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11 years later, it finally gets what it should have had out of the box

Today is a good day. Travelled down to see Dave and take ownership of his very special E38. 1 of only 113 RHD facelifts made, with 24 being individuals. car is really in great shape and Dave has completed lots of work to get it from where it was to a reliable runner. in saying that a few battery issues on start up LOL but that looks more like a faulty new battery. Trip back to Auckland now, having a lot of fun for the first few hundred kms. Promised to Dave to keep it stock and if the time ever comes give him first right of refusal to repurchase. Now to carry on the journey and tidy up the bodywork issues. New front bumper required, doesn’t look worth recovering. basic paint tidy up and re-spray in the same colour. (Looking for good spot in Auckland for this guys) Sympathetic upgrade of the radio and music space. interior colour touch up of the blue to restore new door card for the drivers door, don’t think that’s recoverable either but we’ll see. God I love these cars and this one tops it off. Did I say today was a good day? picture taken half way home at Taumarunui last night (sad looking Audi next to it keeps sneaking in for the pictures... in for nose correction next week by the way, thanks to a rather high bump stop)

Hi, I'm looking to return my E39 exhaust back to factory. It's had the 'scuba tank' deleted. I'm looking for the sport muffler which I think is the version that has the straight tip out the back, no dump pipe. Would need posted to Wellington. Anyone done the delete and have their old muffler lying round? Cheers, Adro.

Sorry, can't help with that one. The electronic records don't go back as far as the E28, and it was well before my time!

Just came across this...

only thing is a complete rear end from a e92 m3 or e81 1M , pretty much only M cars have lsd now , unless you retro fit or special order ?

Some headunits have the control built in to work with the MF wheel, some dont. If not there is an additional little unit/controller to make it work with older headunits. If you go to any audio shop and ask them which model headunit will work with the MF wheel they should be able to help you. From memory I used a late model Sony in the past and it worked fine.

Thought you might say that ... There's a nice silver one in Welly for $5K (248KMs) or the beaut dark grey individual one in Akld for $7K (170KMs). Show's @Dr. M's car is great value but I'm just not after another 8.

Actually seems like a reasonable assumption.

Bump. Parts are coming off this weekend. Have updated original post with what's still available.

Fuggin' retrofit 3rd brake lights. Who's idea was this? From Jan 1st 1990 you must have a third brake light on a vehicle. Any car manufactured after this date and imported to NZ must have one retro-fitted. So that's BMW E30s manufactured in 1990. Not (identical) BMW E30s manufactured in 1989. I've got enough on my plate dealing with redundancy and trying to make ends meet while shipping Mrs M to the UK for her mother's funeral (we'd all go, but money doesn't allow that). So, having made the sad (not as sad as losing my Mother-in-Law, obviously) decision to sell the Baur if work doesn't turn up in the meantime, imagine exactly how pleased I was to witness the complete and utter shambles of a job which was done to fit a 3rd brake light in the middle of the boot lid. Basically - the boot lid is trash. Completely stuffed. Not only did the lid not receive any sort of prep or corrosion inhibiting treatment when the holes were gouged out of it (use the 1/2" drill bit straight into sheet metal - no pilot hole) but close inspection reveals it was creased when this was done. It's rotted across 50% of the boot lid, including rusting through. Most of the panel looked fine, but that was because corrosion from the inside hadn't broken through the outside paint. Repair is possible, but any welding is likely to distort the panel even more than it is already. So it'll be a replacement bootlid, prep, paint, paint matching... Wouldn't it be nice if others could make the effort to look after our cars as well as we will?