The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 534 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: Nitrogen-filled tires Re: Hartge Re: Nitrogen-filled tires Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Nitrogen filled tires Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Re: need help with "in-service" date Re: need help with "in-service" date Re: need help with "in-service" date Re: need help with "in-service" date RE> Tranny problems
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:46:09 -0800 (PST) From: wy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Nitrogen-filled tires Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If only you have a race car. F1s uses it. If I have to pay for it, I pay to breathe pure O2. ps. Thank you drop-top owners for filtering the air. --- Andre Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Los Angeles Times had an interesting article > about the increasing use > of nitrogen for filling up tires: > > http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-hy-wheels9feb09,0,5673272.story?coll=la-class-autos-highway1 > > Has anyone tried this out? I was completely unaware > of this. Maybe we > all need nitrogen-charged, dark trash bags to store > our tires now. :-) > > --Andre > > 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 > ===== Get Firefox! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:58:23 -0500 From: Ed MacVaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Hartge Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have. He pronounces it "Heart Guh" Ed John K Gallagher wrote: >You could ask John Hartge, who is a Correspondent for >CBS News/ Radio out of D.C., who, ironically enough >happens to be the owner of a very nice E-28, Hartge >tuned, of course. Though he claims no relation. > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 16:27:36 -0800 (PST) From: Ted Pao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Nitrogen-filled tires Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe some, if not all, Costco tire centers have switch over to nitrogen. Ted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Andre Yew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bmwuucdigest <[email protected]> Subject: Nitrogen-filled tires Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Los Angeles Times had an interesting article about the increasing use of nitrogen for filling up tires: http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-hy-wheels9feb09,0,5673272.story?coll=la-class-autos-highway1 Has anyone tried this out? I was completely unaware of this. Maybe we all need nitrogen-charged, dark trash bags to store our tires now. :-) --Andre __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:57:51 -0600 (CST) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well that was a disaster. Destroyed the flange on one side... but the damn thing simply will not come out with this chicken-sh*t little puller from Bimmerworld. I *hate* this. So I took the shards of what's left, bolted it back together (it'll get me a few miles), and tomorrow hope to find a real mechanic with the right tools. Nothing worse than going to somebody else's shop with something you f-ed up in your driveway, AGH. - k On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous) wrote: > > Yes, I have a generic puller. And the car has factory "sport" suspension > (this is about all that's left, I've changed out most everything else); that > must be the source of the M3 bushings. > > Best I can tell from Brett's site, his puller for these bushings requires > that I remove the arm (at least if you trust the picture he shows). So I have > a choice of destroying my stock bushes, or dropping the whole arm. Both > suck... but frankly, it'd probably be less trouble to dremel off this dumb > flange and use the puller I have. Agh. > > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have a new set of Powerflex RTABs and a rented puller from > > > Bimmerworld. > > > Problem is my factory bushings have a flange on the outside > > > > Long story short, your next course of action depends on the type of > > removal tool you have available. If it's the proper BMW puller (like the > > one you could rent from koalamotorsport.com), the two legs of the puller > > will fit into the two cut-off slots on the RTAB. > > However, if you have a generic 'cup' puller, you will need to remove the > > RTAB flanges before you can proceed. Dremmel or SawzAll make that job much > > easier. > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:46:43 -0800 From: JKerouac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Push a hacksaw blade through the rubber, drill a hole in the rubber first if needed. Then hacksaw outward, making an open slot in the outer metal ring of the bushing. That relieves tension. Then if the puller still won't work you can bash the RTAB with a three pound mallet and it will come out of the arm. Good luck, Barry Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous) wrote: >Well that was a disaster. Destroyed the flange on one side... but the damn >thing simply will not come out with this chicken-sh*t little puller from >Bimmerworld. I *hate* this. So I took the shards of what's left, bolted >it back together (it'll get me a few miles), and tomorrow hope to find a >real mechanic with the right tools. Nothing worse than going to somebody >else's shop with something you f-ed up in your driveway, AGH. > >- k > >On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous) wrote: > > >>Yes, I have a generic puller. And the car has factory "sport" suspension >>(this is about all that's left, I've changed out most everything else); that >>must be the source of the M3 bushings. >> >>Best I can tell from Brett's site, his puller for these bushings requires >>that I remove the arm (at least if you trust the picture he shows). So I have >>a choice of destroying my stock bushes, or dropping the whole arm. Both >>suck... but frankly, it'd probably be less trouble to dremel off this dumb >>flange and use the puller I have. Agh. >> >> >>On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>>>I have a new set of Powerflex RTABs and a rented puller from >>>>Bimmerworld. >>>>Problem is my factory bushings have a flange on the outside >>>> >>>> >>>Long story short, your next course of action depends on the type of >>>removal tool you have available. If it's the proper BMW puller (like the >>>one you could rent from koalamotorsport.com), the two legs of the puller >>>will fit into the two cut-off slots on the RTAB. >>>However, if you have a generic 'cup' puller, you will need to remove the >>>RTAB flanges before you can proceed. Dremmel or SawzAll make that job much >>>easier. >>> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:22:23 -0600 From: Jamie Howton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is really not that difficult, the Bimmerworld rental tool is actually the Victory design tool which works very well (at least the one I got a couple of months ago was). As Brett said this is a 30 minute job. It might take longer if you don't have the tool and have to hacksaw the RTAB out, but even that isn't too bad. I hope you aren't trying to pull the metal flange through the control arm, that would certainly create a problem with any tool. If that's the case, try pulling the bushing in the other direction. Regards -- Jamie Howton 2002 330i 2000 M5 1995 M3 Hampshire, IL ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:00:26 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Howdy, On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous) wrote: > Well that was a disaster. Destroyed the flange on one side... but the > damn thing simply will not come out with this chicken-sh*t little puller > from Bimmerworld. I *hate* this. So I took the shards of what's left, > bolted it back together (it'll get me a few miles), and tomorrow hope to > find a real mechanic with the right tools. Nothing worse than going to > somebody else's shop with something you f-ed up in your driveway, AGH. :-) Hey, everyone's been there. I once got in over my head on a brake job on a truck I had in college and had to get it towed to a real mechanic... The tow truck guy just started laughing at me when I explained why there were no working brakes on the vehicle... :-) Mark (the worst thing is that generally I've found in these situations that the real mechanic knows enough tricks or has enough patience to have done the job with the tools you had on hand in your garage! :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:01:49 -0800 From: Tom Kosmalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Nitrogen filled tires Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Click and Clack tackled this question recently, and concluded that plain old air was adequate. As a fan of the common man approach to things, my favorite point of theirs was that if air didn't unreasonably damage the exterior of tires, it should be fine on the inside, too. As a chem engineer (pause for collective groan), there are a lot of other reasons I agree with them that I won't bore the group with. Heavily track-oriented drivers might have an argument in favor of nitrogen due to lower thermal expansion, moisture content, etc., but they are probably just as well off checking and adjusting tire pressure a few times during each track event. Costco and other tire service centers are likely converting to nitrogen for reasons more related to fire and employee safety than anything related to tire performance or longevity. Tom K. Hood River ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:46:18 -0500 From: "KMS- Brett Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kevin Jay \(Mr.Fabulous\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <E36> RTAB removal w/ flange? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I guess the puller was cheap? Interesting problem though, as I know Bimmerworld has the factory tools, because I sold them to them. You do NOT have to remove the arm to use our tools, it takes less than 30 minutes per side. Where did you see something on my site that implies otherwise? Brett Anderson KMS > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks, Alex. > > Yes, I have a generic puller. And the car has factory "sport" suspension > (this is about all that's left, I've changed out most everything > else); that > must be the source of the M3 bushings. > > Best I can tell from Brett's site, his puller for these bushings requires > that I remove the arm (at least if you trust the picture he > shows). So I have > a choice of destroying my stock bushes, or dropping the whole arm. Both > suck... but frankly, it'd probably be less trouble to dremel off this dumb > flange and use the puller I have. Agh. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:05:40 -0600 From: Dennis Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: need help with "in-service" date Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Any BMW service advisor can look up the VIN and give you the in-service date, I am not sure THEY can tell the options from their system. You can try BMW USA customer service: 1-800-831-1117 should get you there. I have called them (or someone at BMWUSA) before when looking at used cars. Given then VIN, they could tell me the in service date and options. Finally, if you are serious about used car shopping buy a 30 day CarFax account. Then you can see when the car was registered the 1st time - that will be about in-service date, plus you can get the full history report. Dennis 01 M5 silver/black At 05:14 PM 02/10/2005 -0600, you wrote: >I'm trying to determine the "in-service" date and BMW options list for the >following car. > >WBAAR3347YJB35105 > >If anyone can help it would be appreciated. > >TIA, > >t. >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, 11 Feb 2005 08:23:21 -0600 From: "Tarun Kundhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bmwuucdigest" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: need help with "in-service" date Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis, Good tips but, the challenge was I didn't get anywhere with my local dealer. I ran a CarFax on the vehicle but it didn't help with the in service date because the car was purchased and kept overseas for the first 2 years. It is a 2000 and the first CarFax record is it coming through customs in 2002 with 40k miles. I hadn't considered calling BMW NA, I'll remember that in the future. For now, I've got what I need thanks to this list. Thanks, t. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Wynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [UUC] need help with "in-service" date > Any BMW service advisor can look up the VIN and give you the in-service > date, I am not sure THEY can tell the > options from their system. > > You can try BMW USA customer service: 1-800-831-1117 should get you > there. I have called them (or someone at > BMWUSA) before when looking at used cars. Given then VIN, they could tell > me the in service date and options. > > Finally, if you are serious about used car shopping buy a 30 day CarFax > account. Then you can see when the car was > registered the 1st time - that will be about in-service date, plus you can > get the full history report. > > Dennis > 01 M5 silver/black ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:18:35 -0600 From: Dennis Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: need help with "in-service" date Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My local guy pulls them for me all the time without a problem. I was shopping for a used Z3 a couple of years ago and pretty much wore him out with requests. But when I needed to know if the car had the sports seats or the Chiclet seats I think I had to call BMWNA. At the same time I was wearing out the service guy at a local Honda shop with similar requests for S2000 lookups. I ended up with the S and take Archie donuts any time I take the car in :-) Dennis 01 M5 silver/black At 08:23 AM 02/11/2005 -0600, you wrote: >Dennis, > >Good tips but, the challenge was I didn't get anywhere with my local >dealer. I ran a CarFax on the vehicle but it didn't help with the in >service date because the car was purchased and kept overseas for the first >2 years. It is a 2000 and the first CarFax record is it coming through >customs in 2002 with 40k miles. > >I hadn't considered calling BMW NA, I'll remember that in the future. For >now, I've got what I need thanks to this list. >Thanks, > >t. > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Wynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:05 AM >Subject: Re: [UUC] need help with "in-service" date > > >>Any BMW service advisor can look up the VIN and give you the in-service >>date, I am not sure THEY can tell the >>options from their system. >> >>You can try BMW USA customer service: 1-800-831-1117 should get you >>there. I have called them (or someone at >>BMWUSA) before when looking at used cars. Given then VIN, they could tell >>me the in service date and options. >> >>Finally, if you are serious about used car shopping buy a 30 day CarFax >>account. Then you can see when the car was >>registered the 1st time - that will be about in-service date, plus you >>can get the full history report. >> >>Dennis >>01 M5 silver/black > >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, 11 Feb 2005 09:12:43 -0500 From: "Steve Stoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: need help with "in-service" date Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis wrote: <<Any BMW service advisor can look up the VIN and give you the in-service date, I am not sure THEY can tell the options from their system.>> The report the dealer service rep can get includes in service date, option codes, and recall campaigns performed. I've had hit or miss luck getting it, some advisors cheerfully pull it up and print it, some portray it as an impossibility. YMMV Steve Stoner ________________________________ [Attachment of type application/ms-tnef removed.] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:56:40 -0800 From: Harvey Chao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE> Tranny problems Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You received a suggestion to drain and refill the tranny and put in a UUC short shift kit. While I agree that using an appropriate replacement tranny fluid should do no harm to either the tranny or your "legal case" - I would strongly suggest NOT installing the UUC kit. I can see an immediate counter argument that by installing non-BMW parts you have somehow caused internal wear and damage yadda e3. A totally false argument at this time, but why provide ammunition to the other side to cloud the issues? Back to the existing tranny fluid that is black - as someone suggested, that might be due to a "moly" additive. Regardless, consider that if you simply drain and refill, there will probably be enough old dark fluid still in the tranny to immediately discolor the fresh fluid, and it might take driving it a bit, draining and refilling once or twice more to see if the discoloration is actually coming from the tranny or some possible additive. Harvey The box said "Requires Windows 95, or better." So I bought a Macintosh. I live with fear, death, and evil...but I used to be able to turn it off and use a Mac. " Author Unknown Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(14 messages) **********
