tim eh?
12-07-2008, 12:37 AM
so the truth is - minor bummer about being a gigging musician... it keeps me away from my e34 especially when it's cold... it does suck to play with sore hands but worse i'd stop getting gigs if i kept showing up with bloody knuckles.
so i took the car to a couple of places because i figured replacing the bat+/starter/altB+ cable assembly would be a pice of cake for an expert and i'd be out a couple hours and some battery cable.
they all basically said "leave it here one morning we'll look at it and let you know, it looks very very complicated" (yes, norbert too!)
one place was a funny waste of time - i'd never been there before but i had been recommended to this place "heinz and heinz" (apparently a father and son enterprise) by a guy i know who works mostly on ferraris and peugots who said to me "you find his garage and 90% of your problem is solved"
so after work one day last week i went driving around just north of jean-talon on marconi (for those of you familiar) but after a while mistakenly entering a VW vegetable oil conversion shop (COOL!) i still couldn't find it. i was going to give up but saw this guy just standing on the corner and asked him if he was familiar with the area... "un peu..." do you know a garage owned by a monsieur heinz? "oui oui..." he got totally excited and showed me to a tiny parking lot hidden behind a building with a couple e36s, an e34 and a whatever the mid-eighties 6 series is.
so at this point i kind of felt like i was in a movie... there was a tiny garage door and a little door for people... nothing was marked. at this point i believed i had found the magical e34 witch of the north ("heinz") and that i'd be home in a couple hours with brand new wiring connecting my alternator, starter and battery. i went in with my new friend and it was actually a pretty big garage... 5 bays anyway + lots of space. my friend took my up to this guy i assumed to be heinz who was working on the brakes of a young customer's e39, and started telling him excitedly that i had asked him to find his garage.
(me) 'sir...'
(heinz) looks at me disdainfully.... after a bit nods....
(me) 'zaven at pitstop on peel said you might be able to help me... i need some cables replaced on my '89 525i... the ones from the battery to the starter and alternator'
(heinz) 'so leave it here, this isn't a drive thru.'
seriously that's what he said.
so anyway i think i'll probably go back there some time, it's kind of cool in there.
so i took the car to a couple of places because i figured replacing the bat+/starter/altB+ cable assembly would be a pice of cake for an expert and i'd be out a couple hours and some battery cable.
they all basically said "leave it here one morning we'll look at it and let you know, it looks very very complicated" (yes, norbert too!)
one place was a funny waste of time - i'd never been there before but i had been recommended to this place "heinz and heinz" (apparently a father and son enterprise) by a guy i know who works mostly on ferraris and peugots who said to me "you find his garage and 90% of your problem is solved"
so after work one day last week i went driving around just north of jean-talon on marconi (for those of you familiar) but after a while mistakenly entering a VW vegetable oil conversion shop (COOL!) i still couldn't find it. i was going to give up but saw this guy just standing on the corner and asked him if he was familiar with the area... "un peu..." do you know a garage owned by a monsieur heinz? "oui oui..." he got totally excited and showed me to a tiny parking lot hidden behind a building with a couple e36s, an e34 and a whatever the mid-eighties 6 series is.
so at this point i kind of felt like i was in a movie... there was a tiny garage door and a little door for people... nothing was marked. at this point i believed i had found the magical e34 witch of the north ("heinz") and that i'd be home in a couple hours with brand new wiring connecting my alternator, starter and battery. i went in with my new friend and it was actually a pretty big garage... 5 bays anyway + lots of space. my friend took my up to this guy i assumed to be heinz who was working on the brakes of a young customer's e39, and started telling him excitedly that i had asked him to find his garage.
(me) 'sir...'
(heinz) looks at me disdainfully.... after a bit nods....
(me) 'zaven at pitstop on peel said you might be able to help me... i need some cables replaced on my '89 525i... the ones from the battery to the starter and alternator'
(heinz) 'so leave it here, this isn't a drive thru.'
seriously that's what he said.
so anyway i think i'll probably go back there some time, it's kind of cool in there.