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^^I'm sorry you seem to have entered a forum for proper cars by mistake.. While on the subject of headlights, how f**king hard is it to turn the bloody things on when it's dark?? I have lost count of the number of pillocks that have been driving around after dark without their lights on. Some have been in urban areas where there are streetlights, so they can see where they are going, but it still makes it pretty damn hard to see your black car. Even flashed one muppet when I saw he had no lights on, and he just smiled and waved back - jeesh. Do they not wonder why their dashboard is hard to read...

Yep pretty much late model V10 i already have a few spare boxes and a triple plate clutch itll use a aftermarket ecu

Might add a pair of turbos yet, but kinda like that sound with no air box 10x trumpets and 2x 3" exhaust Going from a 1900kg to a 1350kg should go ok maybe

Yes, I counted.

Hi All, Just introducing myself, I've recently bought an e39 540i as a second car for convenience and a bit of a project. I've been out of the performance car scene for some years now with a young family and home ownership taking my primary focus but recently made the decision that if i needed a second car then it was going to be a fun toy. I've previously had a bit of a spotty history with cars: 1980 Mazda 323 My first car, not great in any respect, certainly not fast but i think that was by design. Totally awesome though because with it came my freedom. 1990 Suzuki Swift A hopeless car, totally top heavy, but the envy of others at the time because it was quite new. Only really got it because my parents were going to trade it in otherwise so sold it to me cheap ($3000). 1993 Nissan Primera 2.0TE My pride and joy from when i bought it for $12,000 till when i rolled it off a cliff in a late night drive to Christchurch from Nelson via the Lewis Pass. In the invervening years i'd poured tens of thousands into it in the form of body kit bits, performance upgrades, adjustable suspension, competition winning stereo installation. I vowed never to spend that much money modifying a car again. 1993 Nissan Silvia Qs The car that saved me from my boy racer years. It had a totally pointless body kit that hit the ground whereever you went and god help you if you encountered a rabbit on a dark road in the middle of the night because that would be the end of the front bar. I struck up a good relationship with a local paint and body shop as a result though and they would repair and repaint by front bar for $180 a shot. I soon realised that this car wasn't any fun to drive because it was so stressful and i was driving my Honda City Turbo more so i sold this one. 1982 Honda City Turbo MK1 What as awesome fun little car, i'll still tell anyone that will listen that if you haven't driven one of these then you're missing out. They have a good power to weight ratio with ~100HP to 700KG, but ultimately they are just good fun to thrash around and because they cost next to nothing you just don't care if you do anything to it. 1986 Honda City Turbo MK2 The next logical interation, i picked this one up from Westport where it had been thrashed to within an inch of it's life. It came to me coloured blue and with serious frontal damage. Unfortunately because they are so rare and parts are hard to come by it had to go to the panel beater to have its front wings unmangled. While it was there i thought i'd get an complete respray in a rather fetching 'old gold' colour. After fitting huge (for the car) 15" Civic Type R mags, a rediculously over-speced Greddy type R blow off valve and the remnants of the stereo system from my poor old Primera it went about making a reputation for itself. The sort of reputation that in all honesty wasn't totally warrented. While it was a good performing and very loud car it was far from the Holden Commodore destroyer that everyone else seemed to think that it was. I lost so much money on this car but it was worth every cent, i bought it for $1800, spent $1500 painting it, sold it to a rally driver for $1500, bought it back again several years later with a different engine for $3000 and eventually blew it up and sold it as scrap for $200. Since then i've seen it back on the road again so it seems that it wasn't quite as dead as i thought. 1998 Mitsubishi Legnum 2.5V6 This was an oportunistic purchase from my father who was upgrading to a VR4 Legnum (that i also bought from him, see below). It was a good towing car and really marked my decline towards sensible family cars. Not really very good or bad at anything, ok for towing i guess and fecking thirsty on the fuel. 2003 Mitsubishi Legnum VR4 Type S This was an excellent car! All the power in the world and all the space of a big car. I once wound it so far off the clock that the needle came back around to the zero mark again, so much for the 180kph speed limiter i thought it had. It also had active yaw control which Mitsi stole from the Evo so it was damn near impossible to crash. I would frequently throw it into corners at far to higher speeds, plant my right foot and the computers would sort everything out. Ultimately the turbos started to get a bit long in the tooth and so I traded it in on a Ford Falcon. This one lost serious money over the few short years my family owned it. Bought for $20k by my father and sold to me 18 months later for $12k, i drove it like my hair was on fire for a couple of years and sold it for $3000. 2001 Nissan 200SX Spec R Manual My dream car ever since i first saw it in the showroom in 1999, i finally was in the financial position to buy one so i thought "what the hell". I found a mint condition unmodified one and it was everything i always dreamed it would be. I unfortunately got a job a short time later that came with a company car and so this sat in the garage one day until i made the stupid mistake of thinking i should liquidate it because i wasn't driving it. What a stupid person i was. I didn't lose much money on it though because i kept it original and i think that people appreaciate that. 2006 Ford Falcon XR6 I bought this as a family car to replace our aging Legnum VR4, ironically before we had a family. It was as you'd expect in most respects, solid, heavy, powerful, unreliable. We sold up from the suberbs and moved to the country while owning this and so it had to go to be replaced with a more practicle 4x4. 2003 Mitsubishi Challenger 2.8TD This is a good car for the reasons that we bought it. Its got lots of grunt for towing, lots of space for the family (now with two kids) and lugging stuff around, lots of 4x4 capability for the odd ocasion that its required. So this brings me to my decision to buy a BMW. I was ok the lookout for a cheap car to get me backwards and forward from the train station. We were expecting another child and my wife didn't want to have to bundle everyone in the car all the time to ferry me to the train. I eventually settled on a BMW after doing a bunch of research and driving my brother-in-laws 318i. It seemed like the best power to weight ratio would be in a 540i and the best engine came out after 1998 so there was a base line requirement. Further research seemed to indicate that there was actual value in the m-sport pack if you could find a good one for the right money. Money was of course a major concern and i initially had a $3000 budget for a second car, this budget went out the window fairly quickly and i resolved to spend 'what was required to get a good one' even if i needed to walk to the train station for a few months and save some more money. Then one fateful sunday night this one came up on trademe. It wasn't the m-sport model but it was only $4000 so i jumped on it. It is a 1999 e39 540i with the M62TU Engine and 216,000kms on the clock. It was in Wanganui so i got a friend to go and look at it, he seemed to like it and so unfortunately skipped the AA check that i should have done and talked myself into buying it sight unseen. Since receiving it i've discovered a few things wrong with it which i'm slowing going through trying to fix. Misfire on cylinder number 2. Airbag light on. Parasitic battery drain, usually over several days but sometimes catastrophically over the space of about 30 minutes. So thats my story, sorry for the lack of photos, the car is currently in bits in my garage but i'll be sure to get some more photos when its back together. I'm really looking forward to driving it with all 8 cylinders firing because i haven't had that opportunity yet.

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Kyu is right, you need to do a really huge burnout to check properly.

I am looking at 003's in 225/45/17 and 245/40/17 for my e46, Tony's quoted $920 in Wellington. Personally I can't stand the stance look and prefer my tyres to match the rims with a square sidewall. I am reliably informed that's the way they are designed to work.

Or the ones with park lights on.... They've thought about it........ but not enough to put on anything bright enough for other to see OR make a difference to their vision... Maybe they're too dim (the drivers I mean... I know the lights are!)

Yes... it's a bitch with five holes on both sides. Now Steve's gotta tame it or flame it

Let the fun begin Steve

I was told that there would be beer and boobies?

It is facinating how a $2XX,000 car ends up like that We see it all the time with $1XX,000 cars from the 90s and early 00s left rotting away priced at pocket change money. But the 8 was worth twice that of most things.

How can you judge any car when you drive a fit? xDxDxD

Time to stop reading other peoples projects and start a thread of my own as a motivational driver to make some progress. As a spotty graduate at PwC the Australasian Partner had an E39 M5.....I had a 1972 Datsun 1600. One days I said I wills have me one of dose...... Fast forward 10 years and after two years of serious looking but not touching I was finally in a position to buy. Swooped on a 2 owner 2003 M5 lurking in a garage in Paratai Drive. The owner wasn't sure what the sport button did so it hadn't been thrashed. Well depends what you mean by thrashed......the interior of the boot was full of building rubble and there was 10 years worth of body slime on the steering wheel and switches. With only 95k on the clock and a full service history I wasn't about to say no to finally looking and touching...... First job was to compile the list of jobs. Cleaning........cleaning.....cleaning. Get rid of Roadstone tyres - enter Michellin PSP2s Replace worn steering wheel (thanks Ray @HellBM) Martin (breakmywindow) diagnosed duff thermostat - parts bought......not quite fitted.... Get rid of tow bar - new rear insert for bumper purchased ready for that job..... New oil separators and hoses.....not quite fitted........ MMMMM - liberate aural pleasure - Remus cans.....this time fitted.....improvement but I would still like louder aural pleasure........ Tints.....thanks Amber and Car Folie. Now restoration is being prompted by dog vs car incident. Dog ran off with a yelp, front end of III5 scarred and littered on Coromandel roads. Happy to say every little improvement brings me much satisfaction. Still much to do. Pic below from day of purchase Vanity....... Stretching legs on Thames Coast road with mate in his e36 M3 evo. Nice car..... Remus comes to town November snow - Car Folied.... M5 love in III5 vs dog.... Repairs pending........

http://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=919259908 This must be pretty rare, 200ks but tempting all the same even ex a yard $ Obviously ex UK in miles but how many of these would around?

It also allows you to go balls out around say on a track or wet coner right up to that mechanical grip limit. You can also initiate a slide and it will do a good job of holding it and not letting it oversteer too much. The MK60 is a productionisaed OEM version of the Bosch motorsport unit. certain version can be turned into a full blown motorsport ABS/Traction system. The Georg Plaza 1 series Judd car had this system with bespoke PC software to control the maps and telemetry from the unit. Its also a true stand-alone unit which can be used in other vehicles requiring signal only from source sensors and proxied signals from the DME.

Pretty sure you need the mk60 DSC which I think is late 2002. Mine is December 02 MY. On a closed road you couldn't get sideways, but it allows way more slip before DSC kicks in.

there we go

what ecu setup you gonna use , you gonna run the variable quad vanos setup etc??

may have something that I removed from a e46 and also a kit from a x5 , when you pick up the cupholders , will show you

^ This. Side lights should be banned. Except angel eyes on cars that were equipped with them from factory.

Not to sound like a negative guy or anything but can a quick drive up and down the road really determine an engine and gearbox condition accurately?

My brothers keen on it....I just want the style 5s. Its only good for wrecking in my mind

And a lot of drivers don't look at their speed etc anyway, hence the slamming of brakes when they see a policecar or speed camera.

Is that... a v10?!

Not quit but on its way

I *might* have a copy sitting on my office desk at home..... will look for you :-)

Oooh, it's has arrived.

This was back in 2014...

Looks like a bit of a swamp car. Imagine the smell.

This car is f**ked beyond f**ked. Its spent as long as anyone I know can remember parked right next to the ocean in Port Chalmers, Last time I saw it out there it had 4 flats and was covered in rotten greenery. Stay away! hahah

Staggered style 5's!!

Nice car pedigree! Don't worry about skipping the AA report, their reports are worth about as much as a child's crayon drawings.

Yeah, a e36 323i would sneak under the limit. With a factory 0-100 time of 8 seconds its just as quick as any other car.

That's not good, where did the parts get stolen from? They are pretty scarce in NZ so if they pop up for sale anywhere I will check with you. I don't have a full engine but I have quite a collection of used parts that I replaced when I re-built my engine (twice) that may come in handy. There is a full motor and box for sale on ebay.co.uk at the moment, and they often pop-up on German ebay or alternatively keep an eye on www.s14.net (mostly US based - but lots more cars there). You can message me a list of what you need and I can tell you what I have...

Black on black with the best wheels, awesome car!

damnit, wouldve been in touch in a heartbeat if i wasnt so attached to my golf. was looking for one of these Good luck, dont imagine itll hang around long at that price

///M 'track mode' enabled by Hell BM Really nice upgrade. I only drive with this or DSC off now.

She was trying to flog his wallet because he never paid her. He was holding her nipple and was threatening her to do it again for the same price or I'll tear it off

More parts! ... E30 life .... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sharp pricing man, best interior spec too. If we weren't begging and pleading for a house I'd be all over this sucker like a rash! Best of luck!

silver is such a weird colour. with the right options/bodykit/tidiness it looks absolutely amazing, on the other hand it can look absolutely sh*t. obviously this car is the former.

Its the silver sister to mine, almost the same options list. GLWS

saw this on trademe. nice car and nice pics. glws

Nice

I recently bought V710 rims directly from VMR for my 135i so just ask them. I would think the majority of their wheels end up on BMW's of all shapes and sizes so they have really accurate info and know what you will need. Mitch who was my customer service rep got it spot on for me - the wheels look amazing and have a great stance and even make the car look a little lowered with no rubbing or anything - I still have stock suspension and arches etc

NFS II SE was the absolute business back in the day, kicked off my obsession with the F50. I reckon Porsche 2000 was the high-water mark for the series tbh, lost interest after the focus shifted.