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So picked this up from Dunedin and drove back to Morrinsville over a couple of days. Wow what a drive, 1500 kms with a mixture of boring straights, amazing scenery, mad hairpins, wicked roads, mental tourists and flickering traction control lights Special thanks to Mason in Dunedin for checking it out for me, LEGEND! Replacing the E500 as the daily driver. Will use this as a bit of a record of works etc. as they come up. So to the details: M62TUB44 540i, Steptronic box Production date 26.07.1999 , Jap export version, first registered NZ 2008 Colour: Biarritzblau Metallic (363) M-Sport Package, sports suspension II, told M5 rear bumper/ Mirrors and M5 exhaust (pic for ref) happy to be told otherwise. Be interested to know. Purrs real nice ! Mileage :152000 km's Summary: Well maintained engine, drivetrain, mechanicals. Stored outside for 3 years but cared for. Works completed by PO: Valve cover gaskets, PCV Valve, all cooling hoses, Valve covers blasted and powder coated, Various engine gaskets, battery replaced, plugs replaced, glass headlight fronts replaced, had three and half years did 20000kms. Avoided metal roads like the plague! Works to do: Aircon doesn't work, apparently not need in DUN (?). been to Hamilton Cool Air and searching for leaks, nothing apparent - refilled and returning for die testing in a fortnight. Clay bar paint surface. Polish and wax. Detail interior. Detail Exterior. Rear window regulator broke on the way down with putting the windows down all the time with no AC, lol. Replacement ordered arriving tomorrow. May put NZ 4:3 or 16:9 radio with RDS in as currently just Business Jap version with band expander, works really well though. Other then that looks OK. Just given it its first wash to remove 1500kms of grime, muck and bugs.

Hi all. My 1st technical post in this place. My 1st bimmer, bought 2nd hand. Not much history about it. Anyway, to the topic, my rear-right door window is seem to be stuck closed. Not sure what's going on. If I press the button down, seems like there's a subtle click from behind the panel. So, I guess, the motor should be fine. Or is not? What is the signs if my motor is busted or if the regulator it self is busted? I haven't tried to crack open the door card yet. Haven't got any guts yet to do it. If its my honda, I'd be puling the glass window out. I'm quite handy with tools and mechanical. But, when it comes to bimmers, I'm kind of chickened out. Worried that I make things worse without a good decent guidance. Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks everyone. WN

take good pictures and post. if you can, remove airbox and other things in the way so you can have a good look. most problems, depending on your backyard grease monkey skills can be fixed without going to the local mechanic. as i said trace the coolant leak, if that fails first things to check : drivebelt system / pulleys reservoir reservoir cap hoses waterpump radiator think that's all of it. might be lucky and just be a hose

M52TU (so E46). Not the E36 M52.

50km/h in Auckland traffic? Hooning!!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sport mode and manual shifting loses it's charm when you're doing it in Auckland traffic at 50km/h, to be fair

Guts, that's rooted.

Selling my 528i Msport, wanting 4 grand. Was gonna do Ls1/2jz swap now plans changed gonna study and also got too many cars. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-988789795.htm Cars now sold, can't delete topic no permission.

Yep, analogRead is very slow and I'm pretty sure it's blocking (stops all other program execution and waits for the ADC). I haven't used the Arduino serial library that much but will check how it goes before committing to it. I usually use a timer to generate an interrupt to trigger an ADC conversion. On the ADC interrupt I store the value into an array and increment the mux. This way the ADC is sampling at a fixed rate in the background with very little input from the CPU and the values are stored into an array of integers. You can do the same for the serial port too - keep the overhead very low. From memory the Arduino analogRead takes some very long time like 100us. If it is actually 100us then several thousand processor cycles are wasted... Conrolling the ADC, Serial Port and SPI for the SD card using interrupts is very much faster than the standard libraries. I'm certainly not that good a programmer and mostly self taught - just been doing it for a very long time.

Not many updates for a while as I haven't driven this car much recently. Went to the skidpad a few weeks ago tho - it was heaps of fun! MTOYSkidPad7 by Christian Taylor, on Flickr MTOYSkidPad5 by Christian Taylor, on Flickr MTOYSkidPad6 by Christian Taylor, on Flickr

the fk453s are pretty good. If you want the best go Michelin