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Picked up my new seats... And bought some Throwing Stars 😎

Pros: Full PDC / Kiwi new / no iDrive. Cons: No xenons / 223000km / silver.

Any ideas on what year the seat heating buttons got integrated into the climate control?

Bloody hell, didn't even see that for sale, would have snapped it up. I can't stand the shape of the factory one, so the ZHP or MPerf knobs are the ticket - just comes down to your preference. A left field choice would be the illuminated 6spd E60 M5 knob. Drill a hole through the plastic gear boot locating ring and thread the wires through, then tap into the brown and blue wires in the centre console.

How much for the shocks and muffler?

Paint those lower panels or I'll paint them for you. I was seriously against removing the M3 mirrors, but I actually quite like it! Go wide M3 door trim to match the bumpers as well.

Rear head rests were an option. Code 498. The rear stop light is an interesting issue - the E30 parcel tray with integrated stoplight was introduced for the 1990 model year, but cars registered in New Zealand after Jan 1990 had to have them, so you've got the '89 build date cars without the parcel tray light, like the Alpina M325i on trademe, which was an 04/89 build, but wasn't registered in NZ until 01/90, so required the dealer fit high stop light. Recent mt2 cars up for sale - CLZ241 - parcel tray light / no dealer light LIV3 - no parcel tray light / no dealer light PR6499 - parcel tray light / dealer light RM5295 - no parcel tray light / no dealer light PY7742 - no parcel tray light / dealer light PA3330 - parcel tray light / no dealer light

Black headliner is all you need to see - everything else M325i specific could be optioned or dealer retrofitted.

One of the first four M325i's into NZ, all of them Polaris Silver 1986 models. Note the 14" weaves they all originally came on. Of the other three, we all know Hybrid's car, another of them lived in Melbourne with a sister tec-1 UK 325i Sport (now since sold and replaced by an E30 M3 (s14m325i on instagram). The third is coming up to 550xxx KM (!).

Wow that's stunning!

The last 3.8 for sale was up at $70K, no chance you're getting one for less than six figures now.

@E30 325i Rag-Top guessing it was the one in the spotted thread at CCbmw? Looks immaculate.

A certain discussion about a cheap E39 M5 suddenly springs to mind haha.

Just quoting. Market / no market who knows.

NAP is fine - it represents how often the car is sleeping at the workshop.

I find the price pretty steep and I'm incredulous that the reserve hasn't been met.

My mistake, I took your post to mean a car not technically for sale had changed hands. If you've got any other leads along those lines, myself and two other friends are looking for mint M325i's so please do get in touch.

Doesn't the E39 M5 get nixxed for compliance by EU4 emissions?

I'm out of the running at $40K+ 😤 was looking forward to getting some of those E30 M3 value gains over the next few years. Will have to settle for an insurance adjustment on the current E30. We took a genuine one owner sub 125K km Brilliantrot example on trade for a new 1M and sold it to the CJ dealer principle the same day for $17K in 2011. Have they doubled in price in 10 years? Yes they have. Are they worth double? Probably not. As @Olaf alluded to, there's been a few off books trades of M325i's recently, but they're hardly representative of the market, seeing as the buyers pool for those trades is exactly one. Fag packet calculations would suggest there's still 34(+) kiwi new MT2 M325i's floating around, and I bet this auction sees another couple of cars come to market - perhaps the white M325i down in Dunedin that sold in hours preempted this sale? I'd argue the white car was the better purchase however... ...Speaking of "is this where the E30 market is now?" This 325i SE/a at 19K is absolutely laughable, I mean, reserve not met ffs!!

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One of bimmersports OG's for sale, https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/320i/listing/3021140431 Abby or Milan's old E30?

Hmmm awfully convenient it went for $100 less than what it was asking for. There was some shameless shill bidding early in the piece as well. Interior colour not to everyone's taste, but I'm surprised this hasn't sold yet. Factory 6-spd would be hens teeth in NZ. More than you can afford pal, Ferrari BMW.

Indianapolis E60 M5 with 20" Works and a massive quad exhaust, sounded awesome!

What's the argument for these over a 535d? Admittedly this is 20K over priced relative to the market, but what does the 550i do that it doesn't? Is it simply that the F11 is a bit of a boat at the best of times, so may as well go full fat?