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#1. Re: [E36M3] Helmet suggestions? - from Chris Casey
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:21:11 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Casey <ccasey1@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Helmet suggestions? I have to disagree with Sean's statement that a car helmet would be safe for motorcycle riding. One of the notable differences between the two types is the size of the helmet - the motorcycle helmets run down a little below your jaw, and car helmets (those that I've seen) extend somewhat lower. It's hard enough to turn your head to turn your head to look around with a motorcycle helmet, and I can only imagine it would be harder with a bigger helmet. I also recommend Arai helmets for motorcycling - they fit my head like a glove, and, like Rich, I had the unfortunate opportunity to test them out. They work! You can buy a plain white Arai Quantum/e for ~$320 or so. At that price, buy one for each application. It's your head! -Chris > From: "Sean Hester" <seanh_race@hotmail.com> < snip > > so... to "as safe as possible" it would be better > to have one for each use. > second choice would be to buy one of the car ones > (for the fire > protection) and double it for motorcycle use. last > choice is to use a > motorcycle helmet for car racing. (some > organizations won't even allow > this, but most do) > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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#2. Re: [E36M3] Fuel Economy - from Neil Maller
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:52:34 -0500 From: Neil Maller <neil.maller@gte.net> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Fuel Economy on 2/20/01 2:23 PM, Carey Probst <hcprobst@yahoo.com> wrote: > I was averaging 25-26 overall until I sharked the M3. Now I'm down > to 23-24 but with much better performance. The problem is that lead weight for your right foot that comes with the Conforti program. Neil 96 M3
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#3. RE: [E36M3] Insurance for Driving Schools - from Mount, Mike
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:53:55 -0800 From: "Mount, Mike" <JMMn@pge.com> Subject: RE: [E36M3] Insurance for Driving Schools Sean, I think you may want to consider this information regarding coverage... If your agent tells you that you are covered; you are (in California anyway) covered. There is no 'out.' As for your knowledge of the person whose claim was not paid, I would consider the facts of that carefully. Insurance agents are agents for the company.... not for you. If they can avoid paying a claim, you can bet that is what they will do. It is about money, and they will use any and every loophole to avoid giving you $40k for your M3 that you put into a wall at Laguna Seca's turn 9. That too is one reason why the BMW CCA is so adamant about not allowing anything that remotely resembles racing (lap timing, places, etc). My ex- is an attorney who specializes in insurance cases, and her opinion is that an agents statement is a legally binding agreement between you and the company he/she represents. They are acting as the agent for the company, that is why they are licensed by the state agencies. If I were being jacked around by my insurance company, I would call my agent and tell them to deal with my attorney. (and I would find the biggest, baddest s.o.b. in the area) My .02 cents worth. Mike '95 M3 drive it like you just stole it! >>> the stuff on the bottom not snipped for reference << -----Original Message----- From: Sean Hester [mailto:seanh_race@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 3:14 PM To: E36M3 Subject: Re: [E36M3] Insurance for Driving Schools Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 15:12:20 -0800 From: "Sean Hester" <seanh_race@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Insurance for Driving Schools >I have State Farm, and here in Texas we're covered at a driving school. i have state farm and my agent told me i wasn't covered. i think the real answer is that agents have no idea. they don't decide claims, adjusters do. and adjusters don't have 100% fixed, set in stone, guidelines either. if you have an accident at a driver school weather they give you any money will depend on who your claims adjuster is, what mood he's in that day, how much foot stomping you do and a whole bunch of other things. even if you "take them to court" these kinds of cases are often decided by a jury or a judge. and if my mom sits on that jury she's gonna vote "don't pay him if he crashed at a race track". while i'd vote the other way. same story with judges. some will side with you, some against. three years ago, when i made it a goal to get someone at state farm to give me a difinitive answer as to weather i was covered at a driver school or not (by calling just about every person in the state farm organization including managers, regional managers, and national managers) the final answer i got was. it depends. i'd say i got about 20 "yes you are covered"s. about 21 "no you're not covered"s and about 10 "i have no idea"s. i know one state farm person that did get covered for a driver school accident and one that did NOT. so... i think you're taking your chances. even if your agent told you you were covered, you're taking your chances. even if you know someone that was covered in the past, you're taking your chances. even if you're 100% sure your covered, you're taking your chances. and... as time goes on, and these claims become more common, i think you're chances of being covered are going DOWN. some states have already given driver schools the definate NO. and that number will only grow as time goes on. and what do you think your insurance company will think of you even if they DO pay a race track claim. you think they're gonna want you as a customer any more? i'd pretty much prepare to get dropped and have my rates double or triple if i was lucky enough to get state farm to pay for the car i totalled at a race track. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ************************************************************* List Commands UNSUBSCRIBE - (in subject line) unsubscribes you from the mailing list. DIR - sends a listing of files available in the list's GET directory. GET filename1.ext,filename2.ext - sends the requested file(s). To issue a command/request to the server: Send a message with the command you wish executed as the subject of the message. *************************************************************
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#4. RE: [E36M3] Help Needed!!! - from Roman
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:55:30 -0800 From: Roman <roman@arteuro.com> Subject: RE: [E36M3] Help Needed!!! Hi All, Thanks to all of you who replied about my battery issue over the weekend. I went to a local BMW dealership who sold me a battery for $109 with my CCA discount. I mounted the battery, and fired her up. VROOM.... reactor at 100% captain!!! Thanks again, guys!!! Roman S. 96 ///M3
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#5. RE: [E36M3] More A032R questions - from Jim Bassett
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:05:43 -0800 From: Jim Bassett <JBassett@mayannetworks.com> Subject: RE: [E36M3] More A032R questions > Also, it seems as though a lot of the R-compound tires are > designed to work > best with certain amounts of neg. camber, etc. Anyone know > how the Yoko > A032Rs or Toyo RA-1s would compare (i.e. which is better?) > for someone (i.e. > Me) running apx. -1.7° up front and apx. -1.4° in the rear? The RA-1s don't need a particular amount of camber, ala the old G-Forces. I run my RA-1s with -2.5 degrees in front and -1.7 in the rear. Just keep an eye on the wear, and rotate F<->R when necessary. Hope that helps, Jim Bassett 1998 M3/4
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#6. Re: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. - from Chester Wong
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:19:43 -0800 (PST) From: Chester Wong <chester_p_wong@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. As one data point, while I drove with two other M3s down to Ofest last year, all three of us consumed the same amount of fuel. When we pulled into a gas station, the pump stopped on the exact same gallon (well, Stephen probably needed $.50 more since he drives like a maniac). Perhaps our OBC are being a bit optimistic, but I easily saw 29 mpg. Jim E. experimented by not running his AC compressor and he saw 31mpg (we were bored and talking via 2 way radios). I then shut my AC off (tough to do in the Southern area) and saw my fuel economy improve as well. I guess it also depends on if you guys drive with the windows down, sun roof open or even tilted up. Chester --- Mark Radelow <radelow@hotmail.com> wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:24:43 -0000 > From: "Mark Radelow" <radelow@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. > > Well you must be special....Or there are huge variances in fuel economy > between OBDI and OBDII. ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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#7. RE: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. - from Jim Bassett
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:22:50 -0800 From: Jim Bassett <JBassett@mayannetworks.com> Subject: RE: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. Or he doesn't go to the track - 2+ years of ~9mpg for ~200 miles nearly every other weekend will lower your overall MPG :-) Cheers, Jim Bassett 1998 M3/4 - 19.1mpg over the last year-and-a-half > Well you must be special....Or there are huge variances in > fuel economy > between OBDI and OBDII. > > Mark > > > From: lee.leslie@firstunion.com > Reply-To: lee.leslie@firstunion.com > To: E36M3 <e36m3@bmw-m.net> > Subject: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:13:30 -0600 > > Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:05:46 -0500 > From: lee.leslie@firstunion.com > Subject: Fuel Economy.. > > I don't get the variances here.. > > Last week I AVERAGED 88mph over the 525 mile stent to the rolex and > averaged 28.4 mpg.. On trips where I drive normal speeds > 75-85 I have seen > 30mpg several times.. > > I get it over 100+ on almost a daily basis & over the life of > the car I > have an overall average of 23.4 MPG.. > > Lee > 97' M3/4 37K
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#8. Re[2]: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. - from Andrej Dolenc
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:29:15 -0600 From: Andrej Dolenc <adolenc@erols.com> Subject: Re[2]: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. Chester Wong writes: > I guess it also depends on if you guys drive with the windows down, sun roof > open or even tilted up. I've read at least once that driving with windows open uses more gas than with windows closed and the AC on. Haven't experimented with it since I like driving with windows open, no AC. Andrej '97 M3
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#9. Re:Car shipment cross-country - from Carguymb@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:16:07 EST From: Carguymb@aol.com Subject: Re:Car shipment cross-country Steve, Can't give you the website anymore (sorry), but I found a site (just doing a search on something like "car shipping companies") about a year ago that had links to mulitple car shipping companies. I shipped my wife's car from Walnut Creek to Philly for around $750. There was a broad range in cost, from $750 up to about $1,500, as I recall. It varies according to open or enclosed transportation, of course, but also large differences just company-to-company. Martin Bullen '95 M3 (bought in PA) '97 Z3 2.8 (drove it across country. See the website at <http://members.aol.com/pwterry>) '95 Volvo 855 GTAs (shipped that sucker) In a message dated 2/20/01 2:26:07 PM, e36m3@bmw-m.net writes: >Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:49:51 -0800 >From: Steve Sharp <steve.sharp@xilinx.com> >Subject: Car shipment cross-country > >I've got to ship a car from San Jose to Pennsilvania (not my M3, but >that's another story). >Does anyone know of companies that do car transport at reasonable >prices? > >Thanks, >Steve Sharp >'97 M3/2 >'01 330i sport/premium package (wife's car)
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#10. Re: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. - from Carey Probst
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:18:48 -0800 (PST) From: Carey Probst <hcprobst@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] Fuel Economy.. If y'all go to the JC Whitney web site you can buy the latest electrostatic, magetic fuel atomizer developed at Area 51 and hidden from the public for the last 50 years. Install by velcroing near the intake manifold and you should start getting well over 100 mpg and significantly increase horsepower and torque. ;-) ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/