Willy Sea

9 minutes ago, duluth said:

Usually happens if you have been doing short drives. Take it for a blast on the motorway and the tick should go away. 

FWIW hold revs steady at 2800 RPM, for three minutes, allows the lifters to bleed out. According to tis.

3 hours ago, c.robertson00 said:

Has the price been dropped? I gave him a call to ask if he would swap for my E46 M3 but he said he wasn't interested, didnt even ask what I was offering to swap. 

Not sure why the seller would want to trade down to an E46?😁

Actually given all the recent huff n puff about values and the increasing numbers of E36,  E46 and M coupes for sale in the past 90 days,  not many have found new owners, despite reductions in the asking. 

Perhaps a portent of things to come in 2022?

48 minutes ago, Driftit said:

Good on them.  They sell lots of a amazing vehicles that are reaching the correct audiences. 

However, a pretty bodgey, very high mileage, common, typically modified with bolt on parts and cheaply sprayed (that overspray) 540i for $40k more than it was worth.
This is not on par with their normal high end stock.  Yet the car has been made out to be in the same league.

If this was a car dealer doing this you would have the pitch forks out.

 

Hmm the overspray underneath that upsets you may not necessarily be an indicator of the quality of the paint job overall. The market on the day spoke, and bid it to $63K. Sold, end of story. Winner are grinners 😁

Quite a nicely presented example, and appears to be in sound order with good history. Up close and personal the Dakar 1 is a lot softer that the photoshopped pix illustrate. One of 18, but Barry Basicpoor boy in spec and M60B40 only.

No expert here, but probably not far away from being on the money at or close to the asking

Good luck with a prompt sale seller😇

North of $NZ2k. Covid coupled with lockdown and our choosing to shop on the internet more has led to massive profiteering by the freight companies. Actually that may be a bit harsh, there certainly has been a sharp lift in costs and delivery times are not as quick or reliable as they were in early 2020.

Good luck with your search Lee

23 hours ago, KwS said:

Never understood "skids". Just something drongos do in their falcodores to look cool to their equally low IQ mates.

Unfortunately you must add BMW to the falcodores et al list. And the same comments re IQ apply to these drivers too.

You know what I mean KwS. Some buyers have unrealistic expectations what sellers will / should do to achieve a sale. And then snivel like schoolboys after a punch up when it all goes south.

If we were selling the car listed, I would state as a condition of sale that only bids from bidders who have inspected the car will be accepted, all others will be deemed vexatious and removed. Soon sort the men from the boys, wheat from the chaff, or whatever.

And well done Fiat 131R. Some of the posters to this column need to take a good hard look at their attitudes here for goodness sake. You want your cake and wine served up on a plate, and want to reserve the right to complain with vigor if its not to your taste. I applaud Fiat 131R for his commendable attitude,

While some of you were moaning about needing pix, the vendors poor attitude, and wanting your hands held while going to the toilet, a veritable bargain was uplifted by a quiet achiever. Kudos👍

On 1/9/2021 at 2:29 PM, Jacko said:

Yeah shipping at the moment is screwed, Ive had a package sitting at Frankfurt airport since November, at least yours moved  

Ditto since Nov 25th. Deemed lost now by DHL. And so is yours. Trying to move on with replacement items or refund. Bit like being at the dentists, turning into a painful experience😠

Wouldn't read too much into the WOF info off carjam. The car is clearly no garage queen, with 8500kms up a year since import in 2012. So driven frequently, and all the better for it too. Go have a look, you will be buying on condition with this one.

In my mind these convertibles with hardtop are undervalued by comparison with the coupes. Foolishly , the kiwi enthusiast tend to dismiss these, whereas in Eurorope, the UK and the USA a ragtop with hard top in place is often the preferred choice of the cognoscenti.

Should you be nervous at all, (and we mainlanders have to be wary of these slick talking Aucklanders) get a PPI,  from  a BMW specialist, there are a few up there.

(No affiliation to vendor)

8 hours ago, LemonHunter said:

This looks like NZ?

Wellington Street Races  late1980's. Had a few shares in OmniCorp............

On 11/24/2020 at 9:07 PM, gjm said:

It was a rural road, funded by a District Council. 

The NZTA funding is sufficient to rebuild roads not just resurface them. It is simply a lack of oversight and preparedness, coupled with a profit-driven contractor motive, which compromises state highways. 

No need to worry boys, the amount of quantitive easing going on recently, surely some of it will filter thru to roading. All the new expressways tunels etc from the last drop back in 2008 are nearly finished now.

Thank you for the replies. Think we will get Magoo Mufflers in Ferry Road, Chch to make a system up. They are the local whizz kids, and nothing is a problem to them. Plus of course they have all the kit to make stuff up on site. 

On 11/9/2020 at 9:05 PM, M3AN said:

I'm surprised by how much I don't hate that.

Some of those colours, early 70's (guessing here) look contemporary today, another is that crayon, just a dullish grey. Porcshe colour. Some shades of green and blue are coming back too, moreso in the non metallic's.

Don't stop now...........

The cars in London UK. Hardly a bargain?

On 10/23/2020 at 7:41 PM, leichtbau said:

There was a black one with fox red interior on TM down in chch that was for sale for months - higher end of the price range, but was a perfectly specced E92 LCI Comp.

That car at Chevron Motors was not a nice example. Singapore car, rubbers on screens front and rear damaged, carbon fibre roof delaminating, myna bird droppings had left staining on the bonnet and boot lid, probably helping the roof delamination along too. However the final blow for me at least was, a new set of Horace Horizon tyres had been fitted. The black worked well with the red interior, but didn't bother going further with a road test unfortunately. ?

There was an excellent one owner x UK example in AW in the low thirties earlier in the year at Ebbett Motors in Hamilton, someone acquired that pretty quickly.

6 minutes ago, Driftit said:

Why do these people need to comment?

Username says it all. Sad state of Trade Me today.?

2 hours ago, Olaf said:

A couple of 318i Coupes on ™ asking between $12 and 14k and they’re nothing special other than tidy.  Not iS, at least one is Auto.   
 

yes folks, that’s where the market is heading.

Quite a difference, especially at the moment between "asking" and receiving. Most of us know, as well, the better

cars are moving to new garages quicker outside the vicious forum that Trade Me has become?

Not necessarily. A light non air bag inflating tap can knock out the front chassis rails very easily.

Thank you, but no thanks. Type 1's maybe. Found a set of staggered embossed not replicas offshore, should be winging their way to NZ this week.

A set of ACS type 1 in 17" is always nice to have tho?

Eeww spray paint? Why would you?  At around 200 euro plus plus for new, probably see the cost benefits. Will try a young ish athletic trimmer  to get the job done. Understand it may be a bit of a faff, thank you for the reply. 

Thanks guys, going to hang out for a staggered set with the embossing. Import if necessary.

Thanks again.

Anybody? How hard is it on a scale of one to ten to remove the faded rear parcel shelf.? See can get from offshore leather cut and stitched, to fit. Need new stop lite assy too. Or retrim in NZ, or ship in a new item. Probably ship in the doorcards new old stock.

You have PM Dave