Greg111

If yours is an E60 then it is part of the recall, BMW NZ should have contacted you by letter, maybe just go into your dealer to confirm.

Hense why the starter is now mounted directly under the engine, BMW knew this would cause them to f**k out so have put them there for ease of removal. Yes the system can be turned off at the push of a button, you don't actually hear the starter, just a vibration of the car and you're off, very instant! There are a lot of factors involved for the start/stop feature to work, battery condition is one, if the car senses poor condition then it won't activate, aircon fully blasting on a hot day, it won't activate etc etc, if you stop in rush hour traffic the car won't turn off until you have exceed 20kph so creeping forward won't be enough for it to activate. You have to remember, BMW are a very smart company, they don't do things by half. BMW use one battery only, as soon as you lift your foot off the brake the car is moving forward, takes half a revolution for the car to start, very very instant. We tried this at a set of lights the other week, as soon as it went green i ripped my foot of the brake an hard on to the go pedal and it took off straight away.

That lip is nice. To be honest though, yours doesn't look low at all, do you really scrap it?I barely scrap mine here and there and is alot lower, different front end mind.

Alpina 8 series.....................

They get a new cable cover, we are told if the cable hasn't failed by now then it isn't part of the batch that "might" fail so we replace the plastic cover that goes over it, a modified version of it. We have a very rare chance of finding a melted one.

Ok, first of all, the starter motor is now mounted underneath the engine so replacing it would take 5 minutes rather having it mounted in the normal place making it an hour plus job. This is done for obvious reasons, the starter is now working ten times more than normal. Secondly, yes you do feel it stop at the lights or what ever the circumstances are, yes it does feel wierd (for the first time, that's it), use to it now. Thirdly, it doesn't take 5 minutes to start a car normally so doing this at an intersection is no big deal, with the start/stop system, you pull up to a stop, the car turns off, radio, aircon carry on going, as soon as you take your foot off the brake or turn the steering wheel the car starts straight away, no hesitation at all, works really well!

Utter crap!!

From a very high cliff.

Have checked multible 5s today, none have burnt through the floor yet.

A car will only need complete incoding if it has old or dodgy software.

Correct, with a simple tune and few tweaks here and there you could have a fast car indeed, the joys of turbos. You do get use to it, the reason they are keeping their badging i.e 328i is because it's been around forever, if they went to new badging for what was under the bonnet then you wouldn't have 325, 323, 328 anymore which are the bench marks of the 3 series., you would have 320 and 330. Two different petrol varients isn't a lot to choose from.

The 328 is single turbo twin scroll. Very easy in traffic and very fun on the open road, heaps of torque all the way to red line.

All due to ONE car failing world wide, I guess that's how it starts.

Didn't think any six cylinder E36 had single mass fly wheels???

Agreed. Some of the more modern ones were very good looking, besides the very latest one however.

That would've been scary.

Fully agree Jon, but very much gone of those days, still trying to get my head around it. Also, the F30 has multible guises, you can get a Modern, Luxury, Sport and Motorsport, all of which have different trimmings, wheel options, colours etc etc. F20 is the same. Urban, Sport and Motorsport

Correct Simon, 328i is a 2L turbo four cyl, would blow past the previuos 328 six cyl too.The F20 116, 118 and 120 are a 1.6L turbo, same engine for each but with different boost levels. The 128 will be a stonking car and the F30 335 is MUCH faster than the previous 335, these are 3L.

Single mass flywheel?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/...n-456863240.htm http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/...n-456878933.htm He's also selling a tasty Lancia.

Yep, airbag light will be on, although they say it's a 98 but the passenger airbag isn't there either? Have to admit, even though they have destroyed this car...they derstroyed it pretty bloody fast.

You jogging?

No, the vin will only show up BMW spec, they go to the tuners afterwards.

Quite sure they're not genuine then.

Your front bumper needs painting.