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Doesn't stop them breaking into them, and vandalising the interior when they can't drive off with it. Happens a lot with NZ New cars that have immobilisers, they tear the ignition to bits, find they can't hotwire it, and start smashing headunits, gauges, cutting seats and headlinings, dumb stuff thats a real pain to replace. Little shits need a damn good smack.

Thats the latest method of breaking the glass to gain entry, using a screwdriver in the frame/seal to break the glass where its weakest, on the edge. It really pisses me off because it usually causes damage to the seal and/or frame, particularly when they do it to front door windows. This method sort of popped up out of nowhere about 2 years ago, so i suspect it was shared on tiktok or something and its what the kiddies are using.

lol, i love the sport alcantara interior on the E39. If i got another it would have to either have it already, or i'd swap it in. So much nicer than leather.

Oh man, hard disagree there. Old man green with a tan interior (caramel would be better though) is a great combo on the E39. The wheels can get in the bin though, they belong on a commy.

Yeah i reached out to sulco for a quote a while back and remember they werent cheap for two bent bits of steel (compared to the USD MSRP anyway). I just zip tied the casters on, they've held fine so far.

Yeah i really should get around to ordering some of those. Did you get them through Sulco?

Cool story, but it's also technically not legal either 🤷‍♂️ Even if you pass a WOF, you could fall foul of your insurer if something goes wrong.

Keep in mind that the moment you change the brake pedal to a manual one, you will trigger the threshold for needing a cert. It's probably the worst thing about converting cars to manual these days, since it'll lock you into the state the car is in when it goes for a cert, and you cannot change anything about it unless you cert it again.

They aren't vaders, just m rain E36 sport seats (possibly from a TI). Either way, still don't really suit it.

$31,000. How long until we see it given a clean and flipped for $40k+?

Just showing how cool it is

I've had wheels sent to me before via normal couriers, sent individually and I can't remember how much it was but it was very reasonable at the time. They were 16s though, 19s are a fair bit bigger.

I think those wheels are some of the worst i've seen on an E39 recently. Eww. I feel like it'll be a hard sell for anyone wanting an M5. Its not numbers matching original, and a pieced together bitsa of dubious origin. The colour combo is one of the best offered, but the standard bumpers really let the whole look down.

If you bought it privately and didn't inspect it first, you'll need to suck it up and fix the issues and move on. If you got it from a dealer, you could try having them fix it. You'll be hard pressed to just "get my money back". Regarding the issues, E61 wagons are known for sunroof issues, do some research and you should be able to find how to manually close it and then never touch it again as IIRC there is a piece in them that breaks and is a pain to fix. Lots of them leak (I think both of the ones i looked at buying were leaking, and one had mouldy carpet). Tailgate struts can be replaced, do some research on that too. I hate to point it out, but you should also look into N62 V8 engine issues too. If it doesn't have valve stem seal issues now, it will at some point. They're a very nice car when they're in good shape and working well. If you like it, its worth fixing it and enjoying it.

Rear bumper is missing its lower valance, makes the "custom exhaust" look even weirder Thats the same car in those photos too I'd buy that for $20k in a heartbeat, but no way is it worth $35k in that state. Poor thing.

Love the look of your wagon. So good I also appreciate the effort you went to to both make the headers work, and document the shambles they are out of the box

Probably looked at it and mistook the shitty body lines to be accident damage related...

Bent front plate probably tells a story too. Is it just me, or is the interior wearing pretty badly for 100,000km? All the touch points around the driver are worn, shiny or scuffed

Im also curious, if the rego lapsed, why have the plates been handed in/removed? Theres no need to do that

Talk to a local radiator repair shop. They can usually clean the inside of tanks out and treat the inside

Real sick of dealers making zero effort and trying to make maximum profit. Particularly the "high end" dealers like that one, there is no excuse. Also, id pay a premium for an E39 M5 over an E60... they arent even in the same league.

I guess that comes down to who before you, owned it longer than the required threshold and transferred the entitlement. if no one has, its probably still with the owner that got the plates 20 years ago. I bet there are a lot of cars out there with plates that arent owned by the owner of the car, since anything thats been made "euro" etc but still govt issue digits is technically now a personalised plate and cars get sold with those regularly.

IIRC the vehicle has to be in your ownership for something like 6 months, before you can apply to have the ownership of the plates transferred to you. Its nothing to do with how long they've been on the vehicle. Personalised plates are owned separately to the vehicle, since you can transfer them between vehicles and can keep them for life. BTW, you've already missed the cutoff for buying black/silver plates, that was the end of Oct. If you buy them now you can only get them in black with white text, unless you already applied for the entitlement to have black/silver made (before Nov), in which case you have until the end of Nov to have them made.

I guess that explains why the panel gaps in the front are on the piss. Just look at the lines around the RH front corner... I'd want a clean history for that sort of money.

I was surprised to read they are a twin turbo V6.... how did they manage to make that sound so bad? Its a real weird sound, not like a V6.