Jacko

Yakima cross bars and it hauls bikes along at 110kmh  shweet as, barely even notice them (other than aprox 1/l 100km extra gas usage)... Ractis was kinda like driving a sail boat in comparison, one tacked around the corners. 

Currently trying to hunt down wheels for it, despite there being a huge amount on the market the majority seem to be cheap nasty VW reps or jumping straight into things like Enkeis which are beyond daily beater pricing. That leaves stuff like Rotiforms (which also come in a range of heinous designs for the VW DSG fart crew  ) .... Any experience with rotiforms? ( @qube ?) Looking at 19x8.5 ET45 ZMOs, want something that wont bend to Whaka Kartires will to easily... The rotiforms seem to be 725kg rated. 

They are in parallel with the front door speakers, so it'll be an equalizer thing, or your front door speakers wouldnt be working either. 

Took the 130 for a much needed blat, noticed the headliner is starting to come away around the screen, just a little section.

Probably been done to death, but search is failing me, is there a recommended glue for resticking this? 3M77 etc spray would be messy due to location

Filthy auto for 15k...   You'd think if you are going to try go for higher end of the pricing, would at least give it a wash and a vacuum....

Got a chance to go over the whole thing and give it a proper clean and detail, previous owner must have worn a lot of foundation and literally every touch point in the car was caked in beige. Gross. Gave it a huge clean, claybar (had to throw it out after, so much sh*t stuck in paint). Pulled the remains of the vinyl left in the door sills from its previous life, cut all the finger nail scratches out of the door handle recesses, then hit the whole car with cut and polish. Coat of fusso and its a shlick shkoda... think it got rescued at just the right point in its life. Will get sign writing in next few weeks.

Wheels are kerbed to sh*t (Im guessing it was parked while doing makeup...), some tyre side wall damage as well, so on the hunt for a decent set of new wheels. Maybe 19s if I can find something not made of cheese/glass. Ordered a new set of ATE rotors and pads for it from rockauto, pretty reasonable pricing (other than the shipping), uses the same brakes as the GTI Performance (340mm rotors) so parts as easy to find, even if the skoda/vw catalogues are a absolute nightmare to navigate... BMW folk dont know how lucky we are with realoem.com 

Couple of thousand k's on it now, I dig it. Definitely a great do everything car, its not awesome at anything just good at everything. Good on gas, heaps of space, good gearbox, good stereo, handles well...  Not much to complain about, other than the road noise is pretty bad on course chip seal.

Now to throw some more mileage at the odo, I can see a set of spring and shocks in its future... going to try as much as I can to avoid throwing the easy flash for 300bhp, also DSG farts  

3 hours ago, Sammo said:

Such a bargain and perfect daily - I don’t do the Kms to justify a third car though.

Hope the Skoda is going well, I didn’t realise they were in that price range or I may have tried one out when we were shopping for the F31.

Paint quality etc is way better on the BMW, it still a skoda...  It is fun to boost around with though, just does everything good. 

Oh well, will get listed again.... 9k is a bargain, its probably had twice that in parts thrown at it  

Got the faceballs? Hes on that and active in a few of the groups

Bump, auction closes tonight... 9k seems cheap? 

7 hours ago, Jamez said:

For those who have done a 100,000km in your 130i what have you had to do?

 

 

*everything 😛 

Bump, $1000 no tyres 

The guy offering 2.5k.... 🤓

minister of transport actually just needs to step down, between land transport/rail/aircraft/sea.. we are lucky boats still apparently float. 

Was a good day out, what was damn impressive was the crowd it pulled! Good example that there is certainly a market for motorsport in NZ... 

"This club is Copyright and protected by the New Zealand Customs Service. I, Zahra Mafi am the rightful owner to the club name and accessories. If you use anything from my club without my permission you could be imprisoned up to five years or fined up to NZD$150,000"  Thats not how the law, or faceballs, work... 

Im good...

Tardme'd https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/3793117938

This things f**ken hilarious. Vrs mode and it sounds like a RS4 V8, completely fake, but it goes from boring generic middle management wagon into snarling angry terrier, its proper agro . Set the Old Taupo Rd (W) Vrs time, good fun, gearbox is cool (very clever software), steering is dead but suspension is well tuned. Even with the thrashing still ended up with 7.1l/100km over 640km journey.

Sump gasket is best bet, look further up at rocker cover etc too

Forgot to add, starter and battery (Varta E44) replaced in last 2 years along with the steering rack ends, driveshaft guibos and centre hanger bearing replaced in last 20,000km... also just found the service history for it from previous owner back to 2016 (BM Workshop)....  My FCPeuro account is fire  

Wonder if they will shake up the tyre market in NZ?

https://www.newtis.info/tisv2/a/en/ 

Ended up with a 2016 Octavia VRS, DSG with 162kw, NZ new with one owner (other than Skoda NZ who used it as promo car for cycling event) and 72000km on the clock. Looked after by the one skoda dealer since new. Will haul it back from Welly later in the week, good shake down drive

A whole swag of F20 rally cars, and GR Yaris around Whitford. Epic. 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/130i/listing/3786120963 - Dirt cheap needs some love but would be a nice project!

That interior is factory... someone optioned that  

https://bimmer.work/vin/pcfbe73be3513fac63bbc35adeb592b9f/

Will go on trademe in next week, some fresh pics after a vacuum and fusso KOG