Jacko

stop smashing into potholes probably best bet

Yeah tyre shop found em when went to balance. VTNZ is close... I did look at the tech when he was looking at the 3kg of balancing weights on the wheel though

Went and got two new tyres for a wof, discovered all four wheels buckled....$#&@ ... bolted them back on and went straight through a VTNZ wof. Now jacked up and all wheels off to be made round again. Too much dukes of hazard I think.

What condition ks and condition, N52B30s seem to be around $1400 mark in good nick (long block) I imagine the box is probably worth about the same?

The interior is pretty beaten up, but the exterior was worse. Lots of cracked paint and butchery etc, its had a hard life of flat peakers I think. If you could pick it up for like 6k would be OK, either turn it into a track car or spend a lot of coin to making it nice again (needs full panel and paint, and the mechanical issues)

Yeah it is the same car, re registered.... Have pics if anyone's interested, might make a good track hack.

Made it shiney again, Soft99 KoG. Bestest wax ever.

If thats the same one that was up for sale last year, it was a basket case and not worth anywhere near that unfortunately. The DMF was dead, throw out bearing sounded like a gas turbine, rear arch lips butchered and evidence of rear end respray (and bird shitted on 4 pot muffler to get a wof after someone lopped the stock muffler off)

Id be buying an exige for the twistys and a generic diesel euro luxo barge for traffic.

N52s have a variable displacement pump, so oil pressure changes depending on what its doing 😕

Yeah mine has the same, pops up more when I have to revert to 95/96 octane gas rather than its usual 98. The solution is equal length headers and a tune

Will tell you soon Ive tweaked my CBS to every 7000km, works well.

There is a black 118i around here somewhere with those on em, its certainly... different.

Installed, works flawlessly, all the plastics etc are as good as OEM. Interesting its not a ripoff of the OEM part, theyve designed it from scratch... cant really complain at all.

Actually pretty easy to find the plastic black top rocker covers, they're available cheaper than this too - https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/bmw-valve-cover-3-0-l6-11127552281 The magnesium ones for the silver tops are stupid expensive...

You definitely do not need to remove the radiator to do the waterpump and thermostat.

https://www.bmw.co.nz/en/all-models/x-series/x7/2018/bmw-x7-inspire.html?

^ As above, totally not worth it on a 320 unless it was dirttt cheap and you had some sorta sentimental connection to the car in particular, regardless of km (which mean next to nothing on a 26 year old car, unless its been serviced regularly every single rubber or plastic part on the engine will be toast)

Just ordered one of these too see, so cheap. Should be here in a few days. Its bizarre the price spread of them.

Best buy it back.. might be a steal

Im assuming youve checked all plugs/pins/wiring for dickyness?

Looks like a damn nice 130, I dont think thats actually too silly overpriced. Its overpriced, yeah, but.. maybe by a couple of grand Edit... singapore import...

Passengers rear door lock actuator has totally failed on the E91, it might be from the hit it took, but cant assed screwing with getting it sorted under insurance. The internal posts have snapped clean off, gears and levers flapping everywhere Out of curiosity has any tried any of the chinese replacement actuators? Theyre dirt cheap, but Im dubious... https://www.banggood.com/Rear-Left-Driver-Power-Door-Lock-Motor-Electric-Latch-Actuator-For-BMW-p-1366292.html?utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=cpc_organic&gmcCountry=NZ&utm_content=minha&utm_campaign=minha-nz-en-pc&currency=NZD&cur_warehouse=CN&createTmp=1&utm_source=googleshopping&utm_medium=cpc_bgs&utm_content=haosen&utm_campaign=haosen-ssc-nz-en-backup-all-0115&ad_id=491700170368&gclid=Cj0KCQiA962BBhCzARIsAIpWEL090-mdfSwz8Ef-pq7OSea2h33o5fjfzXEHDqp0kiTcTKjPtkFuT1MaAh9UEALw_wcB

Ahh, so I must be fourth owner? Did you put the ACS Type IVs on it? There are a few pictures of it floating around Hamilton car meets a few years before I bought it. Its definitely been looked after its whole life, I don't see myself selling it anytime soon. Its sister (A red manual NZ new 130, couple of s/n off of this one) was on trademe a couple of years ago, regret not buying it , but other than that not many of the Kiwi cars pop up at all.