martyyyn

I feel like I'm giving this car away, but it needs to go. Updated auction with new price. $10k reserve - $12.5k buy now

Price drop. Asking $6500

Price drop. Asking $16500

6 speed manual with all the m-sport goodies (seats, suspension, staggered wheels). Don't be put off by the km's this car has had no expense spared on the mechanicals as the kids were driving it and in our ownership it's been 1 hour+ journey's at motorway speeds. Brand new 12 month WOF (10/06/2022), RUC's up to date, new clutch at Christmas, new windscreen last week, Hankook Ventus S1 Evo 2 (255/40/17 - rear) and Hankook K127 (225/45/17 - front) and a removable towbar. We get over 1100kms a tank doing 5.2l/100km. Aircon runs well, AUX in, some pixel issues on the stereo when the weather is hot but can still read everything. There are some cosmetic issues as you would expect from a first car. A supermarket ding, kerbed alloys and stone chips from the motorway miles. Interior is in excellent condition though. All maintenance in our ownership done by Mike Page European in Kapiti. Car will come with new standard issue number plate and not this personalised plate. 268k kms Asking $7k Located in Kapiti. Full details on the auction and listed elsewhere. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/3683501287?bof=QhmtLwSz

The ultimate motorway cruiser. We bought this car to travel the country with our kids sport but as they have now left home we don't do the car justice and have bought an i3. It's my wife's daily driver so has had no expense spared and all maintenance has been done by Mike Page European in Kapiti. Heated front seats, bluetooth, cruise control, heads-up display, comfort access, PS4's all around, PDC, Xenon lights, adaptive headlights, aircon, park assist, backup camera etc. We usually get over 800kms to a tank at 7.2l/100km. With 600Nm this car is a joy on the open road. Just had the inlet manifold and swirl flaps replaced with genuine parts. 193000 kms with loads of service history. Asking $17500 Located in Kapiti. Full details on the auction and listed elsewhere. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/3683503387?bof=7yiLyW0w

Thanks Jon

I'm about to buy a 120Ah i3 to do a 50km roundtrip commute with the odd 180km round trip. Are there any i3 owners on here or anyone with experience of charges at home ? Obviously the daily trip is easily doable on the standard 3-pin cable. We have a 15A plug in the garage to power a caravan I use as an office. That should be all we need shouldn't it ?

Our experience of owning an F10 535D and E90 320D for the last couple of years back the theory around diesels. The E90 in msport and manual is a hoot to drive. One of my favourite cars ever. It's approaching 300k kms but you wouldn't know it. It was checked for carbon before Christmas and it's clean as a whistle which is no surprise as it's done two hour round trips, at 100kph, for 6 days a week over the last three years. The F10 is a luxo barge but is properly quick with 600Nm. It does 20 minutes to work and back, four days a week at 50kph and it's driven like a Granny. It's at 175k and has just thrown codes to say it's clogged so will be taken apart next week. The cost savings when doing distance are great, the torque is intoxicating at all speeds, but if you don't need either I'm not sure I'd recommend diesel if you aren't regularly going for a long drive. We'll likely sell both diesels very soon and go EV for the daily work journey.

I'm keen to talk to whoever buys this. I've been trying to buy E60 M5 bits since last year from a couple of wreckers but they barely answer the phone let alone reply to messages.

YMMV obviously. I've done germanplates and even had Euro plates made at Blackbush Market in South London (sadly no longer) and was eventually pulled up by an English cop in Otaki, twice, in a week ! I saw a friend of mine a few weeks ago who had a plate made at least 15 years in the German font and it's still on the car so he can't have had too many problems.

So the prospect is for a ban of new ICE sales in 20 years and the likelyhood of being expensive as hell to drive sometime (probably years) after that (if they don't get that way sooner given the current price increases). Meh, no drama for me I'll be 75+ by then and I can't imagine the rod bearings on the M5! TBH I lost interest in new ICE cars years ago. The line between the E60 and F10 did it for me. My E60 M5 is significantly bigger than my E34 but our F10 is huge. It's big, it's heavy, it's bloated with padding everywhere and huge seats, it's a 7er not a 5er. Sure the F10 M5 is fast, but you can't properly enjoy it anywhere other than the track. But what price will EV's be in 20 years ? What kind of range will they have and how fast will they charge in 10 years let alone 20 ? Given their performance would you even want an ICE ? My 21yo daughter doesn't drive, has no interest in it or any need to as she lives in a city. If/when she does ever buy a car it will be an EV. For my 18yo son a car is just transport. He shows an interest because his friends love my M5 and 535is, but that's all. He will have no problem buying an EV as his first car because he doesn't really care. My 14yo daughter will likely never drive an ICE. We'll have an EV by the time she's learning to drive and a 100km range is all she needs for school and sport so a cheap Leaf is perfect for her. I understand not everyone can afford an EV (new or used) at the moment. But there are currently 55 Leaf's on TM for under $10k. You can buy one today for $5k if you can handle a 50-70km range and let's be honest, that would satisfy a significant number of households in NZ.

Not legal and not sold as such, but I'll just leave this here. Pressed aluminium, correct flag and fern, correct font, correct colours and reflective. https://doozi.co.nz/listing/701059322/create-your-own-euro-nz-style-number

I saw this and drove it a few years ago, probably close to 10+ years now I think about it. It had been chipped and MAF "tuned" and ran like a dog. Whoever the owner was back then said it just needed to be tuned properly. It sounded to me like he'd just bolted everything on and left it at that. It's fair to say every now and then it did take off but the moment I got back into mine I knew I wasn't going to buy it (Id always wanted a red one). The body was rough, the interior was rough and looking at the photo's I would still take mine over this every day of the week.

Thanks, all I'm doing is returning it to stock. I think the E60 M5 is classy enough as it is, so why change it. Maybe I'm getting old !

And today I replaced the black wheels with the rubbish tyres with a set I've had stripped, straightened, painted and wrapped in PS4's. I think this is the best cosmetic change I've made.