Neil McCauley

The lane assist in current Toyotas is something shocking, I’m regularly in a 300 and a Granace but thankfully you can switch it off. The Yaris Cross is even worse as the suspension is so soft. I believe enough people have complained about it that Toyota is issuing a software change to how aggressive it is.

Another one for S&S Wairau, they messed my old man around very recently with a screen for his Mercedes, and completely f**ked the wiper linkages. It’s not exclusive to them though, I’ve had a horror story in the past with S&S Penrose personally.

That is gorgeous, absolutely peak BMW. Price is special needs though ha.

Can potentially help getting the manifold to you if shipping is spendy, not sure when our next trip up to akl is though. Will take the super sprint off you as payment 😂

Which statement in particular? I can’t speak to the earlier cars possibly having clutch diffs, but it seems like luck of the draw if you can only tell when the rear cover is off, especially (imho only) you’re potentially getting an inferior diff. I’ve driven a couple of 250hp E30’s back to back on classic NZ country roads, one with a rebuilt clutch type diff and the other with an actual Quaife unit (before they started putting a tonne of pre-lash into them) and you could absolutely feel the difference in how the diffs achieved different results. It wasn’t clear from my initial post but I’m talking about the diff locking up not the wheels. Perhaps the subject of another topic, but changing the E30 ABS to a four channel unit and running a yaw sensor would be an awesome way to give yourself a steppable traction control system which would be ideal for NZ conditions given how wayward they can be.

Used Toyota and buy a 3 year dealer warranty.

One thing to note is the Z3 LSD's are torsen style which can lend itself to losing lock up if the inner wheel loses its contact patch, that and they only lock under acceleration, not braking like a clutch style one will. Yes the rear suspension is the "same" as an E30 but all the 2.8's also had ASC+T as well as the LSD. That and a convertible will naturally have more chassis flex than a hard top car. The MZ3 used a clutch type LSD rather than a torsen style one.

That looks legit on style 24 LTW's. More tyre is always good.

Great score! Definitely some nice fruit to peel off that - have always wondered if the 18" 313's would clear the BMWP 6 pistons as well.

Were the wheels still there @Kees?

Big set of BBS RE's it looks like too.

M340i would be my pick, and that’s coming from a 335d owner. The diesels simply take too long to warm up and are far better commuter cars than entertainment cars. 700nm is hilarious on the open road though, it really is just push to pass.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/other/listing/5391599987 @nath I know you're "trying" to thin the fleet, but also...

Colour combo and wood trim is amazing.

Meeee-reow 🤣

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Not a fan of grey interiors, but that’s a bargain surely.

I would legit cover my car like my primary school exercise books if they released the patterns haha

No you’re not missing anything - it was part of the collection from that hoarder on TM iirc?

Not sure what to make of this one! fballs

Headers pls... DM me.

Pics: PA3330/AE54276 when we took it on trade and UN3871/AE53800 when I spotted it in Taihape post the Covid $62K sale. The other Brilliantrots: BMW649/AE53932 which is now caged with an M54. HOT325/AE54389 which has been off the road for some time. Haven't seen any other than these four in the last 25 years of monitoring open market sales. For reference - E30MS is actually Zinnobar and the entire kit was dealer fitted here in NZ - the headliner was beige when I looked at buying it in 2002.

Free 118i with your stereo? https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/118i/listing/5314309230

Don't want to give the game away too much, as it sounds like we're hunting for the same things, but saving searches with misspelled words also produces gems.

$4k and doesn't run... Tell 'im he's dreamin'!