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Damn, I can't make this one. I'll be in the UP that day.

Saw this nice new M4 on my way to work a couple of days ago on I43 north.

Saw a slammed black or really dark blue e39 wagon towing a couple of jet skis by the art museum at about 2pm today. Really sexy car and looked like possibly had a cf hood. Anyone on here.

Anyone see this? I want it really bad, but need something newer.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1995-BMW-525iT-Wagon-S50-Engine-Manual-Trans-M5-Body-Brembo-VERY-RARE-NO-RES-/281054328487?_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2648&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&forcev4exp=true#v4-41

Forgot to update, but its finished. It was a real pain especially with the wiring but marking the pigtails helped a lot. Once the manifold was out of the way, getting the starter out was simple. I bench tested it and it tested ok but drew less amps than expected and sounded weak. I'm assuming moving the thing around shook it off the bad spot or something. The new started fixed the problem though so I'm not worried about it. After putting the manifold back on and together the engine did take forever to catch for some reason. I understand the fuel pressure takes time to build up, but I have never had to try so long and so many times. I was worried that I might have not connected some sensor, but after some starting fluid, it barely coughed to life, and eventually ran fine. It does have a check engine light on now, so something did not go back together correctly, but that's for another day since the car does run great.

Not really, the dumb power block or whatever its called that's in the lower part and has a bunch of hoses and plugs going into it is pissing me off. Mainly time constraint though, but I should be able to tackle it tomorrow.

Thats what I'm in the process of doing. Gotta love old, brittle hoses on a 17 year old car with 220k. This is turning out to be the hardest starter change I have ever done.

New development, looks to be the starter. Decided to take it out of the equation just to be safe before deleting the ews, and it wound up having power to the S terminal when attempting to start. I don't think this is good news though, just cause its a pickle to replace apparently.

I am, here is my account.

http://www.fuelly.com/driver/eurrofreak/318i

Hmm, another possibility that will cost money and time, great. Thank you

Ignition switch is a possibility I suppose but it doesn't seem to be a common problem for these cars judging from what I have found. I do have the spinning tumbler problem that is very common for e36, but as I have found out should not hamper starting yet. And like I said there is no crank, so no fuel problems.

There isn't even the fuel pump kicking in, its definitely a problem where the immobilizer is acting up, but I just don't know If I should start with the module or the tumble. I'm leaning toward the the EWS now after reading more about these problems, it just sucks that the car is stuck downtown.

My car seems to have a common issue but I'm still not sure what to do first. It's a late build '95 318i, so probably ewsII, haven't checked yet. The tumbler was doing the common spinning every once in a while, but no other problems, caught ususally after spinning a few times.

In the last month it did this to me twice where the key would turn into the start position, everything lights up like it should, but no crank or any noise at all. After a few minutes it started normal like nothing happened. It did this last night too after I got out of work, seems to happen when the car is cold too.

Another possibly related thing is the last couple of days it has been around 20's finally and the car wouldn't start right away, I would have to hold the key in the start a few seconds before the starter cranks. So probably part of the same issue.

The question I have is this possibly the EWS problem or the tumbler problem, or I might have both maybe?

Al's in Franklin is a pick and pull, they sometimes have a bmw or two. I haven't been there in a while though. There is also a big one in Waukeegan I have heard about. Also http://www.car-part.com/ is a good site for checking where cars are.

There is a pretty cool place I know of in Shorewood, the entrance to Hubbard Park is an old double tunnel, really great back drop.

http://bridgehunter.com/wi/milwaukee/P40057500000000/

This one is underneath Wisconsin Ave bridge in the miller valley. My friends did have some great shots but they said the lighting was awkward and weird.

And the third ward is definitely is full of interesting places.

Ill be there if I don't go up north, which is still uncertain.

Monster truck mode

Is your house on Bay street, right by KK? A buddy of mine used to live there.

Loooove Alpine white M3's, want one real bad.

Gotcha, you bought a US spec car in Germany? how does that work?

I want to do a European delivery buy one of these years, drive the car all over Europe including the ring and then bring her home.