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    My radiator is starting to leak so I need to replace it. Currently has the radiator with the built in expansion tank but looking at something bigger and future proof, eg z3m one or the like. 

    What's needed to fit the different expansion tank setup? Tank, top hose, shroud? Or just get an fcp euro cooling system kit?

    Or do I go all out and get the m3 self bleeding setup? 

    Cheers

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    2 hours ago, Blackie said:

    Depends what their motivation is. If they just want a car to garage for 6 months and then flip I'd say they are harming the enthusiast by driving prices up.

    Look at the E36 M3 as a perfect example. A car yard lists one high due to investment potential (appeal to a US market prices). Slowly but surely every one that follows tracks that asking price. All are still for sale but new ones continue to pop up at inflated prices. No aparent demand, but the bar has been artificially raised and that's now "the price".

    If people were enthusiasts, surely they would have bought one when they were 5k? Anyone would have worked out that anything with a M badge on it will go up after the rise of the e30 m3. 

    It's all about supply and demand, they aren't making them anymore, most of them have been cut up, rusted out and beat up. And if someone is willing to pay then are they inflated? Estroil blue m3 sold for 48kish 12months ago so are they inflated?

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    3 hours ago, Blackie said:

    It's sad that a lot of passionate car enthusiasts have been priced out of their favorite marquees by investors. It was better when these cars were on the road not parked up appreciating.

    Everyone raves about how good the e30 is blah blah and then complains when demand and prices increases. All prices on all cars are going up at the moment, some more than others but just because someone has more money and desire to own one, does that make them less on enthusiasts and someone with half the money? No

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    Bmw has the Guinness world record for the longest drift in one of these so they are certainly built for this type of abuse. Every promotional video for any M car has them drifting etc. AMG has drift mode, there's not a top gear episode where someone isn't drifting something, they are built for this type of thing.

    I think it was on here that someone once wrote e30s are like girlfriends. You know your not the first but it's not nice seeing someone else giving her a thrashing

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    I'm not sure I agree.. IMO price has nothing to do with it being an enthusiasts vehicle. Where they still a enthusiasts vehicle when they were $500 and being cut up and thrashed? Or were they cars for Bogans then? I look at porsche as the ultimate enthusiasts vehicle, not that I've ever driven one but will never be able to afford one but doesn't stop it being a vehicle for enthusiasts 

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    6 hours ago, BMTHUG said:

    don't do it GAZZAAAA I won't let you! lol

    Haha it's a hard one bro, I wouldn't let the e30 go for less than 30k which gets a e60 m5, c63. Throw the e36 wagon in and I'm looking at e46 m3s etc.. the tempt is real

    1 hour ago, Contrails said:

    I had a 2014 F20 116i which I paid $30k for in 2017. In 2018 a black Mtech 1 came up for sale for $18.5k, so I put the F20 up for sale for $24k. Luckily I sold it within two weeks and I went straight away and picked up the Mtech 1 ($16k after bargaining and letting the previous owner keep a lot of extra parts that weren’t original to the car). $16k for this car was asking top dollar in 2018 but I always wanted a black Mtech 1 and didn’t mind paying for an overpriced car at that time. (The asking price of $18.5k at that time put a lot people off and I was the first to go see the car). 

    Moral of the story, the longer you wait, the more you will have to budget. If you see one that’s ticking all the boxes, just pull the  trigger. 

    Nothing truer... I was waiting on a facelift vert, paid 10k for one 6ish years ago which was alot at the time but now looks like a bargain 

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    10 hours ago, floh said:

    hey Gaz, the adblue is giving me the nightmare on my imported X6, already burnt $1K with Continental BMW and still nothing is fixed and they insist I bring it back for more diagnostic so they can continue to work on the "process of elimination". They refuse to give me quote to replace the SCR injector and NOX sensors, which are the key components of adblue and could solve the problem. I would really appreciate any solution or recommendation to a reliable workshop in Auckland!

    What's the fault? Don't know anyone personally in Auckland but currys suggestion of Eurosurgeon is a good one, only heard good things. 

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