Palazzo

16 minutes ago, 2773MB said:

My thoughts exactly, especially being so hesitant to let me test drive yet messaging & calling me daily to see if I want to buy… if they are so desperate you’d think they’d do the bare minimum (test drive) to get me over the line. 
 

Appreciate the links!! My only issue with that sort of ties into the above with if something goes wrong there’s no CGA protection with a private seller I believe? Please correct me if I’m wrong!

The car is still under factory warranty. 
Get a PPI done, ask if the warranty can be extended (I think that’s possible?), negotiate on the price. 
After that, how far wrong can you go?
It’s even the same colour I think?

Slightly older, but Nz new and still under factory warranty for less money.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/320i/listing/4622201110
 

and similar (alright, a bit smaller), newer and Nz new.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/218i/listing/4508971344

If the dealer you’re dealing with is that sh*t at this point, imagine how good the experience will be when something goes wrong.

Run away.

I changed my RFTs for non on my X5. It already had a spare. The ride is significantly better (to be fair I also changed from 21”to 20”), handling is no different, don’t think I would change back. But if you get a flat on a non RFT, it will destroy the tyre in less than 1km, on an X5 at least.

No, they were E53s. I looked at the Park and Sell one and another in West Auckland that was $9995 at a dealer.

I don’t remember one this tidy looking. Thought about one for a while and read the maintenance log from (Termipete?) Wellington and thought “yeah, nah.” $14.5k seems like a lot.

3 hours ago, Driftit said:

Was this the neglected one that sat in the Wairau Valley Park and Sell for quite some time?
12.1L/100 on average on the open road though...  That is not good for a low power NA V8.

I thought that one was black? Sat there for over a year at $8-9k?

Tempting as spares, even the right colour…

Have a look at Spareto next time, $170 delivered for a Bosch sensor.

Try Costco, they stock Bridgestone.

Cracked (f**ked) dash, $100.

Unless I’m wrong they’re on Rock Auto for $2.50-3.00 or thereabouts.

https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/bmw,1977,320i,2.0l+l4,1011474,engine,oil+drain+plug,10231

There was an ‘05 Nz new 330i on fb last week with 215km and a warranty until ‘25. Now sold, they’re out there.

What are they out of? E46?

Remember Crunchy from here? He built a couple of BMW turbos at least.

There’s a diesel zf box on FB now for $2300.

Thought I recognised the headers! 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/4565446855
 

Wasn’t this someone on here?

3 hours ago, kwhelan said:

clear choice, only 5.7% voted,bloody greens

I know, clear change. 
54.6% of 5.7% of the voters, or 3.11% of the total. 

31 minutes ago, Bruski said:

People tell me to stop reading the Guardian, but every now and again.....comedy gold:

Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs | Paris | The Guardian

 

Captures your Audi and most mid sized cars.  Plus a big chunk of evs. 

I saw that for sale. Hopefully a simple fix. I vaguely remember an issue like this that Ray (HellBm) fixed very easily. Maybe worth asking?

It was an insurance write off though wasn’t it? So rego would have been cancelled and need to be recomplied?

On 1/9/2024 at 11:12 AM, leonf said:

fyi, and for posterity   

Do we know where this went?

It’s not that bad, mine went down in value about 11% and up in premium about 14-15% from memory. My in laws went up 39% with zero claims.

I agree, the Cybertruck looks like it was drawn by 7 year olds and by all accounts, built by 10 year olds.