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My car, for sale. I found something else that I want. See TM ad. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/5174692740

Bloody Tina !!!

Congrats on the new addition to the family! That’s funny about the steering being noted as heavy. Mines the same, the two pfl I briefly had were worse, but BMW always seems to have heavier steering.

Enter the gearbox type on the ad as it doesn't show if you search manual bmws. Should get a few more hits

SOLD

Stumbled upon an awesome writeup about this lady called Valeria Giordano, dubbed the 'Queen of the Clownshoe'. Not your regular neighbourhood grandma. Has amassed a collection of 8 (so far) in all sorts of different colors, tinkers on them herself, uses them to help folks learn to drive manual and even offers them to the local high school auto shop for students to practice on. Such an awesome story, gotta love it. Something to aspire towards, eh @Kees? :D

HAHAHA don't tempt me.... I'm already doing a similar with Smart cars.

e46 m3 csl. My personal Holy Grail, spotted at the Shannon car show today. UK import, and owned (and used - often) by a very nice English gentleman who definitely knew what he had. I was drooling like a schoolboy...........

Took it in for its first WoF inspection Friday last week. Ended up 'failing' on two rather laughable points. First was the rear middle seat "missing a belt buckle", which of course had just slipped under the seat. The second was the "front RH fog light alignment too high". I was told they could do it but the front bumper would need to come off... In reality the fog light covers/surrounds just pop out revealing the two phillips head screws holding the light in place, once out there's an adjustment dial on the backside. Eyeballed it to match the left side and took it in for reinspection on Monday. I didn't get it quite right so ended up tinkering with it in their shop in front of the test machine thingy until I got the alignment right on both sides. The mechanic did also verbally mention a few advisories that he didn't even write down, one being the rear tyres being slightly worn on the inner edges. The tyres are still fairly new and the wear was nowhere near close to being fail-worthy but definitely something I will address in the near future. I had noticed a bit of negative camber on the rear, which is likely the upper control arms which seem to be a typical issue on these. The other thing he mentioned is that the steering felt a bit heavy, which I'm not even sure is an issue but he was fairly adamant that it wasn't quite right. Not sure what to think of that since it's not something neither me nor the wife have picked up on so far. Have tried keeping closer attention to it since he mentioned it but all feels fine to me. Apart from that, no other issues and drove away with a fresh WoF sticker. Just in time to rush us to hospital Tuesday night for out daughter to be born in the early hours on Wednesday. The car seat now semi-permanently strapped in, we took her home for the first time on Friday. Must have been the gentlest driving I've ever done. "Baby on Board" stickers have usually been one of my biggest pet peeves but I now caught myself seriously considering getting one to excuse my ultra grand-grandma driving to fellow travellers. I also became super conscious of how sh*t the roads are down here. I've driven the same route hundreds of times but never noticed how rough some of the surfaces were am now paranoid of even the slightest ridge and pot hole. Full blown dad-mode. The Family Tractor coming into its element.

Yeah same, haven't had it happen again since that trip. Weird that you had completely different codes flash up though with seemingly the same symptoms.

It is right in that sweet spot where everything needs doing. Charge pipe will be brittle and will need an upgrade. Waterpump should be looked at being replaced. It will have or soon will have oil leaks from the valve cover, oil filter housing, oil cooler housing, sump and if you are really unlucky the rear main. Coil packs will be on their last legs. PCV will be an upcoming item. Turbo wastegate rattle is common at this mileage. It will no doubt be a trade in. See if any work has been done already.