When I posted my 'Hard Shifting' message a little earlier, I received the following mail from snipped-for-privacy@XXXXX.com: (XXX = anonymized)
I was a little suspicious, cause it sounded a bit like a commercial to me. Especially with the embedded number in the link. I checked the alldatadiy site and found that they have no info for a '87 250D and they don't have any info for a '88 250D either!
I mailed Andy to ask him to tell me a little more about his 'similar problem' but received no reply.
My conclusion is that this 'guy' is spamming people who post to this group. A little googling turned up similar messages: