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how are you doing the 5 stud setup? especially interested how you are doing the front

didnt know 190E came in a 3.0L, thought the biggest was the 2.6 DOHC engine. In anycase, i had one, and the E30 i had at the same time was much much more efficient. But the Merc more luxurious. Much rather an E30 to throw around though Well that post didnt help at all

in theory anyway

stangley, people in NZ seem to be put off by repowered cars, even if it was the owners baby. would be surprised if it foes for much more (if any) than 318i money

well i got it. was originally intended for the E30, but its no good for putting on the bottom of the iS lip, it does the corners fine like your car, but when it goes up then back down in the middle, its no good for that. might as well use it though, so probably will put it on the E34, it has a flat bottom like your tech2 E30 so should work on that fine. Unless anyone wants to do me a favour and take it off my hands for thier BMW??

whoops here are the photos

Yes i need to ask an E30 question lol 1991 Facelift E30 Cab Premium Audio Package An aftermarket stereo has been fitted at some stage quite possibly from new, but its an old unit, it is a Sherwood unit. Anyways, luckily the car side of the factory wiring plug isn't molested at all. But on the radio side it has this filter on the power line as shown in the photo below. Now i haven't swapped a headunit on an E30 with the premium audio package before Now i do know what the filter does, but should I reuse this filter again when I put the new headunit in, or is it likely to be built into all modern units? It has no BMW roundle or part numbers etc on it, so i assume it came as part of the Sherwood unit. Just want to confirm! Thanks team

wow.

very cool! out of interest, Is martys 3.7L Turbo started out as an M30? or M38/M88 like your car?

yes, you will just need to trim the tabs a bit (from the mold i assume), basically make it look like the factory thin lip, and it will then clip right on, mine it on there very snug which is good. no need to ziptie on if you valance isn't bent and/or clips missing

Hahaha very true! some places have figured it out and prices coming back down now. Still. $7.50 for a pint is mad

trip to wellington for the weekend and you can get it done here for $350, place on Hutt Road in Alicetown saving will pay for the gas

Happy birthday Josh, thanks for all the help over the years! Birthday on a Friday, you cant ask for better than that!

great one

not only plates, but speeding or anything else they pull you over for, if you are a wanker to them, well dont expect any favours.

oh my

Ok so because you guys are really good FINALLY starting a thread thats not in the forsale section, ill give you the story. Disclaimer: I must stress, i do not recommend or condone or anyway responsible if you choose to use replicas on New Zealand roads. This post is inteded to inform only, not to recommend one way or another, you can make your own decision Similarities: Both Pressed Aluminium Both Reflective Genuine plates.co.nz Plates: Ferns are lazered on, and stretch right to the very edge of the plate, leaving one single silver filled rectangle where you combination is. Have additional reflecting silver ferns when held in the correct light, just like your standard govt issue plates. Hew New Zealand specific font that it used on both wide and narrow plates. Replica ones that you can buy through me here on bimmersport Ferns are a sticker that i put on personally when the plates arrive here in New Zealand. Stickers leave a slight gap between them and the outer edge of the frame. This is due to copy right reasons i will say below Do not have the additional ferns Have the font used right through the European union apart from the United Kingdom which has its own Font again. (AFAIK) My understanding of the reason New Zealand changed to the new font midway through the Dxx### series is because the new speed cameras could not read the old style number plates because it wasnt a font programmed by the machine. They reprogrammed it, but it still had issues differentiation some letters, such as O and Q and 0. So the font was changed to a "better" font. I have been told that as time has marched on, some speed cameras rolled out now cannot even read the old font at all anymore, but roughly half of NZ's fleet are already on the new style font. ALL of the Euro letters are slighlty narrower than the NZ ones, because NZ plates have 6 letters, whereas the european ones have up to 9 characters (less two for the flags at each end gives 7). Other differences include the numbers 7 and 0 (zero), and quite a few of the letters are different too, such as C, I, J, Q and Y. But many of them are the same or so close to the same it would be hard to tell such as A, B, D, E, F.... Now, there are three reasons why the replica ones are illegal to run on the road in New Zealand. (not illegal to possess) Speed cameras are not calibrated to read the european font. Thats not to say they won't, as I say, some letters are very similar, and remember the cameras are catching your car speeding so they do have a margin of error built in. For example, I own the combination ETHRTY in genuine european style on my BMW E30. I hope it wont happen to me, but there is nothing stopping Joe Criminal from importing a set of fake europlates with the same combination, and putting them on a stolen E30 and robbing a petrol station. Someone hands the registration to the police, and the police think its me that robbed the station. The victim or witness knows nothing about cars and dont notice they are replica plates, thats the last thing on thier mind. Hell, the plates could be on a Corolla or whatever, red sedans are red sedans to some people. I get jailed or whatever. The third one is what most people think is the main reason, and thats that Plates.co.nz designed the europlate style etc and its a copyright infringement. Everyone has their own opinion of this. I should probably check with him before i post this, but basically, Chris at Germanplates.com was the only crowd at the time to produce them as a replica of the plates.co.nz ones. P.co.nz didnt like that and complained and threatened legal action etc. So he changed them and thats why the ones people have brought from me have the thin white rectangle right round the edge of the plate. Chris (or any other 3rd party) has (edit: never) sold them with the New Zealand Font before. I have discussed this twice with Chris, but 2x die sets to have made up for the printing machines is in excess of $5k. NZ isnt a big enough market for them, and even if it was marginal, the chance of P.co.nz coming after him or me or both is just too high. As for getting away with them, well i have been doing them here for about 4 to 5 years now (that thread was started after about the 5th group buy), each buy is roughly 10 sets, so there are easily 200 sets out there JUST through Bimmersport. Add in everyone here that has imported themselves, and then all the people on eurosport.org.nz, all the VAG and Merc forums, etc etc etc, must be a few thousand cars on our roads now with them. I am sure most of them arent on garage walls as art etc.. So im not surprised the police are starting to take notcie of them, probably being subsidesed by plates.co.nz as thats how the world works (yes there is corruption in New Zealand, you are blind if you think there isn't) In that time, I have only heard of people getting tickets for them in the past year or less. and yes, all in Auckland. Wow i wonder how long that took me to write

manual conversion time lol

Ollie, i can get as many as you (well, the people here) like of the blank europlate frames, and we can do a design along the bottom of those if there is a demand for them. I wouldnt mind running Bimmersport surrounds in theory, but i run genuine europlates on both my cars so i cant buy them. something like this which i just knocked up now in 2 minutes. or similar etc

^hate chrome wrapping, but that looks kinda cool, in that photo at the very least

also why turboprop planes and similar have the turbo or supercharger

buy a certain V12 powered one then ;P

my one at last house was a smart one after the chap changed it, but meridian still overcharged from time to time so i used to provide a reading for them most of the time. strange. CBF now im in a new place temporarily, other end of the building climbing over god knows what, pretty sure its a so called smart one, checked it when i moved in will check again before i leave

I dont think its necessary on this ocassion. as i read it, its a staff member not an owner, it could happen to anyone.

Cup kit would be the only superlow kit worth buying. anything H&R is performance over looks for sure. My E30 i told you about in PM handled like rails, that was on H&R cup springs and Bilstein Sport shocks. I really dont think you could go better other than potentially coilovers..??? which in an E30 arent a coilover in the back anyway