TermiPeteNZ

Very nice and agree yes price sounds right.

There's a BRG e39 540i Motorsport for sale via Turners down here in Welly. $5650 from memory. Not a manual tho of course :\

e28 in red is very nice Makes a change from the usual BMW silver (like me :\)

Nice vehicle - the e39 M is a fine looking car!

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-1034553039.htm

The wheels do make it.

Not that I'm a convertible guy - but this is *nice*! http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-1033747020.htm%C2'>

Thanks for the welcome guys. Have kids swimming lessons Sunday morning so prob can't make the road trip But keen to head up to Southwards

Just got the 545i restored back to stock exhaust but with butterfly valve sprung open. Aside from being sane and pleasant to ride in the car again, there's a little more volume when you're not giving it welly. The horrible 1500-2000RPM drone is history!!!! If life was about winning with the most stupid points, I'd have moved up a few ranks with the muffler delete

Walk past it every day - nice pocket rocket

With Vero for everything at the sister-in-law's recommendation (she's a broker) and easy to deal with - but haven't made any claims so hard to tell! Have a Vero Autosure Extreme Cover Mechanical Breakdown policy with the 545i and they have been excellent to deal with. 3rd claim since owning the car from October(!) - oil seals on engine (old rubber), bust water tank (old plastic) and now the iDrive. But hey - I expected a few bits on a 10-year old euro and that's why I got the cover

Cheers Breaker - good to have choices eh! A friend of mine sold his E39 M5 last year and I did briefly ponder buying it FYI my E60 wouldn't start this morning - flat battery - and as far as I can tell there was nothing 'left on' to drain it. Took it into Pitstop and got the battery checked - came up as 'borderline' so to be on the safe side had it replaced and hoped it might resolve the iDrive issue.... No such luck of course so its in @Jeff Gray tomorrow to get sorted!

Classic! It's good to be different. I can't really say that with *any* credibility since I drive a Silver BMW with a black interior.

Breaker - as a matter of interest which of your 3! V8 BMWs do you enjoy driving the most?

We'll see what happens - I think Jeff Gray as an official dealer will need to replace it with the Jap spec'ed part (car is an import) if it is different from NZ units. Sorting the radio is cheap but getting Nav redone not so much. Agree the nav is prett good but haven't really needed it to date. I will be happy if it is just a battery issue or similar!

Check out the Clarkson video: https://youtu.be/wJn7LHE83cc

Cheers - hopefully its something simple and the unit doesn't need to get replaced! Will report back when sorted...

Cheers mate! Got to sort my to-do list first - undo ridiculous 'muffler delete' (back to stock Monday - sheesh I am super annoyed with myself for even entertaining the idea) and get my unreliable iDrive sorted.

M4ttyT what did you end up doing? I have a similar vehicle and after YouTubing/reading some material I had a delete done but kept the stock. Just as well as the noise is just too much and the drone is simply horrible. 5min in the vehicle and I was feeling like a complete idiot. Lucky it was a cheap and reversible experiment! After driving an Audi Allroad 4.2V8 (*beautiful* sound with stock exhaust!) I do feel that the stock exhaust on the 545i is anaemic but better to be refined and powerful rather than a droning monster!

Picked up a 2004 e60 545i auto in October last year after being unable to justify an E55 Beautiful tidy car with plenty of go. Working through various rubber and plastic issues that come with age. Previous BMW was an E34 535i which I sold some years ago. Work in IT in Wellington and my other car is a '99 Subaru Legacy GTB which is loads of fun to drive and practical (furniture collection after wife's shopping!) - but now surplus to requirements

Just wondering if anyone else has hit this issue with an iDrive unit failing to boot reliably. Had my car in getting a door trim/switch panel replaced and this involved the whole door panel off and disconnecting a bunch of things. When I got it back the iDrive was just coming up to the BMW logo and then flicking off later on. It is intermittent - about 15% of the time it does start up and run OK. Have done the reset/CTL_ALT_DEL using the 2 disc-player eject keys and the volume on/off button but that doesn't help. The garage is not a euro specialist but does regularly work on BMWs and the diags were reporting issues or absence of low-voltage signals - and didn't know what this meant in terms of a solution. Have it booked into Jeff Gray to get it diagnosed and/or replaced. Thank heavens I have an Autosure Extreme Cover warranty!!! Anybody seen this issue? Unfortunately if it gets replaced (with a replacement Japan-spec unit) I'm expecting to lose the NZ localisation for the radio and GPS nav system