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    14 minutes ago, M3AN said:

    Thank you, that's great. Fabulous car but the article itself could so with some work and way more photos needed. No mention of the carbon fibre wheels and no pictures of cool things they did mention (mirrors, rear vents etc).

    They do make brief mention of the wheels being "made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic...".

    But agree, more pictures would be nice - annoyingly most of the pictures just effectively repeat themselves.

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    1 hour ago, Sammo said:

    Replaced my corner lights to these - black inners and clear lenses which I had hoped would better match the xenons. Jury is still out, definitely not getting rid of my factory clear / white ones though.

    Not sold personally, car still looks outstanding though!

    I am battling with the same big questions today - smoked or orange indicators? 

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    Tidied up and installed some Bosch smiley's in the wagon today. These replace the bullseyes which were a touch faded and some of the adjusters a bit rusty.

    Made me happy (excuse the pun).

    Will have think about whether I put the washer system back in also but it does look cleaner without it.

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    17 minutes ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

    The one on TradeMe was just a look-a-like, had the rear wing and the decals and that was it. Not a true “lightweight” version, which is why it never sold for the $35k asking price IIRC.

    Ah I see, all I could remember was that there was an alpine white M3 with those decals.

    I suppose that give all ~125 are LHD US cars none will likely be in NZ anyway.

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    https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-2494278640.htm?rsqid=cb7524f425314acc9a7ebc476c09b16f-001

    Where do you guys think 1M prices are going to go?

    This is the cheapest 1M I have seen so far at $50k. All others are around the $75 - 85k mark and don't seem to be moving. You'd get a bit of security being a dealer and I reckon black is the second best of the three colour options for these. Slightly higher mileage than average though, and not sure if the wheel colour is an original option?

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    I've had my E91 335i for two years now, has a 3-year mechanical warranty. Apart from annual service (and replacement of airbag/blower controller under the BMW campaign) it has had spark plugs/ignition coils replaced and trans pan and sleeve leak fixed. No other issues... yet.

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    4 hours ago, BozzaFC said:

    So, it seems someone picked this up cheap, drove it for a month, and is now selling it for almost double what they paid for it. Good luck to them

    Those city slickers... always curbing their wheels...

    But hey, for reassurance he says he would drive it to South Island. Must be a good car.

    Got to love facebook marketplace.

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  23. Posted · Edited by Cale · Report reply

    Cheers guys for the help.

    I'll order those parts and give it a shot with a more recent operating system, and in the meantime if a cheap XP laptop with a serial input pops up I'll grab it. Regardless, it sounds like ews can be accessed via USB which is key for me in the near term...

    On 11/1/2018 at 2:40 PM, M3AN said:

    If I can find some time to get over to Birkdale I'd be happy to bring my setup over. It's still worth you pursuing your own solution because I'm not sure when I'd be able to do that.

    Thanks Dave, if you do happen to ever be over this way and are happy to do that it would be appreciated.

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    1 hour ago, turbolizard said:

    I wish I could help you but I am in a somewhat related situation.  I am keen to use an emulator to get an e36 M44 running in an older chassis that never had EWS, but have not been able to program my Aliexpress emulator.  I think this might be due to not using a computer with a proper serial port. 

    In any case I have a spare emulator if you can figure out how to make it work by going that route, but would suggest your best best is to fix up what you have.  Info for the four cylinder Bosch ECU seems very thin on the ground.

    Thanks Mike, I will do some reading on those emulators.

    I think you're right that I might be better to try synchronising the EWS & DME again. From what I have read my options are:

    • Get an old laptop with a serial port, Windows XP and try to get INPA/NCS running on it. I am oft reading that the USB K-Line connector mostly doesn't work so best to go with a K-Line RS232 Serial interface.
    • Get an old laptop with Windows XP and get INPA/NCS running on it. Take a punt on the USB K-Line interface.
    • Carsoft 6.5 - very confused as packages from aliexpress / ebay seem to vary from ~USD30 to USD700. Who knows if the cheap versions are the actual software, PA 1.4 or whatever else is out there... Will also need an old computer with COM port.

    This is a lot more involved than I initially thought.

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