Birds, Uxbridge

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Posted: 13-December-2005 at 03:34

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Yes Car Credit don't like high milers when they get
Repo'd.

Technical Director? Does that mean you know which
end of the broom to use? [/QUOTE]

This remark deserves a 'Kenny's 6k Massive' - "paid for"

'01 M5
'02 MB C220 Turbosmoker
'99 323i (sold )
'89 M3 220hp with shrick 284's
'73 2002 cab

it's an Illness ......

Drew540i

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Posted: 12-December-2005 at 16:11

I thought Belgium was the European capital of kiddy
fiddling?

Maybe it's the launch of Phillippe D'Crouche Auto
Tuning.

www.bodgeitandscarper.be

I'm sure he'll bring back a box of chocs, plus a 6
Series with newly fitted brake pipes. Not.

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Posted: 11-December-2005 at 07:58

Phil can't reply as he is in belgium ,being the thrusting director type that he is!. Obviously he will bring John back some Krispy creme doughnuts,i wonder what i will get ?

Profit is more reasonable than justice.

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Posted: 10-December-2005 at 12:29

Quality!!!

Thorney

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Posted: 09-December-2005 at 19:13

Technical Director? Does that mean you know which
end of the broom to use?

Yes....but he's now allowed to use it without supervision

Edited by Thorney

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Posted: 09-December-2005 at 07:17

286bhp wrote:

I have to drive something to keep
the miles down on the M5

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Yes Car Credit don't like high milers when they get
Repo'd.

Technical Director? Does that mean you know which
end of the broom to use?

rr_ww

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Posted: 07-December-2005 at 14:37

Well they carried out the work. So here's my review.

Gearbox Selector Seal.

Happy enough with the seal for now, they said the casing is damaged, (and of course unavailiable) so they've tried to smooth it off a little and fit a new seal. A kind of "hope for the best fix" They kept me updated on this, so thats OK. Basically, a while back the seal started to pass out fluid and Munichs "apparently" replaced it and refilled the gearbox. Around the time it was leaking it became hard to get into 1st gear (see new thread above) ans after they'd fixed it. It was fine again, going into 1st perfectly. It then started to baulk into 1st and examination showed the seal to be leaking again. Despite Birds renewing this seal and it now NOT leaking, its still baulikng into 1st. Not Birds fault really, but it doesn mean I will have to re-visit Munichs in the near future.

Regarding the linkage they replaced the parts numbers:
7,10,13,14,15,18

There's still some side to side movement in the shifter, its much better than it used to be, but once again got the "they all do that" We checked another E30 that was sitting around (red car) and that had the slightly more play, but I was told that still had the original shifter and not the 1.9 Z3 item like mine does. They didnt actually tell me, how old that linkage was. So my guess is NOT brand new, so its hardly a fair comparison!

I wish they had changed 1,4 and 12. I didn't find out till afterwards that they didn't. (Though I guess that partly my fault for just saying "elimate all the free play in the gear selector linkage" and not specifying which parts I think should of been changed! I would of happily paid for them, but they said "we don't normally bother" Which is fine if there was NO play at all left, but there is, and Im irritated.

I would of done it myself, but it's a propshaft down job and I didn't fancy spending 6 hours on my back in the cold under my car on axle stands.

Hindsight eh?

Edited by rr_ww

Rich.

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Posted: 06-December-2005 at 02:33

At least my Jap engined Luton chariot runs on all 4 unlike your White Stuttgart Battleship which only runs on 4 1/2 eh ?????

I have to drive something to keep the miles down on the M5

'01 M5
'02 MB C220 Turbosmoker
'99 323i (sold )
'89 M3 220hp with shrick 284's
'73 2002 cab

it's an Illness ......

Hiabboy

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Posted: 05-December-2005 at 14:42

Ah nirvana ! a BMW and Vauxhall tuner under the one roof

I tried ringing Phil to explore what tuning options CPC/ TMS offer for my '94 cavalier 1.7 td (isuzu naughty lump) but alas no answer on either of his numbers !

Profit is more reasonable than justice.

Rags

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Posted: 05-December-2005 at 08:49

ah mr crouch I see

rr_ww

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Posted: 02-December-2005 at 14:00

Well the cars going in next week to have some work carried out via Birds.

If its good, I shall say. If it's not. You'll hear about it too.

Rich.

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Posted: 02-December-2005 at 13:14

kevin wrote:

Reading the performance mods for the E30 they claim to be able to be able to reprogram the ECU using the OBD port. I didn't know we had one of those? Probably a typo.

Sod it...I knew I missed something. Ta, it will be changed.

Yep, Birds went under and Kevin has re-started it as Kevin Bird Garages, same place and broadly same people. We (Thorney Motorsport) share the same premises where we tune Vauxhalls and more importantly hatch plans for BWM tuning in the UK. BMW is a sector we've been working on for almost 3 years now and to bolster this process we asked Phil of CPC to join us as Technical Director - Phil heads up the development on all our new BMW tuning. Why Phil? Simple we couldn't find anyone else who knew more about BMW's - just what we needed.

Some people may have noticed the TMS banner on the home page here - well we're now supporting the BMW CC as technical support for all the Better Driving Days - ie full mechanical support for all members all for FREE.

Of course we want you to come to us for tuning and servicing but by supporting you you get to see what we're like and how we do things which we obviously think is the best. We run our own M5 and M3 CSL as development cars and run 4 cars in the Milltek SPort BMW Challenge E30 BMW race series.

I've been keeping quiet for the last few weeks whilst we finalise plans for the BMW tuning (some of which has been 3 years in development) and some offers for members. For example we will soon be announcing a discounted rate for all BMW CC members.

Anyhoo, enough of this, this thread was about Birds and yes they still exist but are entirely separate from Phil and TMS.

rr_ww

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Posted: 02-December-2005 at 10:41

breeze wrote:

Just realised that this post has not asked for feedback and I've just made a totally random rant.

Rant over, I'll get my coat...

Feedback is always useful. Especially for the newer users of this site.

Rich.

286bhp