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Man, someone spent a ton of money on that thing at some point. Good score!

Called it. Glad its sorted, but I wouldnt be happy to use them again with workmanship like that. They likely removed the plugs to do the vanos (makes engine a lot easier to turn engine over to get into the right place), so its on them for not torquing them up properly.

I still need to own one at some point. One day.

It looks like the photo is showing one of the rubber seals under the bolt is on the piss, and is that a whole lot of sealant slathered under the gasket?! None of that will be helping. Get rid of the sealant, a new gasket shouldnt need any except in the corners near the vanos unit, and all the bolts need to be tightened and sealed or there could be a vacuum leak from the rocker cover. Also check the spark plugs are tight....

Never seen a red 130i before, and its has decent options, PDC, no Idrive, Xenons

I use mine a fair bit, especially when the 4kph revenue gathering is in force

Damn, these almost never come up for sale locally. Someone is going to get a good deal.

Almost no 130i come with cruise fitted anyway, as far as I've seen.

Gorgeous car. I think a lot of us were keeping an eye on that on TM. Well done.

i thought so too. Definitely had to have mine shortened when using 4pot linkages on my 6. Can you get all gears, especially 5th, or does it hit the surround? Looks pretty well placed to me, is it even meant to be centered in the hole?

When my jatco was jerking, it was the 1st-2nd change, and it held first until it slipped and then banged hard into second. Crossing intersections was the worst, you never knew when it would actually decide it wanted to change and in the mean time it could slip enough that you would lose some momentum. Holding gears isnt the traditional "jatco jerk" issue, its the hard shifting or flaring/slipping.

Unless there was two, the turbo one was black?

Eww. Looked better before.

Does TM still do this? havent seen it for a while

Im not asking for the full report, but whats a friendly "all the bushes are stuffed and its leaking from everywhere" among forum users? If you arent going to buy it, why not share a quick little heads up instead of just saying "the report showed some things of concern" to let others know what to look for? I do also understand the situation here where it wasnt Gaz that got the report but their dealership that carried it out, so kinda different.

That's a given, but do you also know something you aren't sharing with the class? This whole "I got a ppi on it, be aware, but I won't tell you what it said" thing is getting old.

I still dont know how my Stage2+ N54 was running the stock charge pipe.... Obviously had all the hopes and dreams.

And come on, this has already been posted two threads below this....

Who or what is promo?

No no, did you not read this thread? Its the LTW!

Whats with all the newbies on the forum coming in guns blazing? Theres about three of them in the past week or so. Is it the same person with different logins? There was that one the other day about the 1M too. E: Lol, didnt even read the post directly above about those two being the same person.

This customs document clearly states its 20 years from first registration overseas. But, does also state its got to be 20 years before entry to nz, so seems like you're screwed If you bring the car in before it's hit 20 years, even if you wait until that 20 years is up it wouldn't be allowed. https://www.customs.govt.nz/globalassets/documents/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-29-advice-on-private-motor-vehicle-imports.pdf

The fill plug is pretty big, i'd be surprised if you couldn't see in there with just a torch and your eyes.

So technically the nz ltw rep was actually a better car ???

What good is an M3 chassis NUMBER when the car isnt original anymore, and has 400,000km on the body anyway? There is no value in that.