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Don't get me wrong, I am always washing my vehicles, more than most, it's just that bit more work when I have to do the wife car as well as mine every weekend when we are busy.

Yea I get mine from the post shop

Cool thanks

I'm kinda leaning towards the e61 530i motorsport wagon at the moment I think. What's the story with the Japanese idrive radio and nav. I see a few imports advertising that they have nz radio working in them. Do you get a bmw yard to reprogram it or something?

Fair call, just rattling off what looked ok looking online quickly

Yes I have just always had in my mind that it's mainly beneficial having diesel if i was doing big kms like I do in my new ranger. But for the wife car doing small school runs and the odd trip to Hamilton petrol is fine.

Thanks guys

yea i had a quick look at autosure website and it looks liek they cover up to 160kms and 16 years old, which woul dall be fine for us looking around 80-100km

Thanks for you input, yea I will definetly have to have a closer look at everything and test drive when the time comes. Out of interest what does a basic mechaincal warranty cost per year, have never bought one before. Is autosure the main one?

Both really nice looking cars, not sure if diesel would be ideal for mainly short runabout trips most of the time?, plus the extra hassle of RUC, we live in rural town so its basically 5 mins down the road, then back again. Probably wont buy another black car, just hard to keep looking clean, and its always me who ends up having to wash the vehicles!

Yes not to keen on diesel and fuel economy is no big deal due to the low mileage we do in the car. Might be a dirty word here but I guess I could look at an Audi a4 or rs4 wagon too. Need to go and have a look in the flesh at all our options I guess to see what we like.

Not too keen on the X3, we have had both suv and wagons before and prefer to go with a wagon. Price wise to get a msport wagon we would have to look at 325i E91 or maybe E60 5 series. Our current car is 2004 and we want to go up a few years. Looks like most cars would be around 80 to 110km on the clock, would they be due for any major service or parts?

awesome thanks for your input, will have a look

Hi everyone, my first post here as I am starting to look into maybe buying our first euro car for my wife and kids. The car will mainly for my wife and 3 kids who are under 10 years old driving around town, school drop offs etc, and maybe the odd trip out of town (we generally use my Ranger when we head out of town). Am thinking of buying a wagon due to the larger family, and the odd time transporting large dog somewhere. Currently we have a people mover which has done its time for when the kids were younger... I have started looking online into 2005 to 2008 3 or 5 series wagons, mostly Jap import, and prefer the motorsport package obviously. I read that the 4 cyl engines could be good to stay clear of? Also would like to have NZ radio freq which I see I should be able to alter the world tuner in, unless it had the idrive unit I guess (which looks like al the 5 series have?) Does anyone one have any opinions for me on what would be better? Realistically we would only go up to $20k for our next car. Any issues to look out for?