The BMW UUC Digest Volume 4 : Issue 11 : "text" Format Messages in this Issue: Re: $2700 new car Re: $2700 new car Re: $2700 new car Re: $2700 new car Re: $2700 new car Re: $2700 new car Re: $2700 new car Re: $2700 new car <OT> commuter special <E53> interior temp controller <E36> LR wheel bearing revisited
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:40:29 -0700 From: Peter B Du Bois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vic Maslanka wrote: "I'm sure it meets all of the European and US safety and emissions regulations. I don' t think anyone is throwing away those rules regardless of the price of gas." As I recall from published reports, it meets no standards whatsoever, other than the "four black things that roll" standard. Peter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:59:28 -0800 (PST) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter B Du Bois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Peter B Du Bois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I recall from published reports, it meets no standards whatsoever, > other > than the "four black things that roll" standard. I thought in one of our intranet news releases it said something about meeting european frontal impact. I seriously doubt it meets side or rear impact though, these low cost vehicles have really flimsy seat structures. I wouldn't want to know what would happen to your $2700 brand new car when some soccer mom runs you over in her Excursion and then an F350 runs over you while talking on a cell phone. Carlos. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:24:44 -0600 From: "Bill Proud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]>, "Peter B Du Bois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Indian newspaper that I provided a link unto yesday -which started this thread (which has now become a rope ) -reported that it Does meet Euro 4 Beepee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter B Du Bois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [UUC] $2700 new car > > Vic Maslanka wrote: > "I'm sure it meets all of the European and US safety and emissions > regulations. I don' t think anyone is throwing away those rules > regardless of the price of gas." > > As I recall from published reports, it meets no standards whatsoever, > other > than the "four black things that roll" standard. > > Peter > > 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: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:02:37 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: UUC Digest <[email protected]> Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In dealing with genetics and DNA, there's an area on one end of a gene or section of a gene that is going to be transcribed into RNA that serves as a marker to begin the transcription. As many may know, all of the body's DNA and RNA is built up out of 5 different molecules, each represented by their first letter. The two in question are thymine and adenine. This marker region is often called the "TATA box", as the actual DNA sequence of the marker consists of the sequence T-A-T-A followed by a few other elements. ;) Brian 95 M3 ----- Original Message ---- From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:59:53 PM Subject: Re: [UUC] $2700 new car --- Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a US dealership so that I can hang out a banner urging people > to > "Check Out Our Bodacious Tatas." > > Neil (someone had to say it) Yeah the company I work for has had a joint venture with TATA for quite some time so that joke is already old around here, they're our off-shore support. I believe Ferrari even off-shored some of their engine work to TATA a couple of years ago (I assume engineering stuff just like we do). Cheers, Carlos. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ 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 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:54:05 -0500 From: "Jason Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian Ruiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Carlos Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "UUC Digest" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yeah, but other boards having been going strong with the TATA jokes for awhile... -Jason '86 951 "Sparky" '70 240Z "Dusty" '03 325xi "Daisy" '06 Mini CooperS "George" > In dealing with genetics and DNA, there's an area on one end of a gene or > section of a gene that is going to be transcribed into RNA that serves as a > marker to begin the transcription. As many may know, all of the body's DNA > and RNA is built up out of 5 different molecules, each represented by their > first letter. The two in question are thymine and adenine. This marker > region is often called the "TATA box", as the actual DNA sequence of the > marker consists of the sequence T-A-T-A followed by a few other elements. ;) > > > Brian > 95 M3 > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 4:59:53 PM > Subject: Re: [UUC] $2700 new car > > > --- Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want a US dealership so that I can hang out a banner urging people > > to > > "Check Out Our Bodacious Tatas." > > > > Neil (someone had to say it) > > Yeah the company I work for has had a joint venture with TATA for quite > some time so that joke is already old around here, they're our > off-shore support. I believe Ferrari even off-shored some of their > engine work to TATA a couple of years ago (I assume engineering stuff > just like we do). > > Cheers, > Carlos. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:38:17 -0500 From: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 1/11/08 1:20 PM, "Bill Proud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friend of mine in India sent this link to the rollout of their new Tata > 'Nano' a NEW car for $2700 I want a US dealership so that I can hang out a banner urging people to "Check Out Our Bodacious Tatas." Neil (someone had to say it) 96 M3 <- OBMWC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:22:06 -0500 From: Mark Alan Selleck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was wondering if I was the only one to pick up on that. Maybe it's a generational thing? :-) Mark Selleck '85 535i, '87 535is, recently replaced by a '97 528i 5spd, 62k :-) Neil Maller wrote: >on 1/11/08 1:20 PM, "Bill Proud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Friend of mine in India sent this link to the rollout of their new Tata >>'Nano' a NEW car for $2700 >> >> > >I want a US dealership so that I can hang out a banner urging people to >"Check Out Our Bodacious Tatas." > >Neil (someone had to say it) >96 M3 <- OBMWC > > >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 Jan 2008 16:59:53 -0800 (PST) From: Carlos Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: $2700 new car Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Neil Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a US dealership so that I can hang out a banner urging people > to > "Check Out Our Bodacious Tatas." > > Neil (someone had to say it) Yeah the company I work for has had a joint venture with TATA for quite some time so that joke is already old around here, they're our off-shore support. I believe Ferrari even off-shored some of their engine work to TATA a couple of years ago (I assume engineering stuff just like we do). Cheers, Carlos. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:48:46 -0800 From: bbarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[uucdigest]" <[email protected]> Subject: <OT> commuter special Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/The-last-Concept-Sky-Commuter-aircraft-in-Existence_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ26428QQihZ012QQitemZ220188946461QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:03:43 -0600 (CST) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E53> interior temp controller Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The temp controller (heat,a/c) in my wife's X5 has been acting up... sometimes completely dark, other times lit but no fan and half the functions do nothing. Just now yanked it from the dash to re-seat the connectors, and now it's lit but no buttons do anyting. It's dead, Jim. Label reads: BMW 64.11 - 6 916 648 HW:65 K:10 SW:63(P) EEI:36 CI:03 Preh 90025-103/0002 SER: - NR:01430355 KW 3/2002 Anybody got any thoughts? Anybody know where I can get a re-man unit? - Kevin Jay '96 328is, red/tan, 104K, usual H&R/Bilstein setup, a few M3 parts too '02 X5 3.0, white/tan, 70K, bone stock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:33:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Kevin Jay (Mr.Fabulous)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: <E36> LR wheel bearing revisited Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Recall a few weeks before the Holidays I took my E36 to a (new to me) local guy here in Tampa to replace my LR wheel bearing... and that dude couldn't get it out and instead recommended I replace everything (trailing arm, half-shaft, hub, etc). I had him put everything back together, gave him $250 for his trouble, and got the h3ll out of there. Drove it for another few weeks... ... until this past Thursday, where I gave Rennen Imports (advise from John Sabatini) a try. I'm told it took two hours of heating & hammering before they gave up and took the whole assembly to their press... which I understand bent significantly before... BAM!... she released. HA! They had to re-thread the end of the shaft, but other than that no worse for wear. A little closer inspection this morning finds, however, they missed re-attaching the exhaust hangers towards the middle (by the cats). Little crap like that bugs me... but at the end of the day, at least they persevered and got the job done. Many thanks to John for the tip! - Kevin Jay '96 328is, red/tan, 104K, usual H&R/Bilstein setup, a few M3 parts too '02 X5 3.0, white/tan, 70K, bone stock ------------------------------ End of [bmwuucdigest] digest(11 messages) **********
