TermiPeteNZ

it is a gorgeous vehicle - love the colour!

Welcome to Bimmersport and the marque Marco! BTW there's an active BMW Car Club branch covering BoP/Waikato... https://www.facebook.com/groups/1807431149571993/ ...

I'll let the guys know At 1841 go up the stairs, hook a right and we normally have a couple of tables in the corner. Hope you can make it along... I can't due to work. And no it's not a drinking session We enjoy a drink but in a responsible way.

Hey Scott and welcome to Bimmersport and BMW ownership! ... it's good that you've moved to from the 320i 4-cylinder to a 525i 6-cylinder - MUCH better engine Please don't get a band expander - instead get your radio properly recoded to NZ. Eurosurgeon can do this for around $150 from memory and nobody is stuffing around adding wires in the back of your expensive(!) computer/entertainment unit. Some idiot put a band expander into my 545i before i bought it and forgot to reattach the cooling fan and it died ; if i didn't have a MBI policy it would have been ~#2K. Eurosurgeon are Akld based but travel to Welly regularly. @promo is local and also might be able to recode it too. Nav is expensive to localise, does require additional hardware and the maps won't be super current either so think twice before doing it. Eurosurgeon can do that if you want too -but I'd stick with sorting the radio. I recommend Auto38 in Newtown if you want a thorough check of your vehicle. https://www.auto38bmspecialist.com/ BTW - we have the local BMW community pub night this Thursday

Re the wheels - yours are after market as the Style 88s look like this: http://www.bmwstylewheels.com/bmw/88 And yes! @Paul Bradfield hope you're making it official and joining soon!

Welcome Vass - lovely E46 and great pics Have to disagree re the Style 68s - I really like the design ... what are you thinking of putting on in their place? As @JonRP says the Chch branch of the BMW Car Club is firing up again with @Paul Bradfield leading the charge. Get involved! Pete from Welly

Welcome @jonrp - great looking E46! Regarding a club - you're in luck! @Paul Bradfield is just restarting the Christchurch branch of the BMW Car Club of NZ Have a chat...

Hi Bernie and welcome! Lot to love about an E39 Motorsport!

Nice review of these here: https://driving.ca/bmw/7-series/reviews/road-test/road-test-2001-bmw-740i-sport-2

Great to see there's a bit of community activity in Christchurch - and interest in spinning up the Club again? I've thoroughly enjoyed getting the Club sparked off again here in Welly @Paul Bradfield - good idea to tag along to these events and see who's keen to both attend some more and maybe help organise a few

GLWS Randell!

Welcome Paul 330i looks great!

I actually like the SMG when not in the CBD... and who really wants to go messing with the guts of something this complicated!

Damn

Welcome Gordon - the the big 7s have buckets of presence!

Hey Ric and welcome - nice X5! Do like the Motorsport models in white

Welcome Neil and glad to hear you're enjoying your 116i! Do share a pic or two

Love your work Adrian!!!!!

Well the plan IS to replace one of the existing vehicles - either the E46 or my wife's Mazda...

Righto - have the M5 back... Check and set tyre pressures & reset tyre monitor Remove S85 auxiliary oil pump & replace profile gasket & clean down oil leaks Remedy power steering leak with replacement clamp Rescanned recurring fault code with lambda bank 2 - 'O2 sensor out of limit' & intermittent lean code comes up once at around 800RPM and then runs fine. Vanos codes not coming up again and it all looks OK Battery was a bit had it so new one has gone in. Next thing is ... New Michelin Pilot Sport 4s going on the rear this Thursday. Extremely good price from Hyperdrive.co.nz. Then back to Auto 38 for oil change oil analysis Maybe clean throttle bodies to see if it helps with fault code And in other news... Picking up the F30 335i Luxury Edition tomorrow... took it for a test drive on Sunday evening and was most impressed - amazingly modern in every way compared to my other vehicles and the twin turbo six is quite something.

Welcome Connor - nice vehicles Hope you can get a crew together for some runs. We do the odd road trip up your way...

Great result on the lights!!!

M5 update Driving in to Auto38 I got a loss of tyre pressure warning - just for fun Pressures looked fine - Jon reinitialized the tyre pressure monitor and we'll see how it goes. Has happened once before. He found gasket leaks in the S85's secondary electrical scavenge pumps that help with oil supply when cornering hard. Also observed that rear tyres are about had it so I'll be replacing those this coming week. Expect to get Michelin Pilot Sport 4s - reading overseas reviews they come out well. The Falkens were on it when I got it and have lasted around 14000KMs. Other stuff On another note, pondering picking up a F30 335i Luxury model as new daily driver... bit of a modern car by my standards!

How's about regular images dude? Steering wheel looks good

Guess we'll see!