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Thanks for pinging me @Ghost Chip, I'd not seen this part of the thread. It's been nicely engineered by P&S, they know their stuff. Yes it was sold earlier this year - allegedly on bottle caps for less than the ask. Was that April? Suspension described at the time as Jamex and Bilstein. It looks to me like a good tidy car. And an excellent point of difference: it's certed. One detail I'm surprised about is use of a 3.46 LSD. I think that's a bit too tall for an M42. Factory is 4.10 or (optional 3.91) as far as I know; they made them short-ish for sporting acceleration, the target was the VW GTi 16v mkii which was lighter (I used to own one). LSD was an option on the iS, though I'm unsure if all 25 NZ cars wore LSD as part of the spec from BMWNZ. In the classic car world, a well-executed *replica* (of anything relatively rare - M5, 911 2.7RS, M535i etc) is typically worth around half (more or less) of the real thing, depending on factors like how tidy it is, how well maintained it is, what details are right... things that really set it apart from just another engine swap or modded car. I'd expect a good tidy well-maintained iS to attract around $45-50k in today's market (NZ). Will this car win that kind of money? Crack the popcorn and watch. I think at that ask he should have it on a very tidy set of 14" baskets, and include the BBS reps in the price. Just a gentle point of order mate @Ghost Chip , I'm not *trying* to make a replica! The project goal is to complete my car as a replica, and it will be so. 😉 It'll be an honest replica, never to be passed-off as the real thing, though. First order of the day is it has to be fun to drive, clean, tidy, and reliable. There will be a few details on my car that sway toward restomod such as purple tag rack; I'm leaving the e36 intake alone as DISA just makes sense, no need to be a hair-shirt anorak and source an e30 intake for completeness. I have a plan for the interior, I have a number of key details that will go together before cert, and set it apart from other replicas. I'm trying to make up my mind about when the iS badge goes onto the boot! 😁 I trust that doesn't sound too serious - the car has been a labour of love, though is all about driving enjoyment. First of all though I need to get all this renovation work completed at home, get a bit more time back to myself. I've barely driven my e30 since June, and sure am missing it. Hopefully I'll get to drive it next week. I guess I'd better put the red e30 onto my watch list. Cheers!

4 big old charge receptacles in the back. I see no problem here.

"Immaculate for year" FFS. Either it is immaculate, or it isn't!

Good effort ... Unless he put it in reverse by mistake. 😂

Hi all New member here but have been driving 3 series since the word go. Daily driving my 09 335i 6M currently and am loving every minute of it. Would be interested to see what others are on here Also have an e91 on trademe for sale too if anyone is interested.

Last FCP delivery for the year, merry early xmas! 😎

I refurbed them. Started with some stripper but the 40 Yr old paint was too stubborn. So, I had a mate media blast them. Then I went to spray them but as soon as I opened my primer, it all started to set in the tin. I quickly rushed them down to a local paint guy to have them painted. I bought new centre caps and got The Panel Store in Papatoetoe to colour match. It all came out pretty bang on in the end. Finished them off with some RE003s.

Damn! I'm slow on that market - stopped following e46 M3 as I couldn't justify buying one. My view is clearly too last March! 😁

That is a tough one, although the average asking price from four E46 M3's currently for sale is $62k now... including a vert and two autos.

Went for $46,100, seems like good buying these days TBH

It’s an E30, he obviously lost the back end and went down the bank backwards!! 😩

@Olaf Haha sorry mate, didn’t mean anything by it at all. It’s your car so obviously it’s up to you, but, it’d be so satisfying to do it when it’s finished and the last thing on the checklist is putting the iS badge in there!

yes, though at that time people were baulking at paying beyond $30-35k for a tidy 325i Msport. Not all 318iS have sport seats (globally, not just NZ); some are optioned with comfort seats. I've given up looking for sport seats.

Unsold last night, it certainly failed to sell under the hammer.

Had Novus Porirua, repair a similar stone damage on my F11 Touring, did an excellent job and if your insurance is with Vero (hence $500 excess on replacement) the excess does not apply to repairs - so they picked up the tab. Win win! Oh and we were all travelling to Lake Ferry for their annual run. Great selection of cars!

100% - ordered new FCP OEM rear badge plus 325 & 'i' ('i' sold separately haha) and a $75 ///M badge front and rear 🤣 Even new Mtechnic stickers

325iX power

I think they want you to show them your crack

Need to get some chrome badges for the rear imo, black badges are meh on a car like this.

I like them. If you ever went for clear or smoked indicators it would look slick too

I like the choice of silver wings for the plates on your car. looks super clean to me

Considering the, arguably, best E30 318iS has been recently valued and insured for not a considerable amount more than this is listed for I think it will struggle to sell as a replica.

If I was after a boring car, this one would be real nice. Great color, interior and B58. If only it was a 540i https://www.trademe.co.nz/3381569364

Enjoy, they can be a real mission in the wet, I’ve slid around at 15km/h. An older BMW mechanic told me once that they used to get regularly damaged on mechanics test drives in the rain, so only the foreman was allowed to take them out.

Those are the brand new genuine silver euro plates 🤣 maybe I should have gone black - definitely look faded from some angles

First update after a week or so of ownership and a few 100kms... First few goodies arrived - A Condor 'Shorty' Shift knob and my new Euro Plates - went with silver 'wings' and really happy with the look at the front, although against the black rear plate frame the lack of contrast on certain angles just looks a bit white - we will see - looks better IRL than in the pictures - its just a lighter silver than I had hoped. Took her out this morning for a proper country drive out Helensville / Makarau way - it was drizzling and the suspension is tired and tires old so I didn't go nuts but had loads of fun. Observations: LOVE this exhaust / engine note - Loud raspy wail above 4K / great undulating burble at idle, blipping downshifts sounds fantastic and pops on upshifts and deceleration if you provoke it - so good. Unknown short shifter is nice, got a new shifter cup on way but no need to fiddle here Love the feedback through the wheel and happy with the slower rack (for now at least?) coming from a purple tag E46 100% need to do a suspension refresh - ride is quite hard and bouncy - happy with how flat it is through bends however, so will keep the sways and just change the bushes, maybe add a strut brace given the age More civilised than I expected on the motorway, aside from aforementioned bouncy ride - presumably due to dampers being past it Fixed a bad rattle in drivers door (was worn door hinge pads - a bit of electrical tape and it feels like a bank vault now) - flappy glove box is only other rattle of note now - not bad for such high kms Will also get drivers seat re-foamed when I get it the interior reupholstered and change the seat shocks - too much movement. Stupid easy to get the rear to step out on greasy roads - need a driver upgrade now - almost made a fool of myself in an intersection giving a touch of throttle mid corner - need to learn how an LSD feels? Will leave the old Potenza's on through summer and take it easy in wet - they don't seem bad otherwise, but will leave them for now as need to decide if I'm going to go to 16" or not after I do the suspension. Stoked with my decision even though the car needs plenty of improvement - feels somewhere between an NA MX5 and the E46 which is exactly what I had hoped.

While the "landcrab" may have been widely despised for its unconventional (for the time) features by those who never drove one, it actually handled better than pretty much anything else on NZ roads back in the day. Thanks to its Hydralastic suspension, once it got up to cruising speed (and that did take a while) it stuck to the road, cornered well and handled rough surfaces in a manner similar to the Hydropneumatic suspension on the Citroen CX. Unfortunately, extrapolating the virtues of "a wheel in each corner", "float on fluid" and FWD from the Mini to the 1100, 1300, 1800 and beyond, proved to be less successful as the cars became larger. But they are still a reminder that Britain once was a leader in automotive technology Cheers...

Keep up boys its been on tradeMe for most of the year at IMS. 😉

You’ve got it right in the first sentence, not sure about the rest of it. The over-riding factor in any factory engine tune is emissions, it’s easy to refine a tune to give more power and better economy (especially in a diesel) but one or other of the controlled emissions (NOx, CO2, HC, particulates, etc) will then go off the chart. So if you are an after market chip tuner that doesn’t have to submit to emissions test regimes then it’s easy to do, and this is the bit that really annoys me. Spend millions on development and testing to make it cleaner, and then someone can come along and re-tune and all that goes out the window, or exhaust in this case. Ask any tuner or chip supplier which EU emissions their new tune meets and you get silence.. A close second consideration is then warranty / product life, most factory engines are de-tuned to not push the limits of component life… in theory, not always in real life.

Headers are a lot of work it turns out, who would have thought First tube is complete apart from being finish welded at least ... I'm 'ok' with the result. The major learning is that next time I'd probably go with pie cuts instead of the tight 1D donuts. The donuts are only welded one side and if you close the gap you end up with an under sized diameter. So I will have a whole lot of little gaps to fill in at the end 😕 When i get to the tubes for bank 2 it will get a lot harder as the tubes are almost completely made of 1D sections 😭 Anyhow I will be cutting segments for pipe 3 today and hopefully getting some bits tacked together. Pics of where things are at ...

Possibly the most OCD triggering thing ever… WHY IS THE BADGE NOT IN THE MIDDLE GRRRRRR