sub frame tool - board buy?

[Phil from Buffalo]

.. its a great concept. Some guidelines covering possible situations are needed.

[Martin in Bellevue]

...and then sends it to Martin in the Pacific Northwest, who lets Jeff borrow it while he's over one day. Meanwhile, Scott H. and ed want to team up...=)

That just isn't reflected by the history of car maintenance between our e34's. The probable occurrence would include doing the bushings on Jeffro's car; I'd say, at least twice. Oh yeah, he's already done them twice on his car within the last year and a half, no lie. He still mentions the need to redo them, but tries to stay focused on that anemic, over-cammed m30. Once we agree on the preferred technique & tricks, after several attempts on Jubb Jubb's ride, we'd send the tool off for others to use. After everyone else uses the tool, we'd eventually do a bushing swap on my car, with good results.

[Jeff N.]

...Martin just installs them in Jeff's car.

[George M]

a couple more comments....
- Do you guys like the calander idea?....fill out blocks of one week for each participant with 3 days transit time in between to the next member?
- Agree with you Jr...actually Bill R I believe first suggested it...lets get all the attachments for the different Bimmers out there...will then appeal to a larger range of participants and make the tool more worthwhile to Bill and Winfred.
- Bill R do you know the best place to order the tool from?...and what attachments you think would be good? Lastly what the final price of the tool would be including shipping?
- I still don't have a PayPal account. I know...lol. Not a big deal to figure out the money...will only pull the trigger after enough money is collected.
- Ed could you put a sticky up top with the list of contributors?
Ed there may also be a way to include a calender where we can register for the tool....if this is doable let us know. When we sign up, we could register for our block of time. Or we could do it first come first serve....do it by the numbers and then figure out the schedule for use later.
- Lastly, if we get enough guys together, we could likely keep the price down to $20/man.

Further thoughts?

[George M]

another consideration is we may be able to do a group purchase for the bushings...about the same price, independent of BMW model, through BMA. If we get say twenty guys together, we may get a light break on cost if we do a group buy. Probably the best way is to buy your bushings up front so when the tool hits your door, you will be ready to use it. Another thought....lets hear other suggestions...I just put a notice up on the E-32 Roadfly board...will likely get a few guys who will want in...if interested will have them sign up here if Ed gets a sticky up.

[50 fiver]

I have seriously have to do mine, I hope I have finally figured out why my car "walks" all over the place, very bad on uneven roads. I may purchace the thing just so that I can get it done soon. Would anybody like to purchace the thing after I am finished? I am going to price them. Then try and see if I can borrow one from a local shop, to keep from purchacing one-$300? Kind of steep, but if you got to have it, you got to have it, and I believe this fix will seriously help my car.

[George M]

50 fiver...don't buy the tool. The whole purpose is to buy the thing as a group as most of us will hardly ever use it. Simply get on the list and we will get our bushings and you can use what will turn out to be Bill R's tool...hopefully for $20 or so and the price of the bushings.

[50 fiver]

George, I will do it, I just don't want to wait too long. I really needed to do this like last year. 207k m20 and still rolling.

[George M]

Maybe you can be the first then 50 fiver after we get the tool. If Ed puts a calender up, we can each plug in for a time slot.

[50 fiver]

I would be glad to throw in say 50 bucks to get it in a timely manner. Who has the one that was used on Bruno's site? That is where I found out about it and I can't believe it took me that long to figure it out. I have been on here back when everybody was on roadfly and have been reading bruno's site since the same time. I hope that is the answer to my handling probs. From the descriptions, that sounds like what I am experiencing.