aja540i

Are you turning an E30 into a ute?

https://www.bunnings.co.nz/morgan-45l-bullet-bin-black_p0028091 One of these, some tin snips and a hot air gun??

I am definitely not a psychopath, and I will stab anyone who says I am!

No cats?

Who replaces a wing mirror without bothering to match the paint? They are so easy to paint off the car and such a ball ache to remove to do it later!!

I use Gough, they have a branch just around the road from work but all the testing is done in Christchurch I believe, you buy the kit from them and drop it back to them, they send it to the lab and email the results.

I did a set for my e39 540i touring in coal dust, it is an old colour now but I chose it because the brake dust doesn't show up on it!! We really only do our own product but it is a mix of galv steel and aluminium, and we have the pre treatment tanks for both, so I would be lying if I said I hadn't seen a few sets of wheels going through I usually dip strip or sand blast (depending on the finish of the wheels) then run them through the pre treatment process, I am currently doing a set of style 66s for the 530d but I am going to wet paint them as I couldn't find the exact right colour in powder coat.

I think you mean SAFETY scheme!!

is it just a gloss black? Seems odd that a powder coating place wouldn't have gloss black! As with painting, prep is the key to good results, the only other step I would recommend is a chemical treatment to coat the bare alloy before powder coating, if the place you use does a lot of aluminium they should be able to do it for you, we have tanks that we dip everything in to pre treat.

I always use the Castrol 10w60 supercar, but only because I wanted consistency for used oil analysis results, if you take it to BMW they will stick Shell in it, and any other 10w60 is probably going to be fine. I doubt the Warehouse have a no name 10w60! The only advice I would offer is to not wait 25k between changes, which is what the CBS will start with after a reset.

I would suggest that given that line up 10 is the right number to make sure you always have one that is drivable!!

Cheap nasty paint touch up work when it arrived from Japan plus ultraviolet light plus neglect....

Yes you can replace the entire unit if it was an option from new, have done it on a previous e39, VTNZ guy tried to fail my WOF because he thought the entire wiring loom needed to be replaced to handle the high voltage for the HID bulbs! I have never been back to that VTNZ...

Sweet sweet motocompo.

Do they have a gasket or is it just sealant? I can't remember getting a gasket when I had mine done with the timing chain guides etc

Doesn't look like i can get the rear size in the 003s, hyper have some Dunlops on sale that have both sizes, about $850 for 4, which is about what I wanted to spend.

I am in the process of refurbishing the style 66 wheels for the E39 530d touring and am after some recommendations for good mid range tyres, staggered setup so looking at 235/45 17 for the front and 255/40 17 for the rear, don't want to spend silly money but would ideally get same brand and model front and rear. Any suggestions of good, bad, or avoid like the plague appreciated.

Started welding away the curb rash, I am doing sections about 20- 50mm long, and about 5 sections spaced around the rim at a time to minimize heat input and avoid distortion. So, wire brush a section, weld it, wire brush the next section, weld it, etc, etc, leave the whole lot to cool down, file down the welds with a cheese grater file then smooth off with a fine file, then repeat until the whole rim is done, then repeat for 3 more wheels!! I am guessing around 4 hours each for the worst wheels and 1-2 hours for the ok ones!!

They also held onto it for 10 years!

got the style 66s back from being dip stripped last week, now to start the laborious task of welding, ginding and filing the curb rash! It was less obvious when they were Matt black but they are going to be silver again so needs to be sorted, these wheels will consume several more weekends of my life before they are ready to wear tyres again!!

I actually could, 1700w pure sine wave inverter, I would just have to run the e39 for 8 hours or so, think of the environments!

Added a 175 amp DC connector in the boot, mainly to connect an inverter but also whatever else i need! 200 amp circuit breaker just in case...

Because you still had them from when you sold your Commodore??

I can probably help out, I work around the corner from Ray and we pack and send stuff all the time with PBT. PM me if you are keen.

Maximum tyre width 245mm, so no good for the M5 then....