classicvw
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Well, shame on them for only looking at the end and not bothering to look further.
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Disappointed and Discouraged in BMW
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Well, shame on them for only looking at the end and not bothering to look further.
dieselyoda
Active member
This post should be in Campfire, It's rather humorous.
Vegas, Gremlins, Chevetes and almost any Chrysler product from the '80's could count as well. I loved my Pinto until it exploded (just kidding, I poured gas on it and threw a match at it).
Back to the OP for a second until you folks can lighten this up again.
Warranty covers material defect and workmanship only. The time frame for warranty is arbitrary to the manufacturer as goodwill. In fact, the manufacturer is not obligated to provide any warranty at all. This is well documented by a company that entered the NA market with an Ad Hoc warranty. If you could prove, material defect or workmanship within one year of ownership, they paid the bill, sans your cost to prove it was warrant able.
The Magnusson-Moss Act for you in the lower states below us up here who have an even more vague law.
I did well those years.
As to dropping valves, let's not get into all the reasons why but I know there are many reasons.
In fact, any customer that comes into my shop with a particular engine with 1.2 million miles or more on it, I automatically push to replace the cylinder head with new valves. I know this engine and I know at that mileage, the valve stems neck and then drop. The dropped valve is almost always #1 cylinder, cam-side exhaust. A conservative in-frame at that mileage is $6K to $8K with new valves. A dropped valve, the price starts at $15K and usually winds up with the machine going to scrap.
From reading the OP, I got a big whiff of not living with iron as part of life.
Sorry, about being so serious. Please someone get us back to being off the original post and make a comment about Mustang II's.
Vegas, Gremlins, Chevetes and almost any Chrysler product from the '80's could count as well. I loved my Pinto until it exploded (just kidding, I poured gas on it and threw a match at it).
Back to the OP for a second until you folks can lighten this up again.
Warranty covers material defect and workmanship only. The time frame for warranty is arbitrary to the manufacturer as goodwill. In fact, the manufacturer is not obligated to provide any warranty at all. This is well documented by a company that entered the NA market with an Ad Hoc warranty. If you could prove, material defect or workmanship within one year of ownership, they paid the bill, sans your cost to prove it was warrant able.
The Magnusson-Moss Act for you in the lower states below us up here who have an even more vague law.
I did well those years.
As to dropping valves, let's not get into all the reasons why but I know there are many reasons.
In fact, any customer that comes into my shop with a particular engine with 1.2 million miles or more on it, I automatically push to replace the cylinder head with new valves. I know this engine and I know at that mileage, the valve stems neck and then drop. The dropped valve is almost always #1 cylinder, cam-side exhaust. A conservative in-frame at that mileage is $6K to $8K with new valves. A dropped valve, the price starts at $15K and usually winds up with the machine going to scrap.
From reading the OP, I got a big whiff of not living with iron as part of life.
Sorry, about being so serious. Please someone get us back to being off the original post and make a comment about Mustang II's.
Pintos have already been covered.
36654
New member
The mid-life crisis car of librarians and music teachers.........
Then they had the gall to call one of these pinto/maverick derivatives a Cobra. Find a proud owner of one of those and you've found a discerning auto aficionado...........
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36654
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Pimped pintos haven't
akbeemer
SURVIVOR
Pimped Pinto = Virtuous Prostitute
dieselyoda
Active member
Dudes and Dudettes, C'mon, Mustang II, Jeeze, there are only 6 sold in Canada ever.
Keep going. You are coming close to a little belly laugh from me but not quite there yet...................
Right now, at -28C, my sole entertainment is coming from here because my hockey team is sucking wind like a bunch of PeeWee's and the fans thinks that's enough from a players averaging $5M a year. The Grandmother on in my Oldtimer's league has scored more goals this year than any two Jets combined. Actually, she has move and you just have to wonder, "how the hell did she get past me that fast?".
Moving on, the Dodge/Fargo about '78, massive steel body, frame, 318 engine and a carb that when it backfired caught the truck on fire. OOOOOHHHHHH, better one, about the very first Ford with EFI, any model, truck/car and the overheating TFI module that cost you $K's to haul back to a shop only to find out the module was few hunny for parts but the tools were proprietary!
Keep going. You are coming close to a little belly laugh from me but not quite there yet...................
Right now, at -28C, my sole entertainment is coming from here because my hockey team is sucking wind like a bunch of PeeWee's and the fans thinks that's enough from a players averaging $5M a year. The Grandmother on in my Oldtimer's league has scored more goals this year than any two Jets combined. Actually, she has move and you just have to wonder, "how the hell did she get past me that fast?".
Moving on, the Dodge/Fargo about '78, massive steel body, frame, 318 engine and a carb that when it backfired caught the truck on fire. OOOOOHHHHHH, better one, about the very first Ford with EFI, any model, truck/car and the overheating TFI module that cost you $K's to haul back to a shop only to find out the module was few hunny for parts but the tools were proprietary!
SeabeckS
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All this chatter about Pintos/Vegas/etal reminds of a gent I knew in Bridgeport, CA. He ran a courier service 5 and sometimes 6 days a week. He averaged anywhere from 300 to 450 miles every day...driving a Vega! That particular car held up so well, that eventually GM bought it back from him at the original purchase price so their engineers could figure out...what they did..right. LOL 
The Vegas, Gremlins, Shove-etts, slant-6 Chryslers that
the fog got us to the Prius we now know and love 
36654
New member
Pierre Trudeau would have looked good in a Mustang II......
36654
New member
There are Pimped Pintos and movies have been made about Virtuous Prostitutes, but young Beemer riders are purely mythical.
gfspencer
New member
I was a young(ish) Beemer rider . . . 35 years ago.
I had a VW 1600 wagon. (Volkswagen Type 3) The fuel injectors leaked so the whole inside of the car smelled like gasoline.
(I didn't dare smoke in that car.) Yes, the VW type 3 had electronic fuel injectors. It was one of the first production cars to have them.
36654
New member
I was a young(ish) Beemer rider . . . 35 years ago.
I had a VW 1600 wagon. (Volkswagen Type 3) The fuel injectors leaked so the whole inside of the car smelled like gasoline.
You beat me by 5-yrs
I commuted to college in a used 74 Super Beetle. Curved windshield, McPherson strut front suspension and a non-working auxiliary gas heater.
oldnuke
Just puttsin'
I went from a 64 Corvette Stingray to a new 75 Ford Pinto Squire station wagon, orange in color with faux wood paneling. Not all was lost though, the remainder of the money from the Corvette sale went towards the purchase of my first BMW...an R75/6. I've been an ardent BMW rider ever since. The Pinto was long gone before the R75/6.
weschmann
Kawa Afterthought
You beat me by 5-yrs
I commuted to college in a used 74 Super Beetle. Curved windshield, McPherson strut front suspension and a non-working auxiliary gas heater.
I had a 72 Super Beetle. The McPherson strut from suspension was the pits....I never could get the shake out of the steering wheel. I dropped a valve shortly after driving it up Pikes Peak in Colorado; had the engine fixed, and sold it for a Vega. Out of the frying pan, into the ........
The best American made cars that I've had the pleasure to own have been my Jeeps, (Wrangler, Liberty and presently a new Cherokee. My Liberty has been the cheapest car to service of the bunch, and I finally traded her in the other day with 293,000 miles on her, and the dealer sold her off his lot to someone within two days..... Great little SUV! I will admit though, that I am really liking the new Cherokee, with the heated seats, steering wheel etc..... gonna spoil me from riding my GS during the really cold here in St. Louie!
Bud
It is what it is.
Sounds like a good deal for you and a lifetime of BMW enjoyment.
I had a 1955 Mercedes 190SL. Paid $250 for it in 1970. The engine was literally in a basket (well, except for the block). The guy I bought it from towed it home for me. I rebuilt the engine and drove it for a long time. Sold it for $5000 in about 1990. It was kind of the little brother to the 300SL, even had some parts in common. It was cool looking but was kind of a pig...way underpowered. It had some interesting stuff for a mid-50's car...self adjusting brakes, OHC engine, IRS, a lot of aluminum body parts. I heard that the main market for it was German prostitutes. Oh well...
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