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  1. My brother & sister in law both just let their regos lapse. I had been asking them are they on hold they keep saying yes but they must have thought that ment not keeping the old one upto date. 2 cars now sitting with dead plates, 1 was a beautiful e34 525i like the one out of the movie with the high speed car chase with Robert de Niro 

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  2. 20220911_160907.thumb.jpg.9026b09be00a03258fe9c07397be0f63.jpgFirstly thanks to Gaz for letting me buy these & Done for picking up and getting them to me.

    Bit of a progress report

    Sanded up & delivered to painter today. He's wanting to do an especially good job on them. Hundreds of hours spent on these already sanding & polishing lips. Started with 36 grit paper on the lips & worked all the way down to 2000 wet dry papers then autosole metal polish and 0000 steel wool then alloy polish. May try to get some 3000 & 5000 grit paper if anyone knows if this can be bought in NZ that would be awesome. 

    Bolts stripped back in vinegar, boiled in vinegar and baking soda, fully stripped to a black shiny finish then coated in zinc by Christchurch metal finishers. Better than new ones, will probably last a lifetime. 

    Sanded and polished hex caps and restored old original BBS centre caps with polishing tool, look like new & OG to. 

    Got a spare in the mix, is a nice lightweight 7" rim perfect for the boot, probably fit with a 195 tyre to make it even lighter 

    New tyres have been ordered from hyperdrive after lots of consideration I've decided to go 225/50r16 all round. 

    Had purchased 245/45r16 Nangkang AS-2 (only road tyre available in that size in NZ) but being unsure of Chinese tyres & bit of risk of clearance on M535i I have gone with Laufenn 225/50s instead keeping it closer to original 

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  3. On 8/3/2022 at 9:59 AM, Antallica said:

    That brings me back. I used to have a 2 door '87 E30 318i I bought from a mate for $500. Traded it in for an E36 323i...... in hindsight I should have kept it if that's what they go for now.

    Yea, I think the deals are still out there for ones that need a bit of work. My mate just bought a nz new 325i manual e30 that came with a 320i auto both tidy for 3.3k. I was going to buy first but I still had my 325i. I think it's all condition based now & its hard to get a mint red one with a nice paint job like in the photos above. 

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