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GM has a silver metal pan. Zf has a black plastic pan.

Same as my car. Love the color. Boston aka Terracotta.

As it's an 07 you will likely have the GM gearbox. Which is well known for it's shudders. Usually caused by the torque converter wearing. It's been discussed on the forum a number of times. To solve my GM shudder I changed the fluid and filter (which is not built into the pan on the GM box) and added Lubeguard Shudder Fix (aka Dr Tranny's Shudder Fix in the USA). I did all this at around 120,000kms. It has never shuddered once in 70,000kms since. This GM box and its variants is used in many different US vehicles. Google GM torque converter shudder. Common problem. Lubegaurd does work and you can get it from Repco.

You may still need to spend a lot of money on bringing the car up to standard too. The motor (where all the money is) would probably need a refresh (if it hasn't already) because if you lunch it you have a worthless vehicle and will be looking to spend another $15K + rebuild for a replacement.

I ordered something from Chch on the 1st of April. Picked up by NZC on the 2nd. In transit. No further info. Still not seen it. I ordered something from Estonia on the 29th of March. It updated me every step of the way. It was waiting for me at work this morning. Are we spoiled by great world wide shipping? Or does NZ have absolute crap service and I should be more patient?

What on earth.. I want a Convertible, but it must be a boring color. I want it to look sporty, but get great economy. But be spicy enough that it is still fast, but make it 4WD so it's safe. I like the base model steering wheel so add that....

I am incredibly aware of this unfortunately.

Oh what did I miss?

I know that opinion ruffles a few old man feelings here . This car looks dated compared to other facelift E39's I've seen lately. Saw a red 530i Msport the other day (not seen one in years) and it looked great. Still modernish. Edit: Ah I know what it is. The black trim. On the green it makes it look like a base model. On the Red it contrasts so much it somehow looks good. Maybe a color match would solve this.

TBH my initial comment was based on three things I don't like. Old Man Green BMW's Old Man tan interiors Simmons wheels Sounds like a lot of work has been done though. Most of us would prefer to spend that money on OEM+ restoration like Sreten these days.

Has to be a place holder price.

Annoying when you want to sell two in the next few months.

I just couldn't believe how much of a celebrity/race car driver specticle it was. I had no idea George Harrison raced in one. And Sir Jackie Stuart is giving him stick in the clip.

So many big names in this race. Amazing.

Similar query from a few weeks back. See my comment about Takapuna Panel and Paint.

Same reason I have 3 130s. 😅

05 manual for the first. 07 auto is missing a pin like yours.

Here you go. 5 pin hole plug. 5 pin MAF.

Will try again tonight. Weather was terrible down here last night.

Cheers. Glad I checked. Nearly purchased all the service stuff for the GM box.

Did any Jap 130's come with GA6HP19Z gearboxes? For some reason I thought they all came with the dreaded GA6L45R boxes. RealOEM states my Pre-LCI only had the GA6HP19Z.

Yeah Protool from Bimmergeeks is good. https://www.bimmergeeks.net/ I will have a look at one of the plugs tonight for you. Could pick one up second hand from BMWorld or HellBm. They will have plenty. Genuine to cheap via spareto.com https://spareto.com/products?utf8=✓&keywords=13627551638

It is likely the MAF is working then. Have you had a look to see if it is clean? This vid shows a similar setup to what you have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2YWaFd1qyM As for resetting the shorts, you would need a good diagnostic tool. Do you know why the lights were replaced? Seems odd unless they were damaged.

I've not heard of a MAF going bad on one of these cars. Does yours it make a difference with it unplugged? or does the idle not change? Not sure at all about the tail lights sorry. Were they replaced with genuine lights? Have you reset the short circuit counts to see if they come back on? There is a limit for the number of shorts that can occur. Once reached even if the issue is resolved you need to reset that count before they will be supplied power.