The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 375 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Re: FW: E36 'Brake Light Circuit' message Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Ant infestation Re: Ant infestation Re: Ant infestation Re: Ant infestation Re: Ant infestation Re: Ant infestation Re: Ant infestation Re: FW: E36 'Brake Light Circuit' message E30 rear anti-sway bar
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:39:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mark Dadgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Mark Dadgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, I used VDO gauges (80psi oil pressure) and a JTD block. The > gauges > are mounted in a custom plate where the center air vent/radio/HVAC > controls used to be. I used the Eastern Motorwerks wiring harness, > which was much easier than fabricating one myself. The street car one or the race car one? I wondered if it's worth the $50 or whatever it costs from them vs buying wire, connectors, maybe a little soldering and doing it yourself. Isn't that half the fun? :-) Carlos. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:42:08 -0700 From: Mark Dadgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: UUC Digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sep 23, 2004, at 9:39 AM, Carlos Lopez wrote: >> Oh, I used VDO gauges (80psi oil pressure) and a JTD block. The >> gauges >> are mounted in a custom plate where the center air vent/radio/HVAC >> controls used to be. I used the Eastern Motorwerks wiring harness, >> which was much easier than fabricating one myself. > > The street car one or the race car one? Street car, as far as I know. > I wondered if it's worth the $50 or whatever it costs from them vs > buying wire, connectors, maybe a little soldering and doing it > yourself. Depends on what you like doing. I don't like soldering. :) > Isn't that half the fun? :-) > No. :) - Mark ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:12:10 -0700 From: "J. Ochi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 09:39 AM 9/23/2004, Carlos Lopez wrote: >The street car one or the race car one? I wondered if it's worth the >$50 or whatever it costs from them vs buying wire, connectors, maybe a >little soldering and doing it yourself. Isn't that half the fun? :-) Depends on whether or not you have the proper skills and tools for the task. I've seen a lot of people take the DIY approach to wiring, ending up with gauges that drop out occasionally, lighting that flickers, etc., etc., etc. Heck, just look at the trailer wiring that supposed "pros" do - stuff that cuts out in every rainstorm, or dies over time as connections oxidize. Or wires that get cut or short out because of poor/stupid routing. Anyway, if you have the skills and tools for the job, building a wiring harness for a gauge kit is no big deal. If all you have, though, is one of those lousy cheap Radio Shack crimpers, a pocket knife, and a roll of black electrical tape, then forget it.... Jim Ochi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:14:39 -0500 From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: E36 'Brake Light Circuit' message Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The sensor detects small current differences between the bulb circuits, and the difference caused by corrosion or bulbs from different manufactures may set it off. In other words the detector is way too sensitive. I think some of the bulbs/sockets may be aluminum. Removing the bulbs and cleaning them and the socket will often solve this problem for a couple years. Replacing the bulbs in pairs will help. Sam >Lately my E36 M3 has frequently been displaying a message on the OBC >reading: "Brake Light Circuit.....Check Owners Manual". The 'Check >Control' light on the dash also illuminates. This happens randomly when >applying the brakes, but once the message appears, I can't clear it >until I restart the engine (then sometimes it comes back on at the first >application of the brake pedal). > > >Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting or what part is failing? > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:53:32 -0500 From: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 9/23/04 11:39 AM, Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I take it you guys are mounting the pressure senders right to the adapter in > the E36s? I may remote mount mine anyway, can never be too careful. :-) I understand that remote mounting the sender is common practice for the E30 M3 because of the level of vibration from the S14 engine, but don't assume that is necessarily the best idea in the case of an E36's six. At Putnam earlier this year we saw an E36 M3 that expired in a cloud of oil smoke out on the track dues to a failure in one of the the hose fittings leading to the remote sender. When you use a hose you introduce several more potential failure areas. Neil 96 M3 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:37:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Oil pressure gauge and sender questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Neil Maller wrote: > At Putnam earlier this year we saw an E36 M3 that expired in a cloud of oil > smoke out on the track dues to a failure in one of the the hose fittings > leading to the remote sender. When you use a hose you introduce several more > potential failure areas. At a BMW CCA driving school at Buttonwillow two weeks ago, a highly modified Subaru WRX (Joe's, for those of you who know him) erupted in flames right in front of me when one of his oil hoses broke/disintegrated/etc. and sprayed oil all over the hot bits of the car. It was pretty spectacular with fire coming from the bottom of the car, and apparently over the hood of the car. He got off track quickly, and no one was hurt. --Andre ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:24:46 -0700 From: "Alex Koreneff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ant infestation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm at the end of my rope and just called my insurance company. =( My car (04 330Ci) is now home to a colony of ants, and I can't seem to rid myself of them. I've verified there are no food sources in the car. No candy. No soda. No french fries/freedom fries. No dead mobster in the trunk. Nothing. I've vacuumed up thousands of the voracious little critters, and every time I go driving, they attack me.... Damn things itch when they bite. I've hit em with bug bombs with litte effect. They completely ignored the ant baits I've placed in the car. And they're multiplying. I've called up people asking for help. Dealer says "Sorry. Can't help. Call an exterminator." Exterminator says "Sorry. Can't help. Cars can explode, and no exterminator will accept that liability." BMWNA says "Sorry. Can't help. Thank you for calling customer relations." Insurance company says "We'll call you back." Has anyone run into an issue like this before? How was it resolved? Any suggestions that don't involve wanton destruction of Bavarian goodness? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:20:41 -0700 From: John Bolhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ant infestation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:24:46PM -0700, Alex Koreneff wrote: > My car (04 330Ci) is now home to a colony of ants, and I can't seem to > rid myself of them. I've verified there are no food sources in the > car. No candy. No soda. No french fries/freedom fries. No dead > mobster in the trunk. Nothing. This is the best problem I've seen in awhile. (and by "best" I mean most interesting problem that isn't mine.) Some thoughts: Go to Vegas, park in hot dry parking lot for a few days. Ants cook and die from lack of moisture, or car gets stolen. Go to Canada, park in tundra for a few days. Ants freeze and die or car gets humped to death by horny walrus. Find a place nearby with industrial deep freeze, ask if you can store a car in sub-zero conditions for a week. Get one of those huge plastic car storage bags that you drive into, fill with air and seal. (those are cool looking) Fill the bag with CO2 maybe. Or set off a bug bomb in there. The only thing about bug bombs is the film they leave on everything. (do bug bombs still do that?) -- "It is an honor to be Cookie Monster." -Sesame Street spokeswoman Audrey Shapiro ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:01:43 -0500 From: Jamie Howton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alex Koreneff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ant infestation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A quick google search reveals: http://www.epestsupply.com/ants.htm Good luck. Jamie Howton ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:57:02 -0400 From: "Robinson, Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ant infestation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Had this problem once with an ex's car. I don't know where they hide, but they're nearly impossible to get rid of. We found that basically, the parking spot she always used had an ant hill nearby & theorized that's where they were coming from. We had to park the car elsewhere, surrounded it with ant traps, used several ant traps inside 2 in the trunk, one in the back seat, one on the tranny tunnel, one in each of the two front footwells (E36 BTW), and this seemed to minimize the problem. We let the car sit for days & had hundreds of dead ants, I think they feed on the dead...... In the end, the only thing that got rid of them was several days of hard freezes. Can I ask what an exterminator is going to do to a car & have it explode?????? Here's something we never tried that you might try. Park the car in a closed garage with the doors, trunk, hood, everything you can think of open. Set of numerous, numerous bombs over days & days & see what happens. It could be your car bombs before didn't work because they were in the trunk or hood or body somewhere. Lee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alex Koreneff > Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 15:25 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [UUC] Ant infestation > > > I'm at the end of my rope and just called my insurance company. =( > > My car (04 330Ci) is now home to a colony of ants, and I > can't seem to rid > myself of them. I've verified there are no food sources in > the car. No > candy. No soda. No french fries/freedom fries. No dead > mobster in the > trunk. Nothing. > > I've vacuumed up thousands of the voracious little critters, > and every time > I go driving, they attack me.... Damn things itch when theyd > bite. I've hit > em with bug bombs with litte effect. They completely ignored > the ant baits > I've placed in the car. And they're multiplying. > > I've called up people asking for help. > > Dealer says "Sorry. Can't help. Call an exterminator." > > Exterminator says "Sorry. Can't help. Cars can explode, and no > exterminator will accept that liability." > > BMWNA says "Sorry. Can't help. Thank you for calling > customer relations." > > Insurance company says "We'll call you back." > > > > Has anyone run into an issue like this before? How was it > resolved? Any > suggestions that don't involve wanton destruction of Bavarian > goodness? > > 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: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:21:43 -0400 From: "Steve Stoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Ant infestation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lee writes: <<In the end, the only thing that got rid of them was several days of hard freezes>> Hmmmm how about a refregerated warehouse for frozen foods? Or maybe a road trip way north? I've heard that ants can live for 14 days in water. Must be something yummy somewhere in that Bavarian goodness they are feeding on, cause that's really all they do. Steve Stoner - my neighbor is an entemologist I'll ask her. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:27:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ant infestation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Howdy, >From a friend that dealt with this problem in his car... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:10:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [UUC] Ant infestation (fwd) On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Mark Andy wrote: > Brenden, you got any advice I should pass on to this guy? Yes. > Dealer says "Sorry. Can't help. Call an exterminator." > > Exterminator says "Sorry. Can't help. Cars can explode, and no > exterminator will accept that liability." Home Paramount, which is an exterminator, said they'd do it for me. They also said it happens from time to time, esp. in cars that have been stored in rural lots. I believe they said they get cars to work on from used dealers due to that. The first time they tried, they failed. That was with a crack & crevice treatment. So, they told me to bring it back and they'd work on it again. They put my ant-ridden colt in a big tent with a bunch of wicker furniture with a terminite infestation, and ran some sort of gas through it for hours. Then they did crack and crevice treatment with some sort of liquid. Then, no more ants. Note that my car was a beater and had cloth seats, plastic everything. I never noticed that the experience did anything bad to it, but it wasn't a luxury vehicle. The ants particularly loved all of the weatherstripping. It's hollow and always dry inside. That's where they were storing all their eggs. Which made for a fun/gross moment: it was like a tube of toothpaste, but was really ant-egg-paste. -brendan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:13:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ant infestation Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Mark Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Exterminator says "Sorry. Can't help. Cars can explode, and no > > exterminator will accept that liability." Precious. Yeah I'd say don't use that guy because apparently he wants to use fire to get rid of the problem, and apparently around gas fumes as well. Maybe he thinks you drive a Pinto! :-) Carlos. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:28:38 -0400 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: E36 'Brake Light Circuit' message Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You want the 4 pole switch, the two pole one is for cars without check control and if you didn't have check control, you wouldn't have the message. Ed Malcolm Reitz wrote: >It's the brake light switch on the pedal assembly. The part is about $25 >and here is a good write-up on the repair: >http://www.logun.org/brake.htm > >Malcolm >'88 M5 >'98 328i > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerome & >Chinthika Welte >Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:20 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com >Subject: [UUC] FW: E36 'Brake Light Circuit' message > >Lately my E36 M3 has frequently been displaying a message on the OBC >reading: "Brake Light Circuit.....Check Owners Manual". The 'Check >Control' light on the dash also illuminates. This happens randomly when >applying the brakes, but once the message appears, I can't clear it >until I restart the engine (then sometimes it comes back on at the first >application of the brake pedal). > >Of course the owners manual doesn't mention the code. I've checked the >brake lights when the message first appears (jam a snow scraper to not >release the brake pedal) and all lights are functioning. > >Any ideas on where to start troubleshooting or what part is failing? > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:47:48 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bmw list) Subject: E30 rear anti-sway bar Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Does anyone know the size of the nut that goes on the end of the rear anti-sway bar on an E30? My passenger side lost the nut and now clunks like you wouldn't believe. -- Joe -- Joseph M. Krzeszewski Network Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack of All Trades, Master of None... Yet ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(15 messages) **********
