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If it bothers you (it bothers me) just report it to trademe as being for sale as no reserve, but withdrawn, on multiple occasions. It's abusing the auction system.

We'll never find out - the dizzy I've got has none (it's only a bitza). Sorry and good luck. There must be heaps of these things lying around somewhere.

I might have what you need - pretty sure it's actually an 02 dizzy but the clip might be right. I'll have a look later.

Someone else can answer on the steering. You need spring compressors to take the springs off too. I'm sure someone could chime in with some rangi way of doing it, but its not safe. They're under heaps of pressure and you cannot safely take off the top nut without compressing the springs. It may be that the shorter springs can go in without the compressors. If the rear shocks aren't controlling the springs well it will handle like sh1t. Experience suggests they'll only fail shocks in a warrant when they're far beyond stuffed, so that doesn't mean your rears are good (or bad) just because they passed. So... it isn't possible to say over the internet if the old rear shocks are ok.

It could just be the bushing in the joiner in the steering column - you really need to figure out exactly what failed. It's not uncommon for them to fail - it's number 3 here, if that link works. But don't go buy anything until you know what needs replacing. You need a couple of specialised tools to change the front shocks. You may or may not need a rattle gun to get the top nut off, and you almost definitely need spring compressors (I'd say 100% certain if you have std springs). It's totally doable DIY though.

Dude, I seem to recall you lost your licence, and drive a 320 4dr which is all hat and no cowboy. I'm not sure you should be criticising someone for blowing an engine. Besides, it can happen to M3s too... there's a whole thread about it (a problem only on the track) over here: http://www.bimmersport.co.nz/forums/index....showtopic=14550

Give the poor guy some credit - I think he's already said he's not into that sort of thing. Although: Oi! VTEC rules. 100hp/litre, revs and cheap. Unfortunately small. Oh well. I agree with whichever poster(s) pointed out that each car is different. Different, but good, and different means you should choose whichever suits what you want out of a car. I guess you should keep in mind that the M3 requires a different attitude to the cars it sounds like you've had more recently - if you want performance bits (in particular power upgrades) for STIs and Evos, or RWD japanese, they're plentiful new and secondhand. It's a bit harder to find stuff for BMWs (unless you want ricey lights etc), its usually more expensive, and most of the time it doesn't improve performance much... ...so if that makes you sad, I would look elsewhere.

PBoy - you're missing the point. The problem isn't just safety with compressed springs vs cutties vs bags vs adjustable coilovers. Although cutties are pretty bad. The problem is that excessive lowering of an E36 (and most BMWs) completely stuffs the suspension geometry. Most of the problem is being too low, not (only) how you get there. There isn't any way of fixing this properly, short of changing suspension pickup points. To some extent, there are camber and toe correction kits which can fix it, but if you want to slam the car then it's going to get camber wear, and camber wear (especially only a few 1,000km to a pair of tyres) is basically a good indication you have too much camber. Do E36's get excessive toe in when they're excessively low (like trailing arm E30/e21/2002/etc)? That won't help tyre wear either.

I agree - its looks great and I'm in the market for one (ooooh, I finally actually said that, rather than just window shopping on Trade Me). As discussed in his buy/sell thread, the $5,000-10,000 too much that he is asking is the main reason no-one's keen. It's going to require someone willing to pay a premium, or he's gonna wait a while. $30k is mint M3 Evo money, I'm sad to say.

Mike I have an EDIS toothed ring and sensor from this guy: http://home.earthlink.net/~beanbooger/boost_engineering/ There are plenty of examples of M10s adapted to work with these over at www.bmw2002faq.com (which I'm sure youve seen). I'm actually happy to sell it - I'm never going to use the thing. I paid NZ$75 for it by the time it was here. Would sell for that.

Hell yeah - looks mint in the pics.

Can't quite make out the pic in your sig, but aren't you selling your car on Trade Me already? http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/C....htm?key=615824 It's just ... curious. I guess whatever makes you happy .

Either way, that car is apparently long gone. I txted the guy about seeing it last night (would have bought it too if it stacked up), set up a time, and got a txt about 5pm saying sorry, it had sold. Poor me, LOL. I wonder if a BS member bought it?

This is a problem with the certing process, not adjusty height coilovers.

I had a leak in mine (on the 2002) repaired at the radiator place in Newton called ... google ... Auto Radiators, Nixon St. I was happy enough (it worked, wasn't stupid expensive).

Yeah, JiBs sounds nasty. no_fat_chicks - some aftermarket fuel pumps are just plain loud. It might pay to figure out what you've got.

Don't forget the massively wide BBS wheels for sale, which are crying out for M3 arches.

Nah you misunderstand me. I think it is the front lower suspension arm, rear bushing - the "caster bushing", which apparently (so google tells me) often wears out on E46s prematurely. If its the rear suspension bushing then I agree with you.

All the manual conversion stuff is gone, sorry. JP - sorry I didn't come back to you on the seats, but Jonathan might need them (or more specifically, the rails etc). They are nasty anyway.

I guess we disagree what "front rear suspension arm bushing" means

Yeah, but I'd be extremely surprised if any of the serious buyers was planning on buying these as the only set of wheels for their car. Certainly if it was me buying (which, very sadly, it won't - yet my frequent returns to the thread must say something), I wouldn't use them every day, and would quite gladly keep a set of something else warrantable around.

Haha - that's a mean stretch and I'm not so sure it'd be all that safe.

Hmmm - ET22 or minus 22? --> ET22 would hit something - it's like 5.75" of backspace!

That would be too much backspace - I'm guessing that they'd hit the struts. There was a car on here with 15x8s with 0 offset - it needed camber to fit and a really stretched tire, from memory. M3 fenders on the other hand... awesome.

Daaaaaaamn they are hot. For a 2002tii, with turbo flares arriving tomorrow. Actually they wouldn't fit - too much backspace. Would be bloody tricky getting them on an E30 methinks. I think backspace might be ok, but guards a problem. The dish on the 9.5" look like it's all outwards (4.25" backspace). Would look so, so, so good with M3 guards.