Jacko

Some interesting bits on it - https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/130i/listing/3891318327?bof=LxQFpYdD

Anyone else thinking this country is a bit of a mess and considering moving somewhere else....

MB W211, probably an E55 or something. Playing special needs autobahn runs.

If we didnt have the entire japanese fleet of 130s, there would be more 1Ms than 130s in NZ

Was curious so went to look it up, only pricing I could find for both was UK 2006 Z4 3lsi roadster 34000 british peso, 32500 for coupe, 130i 31500 britsh peso (both base manuals).. roughly 2.8 exchange to NZ in 2006. I cant remember where I found it, but my NZ new 130 was 95k NZD with option boxes ticked, which was like $15k+ more than a golf R32... Wonder why they didnt sell very well Soo... 130 under priced or Z4 3.0 over priced.

14,077 130i's 17,094 Z4 Coupe

Bump $800, need garage space.

Commodores are becoming the Mustang of NZ.. This was up the road from me, I saw it at the supermarket a few hours before it became inverted (nice simmons wheels, kerbed to sh*t)

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/watch-my-dream-car-fury-after-boy-racer-crashes-into-parked-cars-in-auckland-burnout-fail/JBXSSM3VRVD2XPZ7TDLFKG4XZY/ 130 down.... (and likely an SW20....) Some people are cocks.

Replaced the dogbone bush with a powerflex one, no more wheel hop or bang noises when ya give it the beans in low gears, problem solved!.... but NVH through the cabin at idle is awful (near unbearable... this 4 pot is not refined...) Doh. Going to have to rethink this and look for other options.

Id go Bosch, its not a fun job that you want to do multiple times, unless particularly sadistic. No idea if ATL is any good or not, but for $200 I wouldnt bother chancing it.

Ive stopped monitoring mine, as its not daily, but 130i manual prefl on my regular commute and I was geting 9.3l/100km (mostly open road to be fair). Eurotrash skoda is averaging 7.5ish as a comparison

Was it as bad before the MILV flash? FWIW I got https://www.injectortech.co.nz/index.htm to clean and bench test the injectors I have (still) sitting on the N52 on stand here. Was fast and good service.

Eibachs in the 130 are good, they dont do dumb things with spring rates. H&R are well known to make stuff that work as well. Id be concerned with some of the less well documented brands spitting out springs with crashy over sprung stuff which will just make it annoying to drive. Springs will be easy to find for it, id start at the eibach/h&r catalogues then throw numbers into rockauto etc.

I have a toy plane, its 1.3kg and has 8.4kW. I win.

That hasnt moved in awhile...

There is a drain plug, a fill plug, and a breather. Drain plug drains. Fill plug is where you put fluid in, when it comes out of the fill plug level its full. The breather is because as the fluid temp changes its level will change etc, and if it didnt have the ability to breath it'd blow seals etc. Solution, dont invert diff

New brakes, intake pipe (034 motorsports), and wheels Need to replace the dog bone bushing too, axle hop when smashing out the DSG farts is annoying, then Im going to leave it alone.... Interesting comparing the engineering whilst spannering this thing. That is one big f**k off single pot caliper out of the VW parts bin (GTI performance option unit), everything been definitely effecting by the accounts department. All the subframes and control arms in it (same as mk7 GTI) are all stamped steel and welded tubes. BMW on other hand are all aluminium forgings etc, and even the stamped steel parts BMW spit out are done less agriculturally... VW/Skoda are definitely built to a price. VW must make a killing on GTIs, as they are more expensive than the Skoda for the same conglomerate of parts.

Sniped the rotiforms for reserve, about $700 less than the retailers are selling them for..

Surely an engine swap would be cheaper, and the end result wouldnt have been it still being a 116?

Meh, as long as their service continues to be next level, it makes very little difference to NZ anyway. Ive had good service from ECS as well, but FCP seem to go out of their way to make sh*t right.

Sold

No name Chinese reps, lots on tardme/etc/etc, cheese based.

The stock wheels are pretty trick designs, but are weirdly narrow (19x7 etc) and have silly offsets which suck them into the guards something crazy. The FL and new shape Octavias have a 30mm wider rear track which addresses it some, with the same offsets.... Im guessing it happened when the Czechs stole VW golf rear suspension assembly and bolted it into a wider car. 18/19x8.5 ET40-45 seems like the sweet spot, a few "factory" options out there that aren't reps.. but then the ones that are for sale appear to be 90% also driven into kerbs Must be a VW thing. Saw one with genuine golf clubsport wheels on it the other day in Pukekohe, looked mint, but finding the wheels is not easy!

Try amazon etc as well, message FCP support as well as they do ship but things are a bit broken.