Before posting messages or replies, see the posting policy rules at: www.dmcnews.com/Admin/rules.html To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderator@xxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 6 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Re: Spares From: jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx 2. Re: spares From: Dick Ryan <deloreanbiker@xxxxxxxxx> 3. Re: frame weight From: wingd2@xxxxxxx 4. Speaker Wiring. From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx 5. New Key Question? From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx 6. ADMIN NOTE: Virus thing From: "David Swingle" <dswingle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:11:22 -0000 From: jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Spares I don't have a checklist but for "newbies" mayby it would be a good idea to create one. The best advice I can give you is to meet other members with Deloreans and see how they are supposed to look and have your car gone over by someone who knows what they are doing. Now after this if anything changes you will see something out of place or not as it was and know there is a problem. Some of the most important areas to look at are: Tire pressure and tire condition (Don't forget the spare!). lug nuts coolant level and condition fuel leaks fuse and relay panel battery trailing arm bolts engine compartment in general ground under the car after it has cooled off and sat for a while There is really nothing too unique about the mechanicals or electricals of the Delorean as opposed to other fuel injected cars that you may own. Use the owner's manual and just go over the car from front to back, top to bottom and get familiar with it. If you do it in the same order everytime you will get to know when something isn't right. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, Ed Garbade <garbadee@xxxx> wrote: > As a new owner I would certainally appreciate advice on what to check in a > "pre-flight". Not being an expert auto mechanic nor having direct [moderator snip] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:32:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Dick Ryan <deloreanbiker@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: spares --- marvin <marv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Where is the imagination? If you have problems, > obviously you need a beautiful woman, a bottle of > decent bubbly, 2 glasses, and eventually someone > will come by who knows more about the systems and > will fix it. It's not the end of the world! So you > have to wait a while. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Marvin, you are absolutely right! It is for that very reason that on most of my long trips I am accompanied by my wife. She has informed me, however, that when I go alone - I go alone. Dick Ryan VIN 16867 PS Perhaps this is why she never complains about the $$$ spent on routine maintenance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:13:04 EDT From: wingd2@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: frame weight In a message dated 7/18/01 7:56:39 AM Central Daylight Time, doc.brown@xxxxxx writes: << Result: The weight of the frame of my D (with Epoxy-Coating) is 96kg (+-2kg). The conversion factor between kg and lb is approx. 2.2 (see http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/Metrics/factors.htm) The weight in lbs is therefore 211 lb. Martys figure of 197 lb is perhaps the frame without Epoxy Coating? Ralf. >> Ralf, Very interesting. I did basically the same as you, I've got a complete bare frame which has just finished completely being redone. This frame was chemically dipped and stripped of all the original epoxy and has now been powder coated. I guess that means the original frames have about 14 lbs of epoxy coating on them ??? We've got another frame which currently is sitting in a chemical dip tank having it's epoxy removed. I'll try and get a weight on this frame when it comes out of the tank. It should make for an interesting comparison. I guess we learn something new about these cars every day. Marty ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:52:57 -0000 From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx Subject: Speaker Wiring. Quick question: Can anyone tell me where/how the wire for the rear speakers is routed? Long story short: Last year I commisioned to have rear speakers installed onto the rear pacel shelf wall. Minus the poor installation that was performed, the shop disconnected my rear speakers. So now I have sizeable "dead zones" between the seats and the doors. Before they were disconnected, the rears sounded fine. I'm just looking to splice into the wires to reconnect the speakers for now untill I can redesign the back. Thanks in advance! -Robert vin 6585 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:05:07 -0000 From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx Subject: New Key Question? When I removed my headliners, I discoved what the code was for my keys (1 key system). How was this code used by the original dealerships to cut keys, and where can I go today to have new keys cut using this code? I do plan on getting a set of new key blanks from one of the vendors, but I would like to start off with a fresh cut to make the locks work better -Robert vin 6585 ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:27:56 -0000 From: "David Swingle" <dswingle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ADMIN NOTE: Virus thing This will be the last post on the Virus. We are aware of an email virus that has been repeatedly hitting list members. This is not coming through the list, we do not pass attachments and do not moderate through meaningless messages (usually!). One of our digest version list-members (mdrig aka yugoman) is "infected" with this virus. It replicates itself through email if you are using a Microsoft Email client (thanks Bill). It apparently replicates itself to the infectees address book AND any addresses contained in any unread email in his inbox (i.e. the digest). If you EVER clicked on the attachment, you are now infected too (unless you have a Mac). I have written to "mdrig" to explain the problem, AND disabled this his DML account so that it will stop sending out mails in response to digests, but I cannot do anything else about it. These are NOT coming through the list itself. If you see any mail with an attachment ending in .pif or .exe, just delete it. Eventually it will stop (I hope). (Thanks Martin, (DOC-UK)) For more info on the virus, and how to remove it, see http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.badtrans.13312@xxxxxxx If you are reading this online, the characters in the above URL that are suppressed after the @ are mm.html. 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