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Thinning out the fleet. 1999 540 Touring with 270000km on the car. Refreshed with 120000km motor and trans recently. All M5 susp.,Dif ,interor,Mirrors, AC backbox with decat. $8500 ono.

Here's the new (to me) vehicle ... 2003 E46 325i Motorsport with Individual Estoril Blue paint 123KMs on the clock and crosses off a number of BMW 'to-dos' for me ... 3-series E46 more modern straight 6 blue Intend to use as a daily driver in and out of work. Purchased from another BMW Car Club who has taken excellent care of it. Thanks to Jon at Auto38 for a thorough PPI and it'll go in next week to get a few bits seen to. Will report on that soon.

So picked the M3 up from welly in the weekend, love it. Got a bit to learn in terms getting a feel for it and setting it up the way I like, with various adjustments available around the dct, throttle response and edc etc. One thing for sure, it doesn't give the thump in the back the way a tuned 335i does. No doubt she goes hard when the revs are up, but you can understand why BMW may have deliberately kept the boost pretty low on the n54, so as not to sabotage the s65. Re gas mileage, here is what it looked like about 260kms into my trip from BP Mana, near Porirua, to New Plymouth. I haven't been able to verify this with a refill, but even if it's 20 or 30% optimistic, I'm more than happy with it. It crept up to 10.1 litres per 100kms by the time I got home, as the roads got more entertaining and I took a wee detour through some twisty bits ?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-2194809247.htm in light of the mishap, I am eyeing this. it's a beauty imo.

just saw it and it drove well. theres a little bit of coat peeling on the boot and spoiler, nothing a 300 dollar touch up cant fix, the sunroof works a treat. it is an ex Japan car, and has had the cooling system replaced may be ten years ago, probably due another. the 15" rims look lovely but the high profile tyre leaves it feeling a little wobbly, could do with some 17s. it is a worthy car to do it right.

It's been advertised on Facebook a few times over the last couple years, would be such a sweet car and especially if it was manual swapped.

Bloody boy racers. Who puts Powerflex in the missus family wagon, anyway???

I am buying photo 2, a 330ci Motorsport E46. I am wishing in the future to have it look either like photo 1 or 3. I know those are M3s and therefore more aggressive. I want the tyres straight, don’t like camber. Worse case Eibach Springs and Bilstein Struts (loves it on my e30). Would love actual photos and setup details of others who own this exact model even if it don’t look like this. This is not another post of what yours looks like. What I would love to know is with your detailed setup and photo what works or does not work. E.g. ride height, callipers, rubbing, wearing, road noise, before and after from factory, etc. thanks

Wait til you are stuck in traffic or always do short trips heh. Although if you are in the Taranaki it shouldn't be a problem.

Super inspiring thread Cam! I just got a 318i auto that needs a birthday and a m52 is looking like what it's going to get - do you mind if I flick you a message and pick your brains about your build?

Hey team, just joined Bimmersport. Im the owner of a 328i technoviolet wagon and a boston green 325 coupe. Hoping to have a lot of fun here and learn some new stuff.

Looks tidy, seats are quite unique. I agree its begging for a manual swap and a nice set of rims

I've just ordered one from the link Dom provided. I'm sure INPA will be quite a step up from using the torque app.

They're not Style 359. 359 have 8 segments and those have 7...

they look awesome

CC is a total loss. am shattered.