scott_e30

Nice tidy original looking car there.

I think the IS lip colour coded would look good if you did the bumpers too (but leave the trim on bumper black).

Well at least that's what I plan on doing with mine .

Thanks mate. Sometimes i think it looks like there is too much white on the front end when the bumpers are also colour coded. Just my opinion haha.

But where has the beautiful exhaust extension gone?!

Sorry about that, haha. Going to replace it with an original one! Thanks again for the easy, honest trade!

Hi all,

After hunting round for the last year or so for an e30, I saw that this one was up for sale and looked to be in good shape (a real credit to the previous owners). Looked at it and purchased it a week later off Will (ThreeOneEight) - Cheers!!

Its a NZ 1990 318i Manual

M40 engine

226000 KM

Electric windows/sunroof

Rear spoiler

14" BBS Basket Weave alloys

Spent most of today running over the car including giving it a Mother three stage polish

I am very happy with the car, and loving every minute of owning her.

A few plans i have for her:

Giving the alloys a really good clean (possibly a re-spray)

Clear indicator lenses (front and side) - anyone that can help with these parts?

Original exhaust tip

IS Front lip (tossing up between painting it black or colour coding it to Alpine White)

Might look at some mtech or after market springs (but not a priority currently)

New roundels

Original rear floor matts

Original gear knob

Cheers - Scott

New Shift boot with plastic surround arrived.

Looks SO much better with that fitting surround!

Sold.

call up studylink and keep the car! haha..

I wish!

TRADEME LINK - http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/cars/bmw/a...n-513315883.htm

Unfortunately i have to sell my pride and joy in order to fund my university fees for the coming year.

I purchased her off a couple just on a year and a half ago now. Really stood out being in excellent condition, NZ New and manual. I have loved owning this car and adding my personal touches to it.

Extremely good condition for age

SPECS:

NZ New - Full service history (all books/manuals/papers)

Has had the cooling system fixed (very common and expensive fix with the e46's)

New air flow meter - smooth acceleration

35% window tint (professionally installed by HYPER DRIVE in Penrose)

18" M3 Replica wheels (New in August last year)

Front clear indicators, and side repeaters

Matte Black kidney grills

2 x New tyres

Cheers - Scott.

You now have more than one problem. First you must get into the car. If you can get it open, keep a window open. If you can't you might have to choose a window to break... I can suggest which one. Then you need to repair the manual lock in the drivers door first and fix the window you might have to break. Then you need to deal with the key or GM5 control unit fault. I doubt this can all be done for for $600

It does open - just takes a while. So what would you recommend doing? Cheapest way I think is going to be getting a 2nd hand drivers lock unit and use a separate key to get into the car and the original to start the car.

that 7 series

Staggard 19" M Par's...

Its probably a problem with the GM5 relay.

See here:

http://www.bmwgm5.com/

Anyone on here know anything about this? Not too keen on a $600 exercise like it says on the website!haha

as per above.

The remote locking is VERY temperamental, i can stand for 15 minutes trying to get the car open.

Have replaced battery in remote.

Must note that the lock in the door isn't usable as the plunger inside the mechanism is broken, so the only way to get into the car is via the remote unlock. Although before that happened (two weeks ago) the remote unlock was still very temperamental.

ANY help would be extremely appreciated.

Cheers!

I don't think they are 'fully' legal but you can get them in the exact font as the number plates and the same size and in reflective material so cops don't really mind too much but I would keep the original in the car just in case. Also a cheaper upgrade to a europlate

Looking good mate! Is that an OEM BMW colour or just a random one? And out of interest where do you get the sticker plates made up?

I've got 4 x 14" steel wheels off my E30 with good 195x65 tyres on them.

Plus 1x Alloy wheel and tyre which was the spare.

All in very good nick, they came with the car which is now a series race car.

Offers? 2 dozen beers sounds fair?? will post pic tomorrow

Located in Howick.

Andrew

021889960

Just out of interest did they come off a p/fl silver 318i coupe?

looking good mate

Brent just gave you some ideas, have you taken it to a mechanic?

Sorry, forgot to thank him for that. Not yet but i will be soon, thinking about taking it to Ernest at Bavarian Motor Works on the shore.

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I told my mate last week to have a look at it. Also there's a mint 318i e30 here with 1 lady owner from new with about 90,000km on it!

If your talking about the black one in Dunedin then that has had one NZ owner. It was imported in 2001 from Japan.

About 1/3 the time I'm down shifting into second gear it pops out and no matter how many times I try and select again 2nd it wont stay?

Any ideas? or anyone else on here with a manual e46 that has had this problems?

Thanks - Scott

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mean pics bro!

3.5k tops I reckon Scott, E30s are far too over priced now days. They have sky rocketed in price over the last 18 months. Mind you that doesn't mean that they are actually selling

Thanks AJ. 3.5k seems fair, i suppose you do have to have a bit of a loading for a really tidy one.

I know its hard to tell from some small photos and a write up. But if it is in excellent nic / full service history etc etc like stated. What would this be worth?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=496599054

Thanks

I cannot express how badly I want this car! I really want this car!.....

Wouldn't be interested in swaps at all?

haha knew you'd be all over this Sam!

looks good! Agree with Sascha above about the tails thought. Stock or all-red tails would look awesome.

looks awesome man!