Leaderboard

With that $2500 saving, I almost could've bought the $3000 blue manual 130i in CHCH that popped up on TM for half a day a few weeks back. 😢 apparently only needed the srs light sorted for a WOF.

I owned her for a while, really tidy car.

It's home and I have not had a moment to look at the colour closely, but the parting comment from the owner of Eurotech was live with it for a few weeks and if you find anything let me know. I have to go back as the kidney grills and guard vents are a coming from overseas. When I get some time and it's not bucketing down it'll get a wash and put in the garage, led lights will highlight any issues. I'm very happy with the Eurotech service, dealing directly with the owner and having him fight insurance on your behalf to get the best result is one of the many reasons I would recommend them to anyone. Sorry dew covered pics from this morning is all I have right now, The rear bumper is now crack free, at some point in its life someone backed it into a pole just hard enough to spider crack the paint and crack some clips. After a month without it I can honestly say that a hard 3rd gear pull on the way home via "Mexico" is still as scary as the first time I drove it hard Final note, the Turtlewax headlight repair that looked great when I dropped it off has failed - on to the next product.

Well yesterday and today I tackled a job I've long been putting off. Yesterday I took the headlining out of the car, and dropped it (along with the sunroof cover, etc) plus the BM-134 fabric off to a professional headliner upholsterer. The dude was a legend and had it ready for me to pick up this morning (think he was grateful that I'd done the hard work of taking it out of the car!). He was very complementary of the BM-134 fabric - he said it's a quality fabric with quality foam and was lovely to work with. I'll tackle pretty much any job on the car, but this is one of those few things I'm very happy to leave to a professional - the work is flawless and it looks incredible. For those wondering about the fabric match - I took some photos of the re-wrapped headliner against one of the interior trim pieces which has the original BMW fabric on it (non-foam-backed): It's a very close match and certainly once it's in the car you can't tell at all - the slight difference really only shows up in photos. Likewise it matches well against the new A/B/C pillar trim I bought (which fortunately all match each other as well - as that was a problem for a while): While the headliner was out I took the opportunity to pull out the wiring a PO had put in for a radar scanner - I removed the T-Tap connectors, insulated the wires and wrapped in Tessa tape: In order to remove the sunroof cover to retrim it I also had to remove the sunroof glass - I took the opportunity while it was out to give the frame a good clean and re-lubricate with graphite lubricant: I reinstalled the headliner and then got on to installing the new pillar trim - shiny new B-pillar covers: Then the C-pillars, along with the foam insulated clips: And lastly the A-pillar trims and inserts with the airbag logo on them. Notably the A pillar inserts are a significantly different shade to everything else. (which is hilarious given this is all new OE parts). If it annoys me too much I might order replacements and hope for a better match. I'm very happy to have this done - it's not a particularly fun job but very satisfying to have everything refreshed and like new. You can see the huge difference in shade between the new a-pillar and the insert 🙄.

She is beautiful 😍, it is making me consider if to get back into the Germans but this model instead of the e39.

Save big! https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/130i/listing/5311044996