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Right. So I now own this thing,Thanks Tyler (pldubs) who drove it down from Auckland over the weekend. And am currently going over it and fixing a few bits and pieces and giving it a service before the missus gets it as it will be her car. already got all the filters and oil today from Paul at Milland. ordered them at 10am and were at my door by 1pm without even paying for them yet! He is the man! So...what needs done Inside silver trims have clips all broken off and drivers door is cracked so really need a whole new set. stereo has been refitted poorly so needs replaced and rewired-see below rear speaker not screwed in and missing cover front woofers don't go rear ashtray cover is missing screw on handbreak handle, currently just attached to the boot and spins round rear door card not sitting right leather on airbag cover coming away front drivers door card missing tool kit tools a bloody good clean!! think that's it... exterior remove manual side mirrors with electric side mirrors -see below take off ugly acs wheels-see below ac electric fan is missing blades and is hitting something fuel gauge stops reading below quarter, resulting in running out of gas at 4am in the middle of nowhere! all front under plastics gone, air ducts, front inner arch liners, left temp sens etc -all got torn off by a possum in delivery maybe new wheels good clean and wax etc First issue was rewire the stereo as a previous owner has put the original one back in a made an absolute mess of it, aswell as breaking the mounts off it so it falls out. once I got that all back up and running I noticed the front woofers weren't going so pulled off the door cards to find an absolute mess! they had wired up a set of cross overs and left them in but put the factory speakers back in which the terminals were shorting on each other so that's why there was no sound. further more they have had non oem non electric side mirrors fitted but instead of just unplugging the wires theyre just cut them off coming out of the PLUGGED IN!!! loom. WTF? as well as cutting them off the mirror end aswell. some people are f**king stupid! and looking at the amount of cables there they were folding and heated mirrors originally there. some people aye??? so now im on the hunt for a new set of electric ones. found a few on trademe so will see how I get on. also changed wheels and removed top eyelids. looks much better will hopefully be able to find parts shortly to have it all back together and ready for daily use. PEACE!

Those wheels on it make it look so much better already!

Nice summer cruiser. Trying to work out what spoiler you've got on the boot - is it just the bottom half of the Tech-2 Spoiler set?

Love the dog. They are so awesome. How old?

From the LVVTA So here's what I reckon, you're removing standard seats and replacing with other. Modifyed seat mountings need certifying, so I think that's where the cert comes into it. I know this isn't exactly what you're trying to achieve, which is why I reckon you need a chat with a certifier.

Nice dog!

What about a tidy low km 03 E39 530i Motorsport!?

It big enough for the 540 however you cant take a swing at it as the neighbour has a concrete gate post stopping a full go at it (tried that one)

Yeah I would flip the grate so the curve is upwards and you wouldn't dip into it so much, I had a similar prob at my old house but was the curbing that went down to low... a little bit of quickcrete and a broom fixed it for me the curb was pretty rough like yours and my arguement to the council would have been it looks better now anyway, although TBH if they did hit me up i would have said it was like that when we bought it haha

(FYI - everybody knows your address from that - dunno if that worries you. May want to stealth edit the street signs) Council aren't likely to be helpful, though might be worth a try. If it were me, I'd put a metal plate over it (be a helluva lot faster than wating for the council). If they complain about the plate, tell them to fix the drain - it's not your bit that's the problem. The drain should never have been there, and it certainly shouldn't be that far sunken into the road. If you go metal plate, dynabolt it down, at least on the concrete end to minimise the clanging and movement.

Took the box out today. Was kind of funny, was being super super careful with it as I was taking it out, strapped it to my jack and lowered and pulled it out very slowly. Expecting it to be heavy-ish. Then I un-strapped it and just picked it up. Weighs no way near what I expected, guess I should have looked up first? Took the pedals out, etc. what an annoying job, huffing and puffing trying to get past all the wires to get the bolts out. Upside down and all over the place! Peace

Would it be weird if I asked you to take a quick phone pic of the fake M5's exhaust system? Just wondering what they've done... Whether they've done it properly and cut out the spare wheel to make space for the quad, or if the exhaust is as silly as the M5 badge, like this:

that yellow 1 is by far the most fun at hampton downs... trust me

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I would be patient my friend, there are a few Estoril Blue Evo M3's out there, just hold out. Don't settle for something you have to convince yourself that's what you want, personally, get the car you really want

Don't you drive an automatic station wagon and a automatic soft top? Your driveway must look like in belongs to a semi retired couple in Remuera circa late 80's I will enjoy my manual sports car on my 100th birthday

after having my xbox "repaired" 4 times i smashed it with a hammer and vowed never to buy another one. let alone pay for online play. PS4 on pre-order.