Neil McCauley

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/m3/listing/4064199155

Spend the $89K you'll save over the other example on fuel and rear Michelin's

CSL wheels have probably gone onto the silver coupe in the Pearce Bros collection...

$$?

Just seen the ad on instagram, quality work as always @Kees 🤣

A special edition C63 is on my radar as well. From what I read, the P30 and P31 are must have options?

Tangentially related, but I'm in the market for an F31 20d X-Drive to replace the 35d as my commute has gone from 30,000k a year to 3000k. Any tips for sorting the X-drives out from the rest of them listed on TM? It's driving me up the wall trawling through 2wd ones.

I was shocked that the market was at $22K for the one that had a recent respray/tidy up. I'm guessing the silver one didn't sell at $27K asking either?

Interesting colour, and the Alpine Retrofit soundsystem, listed on Queenstown Trading.

TIL the 4Motion R32 Touran wasn't actually a thing! You got any build pictures / threads @Allanw? 

$23K, but no evidence of the glow plugs / module having been done, no mention of how clogged the intake is, no mention of swirl flaps... Almost at the age where it needs a complete suspension and brake overhaul too. I'd be surprised if it didn't need $8K in odds and ends to get back to spec. Classic Edition Sport spec with no fruity options as well. 

$25K too much, but goddamn does an E39 look soooo right in silver. Playstation and Alpine tele's in the head rests is top notch Fast4's. 

I went from RFT 18" to non RFT 19" on an E90, the ride is perfectly fine on the 19's - I do 35,000km a year all over the country. PS4S ftmfw.

@balancerider quality usage of "arbitrage" 

Surely if you were going to drop $20K into a manual conversion, you'd cross the rubicon and fit an S62 at the same time?

///Mould 

1 hour ago, balancerider said:

I know beggars can't be choosers with E39 M5 spec but the sunroof and comfort seats spoil it for me, should have sports seats IMO (can't imagine many people deliberately despecced them). Price looks decent though 

95/2595 RHD speeced with them. Aren't they the E38 comfort seat rather being despecced back down to a standard E39 seat? Might be apocryphal, but the internet would have you believe they're even better for long distances than the sport seat.

The "1983" BMW M3 in VTNZ"s instagram ad 😏

Awesome wee project! Very keen to follow along with pretty pictures and technical details as well.

@APT was 48.5k no reserve but had very little interest compared to the many others listed recently - market has cooled? Any pics of yours? My friend has been looking for the right car to get back into the M325i game.

@Sammo did the 330k car end up over the ditch?

9 hours ago, Driftit said:

Local media using a stock photo of a BMW E36 with European plates for a story about crashes on the Remutakas. 

It should be a picture of a tradies Ford Ranger.  And a photo from the Remutaka's not some Euro highway.

I love that the Herald still uses a black E32 dropping a skid for every single article about boy racers 😂

Nick Weitz in Hamilton has both items in stock. 

I believe both pfl and fl 325i propshafts are 1483mm.

You misread the thread and bought an N14 Pulsar?

A Honda Jazz?

ITT: Eagle finds out he's got astigmatism...

Not sure if this counts as a rant or not, but I've lost $25K worth of irreplaceable vinyl to the floods. I'm out of the country, as was my good friend whom was storing it for me. I was waiting for the phone call upon when they got back, and had mentally prepared for it, but I honestly feel relieved.

Most of it was single release / no repress, so there's no point in chasing the dragon again. I guess the question is, what the F**K do I do with my record player now?!?!