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    6 minutes ago, Olaf said:

    Bear in mind the IBS cable causes issues (545i); there's an updated part available - not sure if all 550's already got the later part.  

    HTH

    They may not have as I remember mine being replaced in London at my cost!

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    1 hour ago, Michael. said:

    I used a castile style soap, soft nail brush, and soft tooth brush, plus time. Lots of rags and spray on water to wipe the soap off. Then went over them again with Autoglym leather cleaner followed up by a conditioner. The time devoted is key to a good result.

    Thanks Michael. Looking great.

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    Returning recently from the UK we bought a couple of vehicles in.

    It's pretty straightforward, as folks have said. Choose a good UK exporter who understands NZ and can manage the requirements. Make sure the quote includes delivery to your compliance folks here in NZ, don't pack anything else in the car (saves any associated issues), keep ALL documentation in physical and electronic form.

    As you're in NZ I would also recommend you have a chat with the people who will do your compliance. They can give you a lot of pointers.

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    16 minutes ago, Breaker said:

    Put a Apple CarPlay Multi MMI box in, improves the NBT and brings the tech up to pretty much current or close enough.

    easy enough, hardest part is find enough space in the dash for the looms and box, that’s a total PITA.

     

    Sounds interesting. Got any more details?

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    13 hours ago, Olaf said:

    Something very satisfying about polishing metal, chrome in particular.  That said, bloody happy there's so little of it on my e30.  I suppose it's time I did the exhaust tips on my e60.  Thanks for the inspiration Mike, and keep up the great work!

    You can come over and polish my tips anytime bud.

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    8 minutes ago, davenz said:

    hi guys, try register your BMW ID at connected drive web portal the country where your cars imported from, not under NZ web portal.

    for example, if you car is from AU then register ID at www.bmw-connecteddrive.com.au, NOT www.bmw-connecteddrive.co.nz

    works for me as im able to add vehicle to my account now.

     

    Hey Dave, I did that actually. Add vehicle to what account? Account in the BMW NZ app?

    Thanks

    J

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    13 minutes ago, davenz said:

    same, i believe they just simply don't want to help because the vehicle is not NZ new. they dont care.

    actually i emailed BMW support and was advised that local dealer can simply help doing the region transfer and i should be be able to add my car after that, however...... 

    not a good service as expected under such a big brand.

     

    After buying my imported car 6 months ago I enquired at my local BMW dealer and they flatly denied it could be done. It didn't make a lot of sense to me  and I haven't spent any money with them since.

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    31 minutes ago, Gaz said:

    Reading between the lines, we didn't know the vehicle was even here so if there were any outstanding recalls or issues with the vehicle, we weren't able to reticfy 

     

    18 minutes ago, Breaker said:

    I’m feeling happier mine was serviced through Continental Cars now and I didn’t go Indy route. 

    Evening gents

    I think your replies, quite interestingly, illustrate my point in two different ways.

    Breaker, I think your outtake is exactly what BMW hoped for; somehow the fire has been caused by the owner and “independent repairer” (or perhaps they just wanted to use the ever under-utilised semi-colon!). How could that possibly be known with certainty by an unrelated party in such a short space of time? What is their “understanding” exactly? It may be nothing more than chatting to the recovery skip driver. We just don’t know.

    Gaz, I suggest you could reasonably come to that conclusion without the 2nd half of the last sentence? So why insert it? I think Breaker has answered that question (that no one asked), some people will conclude that it’s risky taking their car to an Indy.

    You know, this isn’t a great hill to die on. If I had an i3 I would be taking it to the BMW dealer. I just found their statement really interesting from a professional perspective.

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    That last sentence is interesting (from a PR perspective).

    "; however, we understand that the owner chose to recently have the vehicle’s servicing carried out by an independent repairer."

    Whilst the other facts can be verified through BMW's own systems, puchase, servicing, etc, this last one surely cannot? An unnecessary addition to the statement and perhaps demonstrating the tensions here? I would've advised differently.

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    10 minutes ago, Contrails said:

    https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/importing-a-vehicle/exceptions/immigrants-vehicles/

    https://www.nzta.govt.nz/vehicles/importing-a-vehicle/exceptions/special-interest-vehicles/

    I think you do not pay GST on an Immigrant's vehicle (don't quote me on it but a friend imported his Golf R from Australia when he migrated here last year and just had to pay shipping and compliance costs). 


    That’s correct, as long as you have owned the vehicle for a period of time. It was a year when we bought our cars back from the UK.

    Less than a year means you pay gst on a depreciated valuation of the car.

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