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They loved it... gave mine a plough but my points for style not as impressive...

Same company had a rare factory chev 350 HQ Premier wagon with air con for $140k... they had purchased it for $78k as I understand...

Seriously cool cars and worth a sizable fortune IMHO 😎 Especially the uber nice estoril blue with manual SSG/SMG...

Hi I would be interested in front door speakers please, both sides, top and bottom.

No of course not, all good

I'll argue that... 😎

As I've said before, BMW today is only enhancing the value of e39/46...

Anything mainstream Nissan... but modern BMW chasing them down...

Finally have managed to complete I guess this car to a point where I'll take a wee rest... Replacement bumpers and bootlid now on. Did my own painting, sanding, cutting and polishing with a pretty OK result in the end... Remade "BMW582" has gone on and the all important "M" badge 😲 to complete the (now) NZ new type look. Just an annoying oil leak remains which I fear is the driver side top chain cover which I don't think is a small job. It may have to wait a little....

Happy New Year All, Just a few minor bits of progress over the last month or so, mainly to do with fitting previously acquired parts to the car. Fitted up have been the pre-facelift new grilles and foglights, and to complete the transition back to PFL, I've painted my bordmonitor surround silver and fitted that back in the car. The refurbished wheels and new tyres have also gone on - all in time for the recent show at Hampton Downs with the BMW Club NZ. The last bit of major works still ahead is the painting of the bumpers and the boot lid, which I hope to have a crack at this weekend. I've alerted the Trans shop to two minor issues with the refurbished trans -as per the last post above. So it will go in sometime for "remedial works"...

Yes it was.

Yes I wouldn't mind trying to find a set for my CS, as these optioned wheels are a prick to clean...

Spare wheels/tyres now available...

It's a sad indictment on our society and where it's heading... and the above is a mild symptom...

A bit on cosmetics today, more mirror covers, door handles, and right sill. More sanding and filling on spare bumpers as well. Took the car to Auckland yesterday to have @BreakMyWindow run his DIS diagnostics over the engine and vanos. All is well. There is a little "miss" at cruising speed and Martin reckons it's the torque convertor dropping slightly out of lockup and picking up again. That with the 5-4 jolty downshift is a warranty issue so in time I'll be having a chat to my transmission shop, but getting more km under it first.

Yup that's the plan...

Last update of this year I'm picking. Not too much to report. The wheels have arrived back from painters looking good... they will go on in the new year, along with the new Dunlops. I've started work on the spare bumpers, gunna have a crack at painting those myself although expectations are not high... The dash is all good, even the single line of missing pixels seems to have sorted itself out. I had my spare parcel shelf retrimmed with suitable material. It now looks a lot better than the old fading and lifting one. Thought I had an issue with my spare electric blind, but it's all working good. And just today I took care of an annoying feature the Japan market has, I do not need to be told that I have selected reverse, one plug removed and the gong is gone. Merry Christmas All...

Well this weekends idiocy saw me careful dismantle the gauge cluster again, even using the melt and drill method instead of removing needles that would just not budge, carefully clean the contacts, install a new LCD screen, reassembled again and tested to find the same dull screen on the right side... experience is hard fought and of course the problem was two blown backlighting bulbs... A rookie mistake and I feel an absolute twat... anyhow, it all ended well and the dash is now all good, except for one pesky column of pixels that is hardly noticeable... one can say I'm a bit more savy with clusters now... I also installed a replacement heater valve and all good, splicing in another connector as mine had broken. A bit of cleaning in behind the oil filter housing is bring the engine bay up pretty good now... A bit of a drive in the arvo, followed up by sanding down a spare rear bumper I acquired today, to replace the one on the car. My spare parcel tray is in getting retrimmed and I fitted another motor to my spare blind, ready for the changeover. This week I hope to get my painted up 66's back and get them fitted up. Pleased to say the 540 is now at "operational" status now

When I coded a replacement airbag module, I read information off the EWS of the car then pushed it to the airbag module. I used NCS expert and this document attached. The cluster would be similar but you may also have to write the VIN to it which is also described in document. (I also just about cocked up my cluster when attempting pixels, but just saved it, will try again using the drilling method, not removing needles) I supply this information to the best of my knowledge, but I am in the very early experiences of coding... BMW Single Module Coding.pdf

Hi Rob.. From the Russian Federation off ebay and another from Latvia.... delivery between Jan 5th and April 11th LOL. Although Latvia one may be here sooner. I'm getting a used one off Kerry tomorrow, at some stage in the future I'll have a spare refurbished one. Yes I'm aware of the drilling method so may try that if I build up the courage again. Apparently melt the white frame with a soldering iron in the right spots first, then drill through to the screw head underneath. I thought I'd got there when I finally got the back off (around the connectors) but was stopped by the tight AF needles...

I'm after part #64118374994 I've got a rebuild kit on the way but in the meantime I'd like to try another used one... Also the non-dripping version unlike mine...

I'm after part #64118374994 I've got a rebuild kit on the way but in the meantime I'd like to try another used one... Also the non-dripping version unlike mine...

I'm getting King St Autobodies next to Greg Hantz to do them. Should be ready by end of week they reckon. But today I did decide to give my painting skills another attempt. I've got a blue wideplate boot lid to go on, so today I stripped its gear out and prepped and painted it a coat or three of Titan Silver plus Clear coats on the underside. Happy to report the result is good so may even attempt the topside, although it may not quite match once on the car. That's where the experts with their blending etc come in.. Also changed the diff oil yesterday.. I also discovered that fix up the cooling system and cure a couple of leaks only puts pressure elsewhere and bugga it the heater valve is dripping... and so it continues.

Today's update, Well there's two things I'm not going to attempt myself after the last few days efforts... One is painting the wheels, I'm bowing to the experts and have taken the wheels in to be top and clear coated. They have the (good) equipment and the skill, which I haven't... Another is pixel repair... just about stuffed my fuel gauge trying to get the needle off (with all the right tools etc), but managed to safely exit that attempt and put some chrome rings on the gauges on the way out... A new 90 degree thermostat is fitted (as opposed to 105 std) and system drained and filled with BMW coolant (car is running 5 to 10 degrees cooler in general). Also all the rubber grommets under the valve cover fasteners have been replaced as they were leaking. Not without it's drama as well, broke a stud, and had to remove valve cover to extract remains. Managed to fashion up a replacement and saved the day... a fair bit of oil was in the driver side spark plug wells (from the hardened grommets) - compressed air , degreaser and rags got rid of that. All the spark plugs were checked and cleaned, the valve cover gaskets themselves were good as obviously recent, so it was all buttoned up OK. The drivers side valve cover is a bit poorly with a missing mount for top cover, so on the hunt for another... So on to it's first real drive, went very well, car has a bit of poke for sure... broke an exhaust mount at some point so bodged up a temp fix and will have to order another one... no leaks The transmission may need a tweak as it can have a bit of a jolt downshifting 5-4 off throttle, but shop said to drive it for a while first before they look to do something. All together a good few days, although it has put me to the test, finished it off with a new handle on the centre console and a red wine...

After a good straight set of valve covers for a 4.4l V8 M62tu engine as found on an e39 540 for example. Or just the drivers side one would be a good start... thanks...