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my image, M535i shark attack on south coast of Wellington, Nikon D810 with Nikkor 16-25 f4 VR, B+W Kassemann pol filter

yes.

My image. Hawkes Bay BMW, June 2023 iPhone 13 pro, with some careful editing in Lr.

Come to the light, mate. iPhone for you. 😁

I tried a simple search on duckduckgo (Jewellers Screwdrivers).... yes there's a Temu result, though only one, and it's an advert coming in third place. I usually scroll past all of the adverts and seek the search engine's work output. From my perspective that's a win. If you're getting more, is it driven by your cookies, or have Temu built a profile on you?

Interesting idea, though not what I'm looking for. The front is already stiff enough and well-matched to the rear. Given so few 325Ti were brought into NZ would I also be chasing a unicorn? I'll keep it simple and find a 24mm 31351094542.

try duckduckgo.

my image South Island 2015 e46 Touring, near Lake Pukaki if I recall correctly. Nikon D3 most likely with a Nikkor 24-70 2.8 and pol filter.

my image - e36 at Manfield, Nikon D3

my image. e30 325SE 'The Stroker', Nikon D810 with 70-200 2.8 FL/E photograhed for DIXI Magazine.

You can dispose of your waste oil at the WCC tip - on the west side of the transfer station there's a collection area for oils, adjacent to the paint collection (and battery collection) spaces. HTH.

do check that they're the right circumference for your vehicle!

about to do that on mine!

where'd you get it done? As per @Eagle's advice above, sounds like they used cheap rotors. How's the pad dust?

My image. Marty Irvine at Manfield. I'll need to check - I think this was one of my D3's and either 70-200 f.28 FL/E with a teleconverter, or 300 f2.8.

This car was previously featured in the BMW Car Club NZ quarterly magazine DIXI under Hagen's ownership, great accounts of his Dad buying the car, trips through the continent etc, Alpina options. If you've not joined the club yet, you should consider it. There's undoubtedly a story in your recent restoration work too. As for what wheels, IMHO keep it on what it's got - those BBS Mahle rims are period correct and what his Dad put on at the time. The only other option in keeping with that could be the 15" version if you can find some. Cheers.

My pic, Nikon D4s 70-200 2.8FL/E

yes, drop-top!

You're not comparing apples with apples, really. My e60 ZF6 was done with drain-and-fill, run ~500kms, and them drop the pan, do the seal, pan filter, all the bolts so more labour and more fluid. This was a car with ~152k kms that had never had a trans service, so I was trying to give it love before it shat the bed. The e46 ZF5 had shat the bed at ~115k kms and had a full rebuild, and a trans service (pan drop, filter change, new fluid) at about 165k kms, prior the service (below) at 205k kms. 1. Drained and filled 2. Filter Change etc (This is more like what you'll be doing on your driveway at home.) I got my e46 ZF5 done as part of a larger service covering many items, and used the fancy machine so used less fluid. No messing around and it shifted like butter afterwards. Essentially you're committed to a course of action, your Trans sounds like it's not at all happy, and you're trying not to spend too much and hoping it's going to get better with least amount of $. I'm picking your oil's going to be black and burned with grit it it. You might want to look into the drain a litre, add a lite approach that I had to use on my old Volvo 850 T5. Here's what I recall - do your own research. You have a clean container marked with a litre (or a quart), and a dirty container marked with a litre (or a quart) as per your clean container. With a warm engine and trans, disconnect line from trans to cooler, connect hose to your dirty container. Run the engine and watch the dirty container slowly fill, shut off at the line. Add same quantity of clean fluid into your trans (Through fill port, trans dipstick tube, or via the trans cooler return line or fill port in your trans - depending on your application). Rinse and repeat until your oil is coming out clean-looking. For my Volvo that took 14 litres. I added 'Trans-Tune' from the folks that make the magic decarbonising fluid Seafoam - that's a whole other story on whether or not additives are a good idea in your ZF. For my Volvo, it improved shifting, improved overall operation of the auto. This is the backyard equivalent of the fancy trans machine without the hydraulic pressure of the machine pumps behind it, using the trans to do it's own pumping. And you'd still want to drop the pan/filter beforehand and change it out, so you're up for ~5-6 litres for that, and then, what.... 10-14 litres for the prime thing? Best of luck. I think there's some how-tos for re-doing the valve blocks in the ZF6, with O-ring kits? I forget now. HTH. EDIT: What difference did I notice after the e60 ZF6 Fuchs trans pan and mechatronic sleeve service? It was 'more decisive' going downhill and changing down a gear automatically... changing up on a light throttle was smoother, less indecision... and changeups under load were crisper. No harshness introduced as a result of the service. We surmised we'd gotten to it at the right time, before friction material had gotten burnt off badly.

bump!

Miltek is a bonus. you'll need to code your new battery - tell the system the size/capacity and date, AGM etc so it can reset its charging profile.

For your ZF6 back when I was dealing with Pageeuro they used a Fuchs equivalent. It was okay... if I was doing it again it'd be Lifeguard. You can use less fluid by getting it done on a transmission service machine. I'm about to have Jon @ Begley Motor Works do a ZF8 service - it'll be getting either Lifeguard 8 or the Shell stuff from BMW. Or Penrite ATF BMV, at a pinch. @E63 why not get it done by Jon at Begley Motor Works (Marton) - he has the transmission machine that pushes new oil in as it pulls the old stuff out. That's how we did a service (incl filter) in Jan 2023 last year at 205.5k km on my ZF5 (my e46) with Lubeguard Full Synthetic ATF and it's shifting superbly (212k kms). Previous trans service was ~50k kms earlier.

Hmmm, yes I think the M54B25 and even B30 e83's are not very light on fuel. VANOS seals, DISA, vacuum leaks, O2 sensors all conspire to rob M54 of power and thus drink more, so you're returning to familiar territory. Main rule for any X-drive is to ensure you've the right-sized rated tyres on each corner... incorrect tyres and circumferences that's what leads to the bind-ups/diffs/transfer case issues. Have a good sniff around under it for leaks, particularly the transfer case. It should be a decent wagon for your daughters to be driving around in John. Tyre wear likely to be much higher than an e46 wagon though.

A fine example is ZF6 pan bolts. “Holy f#%kbaws, it’s 21 (or 23 - I forget) bolts. That’s expensive, do I really need them?” ZF changed the bolts, they were breaking. BMW tell you nothing as they stick to the ‘lifetime fill, no service necessary’ line. Ive just bought a ZF8 service kit. All in one box from ZF. Contents: Pan/filter, fill & drain plugs, fill set of new pan bolts. It’s a sh*t to have your car on the hoist doing the job, bolt breaks… you’re doing all the right things to take care of your car and you’re going to extract the broken bolt and look for something else as a placeholder… it’s not in-stock locally as everyone’s buying direct off-shore…. Most of the time IMHO you’re better off having the right stuff to hand when you need it. RealOEM usually indicate something like “required” as a note… look at the bolts/nuts that pinch the hub to the bottom of a front strut, or caliper bracket bolts… from memory they’re single-use.

thanks Neal that's brilliant, very helpful. Just printing up some adaptors will save plenty of time, it shouldnt take too long to cut the door if I can get access to an air nibbler. These looked good though are for Compact.... https://www.printables.com/model/546797-adapter-for-front-speakers-bmw-e46-3er-series-comp/related Sounds like active fronts the go, I'll arm myself with capacitors as advised, cheers. Thanks also for the detail on cabling. Thanks for kind offer to help calibrate. May be a few months away yet.