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Which I now own!!

A few with more rational pricing are popping up including this double facelift auto with moderate miles for 8k (edit: ONO, so you could probably drive it away for 7.5). https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/130i/listing/3146714682

You are special @Sammo... So very, very special. 🤪 😉

Ended up picking up the dark blue 2005 530i msport wagon I linked. Drove a 325i as well which was a bit sportier but felt a tad small for me. Not many low km diesels around at the moment in my budget, excluding gray/silver/white (fussy I know). It seems in great nick and drives well, it’s back at the dealer today sorting a spare key and checking out a couple of codes (purge control valve or maybe petrol cap by the look of it). Looking for a spare wheel kit now and investigating options for Bluetooth integration, might put one of the replacement screens in that retains idrive. Will no doubt have a few threads in other areas of the forum in due course. Thanks for the assistance.

Yes, we seem to be under a spam attack. Very targeted though, even mentioning BMWs in the message. We are blocking the users when they are reported, so keep sending them through. Cheers, Admin.

Please stop talking to my new girlfriend cheers.

the ae86 has gone, though not with any lingering sadness. It needed to go to make room in the garage for the car I have been looking for for what seems like ten years+. 1984 Fiat Strada 130TC Abarth. It's mint. Happy as, me.

mr nobody drinking too much mt difficulty wines it seems..

Curious if anyone else has received spam like this.

For ya'll lacking cool points, you can make friends with this new errr member.

By the sound of it your already in a complicated situation, if offering advice is make it worse i look for to reading about your remadie. Good luck.👍😂

Godamnit, though I was special

Thanks Jon @E30 325i Rag-Top we appreciate you keeping the lights on!

it even woke me from the dead .. have done a bit of deleting and deleting the bot accounts. keep the request coming in if you see them

Yep reported it immediately. I think she’s been listening to Lou Reed’s New Sensations. My red joystick…

I've had to do a fair bit of reading up. It's straightforward-ish but you need to make sure you read up on the requirements. You can't just buy a car and take it over, you have to be moving to Aussie with the intent to live there, you have to have owned and used the car for at least one year ect. The duties also make it very expensive. For my car, depending on how they value it, I'm looking at around 15-20k all up. Sounds crazy high, however the cars are also more expensive there. If I take that into account, plus the fact that I might not get a good price trying to sell it here, the fact that buying an unknown used car is a risk and I might have trouble finding my ideal spec at a good price... it still doesn't seem like a totally stupid idea to ship it Their import laws do indeed make bugger-all sense now that they have no local car production. And some job it did at saving their car industry lol. But they seem to love their duties and taxes, as well as all kinds of laws and fines a hell of a lot more than Kiwis!

if there's no obvious signs of coolant, it maybe the valley pipe (there shouldn't be any water in there. I've done a few of these with the same issue. also get the workshop to do a pressure test.

Masterton return via allll the B roads, didnt miss a beat

Go out to the car this morning and someone's decided to rip my spoiler off for themselves. Joy.