NZ BMW

I guess this is designed to compete with the Lincoln Navigator, GMC Yukon and the like in the US market. My E70 is plenty big enough for me...

In what weird parallel universe is it not the client that instructs the lawyer what to do and not do?

Wow, 53K in 1986!

I don’t have anything constructive to add but I’d be interested to hear how this works out if you do send it. I travel to the US frequently and I know how cheap they can be but I’d wonder by the time you pay for shipping and any GST they might sting you for if it would add up at all. Your best (lowest cost) bet I think would be to get a freight forwarder who you can ship it to domestically in the US and they can throw it in the container. That’s what I did when I brought tyres in from the states.

Prob good idea to indicate the area you’re in. I’ve seen these threads before where people should flood them with recommendations which in my case would be an hour or more in traffic from my home or office. Just saying.

E70 4.8. I have noticed a slight improvement after doing the coils and plugs too.

For what it’s worth, my X5 averages about 15L per 100km around Auckland (including a daily evening crawl on the Southern going home). Open road like Olaf I’m getting down to about 10L per 100km. Best I saw was 9 around bottom of the North Island where it’s nice and flat near Fielding and the like. You would think the sedan being two wheel drive and lighter could do better than that.

No I’m not sharing around a letter which is not to me. I suggest go to BMW and see what they say.

Do you ever end up with it wearing off or transferring on clothes?

Yeah it was pretty amusing - he drove around for about a week with a big crack across the screen whilst he argued with the insurance company. He’s a fairly savvy guy and explained that as soon as he handed over the car and let it go somewhere, else he would have lost control of the process. So he deliberately didn’t compromise and dug his heels in. He’s got the 535 wagon which has just been replaced by BMW so I don’t know if it makes much of a difference if the car is worth a bit more to the insurer or not? Another guy I work with has a pretty new Mercedes SUV. His tactic was to take it directly to the dealer and to tell the insurance company it was there, ready to be inspected!

Guy in my office just went through a windscreen replacement. Had the BMW dealer write a letter to the insurance company explaining why OEM is better.

2800 pounds plus VAT for the communications pack.... wow

Well played sir, well played.

I have no interest in any woman who finds that orange monstrosity attractive.

Always wonder how the road toll looks over time expressed as a per capita number.

I use the Gyeon wheel cleaner to deal with brake dust. I find the spray pattern to be far better than dragons breath.

Yeah I’m still not convinced... for example my E70 has a raft of stuff in the iDrive CBS. Brake fluid and cabin filters are a good example - they should be checked at certain intervals but unless there is a sensor that measures how blocked the filter is or how degraded the brake fluid is how can the car tell me outside of that arbitrary measure? i really want the OP to phone the dealer and get their view so I will finally know!

How does that then dovetail with the comment that “every few services it requires a heavier service”? And that’s from the dealer. Are you 100% sure that’s not the case in terms of items inspected? How does CBS deal with checking the transmission for a leak or thickness of rotors as outlined in the service 2 example from Pelican Parts? I’m not saying you’re wrong but I don’t understand how you can eliminate some of the inspection elements with CBS.

Generally they talk in service/inspection 1 and 2. There’s a lot of stuff written up in the US about the differences for these two services like here: https://www.pelicanparts.com/bmw/techarticles/JF-Tech/BMW_inspection_1_and2_check_list.htm I don’t know if they are the same from country to country but it should be similar. I’m sure the dealer would tell you what they do at each service and the interval if you asked, they are usually pretty helpful. You might notice that these guys are recommended an oil change about every 5000kms which seems excessive! The other thing is that depending where you go the dealer is not that much more sometimes. In my experience of having a couple of jobs done it was the OEM parts that were a lot more as opposed to a good quality aftermarket which may have even come from the same supplier.

The BMW dealers do offer a good level of service and use BMW parts and fluid. You couldn’t go wrong getting your car serviced there. however, a component specialist should be just as good, there are a number of oils from the big-name brands that meet the BMW spec. The subject of longer service intervals via BMW is the topic of some debate online. There is a school of thought that stretching the service interval saves BMW money when the cars are on their new vehicle service plan vs true improvements in oil and engines. Up to you really. For what it’s worth I service my car every 10,000km or 12 months - it’s probably overkill and the oil always looks pretty clean when it comes out but that’s just me. Probably depends on how long you intend to keep the car too.

I think this is more of a cruiser than the M5.

Holding Palmy up as an exemplar are we? Wow. Just because something has been there since 1929 does not mean it should continue. That being said we don’t need another cricket ground either. What’s the bet the speedway becomes another affordable housing area under Kiwibuild?

Well, you really need to round out the collection with a 6 and a 12

I see, I thought you post was saying you change them every year which I thought was fairly keen.

Annual spark plug change? Why such frequency?