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I'm struggling with the lack of love displayed by the Kiwi BMW driver / motorist for the Alpina brand. Can see a lot in this car not present in the equivalent letter car, faster, 0-60mph, tops out at 195 MPH, better braking and handling. Coachbuilt, hand assembled engine sure, not 6 speed manual trans, and I get the luxo barge thing too. Comes down to price, heaps of car for not much money (by comparison)

Talk to Dave M3AN ask him to add to Smeidmann order. Cheap as chips

Yes racked and packed. One of the rare instances where size does matter ? And quite economic from the UK ports too.

Remember that car, about 9 years ago (For us Cantabrians PQ, or post quakes) As I recall it was a project car for the workshop. Remember it had no rear spoiler from new, and still looks the same. The fake book pics show a minty interior and the hurricane or rain(?) cloth / alacantra still looks smart, with no fading.

Check the Demon Tweeks website for best global pricing in $NZ dollars to your door in double quick time. Recommend them over DC Performance based on experience with global shopping. And Evan Pittman and his guys are a good team Evan is well thought of in the various Renn Sport race series, they would supply links etc I'm sure if asked. Should you choose to go down this track may I suggest Speedfactor do the fitting too. KW branded product has stainless moving parts, the ST has innox, so susceptible to corrosion, no real deal breaker here in NZ firstly because of our climate, secondly we are putting good bits on our "toy" or hobby cars that rarely (in my garage anyway) see rain. In Auckland you chaps are lucky to have Ray at Hell BM on your doorstep, he has vast experience in all facets of suspension and mechanical, in fact his knowledge bank is greater than than the sum of the contributors to your post combined.☺️ Personally our M cars mostly have ST X /XA and Koni / Eibach Pro, and years ago Ray did influence my thinking here.

Thanks Gaz and Barry. Quite agree Gaz. Moreso as I don't have a car to fit them on, the vendor of the E36 got sellers remorse before concluding! There are plenty of cars for sale at the moment so waiting on a price from you Barry. Quite like muckin about with wheels.........?

These are replica wheels? ? Think the style 65 was OEM in 18 inch only? But may be wrong here.

OK thanks, our car is two in, two out. And like you can hardly hear any audible difference. No drone either. Wondered if a H pipe may make some change. Might drop the rear silencer, peel back the top and see whats in there to tinker with.

Following with interest here. Have the same drivetrain, albeit a different platform. When you did the resonator delete Matt, did you H pipe it? ie put a joiner between the pipes replacing the resonator. Interested too in your updates, particularly relating to the Milvs installation and tune application.

The gloss has gone right off them. Market reajusting driving up slightly the N/A inline six cylinders at the expense of the N54 N and S 55 engined cars. Well overdue too, we are always the last to cotton on here in NZ. That was a very nice car too, happy seller there!

Ahhh of course, reverse marketing, sure to produce a result?

All you armchair eggsperts are on line tonight?

Actually, having seen and driven this car it presents very well as an original vehicle with an excellent provenance, and service history. The seller is a bona fide car nut, and a very genuine guy to boot. If the car is of interest to anybody, grab it quick, before he changes his mind (again) and withdraws it. Personally we prefer the 3 litre / 5 speed over the 3.2/ 6speed, the 3.0 just seems to "get on it" a bit more. The seats will respond well to a clean and recolour where needed, for not a lot of money. The bolster are is in good shape, the dove grey just will not take the wear that regular use gives it. It is a 25 year old car after all.

Semantics. You ask for recommendations, or information, foolishly I replied. If its good enough for Porsche BMW Audi and Mercedes surely you can work it out. Measure your wiper blades, tick the boxes. The RHS has an aeroblade.

We use the exclusive speed spoiler blades on all our cars. Simple to fit, direct fit straight on. Just got a pair for the M Stg24 in the letter box. OE supplier to the big 4 German manufacturers. Its really quite a simple website Dave ?

www.heyner.co.uk Speed spoiler blades in your letter box for less than $50 a set of two. Posts running a little slow at the moment but.

Stocks trade price list, for Koni stuff especially, is twice the price of what we buy, freight and GST allowance included. Their pricing was pretty smart ten or fifteen years ago, but the advent of more on line choices out of Europe, UK and the USA has worked against them. We prefer Koni to Bilstein on our NZ roads, especially on the BMW and Porsche. All our Demon Tweaks stuff has come via DHL, Schmeidmann and Turners with FedEX.

I wrap them without tyres in plastic or bubblewrap, and as qube says use TM courierpost or fastway. They will collect from your home or business address too. From memory about $28 a wheel nation wide.

Sooo happy with the tune, and was the car dyno'ed? Recall your car has had an upgrade too Dave, any guestimates of torqe and BHP increases?

Perhaps it is genuine in that it came from an E30 M3 Jon?

We have bought in three or four shipments (big boxes, suspension bits) and have nothing but good reports. BUT this was prior to CVoid19, the last shipment was Dec2019. The pricing on Koni and Eibach and KWV / ST coilover stuff is pretty smart, plus there are GST benefits, all the imports have slipped thru the net GST wise.?

That is odd, maybe it really is lost! Usually big bits from DemonTweeks come straight thru to us in Christchurch, around three or four days. We got some wheels last week from Apex, in the US, send on the Thursday our time, here Monday 10.30am. And the same with a job lot of discs and calipers from Schmeidmann, ordered Friday our time, here Monday midday, back in April when we were all locked up. For sure Royal Mail is all choked up, as is our postal system. Just a waiting game really, and hope we do not end up out of pocket?

Jeez, clever guy, even if he likes VW stuff

shaguar came back into the bidding at 7.29pm and pushed it up to 15990. Leaving pinkjellydonut with it at 16k. Ironically andy003 was the big hitter see what he has for sale at the moment. Just sold a 911R last week too. All more than a little bit off really, just not what you expect to see from Trade Me. Really the "shill bids should be disallowed, and the car sold to the only bona fide bidder andy003 who wisely stopped at 15050, which was the true money on the night.