Parts Supplier Recommendation

[marcmax]

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

[montmil]

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.

[marcmax]

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?

[montmil]

Other carb bits may be OK, but do not substitute repop diaphragms. Stick with Bing OEMs. Saves buying the same parts twice.

[apaiva]

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.

[marcmax]

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.

[montmil]

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!