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    The N47S seems to have avoided the timing chain issue, and Alpina used it in their D3 E90's. I'm inclined to agree with @balancerider wrt N47 chain issues being magnified by the internet. Yes, there are noisy chains out there, and yes, there was a recall, and yes, some failed, but as always, the squeaky wheel gets the grease.

    In my experience if it hasn't let go before 100xxx km, it's not going to.

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    41 minutes ago, Olaf said:

    Back around '99-'01 in UK M20 (and M30 to a lesser degree) had a reputation for head gasket failure, cambelt and water pump failure.  Clearly a result of neglect (or not updating the head bolts?), but now we're past that, it's understood.

    Get you A-B with minimal maintenance => reliability?  I think that's a great distillation!

    M30 would have struggled with cambelt failure I think...

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    4 minutes ago, Insanecriminal said:

    If you can’t laugh at your own car you don’t understand joys of automobile ownership. Another w211 fan, nice to see I’m not the only Mercedes fan on the forum. Damn I miss my E55. 

    Done 125xxx km so far between an E350 and now the E500. Great cars. That s211 E55K on TM was mighty tempting but towing the oil refinery behind to keep refueling it would have got old pretty quick. Wouldn't mind an s211 E63 if there are any in the country though!

  9. Posted · Edited by leichtbau · Report reply

    Fishnets are a good look in E30's, they're also identical to Recaro LS aside from the headrest (obviously).

    Plenty of places stock bolster foam, so you've got the option of rebuilding some shagged seats to your perfect spec with new cloth etc, ooooor you could buy some brand new LS / LX straight from Recaro, who are now making them again. I know which option I'd be going for.

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    2 hours ago, Insanecriminal said:

    Yeah I know right. Apparently I’m the only one that likes it. I was thinking of putting one on the other side and making some rubber looking grips for them. Then when I open the sunroof I can call it a wheelbarrow. 

    You, I like you 😂

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    226: Conversion of vehicle or other conveyance

    “(1)Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who, dishonestly and without claim of right, but not so as to be guilty of theft, takes or uses for his or her own purposes or another person's purposes—

    “(a)any vehicle, ship, or aircraft; or

    “(b)any part of any vehicle, ship, or aircraft; or

    “(c)any horse.

    “(2)Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years who attempts to commit the offence in subsection (1) or who, dishonestly and without claim of right, interferes with, or gets into or upon, any vehicle, ship, or aircraft.

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    Meaning of “takes” or “uses”


    Using means acting as the owner to make unauthorised use of a vehicle lawfully in one’s
    possession; for example, when an employee uses a firm’s delivery vehicle for a private
    journey.

    Taking occurs when a person has no right to possession at all. In either case, the vehicle
    must actually be moved.

    A person who uses the vehicle after the offence is completed and knows of the offence,
    is not guilty of taking or using in respect of that offence unless they were party to it.

     

    Nothing says the E30 market has jumped the shark like publicly admitting to a charge of conversion. Why oh why would you do this instead of spending $450 on a cert to get the 318i shell legal with a 2.5 - Further to this; the M20 and M40 airbox mounts in the engine bay are located differently, did anyone save a photo of the engine bay?

    At least the guy who did it was up front about it, otherwise you can add fraud charges to that as well.

     

    https://motoringmessageboard.com/topic/71613/page-2/swapping-vin-plates-and-tags seems this might not be super uncommon with E30's in NZ...

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    Regarding the E30 M3, almost all of those rust repairs are a piece of piss (aside from the horror story that is the sunroof panel, hooooo boy, just buy a new panel from BMW NZ like I'm about to do), the real challenge would be finding a body guy that can hide the welds. Easy enough to coin the new panels in, but burnishing to invisible will be the challenge. The rust around the front aerial would quantify any other E30 as terminal, but omg E30 M3.

    The real question should be why that car is rusting in areas that aren't the usual E30 spots...

     

     

  15. Posted · Edited by leichtbau · Report reply

    @Harper might have skimmed over it, but what's the plan for running non folding PP's up front? Rear belts removed and a seat delete?

    Further to that, I'd be interested to find how the CSL got around this - are the CSL seats a Recaro model and how did their tilting mechanism work?

    Edit: have to laugh at that video, the rebound in the suspension it was running is woeful. You'd have to wonder if that factored into its demise.

  16. Posted · Edited by leichtbau · Report reply

    L4 at the moment, so a ballsy move to drop c. $40K sight unseen, esp as the seller has skirted the rod bearing question previously (I believe)?

    I guess the seller is really feeling the pinch, there were bidders getting close to $50K without reserve being met in previous attempts to sell were there not. Will have this on a second screen with the AB's second half.

     

    Edit: awful car or massive market correction??

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    What's most surprising is just how many they actually made: 5,703 produced, not including the 555 Alpina V8 roadsters.

    To put it into perspective, some other production numbers:

    • E34 M5 Touring - 209
    • E34 M5 3.8/6 - 542
    • E61 M5 - 1,025
    • E82 1M - 6,342
    • E39 M5 RHD - 2,595
    • E36 M3/4/6 - 1,990

    Almost a quarter of the entire S62 26,185 engine production went into the Z8...

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    3 hours ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

    The blue painted callipers are the M Sport brake option 2NH, unless this was added as an option the brakes would be the standard single piston sliding affair that is only coated not painted.

    Iirc NZ New F30/31 M Sports included the 2NH brakes, however most other markets the brakes had to be added on top of the M Sport package.

    Just to clarify for the others reading, the 335i/d had the 4 piston Brembo fronts regardless (Brembo pad shape 1609), but sliding single piston Bosch / ATE calipers in the rear if just 337 optioned, and the 2 piston Brembo rear caliper if optioned with 2NH.

    Might as well delve quickly into it, but up front the 337 "greys" ran a 340x30 blank disc, which then went to a 370x30 blank disc for 2NA and the M Performance retrofit was a 370x30 with a dimpled and slotted disc. Out back the 337 disc was 330x20 blank, 2NA was 345x24 blank, and M Performance retrofit was 345x24 dimpled and slotted.

    Given the number of variables I would say that some coding was involved WRT brake bias when retrofitting.

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