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  1. Josh - what model BMW are they going onto? I presume it is not the 7 series in your profile pic.

    Edit: ok blind guy here just read your ride section too. As you are on a budget I would run a 225/40/18 . 225/35/18's tend to be quite expensive. We have a number of tyres avaialable ranging from $149 each on the car through to $229 each for Eagle F1's. This includes all fitting and balancing. We are having great success with a tyre called Nexen. It is a Korean tyre but the quality is awesome - so much so that some of our customers are replacing their Eagle F1's with them! They are a silica based compound, are nice and quiet, seem to have a great amount of grip and they wear well!! Kind of ticks all the boxes and at $199 each you can't go wrong!

    click the link below!!

    http://www.nexentireusa.com/tire_detail.asp?pid=107

    We are onto our 10th and 11th container loads at the moment - in the space of 1 year.

    All prices are Bimmersport member prices by the way - cheers


  2. Has anyone ever had to re register or certify their vehicles ! and knows the best process to take , also the best place to go on the north shore! also any idea on costs roughly.

    cheers.

    you wil have to go to a compliance centre, they will basically give your car an extremely thorough WOF check. Ie remove all wheels, check hub assemblies, bushes, ball joints, suspension, brake hoses, pads and rotors etc. They also pull the interior to bits to check for any dodgy repairs etc, should cost around $400 mark. I know of a couple of places in Penrose but nothing on the North Shore sorry.


  3. If the wheels are not hub centric you will DEFINITELY need centre bore locating (CBL) rings. Most european cars are notorious for the 'shakes' you describe if the wheel is not located centrally on the hub. Kiwi535 had the same problem a while ago and teh rings solved it. I highly doubt it will be a bent wheel as this would have shown up when when the new tyres were fitted. PM me for more details if you want.


  4. I had a set of 18x8.5 mags on a 318iS with factory m-sport suspension all round, they tucked halfway down the tyre in the back and the fronts rubbed on the guards on some corners.

    for a start these wheels are .5" wider than the ones loeuro is looking at and they will probably be a lower offset too, which makes them stick out further. The higher the offset the further IN the wheel sits, hence my statement about no guard rub. The wheel that Loeuro is looking at is probably too high an offset for an E36 and will foul somewhere in the front, cheers


  5. Control arm bushes need replacing. This has happened on 3 of our 7's and 2 5's. For some reason the bigger diameter wheels cause the problem. We are just about to do our 735, it is actually easier to replace the whole arm (and cheaper) than trying to press out the bush and press a new one in.


  6. yeah unfortunately YHI are feeling very threatened by us, so anything that they import they will not sell to us........... but there are ways around everything, it all depends on who you know.Let me know exactly what make and model you are after and I will see what I can do. No promises though. You guys don't like our 17" E30 wheel?

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