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#1. RE:'94 production cars - from Chip Mitchell
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 07:55:34 -0500 From: "Chip Mitchell" <chipm@arches.uga.edu> Subject: RE:'94 production cars Jeremy, Out of curiosity, why do you suggest that people avoid 1994 cars? I have owned a 5/94 for almost six years with no real maintenance issues at all, other than peeling door panels that I've also seen go bad on much newer cars. By the time these cars came around, E36 production was well into its 3rd year and most of the problems you associate with first year cars had already been sorted out by the time the US M3 entered production (and, for that matter, I've also had a '92 325. Many, many quality issues). Just wonder if I'm missing something in your message, or unaware of significant changes from 94 to 95. Thanks, Chip Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 07:26:47 -0500 From: "Jeremy Lucas" <jlucas@columbus.rr.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] E36 M3/4-door vs E36 M3/2-door... Just open a door on a coupe, and then a four door. The coupe door weighs about 2-3 times the weight of a sedan door. In un-caged form the sedan body is a little stiffer. For me, since my car is not my year round driver I have no need for traction control (i.e. winter), I prefer the ODB I motor since it's easier to modify for more power and maybe just a little sweeter to rev. If you get the sedan, your stuck with ODB II, since ODB I was only available in 95 coupes (no sedans till '97?). Also if you were to get a '95, I'd avoid the early production 1994 build date cars. If it's going to a year round car you may want the traction control that comes with OBD II motors. Jeremy Lucas 95 M3 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Teague" <cteague@cox.net> > and no other options. Other than options, I think they > are about the same weight.
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#2. BMW films on demand - from Jeremy Lucas
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:08:05 -0500 From: "Jeremy Lucas" <jlucas@columbus.rr.com> Subject: BMW films on demand Time Warner Cable iControl Movies On Demand under the "Extras" tab has the lastest BMW films available for free. (in fact all of the extras are free) It's channel 300 in the Columbus, Ohio area. Enjoy, Jeremy Lucas 95 M3
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#3. Re: [E36M3] RE:'94 production cars - from Jeremy Lucas
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 08:18:50 -0500 From: "Jeremy Lucas" <jlucas@columbus.rr.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] RE:'94 production cars Chip, There's no specific problems with the 94 year production that I'm aware of. I'm mostly saying avoid the first 3 or so months of production, not necessarily all 94's. However for 95 year production there were lots of little changes like fuel filter location, door moldings, and seat controls for example; but mostly the recommendation is based on the fact that it's always prudent to avoid the early production of any new car (or in this case new motor - Euro motors mostly different). Trust me when I say that manufacturers work out a lot of issues after cars are already on sale even during minor model change years. Jeremy Lucas 95 M3 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Mitchell" <chipm@arches.uga.edu> To: "E36M3" <e36m3@bmw-m.net> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 8:02 AM Subject: [E36M3] RE:'94 production cars > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 07:55:34 -0500 > From: "Chip Mitchell" <chipm@arches.uga.edu> > Subject: RE:'94 production cars > > Jeremy, > > Out of curiosity, why do you suggest that people avoid 1994 cars? I > have owned a 5/94 for almost six years with no real maintenance issues > at all, other than peeling door panels that I've also seen go bad on > much newer cars. > > By the time these cars came around, E36 production was well into its 3rd > year and most of the problems you associate with first year cars had > already been sorted out by the time the US M3 entered production (and, > for that matter, I've also had a '92 325. Many, many quality issues). > > Just wonder if I'm missing something in your message, or unaware of > significant changes from 94 to 95. >
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#4. RE: [E36M3] AST light staying on - from Bob Lenarcik
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 07:30:55 -0800 From: Bob Lenarcik <lenarcik@pacbell.net> Subject: RE: [E36M3] AST light staying on Martin, Thanks for the response. Two follow up questions: where are the sensors and would that really cause both the ASC+T and ABS lights to come on and stay on, but not 100% of the time? - Bob -----Original Message----- From: Carguymb@aol.com [mailto:Carguymb@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 10:47 AM To: e36m3@bmw-m.net; lenarcik@pacbell.net Subject: Re: [E36M3] AST light staying on Bob, I'd start by checking the sensors are clean and don't have any loose wires, and that the teeth on the sensing rings are clean, and free of accumulated crud. Martin Bullen '95 M3 '97 Z3 2.8
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#5. Regarding M3 speedo failure: - from TFRM3@aol.com
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 12:40:06 EST From: TFRM3@aol.com Subject: Regarding M3 speedo failure: Seasons Greetings etc. The e36, and many BMWs have a magnetic pickup on the differential ring gear to indicate speed. If the wear and tear in the diff ring and pinion and/or bearings is excessive, the metal particles will stick to the pickup magnet and cause it to blank out. The metal particles get wiped away and it works again. If there is enough metal floating around to cause this to happen, there is also enough metal to cause (or be a symptom of) bearing failure. I recommend changing the Diff lube immediately, as I have seen this be a precursor of imminent failure! Jay Morris (ps this usually happens after a gearset or pinion seal change where the pinion bearing has been incorrectly preloaded, but can happen just from normal wear and tear without changing the diff lube)
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#6. Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... - from alex.fadeev@verizon.com
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:48:36 -0600 From: alex.fadeev@verizon.com Subject: Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... Bruce, This is a new-to-you car, right? If so, my money is on your car had been sharked by the PO. If an aftermarket chip is the only upgrade, you still have a pretty strong engine. alex f "Bruce" <gobuffs93@attbi.com> wrote: > > Yes I know comparing dyno runs from different dynos to be a futile > experience...so...let's not go there. > > Best result...remember this is a bone stock, 60k mile 95...HP 223.4 > ...torque 210.4. > > Mind you I am totally happy with these numbers (too bad the car is > just a daily driver), but does anybody want to hazard a guess as to > why it outside the normal 95 HP values of 195-210? > > Thanks, > Bruce
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#7. Re: [E36M3] Unusual Stalling Problem - Please Help - from alex.fadeev@verizon.com
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:06:03 -0600 From: alex.fadeev@verizon.com Subject: Re: [E36M3] Unusual Stalling Problem - Please Help -- Alexander Fadeev 972-507-4761 (work) 972-507-1270 (fax) Nick <nbartelt@comcast.net> 12/21/2002 05:23 PM Please respond to Nick To: E36M3 <e36m3@bmw-m.net> cc: Subject: Re: [E36M3] Unusual Stalling Problem - Please Help Nick <nbartelt@comcast.net> wrote: > > My 1995 M3 (9/95 build) has been experiencing a intermittent problem. > While driving, (no specific gear, RPM, or throttle position) the power > will go away (similar to exceeding redline), the rpms will stay up, but > the car is coasting in gear. A blip of the throttle will sometime > return normal control, sometimes not. If not, the car will slow and > stall. 50% of the time I can restart the car and drive normally. > The other 50% the car will start, idle around 600, then as soon as I > touch the gas, it will stall. I can attempt restarting and it will > stall again as soon as the throttle is applied. After waiting 10 - > 30 minutes, the car will usually start and run fine for 20 -30 > minutes before the whole thing repeats. Nick, Two possibilities come to mind. Neither one is cheap. 1. One or more of your OE coils is heading south. I had that happen on my 8/94 product M3 this summer. The tech would start jumping around, the car would loose power and sometimes stall and other times recover. Than it would mostly stall. Finally it would stall as soon as the engine would come to operating temp and the car was towed home. I never did figure how many of the original Beru coils were bad. All of them would check out when cold. I borrowed a known good DME from one friend (I have a pre-EWS car ;-), known good coils from another and HFM from the third and started swapping parts in an out. The old coils were the culprit. $300 and new set of Bosch (get Bosch!) coils later the car was back on the road. 2. My old E30 had the same symptoms and they were traced to a bad DME. > Inital suspicion was the throttle position switch, I replaced it with > a new switch and the problem was unchanged. > > Mods: TMS Chip, Euro HFM, 24lb injectors. Start by trying to read fault codes from your DME. If they say coils, you are in luck. If they say something else or you can't get the codes out, you may either have bad coils or a bad DME. My DME was 'buzzed' by the old coils and would not even spew out the fault codes. I started shopping around for a new one. Two days later and still without a single compatible used DME anywhere in the country, I dropped the old one in and it worked. Then try swapping in the old stock HFM (the car will run fine) to rule that one out. They rarely ever fail, but it's worth a try. When that doesn't help, start looking for a friend who will let you borrow his coils. You can't swap the DMEs that easily since you have EWS. Hope this helps, alex f
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#8. Tones/Chimes - from carl sewell
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:25:54 -0500 From: "carl sewell" <jzy308@adelphia.net> Subject: Tones/Chimes Hi Group, and Happy New Year! Drove my E36 M3/4 (w39,000 miles) from Charlottesville to Williamsburg and back today, and on four separate occasions heard a “new” chimes/tone sound: beep beep beep. Speed was close to 80 first two times and about 65 the last two. In each case, the beeps closely resembled a std ‘phone busy signal and there was no warning on the OBC. Everything looked ok. I am anal enough to “know” how my car operates but this is new to me. Can any body help? Carl Sewell Charlottesville VA e36 M3/4 CCA 151298
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#9. Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... - from Bruce
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:19:23 -0600 From: "Bruce" <gobuffs93@attbi.com> Subject: Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... > Bruce, > This is a new-to-you car, right? > If so, my money is on your car had been sharked by the PO. > If an aftermarket chip is the only upgrade, you still have a pretty strong > engine. Yes you are correct this car is new to me. You are incorrect that it has been sharked. I asked the P.O. AND I opened up the DME. Even though I could tell before I opened up the DME that it had never been opened, it still had the stock chip. I will get the data files Saturday (if they are open) to get the nitty gritty details of the run. Another possibility could be the dyno isn't calibrated, but the numbers of other runs (namely on my E30 M3 as well as Mark Williams, not to mention the other E36 M3 we ran on the dyno in August) indicate it seems to be fairly accurate. Bruce
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#10. Re: M3 Speedometer Intermittent Failure - from Rob Verenna
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:02:29 -0500 From: Rob Verenna <rob@willraceforbeer.com> Subject: Re: M3 Speedometer Intermittent Failure Shane said: > 1. Has anybody else encountered this problem? If so, how did you fix it? I had a problem speedo in my '95 (11/95 prod. date) about 2 years ago as well. It, along with the odometer, fuel mileage gauge, and all speed/distance related functions on the OBC would just stop working. Sometimes it came back right away, other times it took longer, or several on/off cycles, to start working again. Dealer had it several times to fix it, kept coming back after sensor and other misc. bits were replaced. It finally up and died and would NOT come back to life, so I got a new cluster from BMW. The dealer ended up paying for 1/2 the repair since the car was not under warranty and I had not bought it from them. (looking back I would've fought for a free repair, but they were treating me pretty good back then so I went with it) The cluster did come from Germany as I wanted the mileage programmed in to be correct - and since there was a huge wait as with anything from BMW, I racked up a couple hundred unrecorded miles on the car. As the indicated mileage is about to hit 100k, I don't think that few hundred will make a difference if/when I go to sell it. Hope yours isn't as bad as mine was! - rob '95 M3 '94 325i ITS/KP (or is it JP this year?)
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#11. Racelogic Info - from Jeremy Lucas
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:04:33 -0500 From: "Jeremy Lucas" <jlucas@columbus.rr.com> Subject: Racelogic Info Here's some info that I gathered from Matrix Engineering. They also emailed me a 4 page FAQ, so email me off list or Matrix if you want it. Jeremy Lucas 95 M3 _____________________ Here is the pricing; Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ ABS; (Max 12cyl) 995 Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ (Wheel Speed)WSS; (Max 12cyl) 995 Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ Launch Control & ABS; (6cyl) 1150 Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ Launch Control & WSS; (6cyl) 1150 Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ Launch Control & ABS; (8cyl) 1300 Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ Launch Control & WSS; (8cyl) 1300 Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ LC, Data Logging & ABS; (8cyl) 1595 Racelogic Adjustable TC w/ LC, Data Logging & WSS; (8cyl) 1595 Full Throttle Shift 175 Installation of the main unit takes about 8 hours and the cockpit adjuster takes about 1 hour. All Racelogic systems are somewhat generic so the installation does involve splicing. Of course we solder all the wiring together for the best contact and cover it with shrink wrap for a factory look. PS-I have attached our Racelogic FAQ sheet. As always, let me know if you have any questions. Best regards, Jeremy Williams Matrix Engineering 4060 SW Macadam Ave. Portland, OR 97239 503.443.1141 Tech 503.443.1142 Fax 888.249.0013 Orders jeremy@matrixengineering.cc www.matrixengineering.cc
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#12. Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... - from Michael
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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 19:05:42 -0500 From: "Michael" <95m3ltw@charter.net> Subject: Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... Have you looked at the head really, really good? beyond the possibility that you got lucky with your stock motor, I have heard of people buying used M3s that had a set of cams already installed or head work done. Probalby not likely with a stock chip, but I have heard of atleast 1 that had cams installed, no clue by the seller(2nd owner) and that owner also had replaced the computer due to a bad coil. Sometimes cars have very strange historys. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce" <gobuffs93@attbi.com> To: "E36M3" <e36m3@bmw-m.net> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:19:23 -0600 > From: "Bruce" <gobuffs93@attbi.com> > Subject: Re: [E36M3] 95 M3 dyno results... > > > Bruce, > > This is a new-to-you car, right? > > If so, my money is on your car had been sharked by the PO. > > If an aftermarket chip is the only upgrade, you still have a pretty strong > > engine. > > Yes you are correct this car is new to me. You are incorrect that it has > been sharked. I asked the P.O. AND I opened up the DME. Even though I > could tell before I opened up the DME that it had never been opened, it > still had the stock chip. > > I will get the data files Saturday (if they are open) to get the nitty > gritty details of the run. Another possibility could be the dyno isn't > calibrated, but the numbers of other runs (namely on my E30 M3 as well as > Mark Williams, not to mention the other E36 M3 we ran on the dyno in August) > indicate it seems to be fairly accurate. > > Bruce > > > > > > ************************************************************* > 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 to the email address e36m3@bmw-m.net. > ************************************************************* > >