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    The current flame surfaced generation of cars are beautiful. Sure in lower trim specs they can look a little funny, but that is a fact of life (and product marketing)

    BMW are working with a stratergy called punctuated equilibrium. Witness the latest Korean cars and the similarity to current/recent Audi and you will understand.

    Witness:

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    Long time to reply...

    AFIK: Late 80's and early 90's cars wont have a catalyic converter, nor will they have an oxygen snesor. Since we used leaded fuel, had next to no environmental laws, and fuel was cheap, fitting a cat and oxygen sensor would have been a waste. The DME in these cars can only use engine speed and AFM to control spark and injection, it gets no readout on what happens after combustion, so cannot fine tune air-fuel ratio. I know for a fact that my m30 535i is NZ new, has no cat or oxygen sensor, and has a .150 DME fitted.

    My guess is that most imported cars and maybe some later model NZ new cars will have cats and oxygen sensors fitted. Because of the oxygen sensor, the DME can find the optimum air-fuel ratio by reading the exhaust gas. My guess is that most of the m30 535i will have a .179 DME with oxygen sensor and cat.

    If you pull the cat in these cars, provided the oxygen sensor is before the cat, there should be no effect on performance. If you pull the oxygen sensor out, the DME will go into closed loop mode, running exactly like the DME in a non-cat, non-oxy car.

    I have an EAT chip designed for the .179 DME fro a m30 535, but at the moment, it is of no use to me. Mark D from EAT has had a copy of the eprom from my .150 dme for he past 6 months, but is either ignoring me, or too busy to reply.

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    Colour does have a bearing on value. There was a purple 911 on a yard here for months. Silver one sold within a couple weeks.

    Go to the USA and using the online value estimators your car has differing values depending on colour.

    Cant remember where, but I read recently that black metalic has the highest resale value, all the way down to flat white which will fetch you the least.

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    my second problem is my lights once or twice have turned off on me whilst driving at nite. which isnt pretty.

    ive check the connections at the lights and they are fine. i dont want to go hucking into the wires, as im not a auto electrician. has anyone got any possible causes to my problem? who is a decent sparky around whenuapi that would be able to fix it, if i cannot do it myself?

    Could be that the LKM is faulty. Take a look here for DIY repair, or try talking to Brent, as he may have a spare floating around.

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    I think you will find most of the ebay chips are made by people with an EPROM burner and a PC. You can buy a PROM chip like in most of the older Motronic systems for a couple of $$ and make you own by duplicating a reputable chip...

    The trouble is knowing where the original chip came from...

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    I'm guessing your fiqures might be optimistic.......

    Source:http://www.automobilemag.com/auto_shows/paris_2004/0411_m5/

    BMW M5 Timeline:

    First Generation, 1984-87

    286-hp inline six

    0-60 mph in 6.5 seconds

    Total production: 2200 units

    Second Generation, 1988-95

    315-hp inline six

    0-60 mph in 6.3 seconds

    Total production: 12,000 units

    Third Generation, 1998-2003

    400-hp V-8

    0-60 mph in 5.3 seconds

    Total production: 20,000-plus units

    Fourth Generation, 2005 debut

    (on sale in U.S. fall 2005, estimated price $85,000) 500-hp V-10

    0-60 mph in 4.7 seconds

    Total production: Time will tell

    Your right about most of that, (I typed a 4 instead of 5 :blush: ) but those stats are for the US spec cars. They never got the later 3.8L e34 due to emission standards. It was almost as quick a the e39 M5...

    No link, but I have it written in front of me in a Total BMW mag B)

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