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sh*t i wouldnt go that far. They sound/look good but dont set the world on fire for performance. In saying that, i enjoyed mine too, despite sinking a bunch of money into it, having it strand me, and then ending up scrapped due to rust.

Price is insane,but it is a super rare factory bmw engined model. Super cool. The Q&A is utter cancer though. God people are sh*t.

Did you work out what was up with the retaining plate?

That car is goddam beautiful. Got to be the best non-M3 E46 in NZ.

I love the plate history on that MG though

OMG what, that place cant be functioning, surely? Did the owner die or something?

And thats why I daily a Honda 🤣 I'd be using over a litre of oil a month!

I've had customers enquire on prices for new cats because they were failed a WOF, so it does happen. Usually makes them shite their pants too at the cost to genuine ones 😂 I do recall looking under the E91 when i had it and unless you knew what you were looking for, the under body trays make it hard to tell its had decat downpipes fitted. The only real giveaway was the shiny stainless pipes.

Not very hard, obviously. A boost leak test or smoke test would show a leaking charge pipe. Looking at the first post it looks like they just went full scattergun and didnt know what they were doing. Glad its sorted.

Wow, that thing is mega poverty pack. Would be good for a manual swap on a 530i though...

Would lose the OG two letter plate then and end up with a gross modern plate. Only way to remake it and keep it is to get it changed to a personalised/euro plate. Car is looking amazing though.

Time stopped for the dealer. Time hasn't stopped for the car 😥

Decodes fine on Bimmer.work. Its no surprise that NZTA data is buggered, the system has always been flawed when relying on human input. wbsbg92090ea88129-bimmer.work.pdf

Until people started to realise they are good cars and the prices started to go up, they were widely slammed as being just another E36 with a good engine and nothing else going for it and werent "special" because they didnt get any bespoke bodywork other than mirrors. it didnt help people had a hard time separating the poxy US "M3" from the euro ones. I've had two, i know they're good, but you cant deny the E30/E46 were and still are preferred over the E36. The E90 was preferred over it for a while but i think the E36 has over taken them now as a more "pure drivers car".

They also have this one, which has been discussed a few times. Been there for eons, and is really suffering from exposure to the elements last time it was discussed. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/540i/listing/240089175?bof=FEqTAclI

It's interesting to see the least loved M3 climbing in price. Guess it tracks with the E46 M3 rocketing up too.

Im sure that would've been a 30-40K car a couple of years ago. Madness. I do quite like them in Topaz. At that price the least they could do is throw a ZHP knob on it. This one is minging.

That ones is infinitely nicer. The only "advantage" the modded one has is that its NZ new. Havent checked the options list of either though.

Only thoughts would be the sunroof roof drains and maybe cowl drains

Regular changes and not following the BMW super long intervals is more important than what brand 10W60 to use. Half the problem with modern car engines are due to the long intervals.

Hope he secures it better and they dont come back for a second go.

Is it a case of grabbing all the keys and turning each car on one by one until you find one without a CEL, and drive that for the day?

Uh, thats bit of a stretch. Nice enough car, but would be better without all the mods.

Auto bidding can do this. If it werent a user with shitty feedback it would be fine.

Did you take a Grumpy Cat meme seriously? 😂