Southerner

17inch OZ Futura

17x8 et32

17x9 et32

5x120

Fully rebuilt and purchased from Europe couple years ago. New lips bolts etc

Very good fitment for 3 series (and probably others). Bang on for stock body e30, e36, e46 etc

$5500

Located Dunedin. Happy to ship at buyers cost

Theres been four rolling sedans for sale the past 24hours, is there something going on we dont know about?!

The way I potentially see it. If it costs an extra few thousand when your potentially borrowing money at a lower interest rate, it doesn't make alot of difference at the time to ensure you get the purchase. 

As a percentage when your spending larger sums of money to add on the extra "tax" people are trending to do it.

Overall bang for buck the e30/36 chassis is still pretty good compared to other desirable vehicles. I certainly won't be selling mine anytime soon, I'd have to finish it first 😂

25 minutes ago, Eagle said:

Im still not convinced these sort of cars actually sell for close to asking.  

Don't get me wrong I'm all for the things I own to improve in value.

However I also struggle to believe a vehicle I brought has skyrocketed in "value" in less than two years. It's not like in that time half them fell off the road or got written off so they got rarer. 

I believe it's to do with "hype" combined with what was low interest rates over that period and essentially "free interest" lended money. This is confirmed when in the last 3 months the car values are dropping 20% atleast from a year ago and appear to be sitting on trademe from the auctions I follow across all sorts of vehicles

Do you have a link to it? Cant seem to find it!

Back into this thing and is progressing. Working through driveshaft hoops at the moment. Along with exhaust, will put some photos up next day or so in regards to that. Have an adrenalin r twin 2" back box, and a pair of 2" torque chambers, will be a full twin 2" system stainless.

Here's a couple of photos of a pair of shoes I tried on today 

Bit over tired at the moment, was more to try on fitment wise if I manage to stumble across a set for myself.

Posts like these encourage me to get a wriggle on! Good job on all the above, looks tidy and a good package!

Well this is an awesome combination 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3607526890

Side note....anyone want to buy an e30 coupe in project state....

28 minutes ago, Sammo said:

Schmiedmann- got here in under a week too

It will be part no 25117527252 ? Is also on my next import list for mine

Bit of late night last night with @euroriffic. Tidied up the wiring alot, none really visable which i wanted to achieve. Will work on headers and driveshaft hoops next to then waterblast/scrub the engine bay to then install the radiator.

Injector/fuel rail cover will get slightly adjusted to sit better.

Last set just sold on trademe couple weeks ago and there was a post a few weeks before that for someone else looking. Best bet these days is to retro fit some older Recaro. The sports seats are getting hard to find, not alot of people are parting cars out these days

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3544258196

This seems not too bad? Ripe for an engine swap or even a nice tidy up 

Sold

Pair of Brembo 4 pot/piston calipers off a BMW e38. 

These brakes are a great upgrade and there's adapters out there available to suit BMW knuckles. 

Light and big brakes, bigger and lighter than e36 M3 brakes as shown in last picture

$350 plus freight from Dunedin

12 minutes ago, gjm said:

Pricing is still optimistic?

There's a few things I noticed when I viewed it that others who haven't owned/know about wouldn't pick up that would trip them up and be costly

1 hour ago, gjm said:

Given the frankly optimistic prices of some E30s, this one looks almost reasonably priced.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/3518045341

Few things I noticed when I viewed it last week. Anyone with questions feel free to PM

Few pages back and a few months since posting,

Sold 3 of my other vehicles past month and knocked a few other projects over. None the less this thing will be getting more attention moving forward

To my knowledge the sedans in question are completely different to the coupes as such. A sedan 318is ms is on of approx 50 of in nz, south African assembled, in the usually m3 colours (Dakar hellrot fiji). 

The coupes never came, in my knowledge, in 318is ms limited edition. 

One of approx 50 is alot different to a 318is coupe, hence the pricing on these sedans.

$1 reserve on trademe now

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3451950194

On 1/17/2022 at 7:08 PM, GlenK said:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/3434141509
 

And if you want a Fiji Green one, although it is auto, but low kms!

Rego till end of April now, will take offers if anyone is keen on it. Need my E30 done!

Thanks

This one seems odd, has been listed several times. And the most recent it even had a leading bid 1 day out, closed with no bids on it?

Seems like not a bad price given what it appears to be and with the wheels etc 

Sadly have to sell this as have a 4x4 I need to keep and need some funds free up for the E30 build, mainly exhaust and cert

2003 BMW E46 Touring 320d
2 litre diesel turbo.
Auto
NZ New
209kms
Wof rego and ruc
Tidy car in and out. Have owners manuals and service history
Have recently done glow plugs and a swirl flap delete
Msport steering wheel and seats
Cruise control Air con etc
New battery 800cca this week

Goes good and good on fuel. Nice to drive around and out of town. Was going to keep this car for a long time but have other projects to spend it on

Located Dunedin
$4500

2 hours ago, TJ Blaze said:

Thanks everyone who replied, good to see the dream is shared with others. I'll start with FB groups.

So budget wise I was hoping for $15K but could stretch to $20K if needed. As I think I'd be hanging onto the car for some years I'd be happy to get something rust free and straight to begin with, then can slowly spend more and chip away at the project - drive train, panel, paint, interior etc. Anyone have a rough indication of cost to swap, all components and labour? Would $5K get it done nicely?

 

To be realistic it depends on what your thinking is nicely? Is it purely a M52 and nothing else possibly.

But to go with one to do it nicely,

Gearbox

Clutch

New radiator

LSD

Suspension

Brakes

Steering Rack

Dont know if your allowing for wheels and maybe even interior in this build and is that part of the 5k? Could be done later. Depends on where you draw the line in the sand, 

On 10/30/2021 at 8:37 AM, TJ Blaze said:

Hey everyone, I've got a E30 dream! How I get there...hoping some E30 enthusiasts can help. 

The dream would be a e30, manual, swapped M52b28 (or better, but from reading this is best bang for buck). 2 door preferred but door more common so that's OK also. Currently I don't own anything but have been looking for a straight e30 to start. 

First option and less likely, anyone selling their own finished project (unlikely I know)? 

Otherwise advise on best path and who could do the work (I can do basics but not a full engine swap)? 

Cheers

Tim

Welcome to the forum!

I too have the same dream and am doing this swap myself, my project is in the project thread.

As @Sammo said, whats your budget? Realistically its not a cheap process these days, even the car themselves have skyrocketed, probably 15K minimum for a nice coupe, that before any work on it