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QuoteMichiel 318iS
22 and 36 years?!?! RESPECT! Don't know who's achievement that is, yours or your wife's...
We're at 2.5 years of being in a relationship (I'm not intending to marry) and that already seems a long time to me ;-) (and I'm not complaining).
A marriage is generally maintained through a mutual ritual of give and take and turning the other cheek.
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QuoteArcheo-peteriX
I would just like to apologize if anything I said on the recent 'Yes We Can' thread; caused anyone hurt or discomfort. It was not my intention.
I am bigger than that and should really be more even keeled in my responses as are Ferd, Cab and wodcutr.
Even keeled...That is not part of my vocabulary bro! I think I am always offending someone with my posts. Anothe
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Thanks Bob, that was well put and an excellent explanation. I am definitely having my tire rebalanced. I might even need to check out my rim too. I hate anything to be wrong with my car and this has been bugging me so I am going to fix it for sure!
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Andrew - I hope you have not been offended by my posts. I just assumed it would be fairly difficult for you to get much help from the people that frequent this forum on any E36 issue as we are not familiar with those cars. That being said I actually like the looks of the E36 body better than the E30 except from the front. I have never driven an E36, but from what I understand they are clumsy f
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QuoteFerdinand
Quotewodcutrfamous quote from the LA riots not so long ago..."Why can't we all just get along?"
Also, the new logo on LA police cars: "We treat you like a King."
I for one am glad to not live any where near LA for that very reason, although Californians do take very good care of there BMW's!
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My vote is to not discuss politics or religion on this forum. Sooner or later someone always gets butt hurt and feels bad. What is the old saying..."a person convinced against his will is of the same opinion still!" The thing that brings us all together here is our love for a German made car. Another famous quote from the LA riots not so long ago..."Why can't we all just g
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Quotedaniel
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...its a 95 325iS with 185,000km
I did not know that you could get an E30 in 1995. I thought the latest they made the E30 325is was in 1990 and in 91 you could get an i coupe with sport options, but it would not be labeled as an "is". I also thought that 92 and 93 were the last years for the convertible in the E30 body...so if you have a 95 E30 325is I wou
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...its a 95 325iS with 185,000km
I did not know that you could get an E30 in 1995. I thought the latest they made the E30 325is was in 1990 and in 91 you could get an i coupe with sport options, but it would not be labeled as an "is". I also thought that 92 and 93 were the last years for the convertible in the E30 body...so if you have a 95 E30 325is I would repair all the rust an
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Question #1:
When we replaced the head (with a used/reconditioned head ) we found the threads on the #6 plug to be damaged. We bought and re-threaded the hole with the spark plug tool and everything was good. Now I'm wondering if the damage/rethreading has created a less than ideal fit with the plug and am I prone to having the plug loosen up again? Is there anything I can use to
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If you want some good reading about our constitution and how the founding fathers arrived at all the specifics of our government and why it was set up the way it was you need to check out "The five thousand year leap" by W. Cleon Skousen. It just might shed some light on the issues that you all are discussing. I am enjoying the posts and the discussion!
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QuoteBob in Everett
The 65 mph is exactly the resonance of the suspension. Mine does that when I have a bent wheel on the front. Had it straightened and problem solved. So, it sounds like tire out of balance or bent rim.
Bob in "Everett
What exactly is suspension resonance and how do you know that 65 mph is what it is?
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Question - I have two 18g 10,000rpm hard drives in my system. The one HD is rarely used and is almost completely empty as it is only a backup for my personal stuff. Could I load Linux onto that HD and have two OS for my system? I guess the hard part would be booting from the D HD instead of the C. I certainly don't want to complicate things too much, but that way I could reformat the HD
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John - I hear what you are saying, but I think there is a huge difference between individual rights and the rights of individuals. Maybe you should familiarize yourself with a Clint Eastwood movie called Dirty Harry. In it Callahan torments and to some degree tortures a suspect to make him tell where a little girl is that is already dead. Because the suspects rights were violated he was not ev
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Do you have a system that you run Linux on? Why don't more people use this system? I wouldn't mind helping to cause a few more layoffs at Microsoft! Do you still have to worry about your registry getting corrupted and spy ware and viruses? What about firewalls and security...I hate hackers? I am willing to try, but do not want to be vulnerable.
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The old and new BENN forums have been the only ones that I have felt comfortable enough to register with. Sorry I can't help spread the word.
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Cab that was a great answer and I can not agree with you more. I just don't see how the president can fix an unfixable thing. Health care, the economy, you name it, the president is powerless to fix anything unless he is willing to cause pain to every American. I just don't see any politician capable of doing that these days. When our country was founded those men, the founding fath
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Why would you want to reload XP when we have so many people telling us that Linux is the way to go? I am about ready to blow my hard drive and do it myself. Maybe I don't need a new system after all!
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Quoterkj
The centering of the shaft of the control arm looks a little sloppy but that is probably just the angle of the picture, These bushings do have a certain way they are supposed to be set in there. They look very intact. When they're loose you can really feel it in the steering and brakes. Maybe your ball joints need attention? or other parts up front??? They don't look twisted as
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I'm not calling anyone anything other than the fact that I was clueless and now I'm not. No simpletons around here that I can see. I knew that if I asked a stupid question I would eventually get a stupid reply. Does that mean that y'all are stupid? Not in the least...just that we all have a sense of humor and enjoy pointing out another's folly. Oh well, I don't think
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I was just thinking that the old forum must have had quite a few registered users. Does anybody know how many, and what will happen to all the old content of that site? I also was curious as to how many registered users are on this forum to date...have we reached 100 yet?
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QuoteArcheo-peteriX
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I mostly use quicken and quickbooks for my business and word and excel for my contracts and spreadsheet data. Would I still be able to use these programs as I have a lot of info saved over the years and would be lost without those files.
Open Office will give you full Microsoft Office capabilities and compatibility.
A quick search found that both Quicken and
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Makes sense now...it seems so simple yet I couldn't figure it out. I guess my mind is too complex for the simple stuff! Thanks for the info.
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OK, I think I'm an idiot for not being able to figure this out, but I need help. I can not for the life of me figure out what bump means in a for sale add and also tt or ttt. I am not much of a texter on the cell phone as I prefer to just dial a number and speak. Anyway, I usually can figure out most things if put in context but these two are driving me nuts. I guess I am just not hip en
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I mostly use quicken and quickbooks for my business and word and excel for my contracts and spreadsheet data. Would I still be able to use these programs as I have a lot of info saved over the years and would be lost without those files.
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Here are pictures of my control arm bushings I could not get the camera to focus that well on the bushing itself but hopefully you can see what you need to. The bushings only have 20k miles on them and were changed 3.5 years ago. As far as dirt and snow on the inside of the rims I can not imagine that this is the case as I never drive the car in the snow and the roads are always dry. This car
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Yes you are right I am using IE. My system is old and I am not up to speed on the latest software. I think I am running a 333 chip with as much memory the mother board can have. I need a newer computer and was looking into purchasing it when I ran into my health issues...needless to say the doctors have gotten all of my excess funds. My brother in law was looking at b
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Could it cause the wheel to feel out of balance at certain speeds? I get that kind of a feel from my right front tire usually around 65 mph and then it goes away once you hit 70. The other day I was flying down the freeway and hit 105 mph and got a more pronounced similar feel. Needless to say I slowed down! My theory is that if the bushing was not pre loaded when installed then it would act
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The Bentley manual says that a "warped" rotor is mainly caused by not having all the lug nuts torqued to the same amount of pressure. My experience is that the rotor really isn't the problem it is the caliper guide pins and piston. They have grease inside a rubber boot that tends to allow contaminants to compromise the functionality of the calipers themselves. What happens is th
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Yes you are right I am using IE. My system is old and I am not up to speed on the latest software. I think I am running a 333 chip with as much memory the mother board can have. I need a newer computer and was looking into purchasing it when I ran into my health issues...needless to say the doctors have gotten all of my excess funds. My brother in law was looking at building me a new system a
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Dave must be a real stand-up guy to take on the development of the new forum. I hope his E30 runs as good as this does The spell checker is very handy too and I appreciate the fast implementation of my suggestion. I do miss feeling like I'm in a whore house though! That was one place the Mrs didn't mind me poking around
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