Re: BMW 525D

Is anyone able to translate this into English for me please?

TIA

Chris

Just killfile him. He's a loon, and you won't be missing anything. The sooner everyone does that, the sooner we won't need to see replies like yours, especially ones that quote the whole original post...

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Dean Dark at snipped-for-privacy@comcast.notthis.net wrote on 1/31/09 4:08 PM:

hey ... guess who gots loon disease now TIA ???

and it is a "we" you are talking to I hope you notice in the Dan ...

not one person in there ... you gots a bunch of em to talk to !!!

great family fun and the kids love it.

:)

What sense would it have made if I had just posted the sentence "Is anyone able to translate this into English for me" if I *hadn't* included the complete original text?

Chris

You could have snipped the bulk of it, leaving just a phrase or two to illustrate your point. The "complete original text," especially when it's lengthy, is not normally needed in order to make an effective point, or ask a question. Just a suggestion...

in article 7ichl.7294$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe20.ams, Chris Whelan at snipped-for-privacy@prejudicentlworld.com wrote on 1/31/09 11:36 PM:

hey good one ... try logic to a Bush League Thunker having a Stragetery meeting to chenny it up the arse.

Nope, makes little sense here either. Although this bit "I think I get 30k miles out of a 40k tire when the 528 starts 'talking' with noises" - made me sad. Anyone who drives so gently that they can get 30k out of a set of tyres on a 528, should be in a Prius...

Of course, there's a good chance US and UK BMW 5's have different spec parts anyway, so without actually knowing if that's the case, and if it is, what is and isn't the same it's all a bit of a waste of words anyway. Still, no harm in leaving it all in anyway is there :-)

For starters (in the U.S.), a "bimmer" is a BMW car and a "beemer" is a BMW motorcycle. As one who is lucky enough to own both, I guess I'm a "beamer" - especially since modern beemers aren't hard at all on their front ends.

For the rest of his post, I'm afraid you're on your own - good luck!

Tom

As for the 40K tyres, don't 'tires' in the US have to *guarantee* a mileage, and hence get made from something not entirely unlike hardened teflon?

PCPaul gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Don't forget, there's precisely three roundabouts in the entirety of the US, and not that many more bends in the road.

Although we've employed them to confuse out of towners in Washington, DC for a couple of centuries, we're now starting to see many roundabouts (we call them "traffic circles") at rural intersections and sometimes in suburban neighborhoods. Their purpose along with the ubiquitous "speed bumps", is usually to promote slower vehicle speeds (so called traffic calming). Tom

"tom_k" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Odd. The purpose of roundabouts here is to enable traffic to flow better.

Or were you referring to bends in the road?

While many do, I suspect that most of us U.S. posters to alt.autos.bmw buy performance rubber - often with American brand names, but manufactured in Europe. Tom

Nope, when we want traffic to flow better, we often widen the road to 6 lanes, straighten it, slap a 30 mph (50 kph) limit on it, install speed cameras, mail out the speeding tickets and wait for the money to flow in. This is done in the name of safety but it is really fund raising for the state or municipality.

Seriously though, some of the rural intersections where traffic circles have replaced stop signs are now much easier to negotiate and are a great deal safer. Tom

"tom_k" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Dunno about 6 lanes, but the rest of it you learned from us...

The Washington DC ones were originally installed by a Frenchman, however, in an attempt to confuse drivers who thought they were on a numbered street and suddenly find themselves on one named after a state. On the other hand, they work somewhat better than the ones in Paris from which he got the idea.

--scott

Exactly.

Didn't the ones in France formerly require drivers who had already entered the circle to yield the right of way to those who were trying to merge into it, rather than the other way around? In DC, that would have resulted in instant gridlock as one couldn't exit the circle until rush hour wound down at about 10 PM!

Tom

Have to? No.

Only if that's what you want to buy. Obviously, sticky tires are available as well.