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Friend got his 318is back for the panel beaters. Brand new OE fender, fender lining, side skirt, trims, side indicator and engine mounts, all repainted with a 2nd hand door. 7k bill (paid 10k for ~14 year ago). Very lucky it was through an unusual insurance outfit and wasn't written off. Getting hard to find tidy ones these days.

That’s common. I regularly get “Hi Simon….” My name is Scott and it’s in the email address. Or even better, a phone call, “Hi Simon, I’m just reading your email…” And these people are making business decisions?

So I've become a bit tired of my 5x regular gauges and I'd like to display a wider range of data (A/F ratios per cylinder bank, maybe speed / rpm, some performance stats etc). Also want to get the space in the console back so I can install a proper Android Auto head unit or similar. As I've already got a micro controller in the car hooking into the BMW and Nissan CAN buses its only a short(ish) jump to displaying things of interest on a screen. I came across Waveshare who make a really amazing range of screens and ordered the 7.9" 1280x400 capacitive touch model. Its about the size of a single DIN unit which should work really well ... will drive this with a Raspberry Pi mounted to the back of it. Will run Grafana on the Pi and stream data to it from the micro ... which I will change from an Arduino to much more capable ESP32 also. Anyhooooo ... a picture is worth a thousand words so here is the display and a simple mock up dash running off the Pi.

Thought I would make a thread to display some of the more interesting flooded cars that have/will be coming through the insurance auctions over the next few weeks. Pretty devastating how badly some of them got flooded. NZ New, Z4 Coupe: GTE Mk7 Golf:

I'm looking for e30 coupe interior bit if any one has anything laying around. Carpet , roof liner , pillar trims, sun visors, Cheers

Hi guys n gals, hope everyone well. My son now has a 2007 335i with what you know has the N54 in it but has a shorted out MOSFET cutting out 3 cylinders i.e. 4,5,6 so car sitting doing nothing. We have purchased new set of upgraded MOSFETs but of course in mail coming ex overseas. What I was wondering was if anyone in Auckland had a cheap DME going that I could just scavenge 1 or 2 MOFETs from to get him going till new upgraded ones arrive Any help or advise much appreciated. Have a good day. Cheers Tony

Cheers Kyu - that's great to know... and yeah - some pics...

It does pop up but doesn't stay on which is annoying. Looks like I may have enabled it in the past though. It's part of the digital speedo.

Thanks mate. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your contributions to BMW forums, ive come across a lot of your posts on here and the UK forum, its been a huge help. Much appreciated 🤙🏻🤙🏻

Far out what's amazing with this is they show the before and after pictures of cleaning it up. Just shows how a completely flooded car can look normal, thus the risk of buying flood damaged cars. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/m5/listing/3992303914?rsqid=9c27dca5372c475d9df90f35fe22d6dd-002

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recruiters getting my first name wrong three times in an email with my correctly spelled name in the email address. I'm over this.

Vintage BMW parking 🙄

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