Gentlemen,
Today I received Damian's Manuals via mail delivery. Upon opening the package I found two very nice and big 'three prong bindings'. One binding contains the Body repair manual and the other binding contains the Electrical trouble shooting manual. Both manuals consist of very good 'copied pages' of the original manuals. They have been printed on average to lightweight paper and are held by the three prong binding which allows you to remove any page one at a time at any point in the manual. These are copies as I said before, not the original manual itself, but a two sided copy with both sides used, which seems fine to me. They should last as long as someone takes good care of them. The bindings are big and strong and should help protect the copies inside.

The only fault that I can see is that there is nothing on doing any internal engine work other than removing the engine and/or removing the 'left' head only? I told Damian that I wanted complete engine repair description and he told me that he thought it was there, however, I don't believe that Damian is a DYI expert and therefore honestly gave me what he thought was a complete repair manual with complete engine repair instruction, however, there is no other internal engine description in these manuals.

However, the rest of the copied manual seems to be up to snuff coving what looks like most of everything. Perhaps someone with an original repair manual can tell us if in fact there may not have been any internal engine repair description in the original manual as well? Now I wonder where one might get this additional and necessary internal engine work description as well??

I paid Damian $75. each for the two manuals, the same as he is asking on the board here and I am satisfied except for the missing internal engine repair information. However, as I said, the original manual may not have had that information either. Perhaps someone can tell us.

Since I do need a manual, and especially since there are none available anywhere else, this seems like a good and fair solution as compared to the alternative. Perhaps Damian might want to investigate and find the missing internal engine repair instruction somewhere? and copy it and include it with the repair manual. Perhaps they can only be done by contacting some BMW mechanic who has those missing internal engine pages of instruction and who is willing to let Damian or someone copy the missing pages.

This concludes my fair and honest critique of the Damian BMW E-31 Manuals.
Regards to all, Kurt
PS. Damian, I will send you a private e-mail as well. K