anybody here buy the orange books

make no mistake - there was room above that as whoever put it in also had another bid on top of that
 
I was also part of the madness, even though a nice set of these orange books is already in my possession. In the final minute, I had entered a maximum of $225, but I'd foolishly hit the one click bid, thereby, my final bid was only $192. I've a sneaky feeling that the winning bidder was going way beyond $225. Oh well...not really disappointed though, as I have $225 to spend on another coupe part. :p
 
okay,

now we know that
p***s is me
4***c is Bert

we don't know who
5***5 is ... (the winner) or
a***c (who bid $187)
 
The original compact BMW E9 parts catalog listing parts in about 7 different languages transferred from the original factory microfiche. Contains every parts and illustrations ever manufactured for the CS coupes, including VIN number information for the CS/CSi/CSiL/CSL. They have NLA probably since the mid 1990's as I bought my set new around 1990 for about $70.

During their transfer to the digital format (factory CD and online catalogs), quite a few of the parts and illustrations got omitted during the transfer process. Whether the this was an oversight or deliberately done by BMW, it is hard to say.

The much larger white binder style 2 volume catalogs now offered by BMW contain all the info as in the orange books, but in my view, it is much more awkward to use in how they are formatted and their much larger size. For English and other languages' translation of part # listings and descriptions, one has to turn to over to another page, of which it does not contain any of the parts' pictorial illustrations, thus making fast parts references somewhat problematic.
 
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I am on the lookout for an Orange Book now after reading this. I won't outbid anybody here....promise <G>
 
echappe said:
Years ago when making a large purchase from Walloth and Nesch the sent their white version gratis. Don't know if they're still doing that
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Once you register at W&N, you can download their old catalogue sheets showing locater #'s. The locater #'s can then be translated to BMW #s using the downloadable price sheets. There are many missing locater #'s in the price sheet, mostly due to NLA status.

Printed version is so much easier to use.
 
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