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Welcome Dylan, and I must say, that looks pretty sharp! Well done. How was the drive back to the great windy Welly?

Carbon fibre mat can't do this, it would require both stretching and compression at enormous tension which would be impossible whilst laying it. The black stuff is 'floating' on the base, just like a dip would. Unless there's actual evidence of real carbon fibre I can see nothing to suggest it's real at this stage. How it looks where it is straight isn't an indication that it's real cf, as I say, good dips look real these days. Cf is woven material, can you imagine any weave looking like this, regardless of the material?

I have something in my cart from them so I hope they're good! Looking back at the pic of the diffuser and zooming in, I can't imagine a situation that cf weave could distort like that, but on the other hand it looks exactly like what happens with dip swirls when you remove the piece from the tub. Are there any signs of actual carbon fibre mat being used? Unless I could verify it as actual cf I'd assume it's dipped, some dips are good enough these days to defeat even a close inspection. If it's not actual cf that would be an instant refund from Trademe, regardless of what the seller wanted to do.

Dipped ??

Yours doesn't look to bad there either Al!

I watched an episode of Car SOS that restored a 2002 turbo just this week. They took a total rust bucket that didn't run and handed back a concourse example, it was astonishing.

Also has this crazy, rear seats down cargo net. It's OEM but took me a fair while to work out! ? There are supplementary fittings in the roof for it.

I wasn't expecting fine weather today so made the most of it to air out and clean the car. All in all I spent about 3 hours on the interior and it's come up really well, it looks really good and no major damage uncovered. Total soccer-mum car, you can see the ISOFIX fittings have been used, there are marks from a child seat and I found a ton of Lego, raisins and crisps under the back seat. ? All of the door cards, centre console, seat plastics and dash have been scrubbed clean and look great. All of the leather from boots to seats to armrests and steering wheel have been cleaned and conditioned with Oakwoods and are sweet, I'm very happy (as I hope a new owner will be). I finished it off with a full vacuum, the mats themselves are in great condition. The sagging headliner has been addressed with upholstery pins which have done a fantastic job but of course it will need to be replaced eventually. I need to remove the failing 'soft touch plastic' from the steering wheel insert and iDrive controller shroud next. Oh, and it no longer stinks. Bonus.

No Euro = wide, Slim = smaller in all dimensions, see above.

You can get one of each, I did for my 1er. Slim looks terrible on the back, it's too small. They look great on the front though IMHO. Edit: you'll need a frame for the large Euro plate, the slim front one has holes and you screw it to the bumper.

Have you guys got water restrictions up there too? ?

Now put it in the tools for hire thread... ?

Enjoy the ride Peter, pretty-much anything is an improvement over stock and I'm sure you'll love it!

Thanks guys, yeah I squized at both sites... Castrol is good value at 30% off but still, more than I want to spend since I need 5l + 2x1l, Repco has Shell Supercars stuff for 50% off but that's still $60 for 5l. When I'm lucky I can get 5l of Penrite for ~$46 and I have a few litres here to make up the difference. @qube - thanks, does full synth get as low as $10 a litre (5w-40) with your deal? Edit: all expenses are just going to be added to the price when I sell it but I'm trying to make sure it remains a bargain (sub 8k, mechanically sound).

All sold.

I picked up the cleaning products I'll need to tackle the interior, all on special at Supercheap so that wasn't too painful. Cleaning it will be painful. I also fluked a rear wiper motor in what looks to be near new condition from Zebra for $20. I took it apart onsite to check it before I paid for it. I might swap the BMW one into my black car and the pattern part into the blue one... not sure why but it's only a handful of clips and some bolts. It was nearly empty of fuel when I got it and I have no idea what was in there so I filled it up with 98 today to give it a breath of fresh air. I've been driving it all day and it's really, really nice to drive. Now waiting for a good oil to be available at a good price at Repco or SCA.

Swing past mine at some stage James if you want to plug it in.

I have one, but it's wrapped in a car that you'd have to take at the same time... it's strong, and you wouldn't need a trailer to get it home. ?

What's up?

Forgive the crappy phone pic but this thing, parked around the corner from my office, is seriously mint, possibly the nicest I've seen. Great plate too.

Apparently... was news to me too. They dropped it from the LCI 130i Motorsport but kept it (I understand) on the rest.

Welcome, and it will be on the sidewall of the tyre somewhere. But it may not be obvious because the tyre manufacturers seem incapable of defining a standard, you may need to check the web for info on your specific tyre.

Interestingly I've just discovered they've been doing it since at least 2005. The E8x's had radiator flaps for the same purpose. The seem to fail regularly... you might yet experience that. ?

It seems so, which is news to me. I'm afraid I don't think you're going to get any meaningful drop from rotation given this new information.

Wow ? I'm glad I qualified my knowledge as e36 only. That's the first time I've ever seen that info, nice one, cheers.