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Welcome to the site. Jap radio - has it got in dash monitor or Bussiness radio? Can help with replacement. PM me

Hope it turns out ok. Certainly looks a nice car. If you do get - need nav &/or reverse camera - PM me

This question has been asked many times on here. There are many variables for this cause & really (without being rude) you are chasing your tail with trying to diagnose yourself. From your description -I suspect it could well be a faulty battery. That said, it could also be a discharge problem in the car - not uncommon for FSR to cause this. Could also be a charging problem, in this case I suspect unlikely. Your friend is correct in that you cannot load test a flat battery - so in effect, unless fully charged - you cannot test it properly. Avoid the frustration & take it to an Auto Sparky - it is an easy issue to diagnose.

HB fella Bummer that the car gets all the gifts though, mundane ones at that

Nothing at all wrong with the 2.5 engine - still the same basis of the 3.0l. Expect comparable reliabilty. At that milage is getting close to the usual cooling system issues of E39's. Not quite the punch/torque of the 3.0 but still no slug & I find quite ok

Auxillary ventilation preset timing is turned on. Go into that mode & turn it off

The exchange rate between Brittish Pound & NZD has been much closer to two $ than three for many years now though.

Looks very sharp, well done

^^^^^ Yup. Not taking Gough's side but in this case the buck stops with the current government's complete lack of initiative. You would have thought with an election looming they would have been proactive & had their spin doctors working overtime in gaining brownie points for their actions in adressing the situation. He, Key, is paid the bucks to run the country & ought to have pulled whatever strings required (with other applicable ministers help) to get the required help & insist on an instant response from the ships owners/insurers etc.

Yep, I believe apparently the reef was documented by Captain Cook

The amount of planning and paper work that needs to be done before work can even start is crazy, you need to plan every step, document every hazard and account for it etc and have procedures in place. - If this is not done and someone gets hurt or killed OSH will have a field day on you ass and you may end up in prison for manslaughter - I dont think any company would risk that. Sorry, don't agree at all. Utter PC CRAP that nothing was done immediately. Talk about an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. You don't always have the luxury of planning every step in an unexpected disaster - sometimes common sense needs to prevail. It's not rocket science that the boat was probably going to leak oil, the weather was fine for at least four days after the stranding. A boat does not take nearly five days to get from Auckland to Tauranga. Oil could have been pumped from forward to aft from the word go (they were only doing this yesterday), & pumping off the boat the next day. Boats could have been out with booms to encompass the boat & contain the oil, there was a guy on TV last night with a viable solution for soaking up oil - a product world proven & already used here in NZ. Powers that be were not interested, he was told to come back to them AFTER this now "disaster" :wacko: F%#k the paper work - sort that later! It was a case of everyone running for cover - boat owners waiting on their insurance company, insurance company looking for cheapest recovery/salvage options & none of them giving a rats arse for this country & the impact this is having on it! Our powers that be should have completely overridden the above & insisted that a proactive approach was taken, if not, organised themselves - not sat with their hands up their arse as referred above. I agree that it does require a professional approach as for salvage etc, but as I said above - containing/ removing oil from the boat aint rocket science & would have no hinderance into the salvage planning. This whole episode is a total discrace. Clean green image - yea right!

V29 or V30, V32 are all software versions - a system loaded with V29 will show as "91" on the screen, a system loaded with V32 (the latest) will show as "00" In your system showing 4-1/91 - the 4 denotes MkIV nav unit, the 1 denotes colour monitor, & the 91 is the current OS - V29 The map disc version is not shown on the screen or in the system, you may still have the first release BMW NZ map disc - a 2005 disc:-

Havent yet had cooling issues with ours but it is well documented on cooling system issues in E39's over the 100k mark. Without seeing, hard to confirm the risk of driving - obviously depends on leakage & likelyhood of letting go & dumping water. From your description - sounds probably ok for short running but obviously keep a close eye on it. If, as you say, it is in a non stressed part of the system - I would be hesitant of trying to repair & not be keen on a S/H unit either.

HB fella!!!! Look forward to a catch up again sometime

Yep a MkIV & the only one to have. I only use these with conversions. Had the car been native Euro - it would have had a MkIII as factory but since converting from Jap - it makes sense to use the latest option. They are plug play for each other. As for 4/1/91 - the "91" is the software version currently installed, not the map data disc.

Thats what I reacon is a plus - one knob to push/turn for all commands - rather than touch screen/finger prints all over the screen. I also find it much more intuitive to use than the Navman - scale changes etc. A decent size screen too:- Incidentally, which nav unit have you got - Mk3 or 4? The 4 has "DVD" on the front. There is daylight between them in their operation

Wasn't aware you had made that mod to it Oli -when was that - morning or arvo?

Well done on purchase & yep great to have working factory nav. May not have quite the bells/whistles of the new on dash units but I reacon the integrated system is way superior in operation and.... no body can nick it:-) I have a Navman in my work ute & hate it compared to the BMW system. Reverse camera - yep can do - PM me fo a good deal

HB big guy, have a good one

Shite that is one nice E34 James - Good on you. Hope you can keep it in that condition

Car looks sharp. Welcome to the site

Is the Alpine unit not a factory E46 unit? If not - have you connected the aerial amp power supply in the radio wiring harness?

Yup Graeme - just disconnect/remove the jap nav computer, depending on video module (TV) version, it will either reboot staight away on VM graphics or will reboot AFTER car has gone to sleep & woken. You lose nothing. Best solution though - convert the Nav to Euro & fit a reverse camera too

Ahhh so... a Dulux recon then aye