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Happy Birthday!

Longer wheel bolts.

What! You're crazy man!

Happy Birthday man

Looks great! Can't get a better red than that

Did you get your LM's cleared Josh? Can't remember if you mentioned that...

Just preparing for my future E30, seeing as Sam and Mark among others think I need one

Thought you guys might like to see my new Mtech II wheel Nobody out bid me! http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=285817723

Thats not that cheap. Thats the going price for a non-concourse condition M3. 20k E30 M3's are cheap, as a few that were on trade me a year or so ago were. LHD means original which IMO keeps the value up.

Yep. Thats probably the reason a lot of older cars are out because during their lives someone has put on the wrong sized tyres.

Ray has a couple pairs for his E39's and I was pretty impressed when I saw them. Looked a hell of a lot better than I thought they would. And for that price you can't really go wrong Edit: Haha Obviously we have different opinions on the price. Let me rephrase, you can't get a decent pair for lower than that. And if it changes the look I would have thought that $94 wasn't that much, atleast IMO.

I have to actually work to read the description. I don't understand how people can advertise a vehicle like this?

I agree, GPS says you're going the speed limit and you're still running up behind everyone and passing them on the motorway. I do still slow down though if I see a cop/speed camera etc just for extra safety.

Again, my understanding is the first document is what is required to get a cert. The only part of that you need to read to relate to this is the 'Spacing and adaption requirements'. Afaik 20mm is the largest spacer you're allowed to fit to a car even with a cert. Cause then over 20mm you'd be getting near the noticeable detrimental effects to your handling haha. The second document explains what needs to be certed.

This Cert sheet says as I understand it that any spacer needs to be certed. Correct? CertThresholdScheduleApril04V3.pdf

I HIGHLY doubt that. No BMW afaik comes with spacers factory and tbh I've never heard of any manufacturer who fits spacers factory. If the wheels are factory they are made to the cars specification thus theres no need for spacers.Spacing will fix his problem. You can fit 9's on the front of an E36. BMW didn't offer anything larger than 7.5 on the front of E36's from factory afaik. M3's came staggered 7.5 and 8.5. Which doesn't mean 9's won't fit, it just you have to do a bit of work. I think you guys are taking it a bit OTT. While 3 pedals is theoretically correct it won't be as detrimental and noticeable as you guys are implying. I can't find more than a couple examples on the net of people complaining about negative effects of spacing the front wheels. A 5 or 10mm spacer isn't going to make a great difference especially if its a certable item. And mate, not all wheels come in all offsets. If you want a certain wheel you need to make some compromises. Spacers need a cert. Just to get it straight, I wouldn't try and fit 9's on the front of an E36!

Newer cars are usually around 3-4km out. Older cars tend to be from 7 to even 15km out. E30 speedos are notoriously bad.

Cheers Si. Appreciate the explainations. Yes, the BMW NZ one is $600! Which is alright I guess for what you'd get. Get to drive brand new Bimmers, and get an internationally recognised BMW Driver Training certificate. What use it'd be i'd have to get back to you But I didn't realise this one is only $120! That is extremely cheap. Will have to organise for next year. By the way, looked like a great day. Some awesome M cars there!

Cheers Graham. That explains it

I got all excited jumping to a conclusion that they were badass Dakar Yellow bimmers. But they weren't Still pretty cool.

I'm seriously keen to do one of these BMW driver training courses. My understanding was that you used BMW's fleet of cars on the track? Here. They are the only BMW courses I know.

I don't really have much experience in this but I'd tend to disagree. My GPS, according to Navman, is accurate to 4 meters. Which is nothing really. Cruising at 110km/h on the speedo and the gps would say 102km/hish from memory. About 7km/h off i've figured.

Peter did get ticketed, or his partner did! Yongxi is a Pilot, or is becoming a pilot!

Bumpage for the awesomeness of the item. Keen as.

Was waiting till someone posted it up here. Crazy cheap M3. Especially seeing 318 convertibles are still fetching 10k+ (their owners wish! )