The BMW UUC Digest Volume 2 : Issue 806 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Independent Service in IL Re: Independent Service in IL Going to buy a MB. Anyone have a current carfax account? Re: <E36> JTD underbody panel <FS> Factory BMW roof rack for E34 Touring Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Re: FS: 2000 528iT sports package Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help!
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:43:36 -0500 From: "Roan Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Independent Service in IL Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The IAIBMWSP has only 3 shops listed for IL, and only 1 near me. Does anyone have any opinion regarding Euroquipe in St. Charles, IL or any other recommendation for someone in the NW Suburbs of Chicago? Thanks, Roan. 99 M3 Hoffman Estates, IL ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:35:18 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Independent Service in IL Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check out Edva Motorsports. (He has a web site for contact info - just Google him) I've heard great things about him. Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roan Low Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:44 PM To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UUC] Independent Service in IL The IAIBMWSP has only 3 shops listed for IL, and only 1 near me. Does anyone have any opinion regarding Euroquipe in St. Charles, IL or any other recommendation for someone in the NW Suburbs of Chicago? Thanks, Roan. 99 M3 Hoffman Estates, IL 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: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:52:17 -0700 (PDT) From: dinty44 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Going to buy a MB. Anyone have a current carfax account? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hey All, Looking to buy a 2001 MB E320. Anyone have a current carfax account they'd like to run the vin through for me? Email me privately if you do. Thanks, David 1995 540ia 210,000 about to be sold __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:41:38 -0500 From: "Paul A. Garnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'J. Ochi'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> Subject: Re: <E36> JTD underbody panel Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now that's what I call advice!! Yeah Jim! This is what these mailing lists are all about! Great advice!! Follow it to the letter! 2 cents worth?!? He'll that's worth more than $20 bux! LOL Thanks from all of us!!! Paul A. Garnier FastNetworking 281-827-0725 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Ochi Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UUC] <E36> JTD underbody panel At 05:14 PM 9/12/2005, Brian Ruiz wrote: >In any case, I am looking for input you guys have >about the panel, and how durable it has been to >hitting parking blocks, bumps, bruises etc. My 2 cents on the panel - all of the underbody stuff works together as a system, and is only as strong as the weakest link. If you reinforce one part, then the next weakest part in the system will fail. The JTD panel is a fine piece, but if your fender liners aren't in good shape, or your bumper cover is torn, it will never be secure. If you habitually hit parking blocks, high curbs, berms, cones, squirrels, etc., then no matter what you do, it will all eventually tear out. Each time you hit something with the lower lip of your air dam, it puts stress on all the fasteners (and the plastic surrounding the fastener holes) on all of the underbody stuff. As these fasteners loosen up, it allows the underbody stuff to move around, putting more stress on the mounting points, until something eventually tears through. The increased stress will tear out the next mounting point, and the one after that, and so on, until the parts are dragging. So, here's what I suggest - it's not perfect, and won't be indestructible, but it's as good as anything else. Buy new fender liners, and reinforce the three mounting holes at the bottom of the liner with some sheet metal and pop rivets. Replace all of the little square white plastic pieces that the body screws go into with new ones (they're pretty cheap at the dealer). If you really want to get fancy, you can replace the white plastic pieces with M6 nutserts, and use M6 bolts to fasten everything together. You can also replace the tinnerman clips that the sheet metal screws go into with sheet metal reinforcements and M6 nutserts. Use fender washers under the heads of the bolts (or screws) to spead the load, and help support all of the plastic pieces. Basically, reinforce everything until you're back to the metal parts on the car. Then, use either the JTD panel, or stock panels reinforced as above. Use fender washers under the heads of all the screws/bolts that you use to mount the underpanel. Highly recommended - add some support to the front center of each fender liner, by using a chain or a piece of aircraft cable from the fender liner to the bumper support. The support should be tight enough to take some of the weight off the front vertical screw that holds the fender liner in place. I don't really recommend using anything solid here - you want the bumper/underpanel/fender liner to be able to move up if you run over a parking block. Hope this helps, Jim Ochi 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, 15 Sep 2005 08:51:35 -0500 From: "Paul Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: <FS> Factory BMW roof rack for E34 Touring Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With the impending sale of my Touring, I won't be needing these racks. They are the factory cross bars and use the built in mounting holes below the rubber strips on the roof. I know they were crazy money when new, are they worth anything now? Probably not real cheap to ship (sorta big, not heavy). Let me know if anyone is interested or I will throw them on Ebay. I can dig up pictures if needed... Regards, Paul Craven ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:05:41 -0400 From: Martin Bullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Carlos, That often means that the switch is on the way out. Other signs are brake lights that don't work consistently, or that are on all the time, and cruise control that wont engage consistently. Martin Bullen '95 M3 '97 Z3 2.8 On Sep 14, 2005, at 9:02 PM, Carlos Lopez wrote: > --- "chet.dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Question(s): >> 1) What the heck does this 'CHECK' light mean? >> 2) Could this light be telling me "Look at the on-board computer >> stupid!"? > > I believe that's it. Mine will do it when I'm low on washer fluid. > Lately I'm getting the 'Brake circuit failure.' Not to hijack your > thread but what's the fix for that? Leaving tomorrow evening for VIR > so it's not like I can actually fix it before I go. :-/ > > Carlos > 98 M3 > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.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: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:57:07 -0700 From: "Scott & Charlotte Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chet, did you miss a payment? Once you write and send BMW a "check", the light will stop blinking. :^) You're right, if you could read the display, it would be telling you what you were supposed to check. I'm not familiar with the system on the E36, but on the E30 there is a button to push to make the "check" light stop blinking. Do you have the owner's manual? Please see my reply to the guy with the false brake pad warning light warning. Or else John will tell you what to do. :^) Scott Miller GGC BMW CCA >Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:06:37 -0400 >From: "chet.dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] hiAuto.net> > > >Vehicle: >'95 S50 US-spec M3 (OBDI) >~75,3XX miles > >Problem/background info: >No perceived running problems yet the 'CHECK' light in the center of the >IP info area illuminates at seemingly random intervals. Sometimes it is >on for a few seconds after start-up and then goes out, sometimes it >never illuminates. Occasionally it blinks and other times remains lit >for extended periods. >Note: This is not the 'CHECK ENGINE' light as it is not illuminated and >located on the left side of the same display area. > >Stomp test reveals only a code 1444 which indicates no DME diagnostic >problem exists. > >My on-board computer display is on the fritz and is trying to tell me >something (two things from what I can tell) yet I can't decipher what it >says due to the faulty display. > >Question(s): >1) What the heck does this 'CHECK' light mean? >2) Could this light be telling me "Look at the on-board computer >stupid!"? > >Mostly this is an annoyance but I'd prefer not to simply remove the bulb >unless I absolutely can't fix/find the root cause. > >Thanks for the help! >Chet Dawes ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:19:06 -0400 From: "Dennis Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "BMW List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: FS: 2000 528iT sports package Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the interest, everyone! The sportvagen actually sold about an hour after I posted the pics! The new owner is picking it up tomorrow. I picked up the Family Truckster yesterday. I can't recall the last time I drove something with only 10 miles on it! Quite nice, for a ginormous truck. Was doing 80mph at only 2200 rpm, so hopefully the fuel economy won't kill me. Will really, really miss the Bimmer though. [And for those of you that asked about the nice house in the background of the pics, I wish it were mine! It's a historic house owned by the town I live in, where I got married, actually. About 1 mile from my little shack. I took the pics there because my driveway was wet from washing it, and a big hill blocks the evening sun, so it was kinda dark. I do love that house though. If I ever make any real money, I'm going to build something just like it.... :-) ] vty, --Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 10:23 PM To: BMW List ([email protected]) Subject: RE: FS: 2000 528iT sports package Howdy, all, finally gotten around to taking some pictures, in response to requests for a couple of interested parties, so I thought I'd share (especially as how the exterior shots did come out kinda good :-) http://www.photoworks.com/share/shareLanding.jsp?shareCode=A1B0B63BE45&cb=PW vty, --Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:14 PM To: BMW List ([email protected]) Subject: FS: 2000 528iT sports package Ok, ok, mea culpa, I've been kinda sorta threatening to sell this wagon for some time now, but the giant Family Truckster (first 2006 model year Nissan Armada) we ordered is finally here (in yet another demonstration of my remarkable market timing - yep, NOW get a giant SUV with bad gas mileage), so it's time to sell the sportwagon. Six vehicles for two adults is just ridiculous, not to mention the complete dearth of room to park everything, so . . . . It's a 2000 BMW 528iT sportwagon that I bought as a present to my wife two years ago (when she refused to get a mini-van). We're the 2nd owner, 59,800 miles, silver/black, excellent condition inside and out. Options include Sport package (inc. sport seats, M-steering wheel, sport suspension, shadowline sport trim, 17" BBS wheels), Steptronic transmission, heated seats, rain sensing wipers, self-leveling rear suspension, electrochromatic rear view mirror, metallic paint, power moonroof, premium audio system, rear side airbags, compact disc changer, and maybe one or two other options I've forgotten, though no ski sack for some reason. I also have a spare set of wheels with snow tires mounted. All services done and up to date. According to Edmunds.com, the wagon is worth $17,075 on trade-in, $19,183 as a private party sale, and $21,670 if one were to buy from a dealer. The Kelly Blue Book is broader, but the midpoint is close: $16,700, $20,180 and $24,115, respectively. First reasonable offer takes it, or else it gets traded in when I pick up the Truckster. Let me know if you're interested! (and/or if anyone has a good opinion on what it's worth, let me know.) Thanks, --Dennis West of Boston 2000 528iT 1995 740iL 1995 F355 Berlinetta 1995 F355 Challenge 1999 Porsche 911 Carrera 2006 Nissan Armada tow vehicle and baby schlepper ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:59:27 -0700 From: "Marco Romani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's been a while since I had a functioning OBC (ripped it out years ago) but typically a <check> means to look at the OBC to see what it's saying. Could be low coolant, brake light, ice warning, etc Marco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of chet.dawes Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 10:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [UUC] 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Vehicle: '95 S50 US-spec M3 (OBDI) ~75,3XX miles Problem/background info: No perceived running problems yet the 'CHECK' light in the center of the IP info area illuminates at seemingly random intervals. Sometimes it is on for a few seconds after start-up and then goes out, sometimes it never illuminates. Occasionally it blinks and other times remains lit for extended periods. Note: This is not the 'CHECK ENGINE' light as it is not illuminated and located on the left side of the same display area. Stomp test reveals only a code 1444 which indicates no DME diagnostic problem exists. My on-board computer display is on the fritz and is trying to tell me something (two things from what I can tell) yet I can't decipher what it says due to the faulty display. Question(s): 1) What the heck does this 'CHECK' light mean? 2) Could this light be telling me "Look at the on-board computer stupid!"? Mostly this is an annoyance but I'd prefer not to simply remove the bulb unless I absolutely can't fix/find the root cause. Thanks for the help! Chet Dawes **************************************************************************** ************ Note: If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. **************************************************************************** ************ 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, 15 Sep 2005 21:24:57 -0400 From: "Rich Dorffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: 'CHECK' light illuminated, help! Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > It's been a while since I had a functioning OBC (ripped it out years ago) > but typically a <check> means to look at the OBC to see what it's saying. > Could be low coolant, brake light, ice warning, etc I don't think "ice warning" is covered by the 'check' light, I believe the temp gauge/chime handles that simple function without involving the check light (sort of like the clock with the memo function). Regards, Rich ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(10 messages) **********
