement you don't need to pull out the trunk liner. Just remove the two nuts, swap the RSM and replace the nuts - 10-minute job. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:13:24 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bmw list) Subject: More E30 black smoke Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok, more on the 325i with the smoke issue. I haven't been able to get out there and test the fuel pressure regulator yet, but I have another data point... Someone else following noticed that the smoke was closer to grey (uhoh... oil) and that I didn't blow any while cruising, but I made a little puff when launching at an intersection and not much if any while shifting unless I was really winding it up first. >From what I have read, this seems to indicate valve stem seals, right (on 02's at least, acording to Mr. Anderson...)? BTW, oil consumption on this engine looks like about 1qt/3kmi around town, about half that on the highway, and lots more if I engine brake down hills. I have about 215k on the engine, but compression still looks good. If it is valve stem seals, can they be done with the head on the engine? -- Joe -- Joseph M. Krzeszewski Network Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack of All Trades, Master of None... Yet ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 09:33:11 -0500 From: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 6er and moronic reviews Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 8/20/04 1:20 PM, John Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > iDrive is a good basic idea, needing a whole different control metaphor > somehow. iDrive is an attempted solution to two problems. The first is a very real one: the weight, bulk, complexity and cost of wiring harness made necessary by feature proliferation. Even on my E36, hardly a gizmo-packed vehicle - well, unless you're looking at it from an '02 - the wiring harness behind the passenger footwell panel looks like a telephone exchange, with tightly wrapped bundles of wire snaking every whichaway around each other. The serial bus used by electronic controllers vastly simplifies this wiring. In theory you could control anything in the car over a single loop of four wires, one pair each for power and control signals. An electronic module at each controlled device recognizes whether a given command is intended for it or not, and acts accordingly. This replaces hundreds and hundreds of feet of point-to-point wiring at the cost of inexpensive electronics. The second is in part a perceived problem: the number of buttons and controls for all those new features for which room has to be found on the dashboard, the centre console, the steering wheel and other places. By consolidating the user interface into a single multi-function controller, many of these buttons and switches can be eliminated. There's a perception, advanced in part by people such as automotive journalists who drive a large number of different cars for short periods of time, that this is a real problem for car owners and requires fixing. However I suggest that even on the more feature-laden luxury cars, most car owners figure out which controls they care about and simply ignore the rest. (For instance there are functions on my E36's OBC that I know are there but don't care about and have no idea how to use. I don't need them and just ignore them.) iDrive is an effective solution to the first problem, but not to the second. This is partly because the latter isn't all that much of a problem anyway, and partly because rather than using advanced technology to provide a transparent solution it forces complex technology on the user. It would have been entirely possible for BMW to provide a conventional button and knob control interface to drive a serial bus, but for the most part they chose not to do that. The iDrive idea was good, but the implementation stinks. And because BMW is nothing if not arrogant, especially about its own technology, I doubt that it'll be fixed any time soon. Neil - Opinions? We got opinions! 96 M3 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:10:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 6er and moronic reviews Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Howdy, On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Neil Maller wrote: > The second is in part a perceived problem: the number of buttons and > controls for all those new features for which room has to be found on > the dashboard, the centre console, the steering wheel and other places. > By consolidating the user interface into a single multi-function > controller, many of these buttons and switches can be eliminated. > There's a perception, advanced in part by people such as automotive > journalists who drive a large number of different cars for short periods > of time, that this is a real problem for car owners and requires fixing. > However I suggest that even on the more feature-laden luxury cars, most > car owners figure out which controls they care about and simply ignore > the rest. (For instance there are functions on my E36's OBC that I know > are there but don't care about and have no idea how to use. I don't need > them and just ignore them.) Related to this a bit... I find the center console in our '93 325is to be way too complicated for what it does. Particularly the heater & a/c controls. It seems like there are 700 controls there ("seems like" being important there). Three can certainly be combined... The left and right temperature controls along with the dash vent temperature control can and should become one temp control (is there an inexpesive update to a different hvac package I can do here?) In addition, separate buttons on the OBC to switch function vs. a cycle switch (which is also there on the directional control, I know) adds to the impression of complexity (and requires you to be looking down to find the proper button). Manufacturers must have recognized that more buttons wasn't better though, since newer cars seem to have much simpler interfaces. I don't think this would become all that appreciably better with a centralized menu either though, unless that centralized menu was customizeable or was organized very well. I dunno anything about i-drive though, so I can't speak to it specifically. Mostly I want the controls to be straightforward enough that you can work them in the dark with nothing more than a quick glance as you reach down. That means not all that many controls, tactile differences, etc. Just my .02 Mark (who is certainly not your target luxury buyer... For instance, I find the concept of dual climate control in an automotive vehicle to be completely silly and I actively don't want it due to the increased complexity) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:28:16 -0400 From: "Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 6er and moronic reviews Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From a man who's obviously never driven anywhere with a woman! ;-) I've never yet met a woman who wasn't cold when I'm hot, or hot when I'm cold. I like cold air on my feet in hot weather, she doesn't want cold air on her feet because she wears open shoes..... As an example. Brett Anderson KMS > -----Original Message----- > Mark > > (who is certainly not your target luxury buyer... For instance, I find the > concept of dual climate control in an automotive vehicle to be completely > silly and I actively don't want it due to the increased complexity) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.740 / Virus Database: 494 - Release Date: 8/16/2004 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:11:54 -0400 From: "Michael Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 6er and moronic reviews Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AMEN!!!! I am usually burning up while the GF is freezing. I have even adjusted our thermostat in the house to read 7 degrees warmer than it actually is. So I am quite comfortable at 76 (69 lol) while she thinks it is kinda cold, haha Mike -> -----Original Message----- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Anderson -> Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 12:28 PM -> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Subject: Re: [UUC] 6er and moronic reviews -> -> -> From a man who's obviously never driven anywhere with a woman! ;-) -> -> I've never yet met a woman who wasn't cold when I'm hot, or -> hot when I'm cold. I like cold air on my feet in hot -> weather, she doesn't want cold air on her feet because she -> wears open shoes..... As an example. -> -> Brett Anderson -> KMS -> -> -> > -----Original Message----- -> > Mark -> > -> > (who is certainly not your target luxury buyer... For -> instance, I find -> > the concept of dual climate control in an automotive vehicle to be -> > completely silly and I actively don't want it due to the increased -> > complexity) -> -> --- -> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. -> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). -> Version: 6.0.740 / Virus Database: 494 - Release Date: 8/16/2004 -> -> -> Search the -> ARCHIVES:http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> -> -> _____________________________________________________________ -> _____________ -> In memory of Michel Potheau - friend, enthusiast, founder of -> the BMW CCA. -> -> UUC Motorwerks - BMW Performance Fine-tuning and home of the -> Ultimate Short Shifter - accept no substitutes! 908-874-9092 -> . http://www.uucmotorwerks.com -> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:51:18 -1000 From: Jay G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dual zone temp controls... Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it seems as if we're starting to preach to the choir!!! i weigh twice as much as my GF (200lbs vs. 95lbs), and i am ALWAYS hotter than she is...just when i'm comfortable with the temp, she tells me to turn it down some more...one thing we have to always look for in a car is the ability to turn off the a/c vents on her side... adjusting her side so it doesnt blow cold air doesnt work for us...just the cooling effect of moving air makes her feel chilly... at home, i'll be just in some boxer shorts with the A/C on, while she has sweats, socks, and a blanket over her... :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > AMEN!!!! > > I am usually burning up while the GF is freezing. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:58:45 -0700 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 6er and moronic reviews Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 12:28:16PM -0400, Brett Anderson wrote: > From a man who's obviously never driven anywhere with a woman! ;-) > > I've never yet met a woman who wasn't cold when I'm hot, or hot when I'm cold. > I like cold air on my feet in hot weather, she doesn't want cold air on her > feet because she wears open shoes..... As an example. ha ha! When I was a young'un, I would get barked at if I cracked a window open whilst the AC was engaged. "You're letting heat in!!" So now when I roll around in the ragtop with the top down and the AC blasting at my feet, it feels like utter decadence. -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(15 messages) **********
