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Get it out now. Check all lines before using car in anger. Alternatively take it for a ride on guy fawkes

Hi all, I have bought Brad's car, and will be picking it up from Auckland this Friday and driving it back to it's new home in Dunedin. I thought I should join the forum as well as it played a part in my purchasing the car, with helping to research its background. Looking forward to spending many pleasant hours behind the wheel of my first BMW! Thanks again Brad, your assistance and help was really appreciated!

Na the car will be completely toasted and not worth the cost to repair. Best to just give it to me, I'll dispose of the whole thing for ya ?????

@Mad_Max ? so if any of you lads get water in the tank - YOU KNOW THE WAY TO GO! lol

Our old inboard with it's 351 Cleveland and 60l alloy tank used to sit parked up for 8 months of the year. First thing we used to do was pour a litre of methylated spirits (which is ethanol) into the tank before towing to the caravan park (over an hour away of shaking the tank) before starting it. Never had a problem once we learned that trick. I was told not so much water being soluble in it, rather the ethanol bonds to the water and absorbs the compression in the motor so the water molecules didn't cause any damage when they didn't compress. I'm not a science teacher so could very well be wrong lol (and would be interested to hear the science behind it if I am) but either way, ethanol/methylated spirits has been known for years to work like that.

@Olaf i have a story that might make you laugh then haha back in my e30 days when i was younger, one of the spare e30's i had was parked up for a long time, and water got into the fuel tank, alot of it, how, i dont know, but it wouldn't start because water was the only thing going through the fuel pump we tried draining the fuel tank, but the design of the fuel bowl is that even after draining the fuel, the water remained right in the area that would get sucked up by the fuel pump I didnt have any suction type things that could reach it either But water is soluble in ethanol, so i poured like 5l of ethanol in, it dissolved all the water, and then poured the fuel in and just like that, the e30 was back in action.

@kiwi535 their fuel components come from Singapore Fun fact - not sure if anyone remembered the Diesel crisis a decade or so about, Gull was the only brand which wasn't contaminated from the sulfur content, i remember there being Bank Run type queues at the stations during the time until the other fuel companies could redo all their Diesel Things may have changed where they buy from with Caltex purchasing them, but i wouldn't imagine so because they have very specific mixing rules, i.e. the import the components in separately, and mix it into the different fuel grades at terminals New Zealand at Mount Maunganui Hewletts Road, They make huge savings on Tax brackets, because there are different tax levies if your importing a Fuel Grade, or an un-mixed component which they mix locally to produce the end product at the pump, that's why they are able to always under cut fuel prices, they are at a huge cost advantage to produce. Gull Bio Diesel gets its components from recycling/refining left over by-products from the dairy industry, by memory they are the only company to implement this process, the other companies have to manufacture the required components for it. Other companies in NZ get their fuel from Marsden Point and some from overseas Not sure who gets what from where, but Gull definitely gets it components ex-singapore and produces the fuel products locally.

I can understand buying car to flick but justifying a 4k premium due to the 'extras added' is grasping

Sounds just like the local brothels down here...........

I googled that for you https://www.autoevolution.com/news/bmw-cars-can-cope-with-e10-fuel-32393.html