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This site has a good explanation. Essentially, you need to have the correct offset for your vehicle or else the wheels may stick out too far, or alternatively rub on the inside of the wheel well. It will also affect the handling of the vehicle. Front wheel drives have different offsets than rear wheel.

I'm running 205/60/14 right now on the back as I had some old tyres to wear out - no probs, but then the smaller wheel diameter may help???

sh*t bro - calm yoself! hahahaha! Right, to your question: The mirrors are M3 lookalikes The thing below the bonnet is called an eyebrow or eyelid. The lights are elipsoids - you prob have sealed beams if yours are diff - these are easy as they are a factory part. The "WTF" is WTF are you pointing at? [edit] oh that's the tow hook - this is a prefacelift car then - facelift E30's have a screw in one [/edit] Indicators are prob blanked out - you can't do this in NZ - you will have to smoke yours if you want them harder to see. The front kit is Alpina? - someone correct me if I'm wrong. And spend some time reading other posts so you know how to behave and post like someone with half a brain. I don't want to insult you as this is usually a friendly forum which is tolerant to newbies. So take your wee lesson and learn from it. Peace-out my *****!

Not a huge E30 touring fan - E39 touring = way cool. But that one would look good with a few minor cosmetic mods. i would still buy one though just to be different.

I thought the indicators at the front were a little large, and the grille also, but never seen many E32's, so my bad. '96 was the year of the new model E39 which is what I meant. Don't you hate it when you correct someone, but are wrong yourself :kicks self in back of head while mutter - you f**ken dumbf**k:

motor cycle shops often do plastic welding - as the repair fairings. I am going to try to patch mine with black marine silicone as it will give as the crack widens, and be almost invisible (i hope). Also, I was told that armourall is no good on these dashes as it protects from UV but also hardens this particular material. baby Oil is the way to go or so I'm told. As far as price? $4500 or their abouts?? My car was very similar to yours when I bought it, but without any of the probs you mentioned, but it needed the cam belt done. It has done 100300km and I am hoping it will be one of the few that don't require lots of work around this time

Can a 320 one be substituted with minor modification??? If so on trademe...

They been avail for months, so it either hasn't sold, or this guy makes them - my car isn't low enough to warrant one, but could be some cheap insurance if your car is lowered.

e34 is the code for the '88 to 96 5 series. If you are having trouble distinguishing between it and the E30, notice that the indicators are beside the headlights on the E34? On the E30, they are down on the bumper instead. The tail lights are also different. The indicator is above the tail light instaed of being part of it (i.e. on an E30 it is a erctangle - the E34 has a extra bit for the indicator above the reactangle. there are heaps of other differences of course, but those are the ones you should be able to notice quickly and from a distance.

Which is why everyone should pay a voluntary membership fee. If it wasn't for that $50 a month, the forums would not exist. I bought a sticker (and a $2 donation ) but I have a feeling that that only covered the cost of the sticker. I would quite happily pay a yearly sub provided there was some minor benefit over those who didn't I can't think of anything at the mo as the benefit obviously must be less than the membership cost or else there is no gain for Andrew et al. who run the board. I know it means more work for the admin team, but if you get professional with the charging of subs, and provide a membership benefit, then more people might pay it. It might involve, say getting the supporting vendors behind the club more whereby they gat advertising on the site, in exchange for a discount to PAID members - ie it is of your benefit to be paid up as you get discounts at BMw related businesses. At first it could be quite informal with a trust thing for paid members, but as numbers grew membership cards (or keyrings??) could be issued to stop any abuse by non-paid members. While the numbers are still low (we have 300 odd registered members, but at my guess only 100 odd active ones?) i know it will be hard to get the support from the retailers, but things will grow - maybe a partnership of some sort with the BMWCC - maybe if you join there, you get free membership here, and they pass on some of the sub to bimmersport. they gain by getting new members that wouldn't normally join (i.e. they only want to be bimmersport members, but pay the BMWCC sub to get it), and bimmersport gains by getting some of that sub, and the member gains by getting all of the benefits of a BMWCC member??? Just a few ideas - OT I know, but it's my thread... I'll repost under the membership thread if someone thinks I should??

They aren't as good as this though... I am so doing this to the bimmer - 50HP bolt-on yehaaa!!!

Cheers carl - never seen that link - I must be blind. that explains it then as the software etc must be stored on Invisions servers, and so as they are based in the states.... Thanks for clearing that up.

Just being nosy, but ran a trace on the site, and was surprised to see the path go way offshore before looping back. What ISP does the hosting for the site? Weird that it is presumably cheaper for them to reroute everything overseas. For instance, if you trace www.google.co.nz, it doesn't appear to leave the country (do they have an onshore server then i guess?) have attached a screen shot below - The first three lines of the trace is the path exiting my connection through my ISP (I have blanked them for privacy), then the next few are it going to the gateway on the skytower in Auckland, and then wammo! off it goes to the states and beyond before looping back. Just being nosy.

Good point ali. Em - to do a multiple pic attachment you need to link to them from the website they are on using the IMG tags instead of ataching it from your own computer. We've seen it before, but since you asked, here is that E34 ute.

Now try and say inserted the "homy" way witout smiling - I tried and I bloddy can't. You could say that after you blast someone with your side-sight-equipped pistol. "Take that! - you just got inserted biatch! " :rambo: Or is that to much like homo boys unite instead of homeboys unite?? :gay: lol.

They are the ugliest lights I have ever seen... period. :banghead: If anyone puts those on their car I will personally see to it that they are locked up in a maximum security psychiatric wing. I have access to one, so don't think I'm joking! :rambo:

This for sale now?? Why you selling it?

Lotus has always been one of my favourite performance marques, and how cool is their new Waiuku showroom? - kicks the arse out of the old East Tamaki "workshop". A bit safer out there too, last year, a P lab was busted next door to the workshop in East Tamaki - imagine if that had gone bang! Say goodbye to some nice automobiles.

You're such a ricer ali - you always say the crazy-kitted cars "are knda cool actually" - not a shot at you, everyone has their own tastes and opinions, but a funny observation from where I'm sitting. lol. What really sticks out for me on the sedan is the deep dish rears, but not fronts, and those guards on the ti - WTF? E30 coolness, even if it is stock on the outside (except for that mad paintjob yo! and the blue roof strobe!)

hahahaha BTT: is there any progress on this? Confirmed costs. Nor interested right now, but have been following the thread hoping to find out for future mods.

Prob because we are viewing the english version, and their is prob some difficulty in the translation - they should give it to a natural english speaker to tidy up.

Yeah, I have the same hubcaps - I bought bottlecap mags as I wanted to keep the car relatively "stock" for insurance purposes, but it turns out one of the bottlecaps is bent, so I need to ring the guy I bought them off and see what we can arrange otherwise I am looking for a new wheel. Insurance sucks. If you are living at home, put it in your parents name and be the main driver on the policy - that way you won't get into trouble when they find out you drive it all the time. If you move out of home, it might be hard to explain why you have your parents car all the time - insurance companies are wise to the fact that parents do this for their kids, and it is illegal, so if they do find out they might not pay out.

SUDO?

Presumably you have been to the BBS Website? There are only half a dozen or so wheels there though, so??

Just be very careful - can take a fair bit of force, and so if you slip you could end up with a new "racing" stripe on your bonnet, or "speed holes" in your hand. :thumbsdown: