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7 hours ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

If you took that this morning, just after 8 o'clock, I was the next car in the queue behind the Z4 M40i - lol.

Commiserations - the 218i is a slight downgrade ?

11 minutes ago, TermiPeteNZ said:

There's a decent bit of eco-guilt mixed in with the fuel cost side of things. 

I feel this too. I also really like the idea of a non REX i3 but no doubt RUC’s will be along shortly to spoil that particular party and the 25k gap to a similarly specced 118i buys a fair bit of gas and servicing.

2 hours ago, TermiPeteNZ said:

Been pondering 120i/125i Msports - not sure I could cope with a 116i as much as they look fine!

This looks nice: https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=2000832627

Odd spec on that 125i - big brakes, big wheels, fancy dash but shitty halogen headlights. I've also been looking at them for a daily driver.

The 118i with the 3-pot actually is surprisingly peppy - though a bit less than 500hp worth of v10 i'd wager

@BlackrazorNZ it looks rapid but pretty homogenous c.f. the other German marques hot hatches (A45 / Golf R). At least the RS3 still has the 2.5T 5cyl in it for now. Seems the Germans all want to emulate each other as much as possible (A3 sedan / CLA class / 2 series Gran Coupe) and now this. A bit of individuality wouldn't go amiss...

The pictures speak for themselves with this one. Plenty of dollars spent, but not much sense.

tidy look!

53 minutes ago, hugo_nz said:

Yup imported. And not surprising given that the Design Pure lines were $7000 options (7 seat models). The B&O sound option was $10k. Whoever ordered this car new was rolling in it. A quick calculation puts the NZ New equivalent at $210,000.

Looks like it's from Singapore? so maybe multiply that by 5 to get the price in SGD

Are you BP's best customer with that fleet?

The other cars around that particular house included a C63 AMG sedan and a nice early 90's Merc 250TE estate as well. Good taste in cars

Nice green 525ix E34 touring!

13 minutes ago, TermiPeteNZ said:

Good to meet you at the coffee meet Matt!

Same to you Pete!

It's nice and clean, courtesy of a service from Winger BMW so thought I'd add another pic

OOOH  New G20 3 series!

Hi Sven - I had a similar issue after unplugging my aircon unit to remove a Dension system. I took it to @HELLBM who cleared a bunch of codes (I think caused by unplugging things with the battery connected) and it then ran fine.

Diesel 3 series in your price range will be fairly high km E91 320d - not inherently a problem as the N47 is pretty strong but there are reports of timing chains shitting the bed which is an engine out ($$$) replacement job. You should be able to find a nice pre-facelift 325i touring (2006-2008) which has the N52 engine, price is similar to a 525i probably but the 3 series are a bit more involving to drive

11 hours ago, lord_jagganath said:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201901083728028 I suppose there is little point in the Sytner one when number 20 here is just 2k more... 

The advantage of the Sytner one is that if you wanted to, you could keep it under BMW Warranty forever. Surprises me there isn't an NZ equivalent given there seem to be a lot of people with aftermarket warranties.

25 minutes ago, Breaker said:

$58k USD sold. This or a mid level new 3 series, I know where my money would go

I do like it. But 58k US will also buy a 2018 M3

As an ex- Alpina UK employee owned car, you'd hope it had been serviced appropriately (no guarantees i guess). It must be ok to be sold as an approved used car through a main dealer though.

OK not trademe - but 340000km in < 5 years is good going even with a heavy dose of motorway / autobahn. doesn't look to have had a tough life but >40k seems expensive given I got a 1 year old 335d with 10000 miles for just over 50 landed.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201902014494028?radius=1500&amp;make=BMW&amp;model=ALPINA D3 BI-TURBO&amp;postcode=n15en&amp;onesearchad=Used&amp;onesearchad=Nearly New&amp;onesearchad=New&amp;advertising-location=at_cars&amp;sort=price-asc&amp;page=2&amp;modal=photos

13 minutes ago, GorGasm said:

 

Tempted to sell it as well as the M5, but what to buy?!

 

M135/M140i with adaptive suspension?

8 hours ago, Driftit said:

That is actually quite a lot of KM's for a Singapore car this new.

Probably not that many KM for an N57 (see below)

3 hours ago, KwS said:

My tuned 335i was exactly this. May as well have just got a 330i for puttering around town, by the time you were having fun with the power, you were so far over the speed limit, or sideways, it just wasn't that fun anymore. 

I think this is the case with most performance cars these days. Extremely competent, easy to drive and powerful with so much electronic safety equipment that the 'fun/character' factor feels as though it has been engineered out of them. 

Certainly I'm no driving god but my 335d requires nothing more than nailing the throttle and holding the steering wheel in sport mode.

Service indicator reset is the same as E9x models in the F series - it's the electronic service record I want to keep.

Probably faster than an M5 if on the autobahn. F10 generation D5 has a top speed of 324kph, M5 will be bouncing off the limiter well before then

14 minutes ago, Olaf said:

Who's not doing "newer than 10 year old BMW's?  Page do them, Auto 38 do them... has a good independent in Wellington actually turned you down, or said "sorry we don't do newer than 10 years"?  Or is this more of an impression?  I'm genuinely interested - as I don't have anything newer than 2004! ?

 

cheers

Just an impression - but the newer vehicles have electronic service history via an idrive menu which as I understand is only updatable by authorised BMW dealers or independents if they pay a fee to use the BMW software (I haven't checked but doubt this would be any of the wellington indys). With a 3 year old car I think that's probably worth preserving.