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Got a chance to go over the whole thing and give it a proper clean and detail, previous owner must have worn a lot of foundation and literally every touch point in the car was caked in beige. Gross. Gave it a huge clean, claybar (had to throw it out after, so much sh*t stuck in paint). Pulled the remains of the vinyl left in the door sills from its previous life, cut all the finger nail scratches out of the door handle recesses, then hit the whole car with cut and polish. Coat of fusso and its a shlick shkoda... think it got rescued at just the right point in its life. Will get sign writing in next few weeks. Wheels are kerbed to sh*t (Im guessing it was parked while doing makeup...), some tyre side wall damage as well, so on the hunt for a decent set of new wheels. Maybe 19s if I can find something not made of cheese/glass. Ordered a new set of ATE rotors and pads for it from rockauto, pretty reasonable pricing (other than the shipping), uses the same brakes as the GTI Performance (340mm rotors) so parts as easy to find, even if the skoda/vw catalogues are a absolute nightmare to navigate... BMW folk dont know how lucky we are with realoem.com Couple of thousand k's on it now, I dig it. Definitely a great do everything car, its not awesome at anything just good at everything. Good on gas, heaps of space, good gearbox, good stereo, handles well... Not much to complain about, other than the road noise is pretty bad on course chip seal. Now to throw some more mileage at the odo, I can see a set of spring and shocks in its future... going to try as much as I can to avoid throwing the easy flash for 300bhp, also DSG farts

Hate it. All the M gear makes it look like a mix between the Honda Civic R and a Scion. That shitty little spoiler, the fake plastic looking bits on the rear bumper all look Honda to me. The front looks like a bodykit from the early 2000's. Doesn't follow the BMW design at all. Weighs 1700kg's...... Will absolutely chew through tires and brakes. Watching a vid recently of a company that was running a G80 as a Ring Taxi. They just dumped it due to how it burns through tires/brakes/driveshafts (yep that's an odd one). Just too heavy.

Lol, I know men only recognise five colours but that’s a long way from white. Even in the potato leaked photos you can see the blue, yfr. Hero cars and the promotional specs are mostly steered away from white as it doesn’t show the lines and surfaces at all well.

Eau My https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/318is/listing/3816956168

At the Howick Hop this morning...

Not sure if this is a bit controversial but I spotted ... myself 😆 First time in over two years parking the car any place but my garage, took a couple quick happy snaps to celebrate the occasion !!

Can't imagine there were many(/any others) of these sold NZ new in 2016 (must've been special order, I think they'd stopped bringing in F11's after the LCI). Great colour combo and spec too. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/535i/listing/3815440540

bmwfans.info is better but yeah that's half the reason i stick with BMW, nothing ive used beats them in that area.

Toronto red with cognac leather would be my choice...

Its Hyundai i30 blue

You're not kidding... let me know if you change your mind and want to take $800

That's Fran's car, serial BMW owner. Awesome spec.

Sorry for non BMW content but having brunch / on Ponsonby road today (always good for people and car watching), this was the coolest car seen of many cool cars. Other highlights were a McClaren 720s, Zender E30 in Lachssilber which I thought was mine being stolen for a split second, AC cobra and a 1M being piloted by a mature lady. Low km 993 Turbo, gotta be worth a few bob nowadays! *Edit - meant to post this in the SPOTTED thread*

It definitely needs a road trip or two, just gets run around Welly. All bulbs were in there, I was surprised too 🤣

No sorry @Neil McCauley no Mini 4WD's but I do have some mini mini 4WD's!

Not sure of @NZ_InFerno's exact experience, but I've been through a few E90's over the years, and the Xenon's are notorious for burning a ring on the inside of the plastic, had an F11 that did the same as well. It's obviously not pitting, but it looks really pitted when you look at the headlight from side on.

I can think of at least half a dozen reasons to use the Q&A over a phone call, but mostly I just prefer to use the technology as provided.

Managed to drop a valve in two identical petrol water blasters today, within 60 minutes of each other. Something tells me chinesium valve train is not that great.