The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 455 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: <misc> 235/40 ZR17 Pilot Sport Re: <misc> 235/40 ZR17 Pilot Sport <misc> 235/40 ZR17 Pilot Sport Painting My E30 Blue, Continued Re: Painting My E30 Blue, Continued Re: Painting My E30 Blue, Continued Re: [bmwuucdigest] digest(12 messages) <e30> Help needed with skirt Re: O2 sensor questions - Help?!? UUC Sachs Suspension kit Re: UUC Sachs Suspension kit Re: UUC Sachs Suspension kit Re: UUC Sachs Suspension kit
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:28:05 -0600 (CST) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: <misc> 235/40 ZR17 Pilot Sport Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I took a screw right along the edge of the tread of my RF. I have a plug in it and can get around town, but I'd be crazy to take this out at high speeds. Owing to the location of this, it can't be patched from the inside. Just my luck; Michelin apparently doesn't make a 235/40 17 in a Pliot Sport anymore. So I scour the earth and find one, or replace two with something else. Anybody got any advise on where I might find one (in some warehouse someplace)? If that fails, I could use some advise on what might mix well (as a pair) with these. - Kevin Jay '96 328is, red/tan, 91K, limping a bit ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:38:25 -0500 From: ben keyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: <misc> 235/40 ZR17 Pilot Sport Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dicount Tire Direct still shows 235/40-17 on their web side for $137 - stock "Good" in AZ and TX, "Out" for OH. I got a set from them over the summer for the STi. Ben Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous) wrote: >I took a screw right along the edge of the tread of my RF. I have a plug in >it and can get around town, but I'd be crazy to take this out at high speeds. >Owing to the location of this, it can't be patched from the inside. > >Just my luck; Michelin apparently doesn't make a 235/40 17 in a Pliot Sport >anymore. So I scour the earth and find one, or replace two with something >else. Anybody got any advise on where I might find one (in some warehouse >someplace)? If that fails, I could use some advise on what might mix well (as >a pair) with these. > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:00:46 -0800 From: "Rex Tener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rex Tener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: <misc> 235/40 ZR17 Pilot Sport Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just my luck; Michelin apparently doesn't make a 235/40 17 in a Pilot > Sport anymore. So I scour the earth and find one, or replace two with As Ben pointed out, they are available from Discount Tire Direct. I happen to have a brand new one in my garage that I bought for a spare on one of my M3's, but never had it mounted. I would be willing to sell it for $100 + shipping if you are interested. My zip code is 94024 for shipping purposes. Rex Tener [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:09:55 -0500 From: "Mel Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Painting My E30 Blue, Continued Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe this is the color: http://classic.lany.cz/img/car21b.jpg _________________________________________________________________ Don�t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:05:19 -0500 From: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Painting My E30 Blue, Continued Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/10/04 11:20 AM, "Jason Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if you've seen this site, but I've been buying spray paint cans to > match the Delphin silver of the e30 I recently bought so that I could paint > the windows and newly acquired spoiler to match: > http://www.paintscratch.com/ So how are those painted windows? Neil 96 M3 - Bastard child ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:02:24 -0800 From: "Jason Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Painting My E30 Blue, Continued Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pretty bLing. It's all the rage with the drifting crowd, and really gets the car noticed. Ok, I painted the side view mirror housings (ok, my wife did). And to think, I used to do Quality Assurance for a software company. But I got laid off and they got bought by a bigger company. Coincidence? Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Neil Maller Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 10:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UUC] Painting My E30 Blue, Continued on 12/10/04 11:20 AM, "Jason Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if you've seen this site, but I've been buying spray paint cans to > match the Delphin silver of the e30 I recently bought so that I could paint > the windows and newly acquired spoiler to match: > http://www.paintscratch.com/ So how are those painted windows? Neil 96 M3 - Bastard child 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, 10 Dec 2004 13:09:54 -0500 From: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [bmwuucdigest] digest(12 messages) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/10/04 11:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, it is very different than Laguna Seca blue. The French blue that > Fiat used didn't make nauseous like Laguna Seca does. Maybe if you tried > adjusting your monitor? No, even after colour calibration they still both look horrible! (Although back in the 60's my mother owned a Siata Spring in French Blue, see: <http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/344/>) Neil 96 M3 - Bastard child ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:51:46 -0800 (PST) From: John Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: <e30> Help needed with skirt Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My 325ix is losing the driver's side skirt portion of the body kit. It is only held in place by the portion that fits into the bottom of the front and rear fender flares. The best that I can tell, it was originally aligned by about 4 plastic screws and held in place by some adhesive patches. The patches are no longer sticky, and I can't figure how to access the screws. They seem to be going from the skirt to the body, but the skirt is solid - no way to access the screws. Does the whole side have to come off and go back on as a unit? How can I get the old adhesive patches off? Where can I get new adhesive patches? And finally, how do I access the screws? I'm just looking for advice on skirts. Surely someone can help. John in Oregon ===== end [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:20:49 -0800 From: Jim Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: O2 sensor questions - Help?!? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Question: Should I expect the lights will eventually come back on, or by > resetting the code with the peake research tool - will it not appear > again?? It will, if the fault happens again. > If so, should I go ahead and replace the o2 sensor, or wait for > the light to appear again? Maybe assuming just a brief glitch? IMO, if you get the same fault a second time, replace the O2 sensor. If it doesn't come back, assume it was a one-time thing. Hope that helps, Jim Bassett 1998 M3/4 - OBD-II, BTDT 1993 325is #44 JP - OBD-I, thank goodness :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:11:44 -0800 (PST) From: Mr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UUC Sachs Suspension kit Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Greetings all, I was wondering if anyone here on the list has purchased a Sachs suspention kit and if you would be so kind as to give me a little feed back on how it feels. Particularly on an E36. TIA! Manuel Paredes 95 325i (lots o mods) L.A. BMWCCA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:54:59 -0600 From: "Paul Garnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: UUC Sachs Suspension kit Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I hated mine! Too stiff for daily driver. Quality made tho, but it makes the car a toy...forget about using for commute. I wound up taking it off and went back to stock. One glaring thing, and I would appreciate feedback, the car "hobby-horsed" too much for my taste. More so when the car was adjusted to ride very low. With the car adjusted to maximum ride height it rode much better, almost acceptably, but the rocking back and forth was still present. Since I bought the car with the system inplace, I was wondering if maybe the shocks were tired. Still, the system was too stiff for a car that sees many street miles and was slowly beginning to destroy my car. I did keep the racing dynamic bars on tho! ;-) Paul A. Garnier Systems Integration FastNetworking 281-827-0725 cell/pgr -----Original Message----- From: Mr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 5:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UUC] UUC Sachs Suspension kit Greetings all, I was wondering if anyone here on the list has purchased a Sachs suspention kit and if you would be so kind as to give me a little feed back on how it feels. Particularly on an E36. TIA! Manuel Paredes 95 325i (lots o mods) L.A. BMWCCA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail 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, 10 Dec 2004 19:59:58 -0600 From: "Paul Garnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: UUC Sachs Suspension kit Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was a bit hasty with the send button... I have never driven a BMW that handled as well as mine with the SACHS sporting kit. I am not completely sure if the car had eibachs but the springs are bight blue. My rears were height adjustable via a threaded base which sat in the lower control arm. The SACHS kit really allowed me to work the tires to their fullest. I am wearing 225/40/18's all the way around and I don't seem to get the cornering forces out of the car that I was with the stock springs & shocks. I have to fuss much more with tire pressures to keep the car neutral as opposed to understeering all the time. Now that I've gone to a set of staggerd Z4 take off 18's which are 255/35 in the rear I have thrown my hands up in disgust. I will save my jollies for the track with the non-staggerd wheels. =) Paul A. Garnier Systems Integration FastNetworking 281-827-0725 cell/pgr -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 7:40 PM To: Mr; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [UUC] UUC Sachs Suspension kit --- Paul Garnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hated mine! > > Too stiff for daily driver. > > Quality made tho, but it makes the car a toy...forget about using for > commute. > > I wound up taking it off and went back to stock. I have a Sachs suspension on my E36 (not the UUC one) that's a few years old. I love it, just stiff enough for me and I daily drove the car this summer in the crappola streets of S. East Michigan. I have Eibach sway bars on the car also. The car is going to become a track car so I'm about to take it off and install a DA Ground Control suspension and give up on the streetability. If anyone may be interested in it shoot me a message. The front struts are threaded so it's height adjustable, the rear is not. Carlos. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com 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, 10 Dec 2004 17:40:20 -0800 (PST) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UUC Sachs Suspension kit Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Paul Garnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hated mine! > > Too stiff for daily driver. > > Quality made tho, but it makes the car a toy...forget about using for > commute. > > I wound up taking it off and went back to stock. I have a Sachs suspension on my E36 (not the UUC one) that's a few years old. I love it, just stiff enough for me and I daily drove the car this summer in the crappola streets of S. East Michigan. I have Eibach sway bars on the car also. The car is going to become a track car so I'm about to take it off and install a DA Ground Control suspension and give up on the streetability. If anyone may be interested in it shoot me a message. The front struts are threaded so it's height adjustable, the rear is not. Carlos. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(13 messages) **********
