Neil McCauley

Just me or is the roof warped on the passenger side... https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/318/listing/3769403960

That's a Fratelli Pedrini Sarezzo wheel, which despite being a genuine supplier of E30 basketweaves, went out of business in 1992, so I can only offer you $150 and you pay shipping /s. F.P.S. was a supplier of 'weaves, as were Alumetall, their wheels were made to the same spec as the BBS RZ320 (15x7 Et24) 'weaves. Differing manufacturer embossing under the cap for BBS / FPS / Alu but the same part numbers et al. The F.P.S. wheels also had JWL (Japan Light Wheel Alloy) standard embossing.

MiM 1900's. 15x7 et13.

https://www.transfercar.co.nz/ Get a van and load it full of stuff.

In the Symonds St drag race to 30kph? Probably the Porsche. The least naff personalised plate competition? The E46 by a nose.

748R's are awesome - absolutely ironclad values too. Ohlins or Showa forks?

Is that the silver or white font on the plates?

Have a go in a Superb 4x4 Sportline. Slightly more boring to drive than an Octavia vRS, but the boot is absolutely cavernous - 160L bigger than an F31, and it also uses the same motor as the Golf-R. The Mazda 6 wag is a good call as well - my friends with multiple kids all seemed to have migrated to them as load luggers.

This one has been sitting on TM for a while as well https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/318is/listing/3724757397

When I went hunting for an F11 M550d, I found they were left hook only, and I believe this is the case with the G30 as well.

Is it though? How many Comp 4-dr's are there in the country? This is the second that I've ever seen.

The decoders have been screwy for a while now, I agree, but @Bandit did say they were LHD when they landed, and if you punch the chassis numbers into the ETK on bimmercat they come up as LHD.

Decent LHD to RHD swaps on FHQ678 and GAF97 at least, both of them have the handbrake on the correct side.

If a car sells between $0 - $199999 it is 15% to the final hammer price and then GST on the 15%. Example $50,000 final bid ends up being $58,625.

$106,375 incl BP.

Hi, is this a GS6-37 or -53?

Because it's not a re-shell of an M325i into a 318i shell with the appropriate LVVTA plate, it's a concerted attempt to hide and obfuscate the cars history. OIA request if you want some reading, I suggest starting at the "Ringing" heading https://fyi.org.nz/request/4016/response/13236/attach/5/THOMAS Daniel 16 4483 1 Chapters from the Police Manual Motor vehicle offences.pdf Except the high mileage Mt1 and Mt2 cars were actually put together at the factory, not some cul de sac or back-alley, and in the case of the Mt2 kit alone, there's probably close to 50 holes that are drilled into the car to fit the kit- I'd trust a West German robot from '89 over someone with an auger drill bit, and this is me giving them enough credit to suggest that they reused the dozens of brackets and plastic rivets required to fit the kit rather than a big gun of sikaflex.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck... Go back to the plate from 1990 and run that through carjam instead of the personalised plates since, and you start to get a picture of the history... Dare I say it, you can picture the exact moment one chassis became another, right down to the day. 08/02/11 WoF fail for PA6782 at 292,862km but a pass the same day. 23/09/11 WoF pass for PA6782 at 251,009km... (oh sh*t we didn't swap the cluster) 10/09/14 WoF pass for PA6782 at 256,622 (wow that's weird). 09/06/15 WoF fail for PA6782 at 296,522, (hmmmm seems familiar). And then the classic E30 cluster odo gears fail from that point.

With the way the E46 roof is constructed, it would be easier to peel the whole skin off and replace it with a slick top skin, but if you're going to that much trouble, a carbon panel would have been the way to go surely.

The "Hand-Stitched Complete Leather Interior" option. Normally only the centre section of the steering wheel is leather wrapped, with the wheel remaining in black. Could be an individual spec seeing as the whole wheel is the same colour.