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3 hours ago, GorGasm said:

Now owning a BMW Hybrid l don't think I will ever buy a pure petrol car again.  PHEV or full EV for the win.

I watched this recently, was a nice practical review of real world pros and cons….not sure I consider the prices of these vehicles very real world though. 

I have B4’s up front, Sachs in the back. Done 17,000km and apart from having to replace 1 because it ate the dust boot I think they are ok. I did want the expensive konis but was trying to work within a budget at the time, no regrets though. 

Ah yeah Zane is VERY thorough. Fingers crossed it's a  battery!

Geez that is rough mate. Those ZF5hp24’s eh.. Do you know if they put a new pressure regulator in it when they rebuilt it last? 

Wow, huge effort. Epic stuff! Always looking forward to the next update. Love that you are taking the extra miles on the small details. 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-4362652422.htm

not much info, but handsome touring none the less. 

Signing off this thread, hopefully an owner carriers it on down the line. Sold the car back in July 2022. New owner drove it to Auckland and sent me some photos at the start of the year.

Fantastic! Love how fast you have executed this project. Also thanks for supplying such a detailed thread for others (but mainly myself) to follow. Has been great to follow and looking forward to the future progress. 

Epic spec! What a beauty. 

Loving the rapid progress!

228,000 km

Not quite the same angle but pretty close. 

E36 M3 in Dakar Yellow Karaka Bays yesterday.

1 hour ago, Eagle said:

Probably a $10 strut mate dust boot. Last about long as those shitty stretchy rack boots.

Yeah, the OEM boot is really short, like 1/3 the length of these things. Real oversight on my behalf. They charged me $50 per bump stop which I’m guessing were bmw from the high price, but chucked on these ghetto dust boots instead of getting bmw ones while they were at it. 

227,000km 

WOF time. Failed on a leaking front left shock. This was pretty annoying as they are only 14k old but it seems the dust boot has shredded and maybe got sucked into the shock breaking the seal. Looking back through this thread you can see the dust boots the shop put on originally are very baggy…classic scenario of $10 part shags a $300 shock.  Anyway, new shock in (another Bilstein B4) with a new (bmw specific this time) dust boot and new ‘updated’ E46 wipers from BMW and the WOF sticker is on! 

And off to Bunnings for some insulation to make the house healthy homes compliant. 

I had a UUC short shifter kit in my E30, it was a manual swap so I never had a reference for how long the normal shifter was. It all worked nicely though but like Eagle said it was pretty expensive @$325 USD. 

Thanks @Eagle and @Vass I'll see what I can chase down locally.

225,000km 

Oil service. Figured Id try some engine flush, but when I dropped the oil it wasn’t missing any so maybe it’s not burning like it was before…either way, no harm done. 
i picked up 2 cans of Castrol Edge 5W-30 from repco @$54 for 5L. Chucked some Ceratec in too. Got the Liqui Moly stuff from Harrys Euro. Was cheaper than buying it local despite the shipping. 

My Aliexpress fog lights lasted a week before one side stopped working so put the originals back in. Pay for what you get eh. 

I had a weird thumping noise when going over bumps coming from below the handbrake/rear console. Figured it was Guibo or CSB so loaded up the FCP cart in preparation for a refresh but after getting under the car I found one of the exhaust hanger brackets was missing a bolt and the other was only just threaded in. 

tightened up the exisiting bolt and will order another 2 as the other bracket is also missing one. Sounds gone today so will be ‘saving those items for later’ on the fcp cart. Was kinda looking forward to doing some wrenching but time wise it was going to be a bit annoying as I’m halfway through making the garage space nicer. 

Does that mean Trademe took it down? 

Trailing arm bushings x2 (4 in total, 2 per arm) $40 for both located in Wellington.

BMW part number 33329061945

These are currently back ordered on FCP and also fit these other vehicles:

Part 33329061945 was found on the following vehicles:

1502-2002tii   (03/1966 — 07/1977)

3' E21   (02/1975 — 12/1983)

3' E30   (12/1981 — 02/1994)

3' E36   (06/1993 — 08/2000)

1500-2000CS   (09/1963 — 01/1972)

5' E12   (02/1972 — 07/1981)

5' E28   (06/1980 — 12/1988)

2.5CS-3.0CSL   (12/1968 — 11/1975)

6' E24   (10/1975 — 04/1989)

2500-3.3Li   (08/1968 — 02/1977)

7' E23   (10/1976 — 11/1989)

Z3 E36   (12/1994 — 06/2002)

[ SOLD] Subframe Bushings 

[SOLD] $40 for the pair. Located Wellington. 

part number 33311130537 / 33311129144

Fits  3' E30   (12/1981 — 02/1994)

Hey, sorry this is sold pending payment. I'll get in touch if it falls through. Cheers. 

I think I got this from Garagistic from memory however once I lowered my car I figured any lower was going to become impractical so never fitted it. 

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Located in Wellington. Would rather pick up but I'm sure i can wrangle some cardboard to ship at buyers risk. 

(NB: No hardware, just the lip itself. But as oer Andy's write up, you want stainless hardware)

Andy did a great write up on how to install here:

Exquisite! 

Little follow up. 
- Wheel is back on with new tyre. Randomly the price was $346….my number plate is DQZ346!

- Bank 2 o2 sensor is in, what a PITA. Glad that’s a 160,000km service interval item!

- installed new white LED fog bulbs.

Before:

After:

If there’s a thing in particular you want to check I can take photos of that section for you. 

10 minutes ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

Looking at the bumper of the cover car it seems to be a US version, is that true for the information inside as well?

Yeah it is a North American publication. So yeah guess it’s for LHD cars but I never even noticed that till now and I used it for a bunch of trouble shooting on my RHD car.