What did you do for your ZHP/ BMW / MINI today? #2

[BMWCurves]

Yup! My garage uses rolling codes as well and the guide worked for programming perfectly.

[NorCalZman]

So this is weird. I come home last night and notice a huge puddle of oil in my parking spot. I look under the car and its dripping from the tray. I take it to the shop this morning and they call me and say after smoke testing the car its coming from the dipstick tube seal with the engine block. I say go ahead and fix it then. Im going on a trip tomorrow (always how it works, right?) and I dont have time to worry about it.

I just got a call back and he is chuckling saying there was NO o-ring on the dipstick tube. I felt a pang of embarrassment, as a few months ago I am the one who put the o-ring on my dipstick tube and (with A LOT of trouble) got it back in the engine block. I felt the telltale pop and slide in even. He had no explanation other than maybe it got split during installation and squeezed itself out. He does not think its in the pan. I guess I can buy that. Well these things happen, I guess.

[stephenkirsh]

You can smoke test the oil system like that?

[Vas]

Installed new a pillars

[rkneeshaw]

I just got a call back and he is chuckling saying there was NO o-ring on the dipstick tube. I felt a pang of embarrassment, as a few months ago I am the one who put the o-ring on my dipstick tube and (with A LOT of trouble) got it back in the engine block. I felt the telltale pop and slide in even. He had no explanation other than maybe it got split during installation and squeezed itself out. He does not think its in the pan. I guess I can buy that. Well these things happen, I guess.

Its in the pan. I have one in there too, lol

I did the same thing, felt it "pop" into place. But nope, it "popped" down into the pan is what happened. I puked oil all over the place down the underside of the car as a result. I too thought I should put the oring in the hole in the engine block first, and then put the tube in but that is backwards. You have to put the oring on the tube and then install the tube into the block.

[NorCalZman]

Oops. Yeah I put it in the block first. I thought I read that's how we were supposed to do it.

[das boots]

Programmed my retrofitted mirror with HomeLink to work on my garage door using this guide: http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=384653

I also do have the Homelink. But sometimes...most of the time, garage door will not open. It's as if the garage door when close is blocking the signals to open. I have to continue pressing to finally open. But when garage door is open, Homelink works perfectly. Maybe I might have to do the extended range install to the Homelink.

[NoVAphotog]

I have never gotten the homelink to work with my garage...doesn't work with certain types of openers.

[KevinC]

Upgraded the useless Mk3 nav computer in my M5 to the semi-useful Mk4 unit. Takes about 30 seconds. The Mk3 system is CD based and needs about a thousand discs to cover the country. Mk4 is what's in the ZHP when so-equipped. Crude by modern standards, but at least not worthless in Mk4 form.

One positive side effect: the lawyer screen appears for a few seconds, then goes away on its own if not manually dismissed. That alone is a nice "upgrade".

[BMWCurves]

Dropped my car off at the mechanic for round 3 of trying to troubleshoot the UUC shifter.