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Please can we have TechnoViolet brought back?

I like it. But a lady at work was walking past and saw me playing with the configurator and said she likes that Holden and what a pretty colour. Oof. I should have shown her the Ford Mustang with the frontal damage (M4).

Was just about to post this in here! Good price I reckon. Hopefully someone from bimmersport buys it.

That’s my one, going overseas so just looking for an easy sale. 5 just a guess! Probably less in reality. I bought it off NZ_InFerno’s brother in law I believe about 2 years ago

They still do Techno Violet on this Holden Commodore.

This NZ New E34 540i has just been put up for sale on the E34 group. 2 Owners, 103,000km since new. Owner has had it since 1997. Just look at the door handle gaskets, and valve covers. Both MINT - and are usually two things that go bad one any 540i regardless of mileage. Has clearly been in a garage its WHOLE life. Bit of a bargain at $10K IMO. One of those cars where you get worried whoever buys it isn't going to look after it properly. I would buy it but I bought something last week and have no room (forum post on that car coming soon....)

Just needs a manual swap for ultimate win.

5 seems high, but there could have been more imported over the last couple years.

That ^ actually looks not terrible.

wow! at that price! and rarity. Surely this wont last long in marketplace

Technoviolet is still available as an individual colour on some model builds. Thundernight was a similar launch colour on the M240i and there are a few in NZ.

I second this

If I were in the market the colour would be a plus for me. I wish we got more brightly coloured BMWs sold new here, BMW NZ seem intent on flooding the market for black, white and 50 shades of grey.

Looks like another one to add on my list when I get my bumper replaced and headlight projectors upgrade Good call Dave!

If you have Xenon headlights, and haven't created drain holes for your ballasts then be warned...

I've not needed to do much with the car recently other than drive it, which I don't do all that much now anyway because I normally bus to work and back. Having said that I've had to spend some time on it recently, including today. A few weeks back I had a problem with the right front indicator, after faffing around for a while, which included removing the airbox and then the front bumper, it turned out to be the bulb holder so I sanded the contacts and bent them out a bit, did the trick but it's an unnecessarily complex task. Then, just the other day, my right front Xenon died, literally straight after the new WoF sticker went on (whew)! Long story short - the ballast flooded whilst it was waiting in the yard for it to be collected... how? Shitty BMW engineering. 😠 If this hasn't already happened to your E8x then read on because it will happen eventually... I confirmed the HID light itself wasn't faulty by swapping it to the other side (terrible design, requires removing the entire airbox). I knew from prior research that the ballasts can flood, unfortunately this is a headlight removal exercise which requires removing the bumper (again, terrible design). With the bumper removed I pulled out the RHS headlight and it was sloshing with water... which had all drained to the housing that contains the (high voltage) HID ballast (terrible, terrible, dangerous design)... I mean seriously BMW, do you not saturation test your vehicles? (No, they don't). The entire ballast was submerged. Pulled the ballast, filled it with a ton of RP7 and left it to dry whilst I removed the other headlight to check that. The LHS was dry as a bone which aligns with many internet anecdotes, it's typically a RHS problem. The permanent fix is simple, some 10mm drainage holes, I did both sides, as BMW should have done from the factory... Tested, reinstalled, and ~4 hours later fixed. What a faff caused by a bunch of poor design decisions. As I say above, if it hasn't happened it will if your car sees much water, including washing. I was lucky, my ballast was salvageable but many report they're not so fortunate so be warned. Edit: my car is very rarely parked in the rain, garaged at home, inside carpark if I drive to work, it normally only gets driven on the weekends. Auckland's summer of rain hasn't helped of course and the day it was at the mechanics was Tuesday just gone, so a little bit wet!