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Put trim back on my e30 after an atrocious paint touch up. Mates rates never again! Sent from my GT-I8190N using Tapatalk

E34 AC Schnitzer 540i on way to Takapuna a few days a week as I head south to work

GRUNT5 in Grey Lynn this evening. Looking good! Sent from my GT-I8190N using Tapatalk

I sold my M10 engined automatic E30 sedan for more than double that within a few hours of listing, a couple years ago

How many conversations do you intend on having? Line some cars up to test drive over a day or two, come down here, and drive back home with one of them. Cars this old come with condition ranging the full spectrum from totally sh*t and dying in every way, to near perfect. Not model specific, not anything specific just the varying lives of a bunch of cars 20 years old. Aside from the common problem of a JATCO auto, you're on a wild goose chase with the 101 questions.

Photoshopped photos a bit? Perfectly good car is though, and would be ruined by an M30 transplant. 2.7 is an interesting engine and as a classic it is essential that the car retains its originality.

Hmmm- what are you expecting it to go like? 320i E30s are pretty gutless I have found

Lives somewhere between Takapuna and Bayswater. Sounds like shite with what looks like one of those powerpro exhausts. Ughh. Has lost its original plate now too.

Very dodgy trader, I bought a car from them once and the deal/ car was spun with bullshit.

My S6 is a bit the same, must have a go at trying the above. A pain that each wheel has 4 pads

I see a bunch of nice cruisers being as I live in Takapuna- amongst them lately: Today a 'Mxxxx'- plated E30 320i in bronzitbeige unattractively lowered with reverse rake on some shiny fat rims.Superb condition car however. Also today a mint original E30 Baur.

Couldn't have put it better myself. It is NEVER an intelligent person, who considers other people in his or her actions, who makes a decision like excessive speed.

Too true Graham- there's a point where we must mind our own business.

Hence i write angle grinder 'style'. I have a Rupes polisher and a cheap Repco type one. I use 3M professional products for various levels of polishing, and have Meguiars rubbing compound and wax. I can't really report on the usefulness of the Rupes as my cars never need a very serious going- over.

Beaut Gus.

Good stuff, pleased to see an absence of bastardisation on the to-do list. Same story with my 1984 320i; 1 owner, same ish KMs but less cared for the last bunch of years.

Yip these are fine for me. An electric angle-grinder style one aint too dear either though to be honest.

Silver e34 M5 on turbine I's this morning at Matakatia, Whangaparaoa

I had a motronic M20 which blew a visible circuit in the ECU for idle control, at the same time as the thermo- time switch for cold starting gave up. It took a long time to diagnose being as both were related and both broken!

Put into shed yesterday ready for when I'm ready to start work

He drives, or drove until recently an Austin Cambridge with mismatched panels.

You and high miles late model cars!

Cheers, yeah I have known the car for about 18 or 19 years, finally mine I lie actually about ownership, there is a signed 1984 letter from Colin Giltrap saying that he used it as a demonstrator car for 4000km before they bought it.

Just got given this 1983 build 320i, she will be a sorta pre- summer resto project, friends have owned her since new so good trustworthy bones. The S6 feels very power-luxe after driving the E30, but loving the smooth E30 manual trans!

Cut a bunch of the paint on the E30 with my first real rubbing compound, from Meguiars. Brought oxidised henna red up perfectly. Vacuumed. lubed various seat joints etc. Refitted original 1983 stereo. Lubed up the interior fan bearings- this E30 has had so little use that the fan had literally seized! Running perfectly now. Next step, testing all engine sensors as she smells rich when running warm.