The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: marcmax on May 01, 2012, 07:06:42 PM
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Has anyone used these folks as a parts source before? If so do you have any comments either positive or negative? There prices seem very reasonable.
http://www.eubmw.com/Index.Html
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I've bought from the guy. Straight up and honest. $15.00 purchase gets you free shipping.
IIRC, the owner's late father started the business and son continues.
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The reason I asked is I have a set of carbs I want to refresh and he sells a carb refresh kit for about half the BMW price. I asked and he said they are made it the US and I remember reading here that there are issues with other than OEM diaphragms, etc. Any thoughts?
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Other carb bits may be OK, but do not substitute repop diaphragms. Stick with Bing OEMs. Saves buying the same parts twice.
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He was selling an R65 which I emailed him about. Talked to him on the phone and he seemed nice enough. I googled around a bit and found a fair amount of good feedback about him from people who had bought parts from EU. I ended up finding something closer to home so I didn't actually have any transaction with him.
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He seemed very nice when I talked to him and he made it clear that they are reproduction carb kits. I remembered reading on this forum about issues with repops doing a carb rebuild but couldn't remember just what the issue was. Carb rebuilding, adjusting and syncing is like the black arts to me so any variable I can eliminate I will. I don't want to save a few bucks on the front end and then spend 4 or 5 time as much trying to figure out why it just doesn't run right.
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I don't want to save a few bucks on the front end and then spend 4 or 5 time as much trying to figure out why it just doesn't run right.
There ya go!