kiwi535

the LED thing is being overdone.My fortuner has LEDs and whilst they are more than oK to drive behind i can tell they are too bright for others.Driviing home last night was bad,so many cars have bright glary lights and now with bright LED street lamps,its a very glare laden experience (very heavy rain last night)

i love the style and look of them,but what does it in for me is the ineriors are just.....old I guess,I could easily live with e 30',34,36.interiors but e 24s and e 28s are just too dated for me

it was only the rear spoiler that confirmed that i thought the top one was the BMW

having just had the exprience oh helping my sister move she found a trailer place that lets you hire a furniture trailer one way...https://utow.co.nz/k/one-way-trailer-hire

roadworks...the whole of wellington seems like roadworks some days Well done on the job!!!

mr google says 30 minutes https://www.google.co.nz/maps/dir/Waipawa/Oueroa+4284/@-40.0088603,176.5463195,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d69e102dfe53de5:0x500ef6143a31540!2m2!1d176.5896379!2d-39.9416112!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d4272018befbfe3:0x500ef6143a328d0!2m2!1d176.6759885!2d-40.0761515!3e0

true but it doesnt have enough appeal for that to be an option for me

whatever the resaon and i think you are right i that in 87 we had the big crash,a 199 000 car was low in priority,and it was the reason we got the 535"is" instead IMHO

any e34 i will ever own will have three pedals

manual or auto?

i would do the very basic stuff myself only

this is the sorta car that would bring me back to BMW,but for me having somewhere to keep it is also a factor.This has cost implications over and above the cost of of keeping and or bringing up to the condition a car such as this requires(for resale) or for trouble free use.You would probably never lose actual resale value on these but you would probably never actually make money if you kept it in the manner it should be kept.

as a matter of reference i had a E34 535 "is" They were fitted with motorsport suspension and i found that to be a nice compromise between ride and handling.If you could replicate that setting in an E24 i think thats where you should aim

i can see some dyno charts

ladder???

i cant say sorry.Google some of your symptoms there are still some very good e34 resources and dedicated forums.

i cant recall the symptoms but one of the above posts also reminded me that where the wiring goes from the car body into the boot lid(it is strapped to one of the hinges) can cause short circuits there.You mentioned some problems with brake or reverse lights which are on the boot lid?

lkm is a known problem on e34s may need to reflow the solder

i fixed that for ya.Kudo to you mate your E39 looks AWESOME,and seems actually as sound as it looks

its the other end of the market i cant understand.The super cat (colarado) is 80k,tricked out by hsv .The ranger raptor is 80k.Thats Prado and Everest territory.As a ute the twin cabs arent very good cos the tray is so short.A prado,everest,pajero etc can actually take longer items inside if you can push them right through to the front.You can fold the seats fully flat in the wagons and sleep inside and the wagons are shorter overall than the double cabs.I have a hankering to drive a raptor cos the ride of these things is most important thing for me.And the raptor comes with proper tyres,the ride deterorated somewhat on the fortuner after adding bfg all terrrains

if the front seat is well back there is very very little room.I am 190cm, our daughter(who is also quite tall) could not sit behind me in the 120d

yes e 87 hatch??? quite restricted for legroom in the back esp if front seat occupants are tall

hmmm an e 34 and a diesel.Can life be any better.?How about an e34 and a common rail diesel.....Hmmm squared

We have a swift too.May not be the most spectacular but at the time we bought it it was head and shoulders above other cars in the same class

is euro delivery an option in NZ?