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Hi from your rego GAN290 found chassis WBANA72040B788579, rego japan 2004, assembled april 2004 e60 Sedan 530i M54. If you go to bmw fans site and entry B788579 hit browse parts you will be able to get the part numbers for the bits you need and from that get some idea of the cost. The prices on the site are way out of date but looking at some of them it might cost a few $$$ to replace the items you have listed plus any others that might need replacing that have been missed. Hope it is of some help and good luck with the repair.

Throw a tank full of 98 at it and if anything like my old 530 will give you even more.

Info from car jam NZ new Rego 5th Sep 2001 10 sets of number plates issued AFL 273 the first set Assembled Feb 2000 From a personnel view point con's the colour, red upholstery, it is 13 years old, price is high for what it is. pro's NZ new, manual transmission Unknown service history, number of owners and how it has been driven, AC stuff doesn't carry any weight.

On a different note what is with the sower or smile face look on the modern car pugs a grin to escape from. Josh's photos of the X4 the Tiquan smile no offense meant to anyone but really what are these car designer's thinking or not?.

Thanks for that Mark, Kelvin was aware that the early smg gave trouble and $$$$$ to fix.

So when all the BS is done and dusted what does it all mean? Ray would you like to chim in and explain "one of our conversions" please because I'm confused.

Is this any help a n42 engine. Had to reduce it can you see the black and red arrows. From memory I put a socket on the nut, black arrow and removed the belt tension. Then with a nail or allen key slid it in the hole, red arrow when the two holes aligned.

Found this attached to the front panel on the 325 wire not connected to anything can some help.

One of those personal choice things. For me to expensive about 6 to 6 half it is 14,15 years old and k's in the area when things start to brake or fail. The exterior colour, interior combo, e30, e34 type wheels just don't do it for me. GL51076 NZ Rego 13 Jan 1999 Assembled October 98

Thanks for the link at $105 odd landed a bit rich for me will keep looking.

You are wise in getting it to a mechanic if nothing is obvious. It could be a number of things water pump fault, thermostat jammed shut, sensor in the bottom hose faulty, air bubble in the system moved let your mechanic check it out and save you a whole lot of stress.

A belated birthday present ha Paul haha.

Thought their was a company in Auckland that did performance chips. The pug was about a grand to have done from memory could be mistaken though.

Best of luck with conversion if you don't mind were did you get the "M" gear shift knob from and how much been looking for one and the prices they are asking is stupid thanks ?.

With the service schedule 117,000 to 131,000. Thought a inspection 2 was due at 120,000 am I wrong if so what are the service intervals, km's on these.

might be a bit late http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=591095 http://www.chitownm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4525

As Brent has mentioned see Darren at NZAD I used on of those units with the engine swap cost around $1,000 to 11 hundred. The one from the states may not be any cheaper by the time you get it in your hands should you get hit with GST and freight costs. Which I would check on with a magnifying glass, bad experience with freight costs from the states lately.

EPP 987 issued in 2008 BZF when first rego NZ CE63709 Assembled Feb 20001 Rego Japan April 2001 Rego NZ 22 April 2004 Would be a good buy at $5 to $6,000. Need to have it checked over or a few $$$ tucked away for those maintenance items.

Where their is a will their is a way and it doesn't cost you the shirt off your back unless you involve a B3#$@! good on you stick it to the man . This seems to be a re occurring theme first the M5 lambda probes now the Disc for Nav wonder what will be next.

try this lot http://felgenkatalog.auto-treff.com/ style 42,66

That's not bad just wire brush them up and pop them back in another 90k . Is a set of plugs any cheaper than the o2 sensors chuckle chuckle. Sorry just having fun hope it is a simple set of plugs to be replaced and all good for another few thousand k's. Another BMW bring money with a friend was heard to remark!.

Is this any help Pelican have them for $84.00 US each Part No 11781742050 320mm long. $104.75 US each Part No 11781742050 580mm long.

From reading this is sounds like the customer is a Guinea pig and bm sorts out the problems with each new model that showed from the previous one (hopefully). Why do they not do something about the weak cooling systems and transmissions they have not only in this model but just about every model I've come across??.

Hi, Didn't want to start a war just give information. Lets just wait and see how they preform their is always going to be good and back stories about companies. Do they only trade through Trade me or do they have their own outlet if so were in NZ?.

After pressing a few keys found this list. http://www.search.ask.com/web?l=dis&q=...3Ao%3DAPN10645A Maybe they have improved?