Neil McCauley

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.