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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.

Its all about warranty claims.

Jesus, if my car burnt a litre every thousand ks I'd scrap it. You'd need to top it up a a couple of sumps worth of oil between changes!

If its "burning oil" its not just magically turning it into clean air, unless you mean its leaking it and burning externally (which is also a big possibility with those engines). I hate the be the bad news bear, but those engines are well known to just be junk. Search this forum and its been brought up countless times. It wasnt a high point for BMW. The V8s of that era were kinda trash too and riddled with serious issues. In comparison, their 6 cylinder engines, although not as reliable as the older ones, were damn near bullet proof in comparison. Unless you're specifically wedded to that car, if its going as good as it can, i'd probably try to sell it.

Congratulations, you have discovered another extremely common trait of those engines. Its easy to tell what engine is in that generation of BMW when they pull away from an intersection. If it leaves a cloud of blue smoke, its a 4 cylinder.

Woohoo, clown shoe! Interesting cars, so ugly they're cool, with bit of a cult following. The interior just kinda matches the wild exterior design, you wouldnt want a boring interior.

There is no tightening it. If the chain is making noise, it likely needs the chain, guides and tensioner replaced. Unfortunately those engines are known for issues with the timing chain (amongst other things).

Painting the reverse lamps is a... decision.

its been around for ages and been discussed here before https://auctions.webbs.co.nz/lot-details/index/catalog/502/lot/121802/1993-BMW-M5

Actually, dont even get me started on how sh*t it is that the seller is using the pre-import inspection photos from over a year ago. Its not hard to take some actual photos of the car. Thats car dealer levels of lazy.

for $30k why wouldnt you clean the jizz off the back seat, and have the bumper repainted?

Called it 😁

Swifts have terrible boot space for the segment, we could barely fit the weeks supermarket shop in mine. Compared to a van, yeah the Ti is impractical, but otherwise its got heaps of space.

Duff ABS sensor or other ABS issue would be my guess. TPMS was measured by the wheel speed sensors on the older BMWs, so i presume the F20 is the same. Gonna have to scan it.

coloured park lights and angel eye rings piss me off so much. Blatantly illegal, very obvious, owners DGAF and nothing happens to them. I use cold white leds as park lights and get told to remove them by an officer at a checkpoint, and then fail a wof because of them.

Imo it already looks better than it would if it were slapped on the bumper with nothing else. The frame and plinth just need some fettling to work together.

Couple-a rivnuts and a nice euro plate frame would've fixed that monstrosity too 😆 Plate frame the world.