As part of the conversion of the register’s knowledge into a more “virtual group of owners” in the 21st Century, Bob and I have been working together to republish all of the original information published in two decades of newsletters and also much of the hard to find original BMW NA documentation. We have released the video and the book, “The BMW 2002 tii Fuel Injection System”, which has been only available in hard copy and VHS/DVD to Register members and BMW dealers in North America. These were originally developed by BMW North America for its dealer network in the early 1980s.
There are two parts you need to review – VIDEO and MANUAL. See below.
VIDEO
Example: Click links below to download the video.
The video is complimentary to the manual and can be viewed on any computer with the proper viewer – Quicktime from Apple for the low res (may work for dialup users) or the largest file (DSL or higher). Unfortunately the original audio is originally a bit distorted – converting to the web magnifies the flaws of the audio more. Click below to view the video in your browser. (Note, Windows users can right click and save the file to your local drive)
Quicktime – Low Resolution (11mb)
Quicktime – High Resolution (28mb)
MANUAL
The pump manual is in PDF format, 29 pages.
The manual is over 22mb Acrobat PDF file in length, but contains the vast majority of information previously known to dealers and pump subject matter experts. Of course, this is not a step by step to rebuild your pump by any stretch of the imagination – that still takes experts with the right tools, parts and test equipment. However, this does answer the majority of questions asked by Tii owners and prospective owners when it comes to the Kugelfischer pump.
The Original BMW Parts Catalog 1502-2002tii
After many years only in hard copy, we are now releasing the BMW Mobile Tradition Original Parts Catalog. This document is all of the original parts microfiche converted to paper document, which BMW published originally back in the 80s. With Mobile Tradition’s permission, we have been authorized as the primary distribution of this document.
Why would you need this document? This contains photographic and textual specifications on every part of the car as it was stored originally. For example, it contains more information on bolt sizes and length, dimensions than BMW has produced in later electronic versions. It shows diagrams of many many parts no longer available.
If you are performing a restoration or doing any repairs yourself, this in conjunction with the factory shop manuals will be invaluable for not only ordering, but exact reassembly of the parts themselves. Learn this book!
This file requires Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or higher to view and print out.
The completed document is over 1,700 pages.
Warning – This file is 78.29 megabytes and may take a long time to download to your computer.
Back in the 20th century, BMW Mobile Tradition introduced a CD-Rom version of the shop manual which many of us called “The Blue Books”. It sold for about $45 originally, and was last seen in the parts catalog at over $120. They have been on national back order for many months in 2006. What gives?
A quick call to our sources at Mobile Tradition reveals that they have not produced any more disks because the software is at the end of it’s technical life. They don’t appear to be interested in creating a newer version — and with Microsoft producing a new version of Windows (The Mac was never supported) and Adobe creating about 4 versions of Acrobat since this CD was released, this CD may only run on Windows 95-XP.
Most big companies are run by their accounting department, and we’re not surprised BMW Mobile Tradition is probably under some tremendous pressure to be profitable also. How much revenue can you make on selling CD-Roms to 40 year old car owners?
It stands to reason that when you own a 30+ year old car, nothing is forever.
Our advice is… watch eBay and other sources for the original 2 book set of the hard copy manuals. They never go out of style!
Comments of visionaut (2038-01-18 20:14:07):
- Maybe they could be talked into released the source material into public domain, or under a GPL or something, given it’s 30-40 years old – if they don’t think there’s any money to be made from it anymore. I’m (and others are) savvy enough with the underlying content of text/graphics embedded in that CDROM to be able to extract it and repurpose it in more modern technology. (website, XML/Java application, Interactive PDF, search engine, etc.) Maybe they could be approached by an organized forum/site (or group of such) to do/allow that?
Comments of Jim Gerock (2008-03-29 14:31:21):
- Fortunately, I was able to buy a CD-Rom when I bought my car in late 2006. The outdated Adobe version requires me to use my wife’s old Toshiba laptop (running Windows 95). Mobile Tradition should wake up and update this disk. There are more new ’02 owners out there like me who need this valuable information.