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Nice car, are you sure you didn't take the photo's with a potato? Na they will just team up to try and take over the world and kill 10 of millions of people. The Germans and Jap's are good like that!

x14 You need to get a paper trail of correspondence that shows that they admit fault, from there you give them the quotes with the only other option being you will contact your insurance company. f**k I hate the service we get for our hard earns at nine out of ten shops in New Zealand, its shocking. Feel sorry for ya mate. Also, take it to Brian's Auto Center in Manukau if you want a good job at a fair price, its a shameless plug for my sponsor but they do a good job and only use PPG waterborne paints.

Spotted a few BM's on Targa today, Steve's compact looks good.

We use ELF competition stuff in both rally cars, even use it in the daily driver now, we get it off ELF in 44 gallon drums though, works out very cheap that way. Good call on just calling ELF, they sell it all over the country and they will be able to give you advice as to what oil works best in your car. Can also recommend their race brake fluid, never over heats!

If you don't have time to clean your wheels I would not worry about the lights. I just use a Mothers headlight restoration kit, just the buffer drill attachment and the polish, brings old lights up like new.

Love this car. Get some plastic polish on those tail lights.

Haha, I knew that day was going to be very messy, a lot of forum racers were heading along.

Looks like a nice car. Well done.

Used to use Pennzoil High Millage oil in my E30's, they are a low tech engine from the dark ages and mine had high mileage so seemed a good fit. Cant see the point in putting top quality synthetic oil in a old car, they were not designed for it. I am no mechanic though.

Thats a 135i.

Very nice black e36 coupe pulling in NW car park in Papakura on thursday night.

Ultimate driving machine. But close. An M3 would be my pick on a kiwi back road, with a brake upgrade.

Hmmmm I have a feeling that this is starting a trend and that we will see E36 M3's upping in value, same thing happened with the E30, for a while there they could be had for as low as 10-15k if you were lucky enough to know someone who knew someone trying to get rid of one, these days people want 30k for average cars. If you think about it, a lot of E36's have been hacked or converted into race cars, decent mint OEM examples are become rare. Or I could be dreaming.

Well they are not that great at much in NZ unfortunately, on a back road they are too big to enjoy and on a track they just eat tyres and brakes and a scary amount of fuel.. so all that is left to do is use it for touring and in that case you are just as well off in a 535D. Its just one of those cars I suppose. This guy has the solution, wrap it in chrome for maximum wank, chop the mufflers out and do skids! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjj4Vgaqi-0

I think the fact the owner of the silver M3 used pork belly fashioned into a camera to take photo's adds to the value, as does the fact it looks to have been cleaned once in 2011... also, am I old because I remember when those Alpine head units were awesome, I mean 3 CD's, three 3 CD's!! Haha nor do I but it makes me laugh. Check this one, best I have seen in a while. Dog looks real comfortable. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/toyota/corolla/auction-651239974.htm

$200! That wont make lunch time on a track day. E60 M5, straight pipes, extended warranty and find a wife who's dad owns gas station with a tyre shop out back, sorted. Actually, even then I cant afford to run the bastard. I would say your average Toyota Prius driver spends 50k on one and then complains about fuel costs when they realize they are not that economical.

There is no 1M or M3 currently available and both are priced well above the 2 series.

You think? Maybe some styling cues but definitely better than the current 1 series it is based on. This front will actually be used on the current 1 series in the next face lift. Specs look good on this M235i version, optional LSD and all, with its Turbo 6 this car has been rumored to be as fast as the last 1M... cant wait to see the M2 version in that case.

HSV VF GTS from the looks of those brakes! 430kw of awesome.

They are not M3 seats sorry mate, well not any M3 I have seen, would be LOL spec cornering at high speed sitting ON those slip and slide specials. They look like normal non motorsport E36 Coupe seats. And we need a price if you can.

Mechanically it is fine, he has spent some time on that side of things, not sure what gearbox he is using for the manual conversion though, a 240 or 260? Interior is in good condition. Tyre's and brakes are average quality items but have lots of life in them. Body has paint peeling and dents in places, no rust. Over all it probably needs a dam good clean and some money spent correcting the dents and paint. It was a members parents car a few years back and what is a real shame is that when they sold it the body work was pristine. Good luck, I am tempted but have to many other "projects" taking up my spare time and I am waiting for a nice factory manual car that has been looked after.

Nothing wrong with looking after your car properly and protecting it.. and my car gets driven properly, its no garage queen, drive it harder than most but I look after it afterwards.

I did Is the transmission's ECU independent from other ECU's and is it specific to the your car? If not you could probably buy a second hand unit and have it shipped stateside for a bench tune.

True, but my body paint work isn't concave with 97 holes in it and 1 inch from the ground like a wheel, I will happily use a brush in my sills to save my lambs wool mitt! I use one of these, its bristles are nice and soft at the end and the head is rubber edged so it does not damage anything, I get a year out of a brush and it does a great job, one of many tools that make my weekly detail ritual easy work. http://www.mothers.co.nz/products-list/mlh-auto-brushware/deluxe-wash-brush.html I still spray wax my wheels and polish with a microfiber cloth after drying and spray waxing the body work, have got the whole process down packed to three beers and a cigar (90 min in old measurement) once a week.