andrewm

20 minutes ago, KwS said:

No no, did you not read this thread? Its the LTW!

The m3 LTW was a great marketing campaign for the e36 330i poverty spec. 

4 minutes ago, M3AN said:

And the e36 M3 is the best M3 ever built!

The euro spec evo right? Lol

I think this thread needs more spice

the Z3 m coupe is hideous and should never have been built

the e46 m3 is overrated and slow

SMG is a manual

the bmw 1m is a real M car

Had an EL falcon xr6 in the family from new, did 385,000 km before I sold it, the only things that ever failed were 

 bushes, balljoints and shocks at between 200 and 300, an intake manifold gasket at 350,000km and a coil at 370,000.

Just did fluids and 2 batteries apart from that.

While it may have only done 100k, it is 14 years old and potentially has higher engine hours than cars with double those km.

The average speed in my wifes x3 was 61.7kmh and the average speed in my e46 Was like 28, while she had 140,000km and i had 90,000 my e46 had definately done more hours than her car.

A few options

1. green scotchbrite, should do minimal damage to textured plastic trim but if its light overspray should remove it

2. turps on a rag/ with the scotchbrite. Turps isnt a strong solvent for car paint but if it is poorly adhered it will remove.

3. last resort solvent - sparing use of lacquer paint thinner

4. get bumper black flexible paint and spray in light coats to recolour trim

5. get another bit of trim

There is e39 540i exocar build that is similar. 

Do you keep your car waxed? It wont remove any swirls but a good wax has fillers that will hide a lot of them. 

Buy the meguiars ultimate compound you would use it on a buffer too, ( will almost certainly be on special at repco or supercheap now or boxing day) you will need to do small areas by hand anyway unless you also get a small buffer. 

I recommend you wash, clay bar, then begin polishing - plenty of videos on youtube.

By hand as long as you have some endurance ha, get ready for the deep shoulder burn. Tight circles as if your hand was a buffer. 

Do a small area like wing mirror first to see how it turns out, or just borrow a buffer. 

Yes you can,but its not recommended, its probably less than 1/5th the speed of machine finishing.

 ive hand polished and entire car from 2000 grit sanded paint finish to show car shine, it was a character building test when i started a student job buffing vehicles. 

In terms of easy to get products i would recommend meguiars ultimate compound, a couple of foam applicators and a huge pile of microfibers. 6-8 hours will give you a significant improvement but wont be perfect. 

Reasons for WOF failure from NZTA website

A vehicle (other than group L vehicle or a class MA or MC motorsport vehicle with a valid motorsport authority card) that was first registered in New Zealand on or after 1 May 2010 and manufactured from 1 January 1990 has a catalytic converter removed where there is evidence that one was originally fitted, and there is no written evidence issued by an entry certifier that the vehicle passed a prescribed metered emissions test in this condition

Passed by a whisker then

Kill it with fire, that is hideous.

Reminds me of a car that had actual marley gutters as side skirts. 

Giving bimmersporters a chance on this, its a friends car but is getting traded on Saturday. Dealer is offering $36k so will take the same from any of you guys.

PM and ill put you in contact. 

- 2016 with ~12,000km on it practically new

- 275hp engine tuned to ~300hp

- trophy specific factory options, recaro sportster seats, alcantara trim, akrapovich titanium exhaust, race computer 

- 1380 kg so its a cornering weapon, as fast as a e92 m3 around nurburgring and faster than e46 m3

- my friend is selling as he has moved and is now 5km from work so its the wrong car for a 5km traffic commute. 

- only issue i can see is a fingernail size scrape on back bumper and one of the Trophy stickers is starting to peel. 

4 owners but i believe its dealer, first owner, dealer again and my friend. 

gotta be some sort of tax rort,

have some document showing it was bought for 80k, have it on the books at 80k and claim a huge loss when it sells for ~35k. 

Someone with better accounting knowledge than I could speak to it.

Expect it would be far cheaper, easier and more HP to buy the VF supercharger kit. 

Isnt the m62b48 an alpina special and the bmw 4.8 motor the N62B48? 

If you have the alpina special lying around then thats interesting otherwise N62 not likely to work. 

Do you often use the key lock or have you locked it once and cant unlock? I.E is it likely to have broken or is it perhaps seized. 

My e39 lock was so stiff from not being used perhaps ever that I wondered if I would break the key before it finally turned. 

14 hours ago, liyi_92 said:

Hi Andrew, can't believe I just saw this thread - I was talking to someone about the car and looking for my sell thread photos and stumbled across this! I had been keeping an eye on TradeMe to see if it would ever have been relisted. The car is looking great and loving the stuff you have done to it. I was a fan of the blacked out trim as I thought it looked more aggressive and the white and black interior was something special. I miss the noise this car would make and now considering to get back into another one! I'm sure you would agree now the facelift model was indefinitely much nicer than the 08-10 cars I still look back at the photos.

I wondered if you had dropped off the radar and bought a jappa or something. 

Car has been faultless, just had cosmetic and maintenance to do. Re did most of the blackout as some had started to flake off. I took out the subwoofer install but have kept it intact so it can be refitted at any time, the e85 flex fuel kit and the removal of 60kg of subwoofer and mdf box and mdf boot cover gave a very noticeable acceleration benefit. 

Think i will have this for a while...

1 hour ago, zero said:

Wow, whats the blue one in the fifth picture?

507 roadster i think...

Snapped a few pictures for you guys when i visited this ex railway station in Dusseldorf and its car display, many are for sale.

These were quickly taken on an old iphone and trying to cut people out of the picture so no whinges about picture quality. 

Only a priests socks are black everything else is just very very very very very dark blue. 

5 points if you know the reference.

Grear that they used an x6 since they are so ugly it hides it. 

31 minutes ago, Jacko said:

f**ken Novus. How are they so big and so sh*t at what they do.

Turned up, pulled trim apart, scratched bonnet, realised didnt bring the moulding to replace windscreen, and then put the trim back incorrectly so I have a inch gap at the base of the screen now. 

Thats just what I wanted! A cracked screen, a scratched bonnet, and a gap that'll let birds make a nest in. Fantastic job. 

I made this mistake once, first windscreen didnt allow or didnt have rain sensor. 

Novus pulled it out and did it again but appeared to install with black RTV and some shitty universal gasket that didnt fit so had them pull that out and put a genuine windscreen in. 

Lots of mess and lots of hassle, wont do that again. 

Metallic paint or solid colour? if solid then usually not enough overlap or just not enough coats to cover. If metallic then there is a 'dust coat' technique some people use, pretty much spraying randomly over the surface from twice the distance quickly after the final colour coat.

Probably not useful now that its done though....