tiitouring02

Jeff, Im on the hunt for a driver's side tail light reflector (where the bulbs live) for my 69 2000. Do you have one in decent shape? You can email me at tiitouring02@yahoo Thanks very much, Martin

Pat, I will speak with Steve Jaffe and see what i can do. Please understand, the 3HP12 hase been out of production for better then 30 years. Industry support for cars past the end of production is only mandated for 10 years. In other words the technical information has been long moved to the "back of the filing cabinet" because there is little to no demand for it. I too have been looking for some information for the 3HP12 in my recently acquired NK. I'm having problems getting it, and I WORK for ZF. Any manual that may still exist out there is paper or fiche, and will have to be dug out, and scanned etc etc. I think you can appreciate that ZF, like most companies these days, is operating with fewer people doing more. I know Steve and the rest of the people in that department. They are all car guys and would love to help when and where they can, but if they were to try and handle special requests like this from every enthusiast out there they'd be completely buried. We get requests like this every day from not only people like yourself, but from corvette owners, ford truck owners, porsche, and audi owners. Just to name a few. These calls are in addition to all of our "regular" business calls from the OEMs and our large parts customers in the independent aftermarket who's business keeps our lights on. ZF corporately has recently started a program to support older products, much like BMW MT..er..BMW Classic. Its called ZF Tradition. They are charged with developing programs to support older ZF products in the field. Much like the original MT division at BMW, they are crawling before they walk, and not only have to do it for car transmissions, but for bus, truck, heavy equipment, and so on, and not just for German manufacturers, but for manufacturers around the world! So, not everything will be available immediately, and some things might never be. To our friend Mr Guest. He might consider that an article published about ZF 16 years ago, might be passed its "best before" date. I certainly wont defend the responses the author got from whomever he contacted at ZF, but I can say that the story is ancient history, and the "issues" with 4HPs were adressed as best as possible at the time. Remanufactured units that came from ZF were always updated to the latest technical specs and were definite improvements upon earlier models. I can also tell you that the 4HP24 in the 750iL's didnt have near the same issue, and were more then capable of handing the performance of the V12. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine has run a 750 in one of the 24 hours of Lemons races, and the car (and 4HP24 trans) ran flawlessly. Subsequent generations of 5 and 6 speec automatic transmissions are generational leaps in technology, and today are incredibly robust and have a service life of many years.

who did you talk to at ZF?

yes, i dont know what, if any modifications need to be made, or if it will bolt right in.

the original trans is a 3HP12 from ZF. IF you can find one from an 02 out there it should fit i think. Since 3HP12s are getting more and more rare people are generally changing to the 3HP22 from a 320i. Hope this helps. Martin

wow - sorry for the crappy spelling - must be Sunday morning brain...

Yup - the Windy City event will be later in the year, probably September. THis is the original Midwest 02 fest starteed by Chris Burd in 1999. He ran it till 2002 tehn took a hiatus. We started the Windy City event to replace Midwest 02 fest in the interim period. That's grown into its own deal. Glad to have Chris at it once again. It will be at the Tire Rack, not only will there be a gtg and show, there will be an autocross for any that want to flog their 02 around the Tire Rack's test track. Cheers, Martin

Hey everyone, The Midwest 02 Fest now has a FB page. Please feel free to join the page. We will post information on the event there. If you've attended in the past and have pics, feel free to post them on the page! thanks! Martin

wife and i are in tears...classic!

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I saw something on Kate Spade a few years ago - i think it was on nightline or one of those other shows - Her husband owns an agave square tail light car. They drive it up to the Hamptons on weekends. The clip showed them cruising in it.

Definitely Ben Thongsai for mechanical work. He's down in Westchester. Don and the Werk Shop crew certainly will do maintenance, but are more a resto shop.

Steve, Site looks great! Congrats! Its tagged as a fav. Im sure I'll be contacting you for stuff for my NK. Cheers, Martin

hey everyone, sad news on the ZF front. I work for ZF, and unfortunately they stopped remanufacturing the steering boxes for 02's a few years ago. Since then ZF has developed a Classic division similar to BMW MT. So who knows, maybe they'll start again at some point, but not for the forseable future, sorry guys. Martin

Hey Everyone, Harry B. has started a new 02 Touring group on Facebook. Great place for us touring owners to hang out and share pics etc. It already has around 20 members (including non touring owners, yes you guys are welcome too). Stop in and join Facebookers! Cheers, Martin

This is the car BMW also referred to as a "2004". I too laughed at the "Rhino horn" comment. Ahhh the days of not having to worry about being PC....

Norm, Ive passed your contact info along to my buddy. Martin

woo hoo!! see you there!

just an additional thought about colour change - my 74tii - after the colour change, still sold for almost $10k back in 1991. That was big money back then for an 02. If it was still around today (N.O rolled it and wrote it off) I'm sure it would only be continuing to appreciate in value.

all that effort, all that work, and he puts gawd awful square headlight grilles in it??? WTF!?!?!? Well as they say, some peoples taste is only in their mouths.

when its all said and done, you can usually find my flag flying in the keep it the original colour camp. But I have to agree with m-racer and 72 Golf. It you're not a fan of German Taxi Beige (LOL) and are willing to go the whole way to make sure it's a complete colour change, just pick a period correct colour * and go for it. IMHO i would be choosing a colour that is hard to find elsewhere out there, ceylon or turkis for example. But i would susggest that you make sure it was an available colour that was matched by BMW with the colour of your interior. These cars, especially rarer models and tii's are all bringing strong money, and properly thought out and executed colour changes wont hurt the value of the car that dramatically - unless its a one owner 10,000mi museum piece. Make sure to prep the car well to avoid the "Verona issue" discussed here. In the end, its your car - and your the one that has to look at it every day. So be happy with the colour that it is when its sitting there. * i have to admit that i didnt follow my own advice and changed the colour of one of my 02's. My 74tii was Polaris over navy and the paint was shot. I had the car stripped to bare metal and painted Lachssilber (80's era BMW Silver) I've attached a pic - i think it looked great, and in reality it was more of a shade change then complete colour change. I've also attached a pic of my 75 after it was redone in Siennabraun. Most people asked why id repaint a car brown when i had the chance to change it, i said, becasue that's how it came from the factory - and i cant tell you the number of compliments i got on it when i would drive it around. People loved the unique period colour. Good luck Martin

Hey everyone, Im wokring on a project and need a hi res scan of an 02 Owners handbook cover - preferably one that has multiple models listed on the cover, but i wont be picky. Please email the file to me at: tiitouring02atyahoo Thanks very much in advance!! Martin

Im SURE it wont make the evening TV broadcast on SPEED they dont want to embarass the host as he tries to open the hood from the front.

A friend of mine recently resurrected the car below, and is looking to sell it to finance another NK project he's got going. I make no promises, not mine, blah blah blah. If you're interested let me know and i'll put you in touch with him.

Hoffmeister Weizen?, Roundel Lager? S14 Stout? Sauber Bitter ( I couldnt resist that one) Pieschetsrieder Pils? TISA IPA? Rosche Red? Should I go on??