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from my experience with my guy down here (a bit far for you to come I think!) the bulk of the cost is in mixing up the colour to get that right, regardless if they are making 1L or 10L, to physically paint more surface is next to no difference in cost etc. I guess what that means is why bother trying it yourself, even though i do recommend DIY in most instances!

Yes half way through making them. Genuine ones have been NLA for over 20 years now, and although Borbet themselves have rereleased the Borbet Type A, they have done so with hex caps as the only option. Cutting them out was the easy part, and as it sits now. I bolted them on to the car to have a look and they have stayed there ever since. But I am going to have "BORBET" laser etched into them, and then painted, so they will be the same as genuine ones, a bit like this: by the way thats the 9" version so you can see what sort of dish i will be getting, IF I find a set, have been looking for 6 years off and on so i dont like my chances

+ noticed that today too

I am not a fan of stretch and never have been why anyone would want a tyre mounted the way its not designed to be mounted, combined with it is usually cheap chinese tyres to start with is beyond me. I care more for my life than looks I am also anti spacers as a rule, but I made sure these would still allow the wheel to be hubcentric-ally mounted. re rear ofset, would love to get a set of the 9" version of these wheels and run a staggered setup, and sell the other staggered setup. These are currently 7.5 all round

have sent many a message to the owners over the years, never even a response let alone any action. All businesses no matter intangible or retail in any industry wither away without the involvement of the owners. There are plenty here that would be keen to take over (myself included) and put some investment in, bringing it back to its former glory i was lucky enough to once see.

Toby's E30 on Evans Bay Parade today

let me know if anything i can do to help when you bring it down this far on your way to South Island!

Well an update well due! a fair amount of developments on this car over the last wee while! And a big help from a few important people to thank! Sam @ Attention to Detail Brent @ BM World Hans @ Chemcouriers/Mainfreight Those of you that have been following me here and on other media are well aware of me wanting a set of Borbet Type As for more than 6 years, since I got my very first E30. During the first few years i searched high and low, then in the breif interlude where I was more focused on my E34, i started looking intensely again about 18 months ago when I brought this car. I finally found a set via the Facebook page a few of us on here manage, and Ryan was happy to pick them up from Tauranga and bring them up to Auckland for me. Well, wheels aquired, time for another trip up! and time to decide which tyres I want to run So about a month a go I drove my E30 to Auckland, drove the whole way without a complaint, proud of my little car! After staying at a very questionable backpackers, I then continued north to pick up my new wheels from Ryan (thanks again!) and then went to a tyre outfit to pick out some tyres, and ended up going with Continental Premium Contact 2s, OEM for lots of brand new Euro cars of the same weight. test fitted the wheels and yep as expected, fronts hit the calipers and needed some spacers. Plenty of time for that decided to sort next time Im up, left the car in Auckland for two weeks, in the care of Sam @ Attention to Detail, sot that it could recieve the love and care that the car deserves! Euro Car Club meet was two weeks later How do I get myself, and my puppy back to Auckland? Hans, happy to help as always, gave me a ride to Auckland in his Iveco Stralis, what a cool truck, and being in a vehicle more literally 20x the size I am used to was very cool, yet different to what I was expecting! Slow, bumpy etc, no way. All the comforts of a car, and 2400Nm or so kept everything moving just fine! Took a couple of cool photos at the changeover in Turangi Once back to Auckland after driving through the night, first job was to find some spacers Brent at BM World only too happy to help, as always. Cannot recommend enough. Couldn't wait any longer, and fitted the wheels in his yard, to finally see what the car was going to look like! (while I was there for an hour or so, 3 of his customers asking me if the car had been repainted, this just after Sam had cut the car, and hadnt even finished cleaning it yet!!) Then off to the ECC meet the following day. Phenominal turnout, such a range of vehicles! well worth every KM of coming up, and encourage you all no matter where you are to attend the next one! Some photos of my E30 from the meet, you can see photos of other cars etc on the ECC club page ^^ Love that last photo of my boy and the car, have got a high res of it I want to get blown up After all that, drive back home and get to test out the Continental Tyres Initially, thought they were pretty rubbish, especially in the wet, but after a few hundred km and they were scrubbed in, started to be pleased with them. Done more than 1000kms on them now, and they are okay, but not worth the price premium. Potenza RE001s are better (what i have on the weaves for this car) so RE002 should be better again, ance cheaper. after all that driving, put it in the garage back home to have a rest for a few weeks! Then pulled it out this weekend just passed, and did a few mods, and fixed some stuff, as below (copied from other thread) took out the stock bulb light bar from the OBC, bit of a mission to get out. opened it up had a look, the two bulbs are 6V bulbs in series, so if one pops (as is the case with this one), the other doesnt go thier. So i soldered in some 3mm LEDs in there and a 330ohm resistor, had to trim the curcuit board holder a bit to accomodate the resistor, and then put it all back together, now I have light! and yes it is 19 degrees here at 6.15pm here, I love summer! was 22.5 earlier today, my thermometer in the conservatory said it was 34 inside and 24 outside. Then while the radio was out anyways (you need to to get access to the light bar), i made a little mod to the radio wiring loom that has been annoying me from day one of having the car. When the roof is down, and the radio is on, the aerial is deployed at full extension, so i have put a push button in above the stereo that interupts the deploy curcuit, and leaves the antenna down even when the radio is on, and when reception is bad, i can just hit the press button and it will deploy. Would like to get a little picture of the symbol for an aerial somehow printed on it but not sure how to tackle that I thought about tapping into the rear demister curcuit wiring and picking up a feed from there if the roof is up or down, the rear demistor automatically turns off if the roof is down, so would do the inverse and sence when the roof is up, the aerial can be deployed regardless of switch position, but Ill save that for another day, as i needed to put center console back together to take the car to the Wellington meet tomorrow! Then on the day of the Wellington meet on Sunday just passed, I gave it a clean in the morning, to reveal Sam @ Attention to Details work once more, then off to the meet! pretty overcast day, so photos not great, so i wont post here, but was a great afternoon

yes that was my intention too, VTNZ here werent interested in doing that but VINZ was, but then ended up selling the car, was a tidy E30 316i manual

$500 ish to go through, and you have to pay that regardless of if it passes or is ready for the scrapper, a pretty big gamble on a $300 E30

haha I did that back in the day too!

sounds like a great start, look forward to hearing you progess! If you dont mind, while not essential, would be good if you can fill out the rest of your profile details, at the very least name and location! The E30 bug bites pretty hard

Plug the part number into RealOEM and/or google and see what that poctures look like

we have our work one for sale now if interested haha (though its rediculously overpriced on the trademe listing)

from a crashed M3?

On my E30 325i Cabby took out the stock bulb light bar from the OBC, bit of a mission to get out. opened it up had a look, the two bulbs are 6V bulbs in series, so if one pops (as is the case with this one), the other doesnt go thier. So i soldered in some 3mm LEDs in there and a 330ohm resistor, had to trim the curcuit board holder a bit to accomodate the resistor, and then put it all back together, now I have light! and yes it is 19 degrees here at 6.15pm here, I love summer! was 22.5 earlier today, my thermometer in the conservatory said it was 34 inside and 24 outside. Then while the radio was out anyways (you need to to get access to the light bar), i made a little mod to the radio wiring loom that has been annoying me from day one of having the car. When the roof is down, and the radio is on, the aerial is deployed at full extension, so i have put a push button in above the stereo that interupts the deploy curcuit, and leaves the antenna down even when the radio is on, and when reception is bad, i can just hit the press button and it will deploy. Would like to get a little picture of the symbol for an aerial somehow printed on it but not sure how to tackle that I thought about tapping into the rear demister curcuit wiring and picking up a feed from there if the roof is up or down, the rear demistor automatically turns off if the roof is down, so would do the inverse and sence when the roof is up, the aerial can be deployed regardless of switch position, but Ill save that for another day, as i needed to put center console back together to take the car to the Wellington meet tomorrow! Will give it a bit of a clean in the morning, and reveal Sam @ Attention to Details work once more, then off to the meet!

lol... Are you coming to our meet on Sunday? be great to see you there

have some of the leather type ones, well the black ones that come with cars equipped with leather interior

great first post ! welcome to bimmersport!

Oh i thought that whistling was my turbo spooling

one ride in that im sure i would be convinced to keep my car! lol seems a lot more room in the engine bay too, maybe it just appears that was because everything has been shaved

original engine and feels like its done every single one no less

was looking at doing an order last night, but the total came to a bit much so might have the wait a few weeks!

are these the ones i sent you like ages ago??? haha

What does that mean? I get that in the Van some times, i just assumed it was because its done 450,000km