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Neil McCauley

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    If anyone *does* buy it to part out for the sum of the bits - I'll take the red interior and carpet please!

    I do find it funny the state of the front bumper - anyone whose pulled the mt2 front bumper knows that their density is only matched by that of black holes. The fibreglass / plastic (whatever it's made of) bumper reinforcement is over-engineered by about a factor of five - as ably demonstrated here, as it's still kicking and has transferred all the load into the chassis legs.

    Prime candidate for a reshell as SJ mentioned - anyone got a cool colour coupe (Calypso / Lagoon / Lazur / Vulcan) kicking about?

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    @balancerider don't accept anything less than like-for-like. It's an OE screen that's cracked so that's what should go in, no ifs or buts. Definitely dig in your heels when they try and cheap out with a non genuine item.

    Then there will be the inevitable argument about re-using the original sensors rather than new, which will never work as well as they did from new.

    Dealing with insurance companies as a supplier to them almost killed my soul - the commerce commission needs to take a blow-torch to the entire industry.

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    Oh damn! I was chatting to the owner at the Mt Smart M fest, hell of a nice guy - was an aircraft engineer for the Airforce I recall? The patina on this car is amazing, the engine still has cosmoline all over it - a truly honest unrestored example.

    As luck would have it I'll be in Auckland this arvo, will have to swing past and check it out - I'll definitely be having a bid.

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    Was a member on here(?) I used to see it all the time in Albany. Definitely had a CSL airbox / bootlid / GTR bonnet in the past. He was asking $40K which was a bargain imho. Wish I'd pulled the trigger but it would not have been a convenient car for the southern winter.

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    Yes, hence the hyperlink I posted 😉

    I've got a funny feeling that $13K would actually own it, sounds like absolutely no one has taken the time to go and look. There was bronzit manual 325i vert that sold down here for $15K over winter that had the same story. I can't stand chrome bumper E30's but it sure is tempting. 

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    M57S is the TU2 TOP is it not? Only offered in the 35d models / Alpina diesels. 

    Without seeing actual spec sheets, the major difference I can think of is that the E46 will be iron block and the E90 aluminium. Factor in the weight they carved out of the E90 with copious uses of not-steel, and the argument for the E90 becomes stronger. 

    There's some key maintenance items on an E90 diesel that need doing, but do them and you're golden - I've been stranded once in 50,000km (in my driveway of all places) and it was the comfort access module. 

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