The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 484 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: Leather restoration (E30) Electrical Problem...is it the alternator???? 3 liter question Re: 3 liter question Re: 3 liter question 95 M3 for sale 3 Liter Oil Question
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:15:16 -0500 From: Vic Maslanka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Leather restoration Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Per Leatherique session at TechFest East: Put Leatherique solution on seats. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Roll up windows and park car in sun. The key is to get the solution to soak all the way through the leather, from top to bottom. If it drys out too fast, or if all of the liquid is absorbed by the dry leather, that isn't going to happen. Repeat as necessary. Regular applications of the products will keep the leather from drying out completely. Subsequent applications should be easier / faster. Vic Maslanka ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:32:24 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: (E30) Electrical Problem...is it the alternator???? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello Everyone: My son gave me the following description...I think it may be his alternator....car has 240,000 miles on it (original alternator). He has no multi-meter and even if he did I don't think I'm capable of telling how to use it. Does it sound like an alternator, or regulator? The car is an '86 325es (E30)....his daily driver...he "does NOT" want to have to drive his recently purchased E36 ///M3 in the Ohio snow this winter! :-) Any help much appreciated!! Thanks, John Weese Landisville, PA <<Car seems to start up fine, but the interior lights (on board computer, in-dash CD, and instrument cluster are not the usual brightness, quite a bit dimmer). When I drove home from work last night, I had been driving probably 10 minutes and the interior dash lights were almost completely out (very dim). Also, the CD player would turn on and off (not just turning off and showing the clock, but showing no display at all) - then it eventually stayed off completely. The needle on the tachometer also was jumping around....although the engine seemed to be idling at the normal 750. I ended up driving the rest of the way home with the headlights off. This afternoon, it started up fine....but reving the engine makes the on board computer display dim. After a 10 minute test drive, interior dash lights had dimmed all the way done again, and the CD player had no display. Help :)>> He also told me that when the headlights are on and revs the engine the lights get brighter, then dim back down with idle....alternator?, or something much more ominous??? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 18:58:27 -0600 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: 3 liter question Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A friend and coworker has 2 E46's. One is a 2000 323ia with 80K miles and the other is a 2001 330ci manual with about 50K on it. Another coworker has a 2001 X5 3 liter. This is an oil consumption question. The 323i uses no oil between changes but the 330i burns a qt every 3K miles and the guy that has the X5 had a scary occurrence....overheat idiot light came on and he had to add 2 qts before it even registered on the dipstick! The guy that has the 2 E46's is meticulous on his maintenance (he and I are both defense contractor Quality Assurance....I guess you could say we are both a little anal with our cars at times). He uses Mobil one 5W30. I'm not sure how picky the other guy is with the X5 but I'd bet not as critical. Just wondering....is there an oil consumption issue with the 3 liter engine? Thanks in advance, Phil 92 E36/M50 Runs great on fossil oil and no oil consumption at 113K ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:44:40 -0800 From: Jim Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3 liter question Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 04:58 PM 1/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] talked about: >I'm not sure how picky the other guy is with the X5 but I'd bet not as >critical. That was obvious :-) Tell him the engine isn't "maintenance free", and that he needs to check the oil periodically. >Just wondering....is there an oil consumption issue with the 3 liter engine? A quart every 3K miles isn't an "issue"; most BMW motors I'm familiar with consume *some* oil. (The 325is consumes very little oil (fairly recent motor rebuild), whereas the M3 has always consumed some. It's less now since the valve job, but the bottom end is a bit loose, so that's probably where the rest is going. Uses about 1 quart every 1K miles or so, not bad after 150,000 miles.) Cheers, Jim Bassett 1998 M3/4 1993 325is #44 JP ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:59:26 -0600 From: Jamie Howton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: 3 liter question Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My 2002 330i uses about a quart of Mobil 1 5W30 appoximately every 3,000 miles too, it has 58K on the clock, that has been fairly constant since new except for the first 1500 miles when it went through a quart or two IIRC. My 95 M3 uses a quart every 2,500 miles on the street with 100K miles on the clock, although it uses considerably more on the track. My 2000 M5 (not a 3L) uses a Litre of 10W60 every 2,000 miles FWIW. My E46 has an oil level warning light which comes on way before the car is anywhere close to overheating, I imagine that the X5 has the same. If your aquaintance drove around with the oil level warning light on long enough to overheat the engine, then the idiot light is aptly named in his case. Just my $.02. Jamie Howton ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 12:14:11 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: 95 M3 for sale Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have an Alpine white M3 available for sale in Florida. The car has about 125k miles, but still runs very strong. The car inside and out is in very good condition. It needs no repairs of any sort except for some new rear tires in a couple thousand miles. Extras include B&B exhaust, AA cold air intake, aa chip, bra, chrome 99 M wheels, and a $3k stereo. I just got a 5 series so this has to go. Make an offer. -Milo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:54:42 -0800 From: Tom Kosmalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: 3 Liter Oil Question Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FWIW, and this pertains to my 2.5L not a 3.0L, but I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that in my case, on a downhill, the low oil light first flickers (luckily) when the oil on the dipstick is still right at the lower allowable mark. Tom 325iT (which now has its oil checked religously every 1k miles!) ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(7 messages) **********
