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)

On 3/26/2019 at 1:47 PM, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

Early ones (e 24s)with the chrome would look awesome like that, later ones just look 80s to me but could still work. Like you say - with the right rims.

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!!!

6 hours ago, gjm said:

Looks like we're moving to Oueroa. (Look it up!) Once I know the road a little better, it'll be about 20 minutes to work.

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

On 5/16/2019 at 8:27 AM, KwS said:

Anything can be three pedals if you try hard enough. 

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

7 hours ago, ssbmw said:

So possibly 2-3 nz new 3.6 M5’s ( and lots of imports), 3 with 3.8’s, and no doubt the odd import too.

However, why so rare? 

Was this due to the effects of the share market crash in 87?’

I suspect too that BMW weren’t as good with their marketing back then for their M5’s. A lot of people didn’t really know what a M5 entailed. 

A far cry from the success Bmw had with subsequent  versions of the M5. 

 

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

20 hours ago, Olaf said:

@kiwi535 Paul as soon as I saw this I thought of you... I'll even help you with the delivery roadie.

any e34 i will ever own will have three pedals

manual or auto?

3 hours ago, Eagle said:

If you doing that work yourself i don't see him as being that much more expensive than a 540i as long as the engine internals hold up. I considering buying one but i couldn't use it how id like to around here without it having to worry about it cosmetically suffering. 

Worse type of buyer is the one who buys purely for speculation purposes, no respect given for me in that case. 

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

23 hours ago, adro said:

haha yeah, school of soft clunks and all that. ?

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

13 hours ago, B.M.W Ltd said:

I'm physically ok thanks Olaf and I'm unsure at the moment what is happening with the investigation / insurance . Plenty of witnesses and Heli cam cover. Their stolen vehicle was used for a burglary/home invasion by 4 who were captured. I've done all I can at the moment... claims in

BTW the wife owned a swift for 13yrs from new. Was a great little car that suited her needs. Very reliable small vehicle.

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?