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5 hours ago, F10er said:

The N57 injects extra fuel as part of the DPF burn cycle which naturally brings up the oil level, this is completely normal. When you do an oil change, just put the BMW recommended amount of oil in it. Don't use the dipstick as a guide. From memory, if you put the recommended amount in, the level sits at about half way on the dipstick.

Very common, not just on BMWs. Some Mazdas have a secondary mark above full to indicate when the "contaminated" oil level is too high and an oil change recommended.

Love the spec on that one. Black with red leather, manual and big six. That wont be around long.

2 hours ago, Kiwi_BMW said:

I've not looked on TM for some time but I did a search for 540i today and found a couple of E39 over the 20k mark and the e60 and f10 prices seem to be dropping

8k is the cheapest E34 and E39's start at $6k the E34 tops out at $13k and the E39 at $30k with a reserve

2000 BMW 540i Motorsport | Trade Me Motors $6k down from $8.5k

1994 BMW 540i 540I | Trade Me Motors $8k

1993 BMW 540i | Trade Me Motors $10k with reserve

2000 BMW 540i E39-Fk | Trade Me Motors $11.5k

2002 BMW 540i 540Iase E39 | Trade Me Motors almost $13k

1995 BMW 540i 540I | Trade Me Motors $13k

1999 BMW 540i 540Iase E39 | Trade Me Motors $23.5k

1998 BMW 540i 540Is E39 | Trade Me Motors $30k with reserve and $36k buy now NZ new 6speed manual and 157500km

 

Are prices really getting that high for a E39

I've seen a number of late model vehicles written off or sold to wreckers because repair costs are too high, at least the E39 is cheaper to repair than some late model cars and also last longer.

Most of these have been for sale for ages, indicating that the market hasn't caught up with their advertised pricing yet. 

Style 68 are such a simple, classic wheel and an easy visual upgrade from lower spec wheels. Lovely looking car.

18 hours ago, Jacko said:

14,077 130i's

17,094 Z4 Coupe

 

 

That may be the production totals, but how many of each are currently available for sale? 

8 hours ago, M3AN said:

How much were these, verses a 130i at the time? I have no idea but I suspect any premium was low, and if that's the case then I'd expect not a lot different in today's terms. Only very special cars justify a very special price.

Id say the Z4 coupe is significantly rarer than the dime-a-dozen 130i, so can command a higher price for that, but 30k might be a tad on the rich side.

"referred to youth aid" - So a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again. yay.

12 hours ago, M3AN said:

It's been up a few times and hasn't sold... I'd want to know if the clutch was done alongside the engine.

Also, halogens on an import? That's odd, and halogens suck hard on these things.

UK import, and been manual swapped, so take from that what you will.

It does have PDC and cruise though. 

2 minutes ago, Blackie said:

There was also that silver one with black and blue interior and 19" M3 wheels that was for sale in the Hutt earlier this year. Pretty sure that sold by a dealer for around 20k too. I tried and failed to find the thread. These really are a performance bargain in full fat M guise.

I was thinking that. If they're selling for $20k they are an ///M bargain in this market 

Interior is looking sharp. Big fan of the sport seats in that fabric/alcantara in that generation bmw. 

59 minutes ago, ssbmw said:

Hoping someone can enlighten me. Ran the vin and discovered that it is an early production E34 M5 that was built in late 1988. Additionally, the Vin indicates that she left the factory in black. So why now a 93’ and in blue? Arrived in Japan in 1993 and registered as a 93’, and at some point given a new colour? 

Either way (imho) a nice looking car! 
 

That's properly lovely that. Would happily buy it myself but I doubt my Swift would sell before someone else bought it. 

Good luck 🙂

Christ that video thumbnail has given me nightmares. 

Wow, its pretty thrown together for the asking price. That shifter and temp gauge alone would put me off.

10 hours ago, Blackie said:

C'mon, sure you told you reckons more than a few times on this public forum.

I tell my reckons on a forum, not use trademe as a forum to derail a listing. Allowing Q&A on classified listings is still one of the shittiest things trademe did (other than increase prices through the roof); so many time wasting keyboard warriors that wouldn't have previously bothered to make private contact. Imagine calling someone to say their price is too high, but no you're not actually interested in buying it, you just wanted them to know.

If anyone hasnt clicked, my whole stance is due to the title of this thread.

No one needs to tell him it's overpriced, go get a life. There isn't a rule that you MUST tell someone of your reckons. 

What he does need to sort before trying to sell it for that much, is the dash lights and lack of cert. 

fedex can sub out to a local carrier too. Cant remember if its aramex or nzcouriers.

2 hours ago, Eagle said:

You know your complete garbage when you gotta change your name 

Pretty much this. Its like Fastway said "hold my beer"...

I believe that car is the one discussed here, 

It'll be a hard sell to get $35-45k PLUS the almost 20%+gst buyers premium....

Goddam its a gorgeous looking car though. An E34 of some sort is a car I should have owned by now

3 hours ago, charles28 said:

And there I am thinking, is 600hp enough, just ordered a bigger intercooler.  yes i'm a mad man

 

 

At least you drag yours, mine was just for driving like a dickhead 🤣

Oxford green is such a classic colour for the E39. One of my favorites for sure. 

34 minutes ago, M3AN said:

They fact that's they screwed up their own software and claim to be unable to restore it is mind boggling.

 

It's not OE coding (and maybe not OE software) and not as the car should be from factory. 

To say reflashing the stock, as the car "should be" software to the car is like repainting the fender is insane. 

On the flip side, being a Jap import it's probably had the unit recoded to work in NZ, which is definitely something they do not do and wouldn't support. It's like taking your car in with a tuned ECU and expecting them to load a tune on it again after reflashing it back to stock during a software update. 

I agree it's sh*t that it broke, but most dealers will silently roll out recalls when it's there, because well, it's a recall and needs to be done and better than getting you back in later. 

i can imagine this warrranty was probably used and abused in the US, so it makes sense something had to give eventually.

1 hour ago, Gaz said:

The standard e36 have a rev hang issue which bothers some people mote than others. Would imagine something similar possibly?

Mine had that after converting it, even with a light flywheel. Was a real PITA.