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Got my bonnet back from being painted and swapped it back onto the ‘vert, and put all the bits back on it including new insulation panels. M-Tech 1 front bumper is about 90% complete, just waiting on a couple more fixings to come from Germany. And I got some shiny new badges for the boot, rather than try to replace the double sided sticky on the old ones (both in stock in NZ as well 🤣)

Here's to another 100,000km's of vaguely trouble free motoring

Took a punt on a crashed damaged M3 too good to scrap. So far so good but still need a few more bits to complete and comply 😁 Car: E92 M3 2008 pre LCI FR/Drivers head light - adaptive xenon (would considered damaged ones as I could rebuild one out of two. May also match up with non Ms) FR headlight bracket/arm iDrive CCC unit - See image below Front bumper - PDC & washer (don’t mind without washer) DCT Trans cooler ducting steering rack - TBC (might be rebuildable or just clunking tie rods) all front arms and tie rod assemblies - only if mint condition otherwise will go new If you have any other parts or a whole car wrecking get in touch! There’s a few bits missing of the list. The soon to be resurrected….

Marty Irvine (well known BMW racer) runs Takapuna Panel beaters over in Wairau valley did the painting for me. He also had the full front Tech 1 bumper assembly tucked away that I grabbed off him. The sound deadening is the BMW part, the 3 pieces come as a kit. Still available to order. I have great expectations of the bumpers, have turned it into a major project! Will be too scared to drive it once they are on.

A very rare outing for my 540i today - moving it from one storage location to another...

With lot's of extensions, elbows, and flex shafts... or remove engine. It's a royal PITA to get to some of them.

The plastic valve cover itself could be cracked, seems to be quite a common occurrence. Worth checking it over thoroughly every time it's off, cracks can be hard to spot being black plastic and caked in gunk.

Note the "Staff" designation on the labels, I doubt he paid retail. But I would like to know exactly what he did pay!

That looks great! Who did the paint work for you, I’ve also got a cosmosblau bonnet and boot lid that needs painting? Also What did you use for the under bonnet sound deadening? very jealous of the mtech1 bumpers, make the car look so much better

I bought my wife a Google Pixel as I have run them for years and really like the image /video quality, every f*king picture she takes looks like some 80's soft focus soap opera as the lenses are just caked in who knows what. Pretty sure if I'd bought her a potato it would have the same outcome (no offence potatoes, you are delicious ) . I know, first world problems......

I thought I'd share a (non BMW) dealer experience I had this week where the genuine parts were half the price of aftermarket. Mrs Spinner's mitsi needed a new thermostat, and I started by looking at Supercheap and Repco and thermostats were about $80 including the gasket for Tridon brand. During the web search I found some genuine ones for cheaper out of Australia so I took a punt and rang the local dealer, sure enough $40 got me a genuine thermostat and gasket! The only downside was it took a week to arrive. So there you go, sometimes genuine parts can be cheaper

Day 1 of operation "Save the Silver Lemon." Doesnt actually look toooo bad, has things growing on the top, all the fluids leaking out the bottom, but she has good bones! Wheel bolts were all seized, had to breaker bar them. Radiator is new, and someones put new bump stops on top of flogged out shocks. Started pulling the stupid sub box out, which turned into pulling all the interior out to chase the BS wiring. Will combine with pulling all the interior out, has a few hundred mouldy dick monalds chips under the seats and it smells like a hookers handbag.

$22500 Excellent condition. 70000km Lowered on Eibach Springs Near new Rotors & Pads LED light upgrade (OEM) NBT 3D Design genuine front lip M Performance Carbon fibre interior trim kit,pedal covers, & rear difuser. FTP Charge pipe kit included.