The BMW UUC Digest Volume 3 : Issue 455 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: [e36] Battery vent CarFax request Re: E32/E34 Xenon headlights - Factory E36 windoze Re: [e36] Battery vent Re: [e36] Battery vent Re: [e36] Battery vent Re: [e36] Battery vent Re: [e36] Battery vent Re: CarFax request illegal? Re: CarFax request illegal? Re: CarFax request illegal? 92 318 FS (WOB )
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:54:06 -0700 From: "Curtis Ingraham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [e36] Battery vent Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I did the same on Lisa's '92 318is a few years back. The vent tube goes through a grommet near the front edge of the battery box floor. You can see the bottom of the grommet under the car, and it's easy to see inside with the battery removed. Curt Ingraham Oakland, CA > Any have a pic, or can tell me where the battery vent tubing on an e36 > 318is goes? It was missing when I bought the car. I bought new tubing > from BMW but don't know where it vents to. Nothing in the ETK to give > me an indication either. > > Thanks, > Jim Laing > Evo Clown > > I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence - Ayrton Senna ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:37:30 +0000 From: "Evan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: CarFax request Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If someone has a current CarFax account could they run WBADP5344YBR95548 for me please? TIA, Evan _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:54:30 -0400 From: Felix Vicente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: KMS- Brett Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: Re: E32/E34 Xenon headlights - Factory Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > FYI, on the bay. Not mine, but I've know the seller and have seen the > lights. They are in great shape. I think he'd be open to offers. > > http://tinyurl.com/yroxwo be advised that the wiring harness is different than the halogens and newer xenons (ie you can't just plug the 9005/6 harness into them) and I have yet to figure out which of the 4 wires are which. The bulb is a different kind too, so you can't just yank the old transformer and put in a newer one with the matching new bulb. -felix miami,fl 01 540/6 came with xenons 98 740 halogens 95 525 with a set of e32 xenons waiting for me to figure that wiring out ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:05:56 -0400 From: "Fuerst Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: E36 windoze Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well KK must have jinxed me since the sons windows all broke Saturday and mine only goes up and down a 1/2" at a time since Friday. I traced the 4 door window problem to one of the 3 connectors coming out of the harness in conjunction the window came off the track leading to one of the leads ripping/shorting and taking out The 5A central locking fuse. That took some headscratches and JFGI on Sunday morning since the 10A window fuse was OK. I am also in the middle of repairing the door skin whilst out of the car. I am going to ziptie the door plugs into the holster. I also flipped the plastic sliders that ride on the arms in the AL channels and cleaned out the old oxidation while I was in there. I also had to bend Back the front part of the regulator arm. Quite easy to do with a small pipe wrench. On the 2 door I believe the article I saw while looking for the fuse problem is that there is a magnet on the window motor shaft that moves? http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=238468 Looks like I have to remove a cover and slide the magnet? Not really sure how the magnet works. Does anyone know? My sunroof panel comes off the track when using the sliding feature. I'll have to get that fixed. Luckily I could get it closed again. The tilt feature works fine. I'll have to do some homework on the sunroof cassette before I get into that. It seems a bit more complex than the e30 roofs. Also, My RF caliper (or hose) is hanging on long drives. It's OK back and forth to werk, about 10 minutes (Doesn't get all hot and grabby) I think I'll R&R the caliper and if it looks OK, change the hose. Thanks, 1st ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:33:37 -0400 From: "Fuerst Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [e36] Battery vent Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ninemisfit.com/vehicles/1996_bmw_m3/optima/empty_battery_well .jpg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Houser I don't have a pic, nor an E36 anymore, but on my E34 the tube runs down through a hole in the floor, which I assume gets vented to the outside somehow. -- Brad Houser ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:47:37 -0700 From: Peter Loron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Fuerst Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [e36] Battery vent Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I just went through this on my E36. As you can see in the pic, the grommet with the hole in it is towards the front of the battery well. What I wound up doing (with an Interstate MTP-91 battery) was running the drain tube down through one of the holes in the plate at the rear of the compartment, along that channel, and then out the grommet. There didn't appear to be another way to route the tube under the battery that wouldn't pinch the tube shut. -Pete Fuerst Chris wrote: > > http://www.ninemisfit.com/vehicles/1996_bmw_m3/optima/empty_battery_well > .jpg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Houser > > I don't have a pic, nor an E36 anymore, but on my E34 the tube runs down > through a hole in the floor, which I assume gets vented to the outside > somehow. > > -- > Brad Houser > > 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: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:45:24 -0700 From: Rex Tener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Cc: Fuerst Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rex Tener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [e36] Battery vent Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 09:47 AM 4/23/2007, Peter Loron wrote: >I just went through this on my E36. As you can see in the pic, the >grommet with the hole in it is towards the front of the battery >well. What I wound up doing (with an Interstate MTP-91 battery) was >running the drain tube down through one of the holes in the plate at >the rear of the compartment, along that channel, and then out the grommet. > >Fuerst Chris wrote: >> >>http://www.ninemisfit.com/vehicles/1996_bmw_m3/optima/empty_battery_well.jpg I took that picture of my M3 #2. :-) However, that is the wrong place for the vent. On my recently purchased M3 #3, the dealer had put a new battery in before purchase and used that grommet. The correct place is at the front of the battery well and then to the left. Unfortunately, it is just out of view in this picture. Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:21:53 -0700 From: Peter Loron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rex Tener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected], Fuerst Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [e36] Battery vent Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rex Tener wrote: > At 09:47 AM 4/23/2007, Peter Loron wrote: >> I just went through this on my E36. As you can see in the pic, the >> grommet with the hole in it is towards the front of the battery well. >> What I wound up doing (with an Interstate MTP-91 battery) was running >> the drain tube down through one of the holes in the plate at the rear >> of the compartment, along that channel, and then out the grommet. >> >> Fuerst Chris wrote: >>> >>> http://www.ninemisfit.com/vehicles/1996_bmw_m3/optima/empty_battery_well.jpg >>> >>> > > I took that picture of my M3 #2. :-) However, that is the wrong place > for the vent. On my recently purchased M3 #3, the dealer had put a new > battery in before purchase and used that grommet. The correct place is > at the front of the battery well and then to the left. Unfortunately, > it is just out of view in this picture. > > Rex > Ah! So the correct location is the front driver's side corner of the floor of the well? Interesting...I don't recall seeing a grommet there... Yeah the lack of obvious place to route the vent tube under the battery seemed un-BMW. -Pete -Pete ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:37:25 -0400 From: "marshall lytle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Peter Loron'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Fuerst Chris'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [e36] Battery vent Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The mtp-91 comes with a vent extension hose kit to run the side vent on the mtp-91 around to the std grommet hole in the floor by the forward left corner of the batter. The extension is long enough to run around the front of the battery. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Loron Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:48 PM To: Fuerst Chris Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [UUC] [e36] Battery vent I just went through this on my E36. As you can see in the pic, the grommet with the hole in it is towards the front of the battery well. What I wound up doing (with an Interstate MTP-91 battery) was running the drain tube down through one of the holes in the plate at the rear of the compartment, along that channel, and then out the grommet. There didn't appear to be another way to route the tube under the battery that wouldn't pinch the tube shut. -Pete Fuerst Chris wrote: > > http://www.ninemisfit.com/vehicles/1996_bmw_m3/optima/empty_battery_we > ll > .jpg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Houser > > I don't have a pic, nor an E36 anymore, but on my E34 the tube runs > down through a hole in the floor, which I assume gets vented to the > outside somehow. > > -- > Brad Houser > > 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 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: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:35:02 +0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Evan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: CarFax request illegal? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, it appears to be illegal to "run a VIN for someone " if you have not paid for the privilege of using the CarFax service. Please respect the terms and conditions of your CarFax account; they ask that you pay for an account and run it for yourself, understandably giving them a return on their investment that includes profit. As an inventor, I respect the concept of Return On Investment. I am thinking of the integrity of the UUC site, and of the possible damage to UUC's reputation if this kind of abuse is reported or discovered by CarFax. Just my $.02 worth. Thanks, Andy "Mister Fixit", Colorado 1972 2002; 1986 535i Inventions: E28 Rear Lighting Safety Upgrades (various configurations) -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Evan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If someone has a current CarFax account could they run WBADP5344YBR95548 for > me please? > > TIA, > Evan > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > 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: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:28:28 -0500 From: "Dennis Wynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Evan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: CarFax request illegal? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To me it is more question of common sense. If you are looking to spend any money at all on a used car, why not spend the $25 they ask for an unlimited account? I am cheapskate myself, but when I shop for a used car I buy an account rather than beg for freebies. BTW, in an informal comparison I did last year between CarFax and AutoCheck - AutoCheck was the same on some VINs, better on some, worse on a few. The unlimited AutoCheck is good for 60 days compared to 30 for CarFax and you can get money back on your purchase from various discount/coupon web sits (FatWallet give your back 10% if you buy through their link, for example). So next time, I will get the 60 day unlimited AutoCheck account and see how it goes. Also, you always get the car inspected before purchase by someone that knows what they are doing - no matter what CarFax or AutoCheck say :-) Dennis On 4/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, it appears to be illegal to "run a VIN for someone " if you have > not paid for the privilege of using the CarFax service. Please respect > the terms and conditions of your CarFax account; they ask that you pay for > an account and run it for yourself, understandably giving them a return on > their investment that includes profit. As an inventor, I respect the concept > of Return On Investment. > > I am thinking of the integrity of the UUC site, and of the possible damage to > UUC's reputation if this kind of abuse is reported or discovered by CarFax. > > Just my $.02 worth. > > Thanks, Andy > "Mister Fixit", Colorado > 1972 2002; 1986 535i > Inventions: E28 Rear Lighting Safety Upgrades (various configurations) > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Evan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If someone has a current CarFax account could they run WBADP5344YBR95548 for > > me please? > > > > TIA, > > Evan > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > > > 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 > > 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: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:49:25 -0400 From: Martin Bullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Uucdigest Digest <[email protected]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Evan A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dennis Wynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: CarFax request illegal? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For another perspective, I believe there's also a situation rather like the record industry's numbers about loss of revenue from file sharing, etc. I believe, albeit anecdotally, that there's a lot of shared music out there that would never be bought if money had to change hands. To count this as lost sales is disingenuous, and probably fails to account for the business gained from consumers who download shared music then pay for legal versions because they like what they hear. I suspect something of this is true about Carfax-type records, too. I know of situations where Carfax-type reports have been run after the fact for a variety of reasons: As a reassurance, because the requester is anal-retentive (should I use a hyphen?), or maybe because they know something happened to a car, and they're using that event and information to validate to worth of running a Carfax in the future. Would these people have purchased an account? I doubt it. Did they benefit from it? Marginally, if at all. I get involved in the whole intellectual property issue quite often (lots of business in China), and I have strict personal rules about not buying bootleg DVD's and so on, but I think the waters are a little more grey here than they might be painted. My $.02; YMMV, etc. Martin Bullen '95 M3 '97 Z3 2.8 (finally with the hardtop removed this weekend!) '01 740i Sport On Apr 23, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Dennis Wynne wrote: > To me it is more question of common sense. If you are looking to > spend any money at all on a used car, why not spend the $25 they ask > for an unlimited account? I am cheapskate myself, but when I shop for > a used car I buy an account rather than beg for freebies. > > BTW, in an informal comparison I did last year between CarFax and > AutoCheck - AutoCheck was the same on some VINs, better on some, worse > on a few. The unlimited AutoCheck is good for 60 days compared to 30 > for CarFax and you can get money back on your purchase from various > discount/coupon web sits (FatWallet give your back 10% if you buy > through their link, for example). > > So next time, I will get the 60 day unlimited AutoCheck account and > see how it goes. > > Also, you always get the car inspected before purchase by someone that > knows what they are doing - no matter what CarFax or AutoCheck say :-) > > Dennis > > On 4/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, it appears to be illegal to "run a VIN for someone " if you >> have >> not paid for the privilege of using the CarFax service. Please >> respect >> the terms and conditions of your CarFax account; they ask that you >> pay for >> an account and run it for yourself, understandably giving them a >> return on >> their investment that includes profit. As an inventor, I respect >> the concept >> of Return On Investment. >> >> I am thinking of the integrity of the UUC site, and of the >> possible damage to >> UUC's reputation if this kind of abuse is reported or discovered >> by CarFax. >> >> Just my $.02 worth. >> >> Thanks, Andy >> "Mister Fixit", Colorado >> 1972 2002; 1986 535i >> Inventions: E28 Rear Lighting Safety Upgrades (various >> configurations) >> -------------- Original message ---------------------- >> From: "Evan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > If someone has a current CarFax account could they run >> WBADP5344YBR95548 for >> > me please? >> > >> > TIA, >> > Evan >> > >> > _________________________________________________________________ >> > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today >> it's FREE! >> > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ >> > >> > 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 >> >> 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 >> > 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: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:08:27 -0500 From: "Bill Proud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Senior Digest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Uucdigest" <[email protected]> Cc: "Steve Dunnavant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jacob Dunnavant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 92 318 FS (WOB ) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Several folks have commented about how great a commuter these 318s are , so here's one for sale locally to me in mid-south Tenn ....$1500 I DONT know anything about it .......ask HIM not me ... http://www.wksr.com/wksr.php?rfc=src/swapitem.php&id=97831 Beepee ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(13 messages) **********
