You say you have the Cds but you don't appear to have the PARTS CD as this has a
graphic search unit.  If you know the area and can fathom the cartoon sketches
then one the car is identified from the last 7 digits of the VIN it should be
easy to pinpoint what you are looking at/for.

Depending on year the WDS is also useful but not available for all models

I will send a picture of the models it covers to your private email

I am not certain where you are looking.  The space in front of the passenger
which is inside the engine compartment is empty on my US E46.
The space in front of the driver contains the master cylinder and the
housing for the A/C filters.

As for the 20% power loss, engines are tuned differently for different areas
of the world.  Also, the standards for measurement of horsepower differ.

Jim

So you base what crimes are acceptable by the level of the crime.
Interesting outlook on life. Stealing someones livelihood is OK because
someone else REUSED a paperclip.. (which actually isn't illegal in any
civilized country - most encourage it, it's called recycling.)

See - it's like this. A company like BMW - or Robert Bentley - spend
their money, time, effort to create a piece of intellectual property. In
return for this - they hope to be able to sell the items for a profit.
Instead of this happening - someone like you comes along and illegally
copies their intellectual property and offers to sell it for a lot less
money.  That does away with their incentive to produce and sell this
sort of information since they just lost a lot of money due to your
illegal act.

In the end - since they no longer see a reason to create something
you're going to rip off and sell - we all suffer because the manual,
documentation, whatever are no longer available... for any amount of
money. That's the way BMW is moving due to people like you - all their
documentation is on their internal network and only accessible via a
direct computer link to them. They have one public portal where you can
access the information via a web-browser for $25/day.  Robert Bentley
doesn't have that option - or that way to protect their IP - yet, but
you can expect to see this same scenario play out, or Bentley to go out
of business all because some greedy twerp decided to make a few pounds
by stealing their property and reselling it.

And I reuse paperclips all the time - but I don't share copyrighted
materials. It's a moral thing.

You're welcome actually. It seems very few people seem to think of
stealing intellectual property as being "theft" or immoral. It's both.

You later said:

The assumption I made is "downloadable" implies - free. If I'm wrong,
and you're willing to spend the $99 or so for the Bentley download, I
apologize - but most people here want free, even if it is illegal (as
are the CD's Oscar is selling.)

I just checked Bentley's site - they offer a "web subscription" on a
daily, monthly and yearly basis.. see www.bentleypublishers.com for
details. Looks like they went to the same scheme BMW did since I see no
PDF downloadable versions are available now. Where they used to offer a
CD version - that's also no longer an option (obviously due to the
actions of people like Oscar.)

Sorry if you wanted to know how to pay for one - I'd suggest visiting
the Robert Bentley website and see - you can pay and subscribe to their
web-service and use it all in one visit.