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Daily it for 3 months, sell for 11K ONO, the car has paid you for the privilege!

I heard the Munich facility is doubling the floor area to deal with production of new kidney grills.

E39 out, E46 in. Transported it up from Arrowtown last week, picked it up this week. 211,000km NZ New 2 previous owners. Last owner had it for 12 years/173,000km Known faults were the remote keys don't work and it has a vacuum leak under the intake manifold as diagnosed by an indy shop in Arrowtown. A few bits of service history but nothing significant. Fresh off the trailer: After talking to experts (forum members) I've started what looks to be a bit of a maintenance mission. Started with the PCV. It was dated as 2002 so original and very brittle. The oil return line disintegrated in half as I pulled out the dipstick tube. I left the manifold on in a bid to have a driveable car to pick my daughter up from day care in and in my haste I forgot to plug in a few things. Idle was smooth but it was real jerky and had a big dip in the throttle when you initially got on the gas. Scanned it and it came up with cam position sensor fault. So out came the airbox and it turned out I had forgotten to plug in the cam position sensor, alternator and something else...whoops...anyway, seems to be running alot better now. Revs are constant and it's not throwing misfire or rich codes. Did the classic air filter, cabin filter and oil + filter too. It's pretty oily down here... Pretty dusty up here.. ewwwww New stuff I went with 5W-40 just because I had 1.5L left over from the 540 so figured I might as well use it up. New Roundel. I got a cheap one off trademe last time and it wore really fast so went all in on the dealership one this time. Changed the plates over too. DQZ346 lives on. Things to do: - coolant system overhaul - vanos valve cover gasket oil filter housing gasket - New Disa valve (rebuilt) - Tints & chrome delete around the windows - Motor mounts - Get the remote locking working - Trans oil and filter Things I would like to do: - Tyres - Suspension Eibach prokit, Bilstein B4 shocks front and Sachs m sport rears - Xenons + black corner lights - Bluetooth hands free - Bavsound upgraded speakers Feel free to add to this never ending list ?

@M3AN I guess you don't feel so stupid now ?

Woops i got it

Much superior in every respect:) Hope you get one. You will enjoy it as a daily. The F chassis is something else above the E.

Awesome to hear, thanks. Pretty much reaffirms everything I've heard already. It's a strange transition for me as I'm having to leave my e36 M3 behind. We had a little toyota daily but now with just a defender and an M3 it's not feasible to have two 'needy' cars. Looking to have something a bit more modern and comfortable. I think the M135i is a great all rounder and a superior alternative to an R32 MK5/ MK6 R.

Smells like f**kered FRM

Finally......no more oil and coolant leaks ?

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Remove the HID's, clear the errors and see if they come back? Obviously you'll get headlight errors but if fog and indicator lights don't error again you've found the culprit.

the result of some race track action lol

Didnt update the thread much and got way off topic on second page but first page has my summary on it which is still pretty relevant Awesome car if it suits your lifestyle (as in hot hatch) Cant remember if I posted in the thread but the biggest downside of this car IMO is lack of a LSD which I feel would absolutely transform it. I was only running stage 1 tune (approx 220kW ATW) but if any more than that (stage 2) then it would be way too loose and potentially dangerous. Its one of the cars I held on to the longest (one and a half years) and I only sold it in order to cash up for a house deposit. If not I reckon I would have loved driving it even now, I even tried to buy it back a few months ago as it came back up for sale but the engine sounded a bit.. just couldnt do it. too risky. I miss this car a lot haha

@aja540i keen to see the (partially finished) product! @Olaf Plug for Fabian at Coombes Johnston in Hamilton. Gets all my parts business despite not being local.

I shot this south of BNE in Jan 2020.

I have no more room for any more cars 8 bmws are a bit much apparently

just buy my e28 m535i ,

sh*t. FRM is fooked. Pulled the bulbs - Errors Stayed Changed the bulbs - Errors stayed FRM doesn't detect main bulbs are not there. High beam is no longer working. This is going to be fun. Going to have a look at the board first. Some people have had success with cleaning off corrosion. This vehicle is an outside car at the moment. So could be the culprit. Otherwise new FRM.