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Famous around the world for the car that appeared and used in our music video for Antiform - Crash. Big thanks to HellBM for that!

Oh my sweet lord. https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-2202940113.htm? e34 525iX manual touring.

Yeah unfortunately morons tend to gravitate towards E36's.

Drove the Morris and ate Yorkshire puddings, best day ever.

So I'm back to BMW, the 4AGE was a dream but you can't beat BMW Hopefully picking up some msport wheels today. Bit of stuff to do to it. Needs some love. Also open road I'm getting 7l to 100km on 325i !!! Wow!! I guess I'll lose all that in suburban driving

E46 M3`s x 3 `03 Gray ideal for a race car build.

As with a lot of the NZTA information, the data is very messy and trying to pull info this specific is not easy. The only Z4s with an engine larger than 2.5ltr recorded as manuals are M Roadsters, however, there are a lot of vehicles with "not recorded" against the transmission type, so some of those could be manuals. Lots of Z4s do not specify whether they are the Roadster or the Coupe - some are Roadstar some are Convertable (?) and the recorded body style of "Sports Car" combines all variety of Z4s, so taking out what is definately not a coupe first registered from 2006 to 2009 gives a total of 108 cars that COULD be Coupes and COULD be manuals. I highly doubt that even a fraction of them are both Coupe and Manual though, sorry it cannot be more specific. This is what happens when used cars, and used imports in particular can be registered as whatever you want to write on the form and half the information can be left off the sheet. The best one in the list was listed as "Z4 A GREEN ONE" - genius!

So it could be offensive right?

Not alot worked on the gear shifter. Here's why lol

If you want a reliable BMW and not a wallet drainer, stay away from anything N54 powered.

I recommend diving into the deep end with your first BMW My first one was a 1993 540i with 250,000kms, needed a few repairs but was a terrific car, wish I still had it! That said the older cars were typically more reliable than the newer stuff, and usually easier to fix

Actually saw that parked up in Rotorua a few days ago, looks pretty decent in person.

All NZ new 3-Series sedans from that era through to the end of 2018 would be SA built (with the odd exception). No difference to the Munich assembled versions, you would not be able to tell without checking the VIN information. The SA factory is a "full" BMW assembly plant, and a lot of components are locally sourced. Not like the CKD (Completely Knocked Down, ie kit assembly factories) that exist in other markets like Thailand, Malaysia, etc.

my mate has one of these too , has had a 2.8L m52 upgrade though

in the late 70's we had interesting developments. Against a backdrop that included hippies and quickly transitioned to Kill ALL Hippies, (and soon punk as a complete backlash), some clever europeans had been (quite literally) plugging away in their studios, and enjoying some commercial success... airplay in addition to Baby Boomers showing off their flash new HiFi systems (accessible in the 1970's for the first time ever) with whatever fine-sounding vinyl they could get their hands on... and toward the end of the decade, increasingly affordable synthesisers. The race was on. The Germans seemed to celebrate their high speed concrete motorways with the global hit 'Autobahn',, and the Frenchman... well, he was picked up by French airline UTA and spent his advert money on wild disembodied heads music videos.. in 1976! And a crazy veeeeeeeee-neck jumper. Meanwhile Bowie had decided - after shovelling a mountain of charlie up his hooter (and slipped in creation of a couple of great albums such as Young Americans and Station to Station) - to shoot through from the states to in search of pastures new. You've all heard Station to Station, so I'll put Stay (from the same album) here instead... oh lordy, GREAT players, funk, swing, this song is virtuoso Bowie. And a stark contrast to the Frenchman and the Germans, who seemed a bit pedestrian. Now Bowie has immersed himself in Berlin at Hansa Studios (with a steady supply of smack), producing the three coolest albums of his very cool career. And this is where it gets odd; yes in a truth that's stranger than fiction, they all start thinking about trains! Iggy Pop (who's been hanging out in Berlin with Bowie), also thinking about trains matybe, with his masterpiece The Passenger... And now the Germans now start singing (robotically chanting?) about the Trans Europe Express... (inspired by Station to Station?), and in an odd twist they plug David Bowie and Iggy Pop, and even give them a cameo in their new music video! and Bowie gets further out there in Berlin (it's still Cold War Berlin)... and he's getting even more brilliant in the studio with Brian 'Squelchy' Eno! Just listen to Sound and Vision, it's astonisihing more than forty years later. You know that track backwards so here's Joe the Lion: Perhaps he's taking stock, or thinking about his next move? The Germans (Kraftwerk) clearly got a hipness boost from all of this, as The Man Machine contained the timeless classic The Model. Meanwhile, in North London a nerdy guy sitting in his bedroom mixed in the Bowie influence and came up with something very unusual... ... And some lads from South London were clearly influenced by Bowie (and earlier Roxy Music)... and in 1979 they released Quiet Life (this is a later video for the album's re-release) Oh man, it's enough to explode the heads of MoR radio listeners!

Ok so now it's not pitch black I popped the bonnet and had a look, Some wise ass didn't plug in the coolant level sensor. Warning light gone One more problem to fix lol

After that, things went on hold for a few months while I tried to figure out what I wanted to do for wheels. A little while ago, I picked up a 5 lug adapter kit from a r3vlimited user. I was planning to use it on the coupe, but then abandoned that idea when I got a front RX7 brake kit (designed for the factory 4 lug). Well, I was still hoping to use the RX7 brakes on the touring with the TRM C1 wheels. But that would require spacers (nope), or chopping the front struts up and having the coilover sleeve shortened and welded lower down. That seemed like a lot of work. So a few weeks ago, I decided to do a 5 Lug conversion on the touring. The front would be done with the adapter kit, standard E36 front wheel bearing/hub, E36 328i rotors and calipers. The rear would be done with trailing arms from a 318ti, and potentially E34 brakes at some point. Remember those 16" Style 5 wheels I picked a while back? They're going on the touring. Freshly wrapped in some Michelin rubber. That is some good motivation right there. The touring had been sitting under a cover for a few months. Time to get it airborne again. I had already managed to source the parts I needed for the front end, so I jumped on that first. The E30 front brakes and hubs all came off without an issue. I mocked up the hub adapter with the E36 hubs, Things fit nicely. I slapped a used 328i rotor on and got a wheel bolted on to check for fitment. Not too shabby. The main nut of the hub adapter doesn't have a locking tap like the factory setup. Instead, it uses a left hand threaded locking nut. This requires a thread on the inside of the end of the spindle. This is done with a left hand M16x1.5 thread. Quite and annoying size to find. Ready to go with the caliper adapter. New rotors with some EBC greenstuff pads. All bolted up. Here you can see the L/H locking bolt. Not bad. So this is basically where I am at the moment. I'm still waiting on trailing arms to do the rear end 5 lug. I'm going to drop the whole rear subframe, clean it up, and then paint it. Then I'll rebuild it with the 318ti arms, some poly bushings and new stainless brake lines. If anyone around Christchurch has some E36 318ti compact rear suspension available, I'm interested. That's it for the massive post dump. Peace.

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lol - I have no idea what a 330 should cost but if those two guys ^ say 'hell NO' in the space of 60 minutes then I'd look elsewhere. You have been warned.

Hey Team another small update. Throttle bodies machined.

Sold the hateful thing. I think that's me done with bmws for a while.