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This has been up for a bit now. My favourite E36 colour: Techno-Violet. Reserve is between 6-8k. Would love a 328i Touring in this colour. If I had spare cash and space for a summer car I'd be keen. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/328i/listing/5174387868

E30 prices are unrealistic at the moment. A lot of the examples on TM have been sitting around for ages. There is always gonna be some rust somewhere. You just want it to be minimal. Good luck with the search.

How many of those do you have? Got any more tech-1 front or rear skirts there?

Odd they felt the need to prove how busy they are to justify the sale of the car... That yellow is intense.

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That seems high. I recently got 4x 16" rims with tyres on them from Christchurch to Rotorua for $240. Used Tricky freight via Wise Move. Had a good experience with them.

Actually... did I misunderstand what you mean by load files? Is it a format you feed into inventree? If so I would be keen on that if you have them around.

Appreciate the thought. But I have an E30 and E36. I wanna do it for both. Plus it will be useful for non car projects I have. If it gets too tedious I might see if I can create a script (passing the script a VIN) to scrape the realoem site. No idea if that's possible. Will have to inspect their code to see how much of a pain it will be. I also wonder if they have a public API... Unfortunately I don't have an E46 M3 but maybe one day. Love the attention to detail in your work.

I remembered seeing this post and wanted to track it down again to see what you used for your inventory tool. I see you used Inventree. How are you finding Inventree and having your own complete list? Did it take you long to populate? I've just fixed up an old PC for use in the garage and I was thinking this would be cool to have on it.

Yea I thought the same.

I'm not on facebook (or any social media). What are they going for?

Sadly it looks like seller withdrew the listing. Maybe got cold feet after setting the reserve at $1...

Rough. £33,960 in 2001 for the Nowack tune and handling. Sounds like they did some dodgy work (in that case at least). He did get the extra 100hp he was looking for though... Crazy to think someone would spend that kinda money on tuning an e39 M5 (only a year or so out of the factory).

The cream/biscuit/black interior with oxford green is nice. Don't like the wheels. 19" BBS LMs would completer the look. Looking at what bad condition M5s are going for at the moment it doesn't look too bad a deal (has an interesting history).

If someone here doesn't have one for you there is a 320i up for auction on trademe at the moment. Current bid at $1540. Seller reckons 4-5k to get it road worthy (recent quote from their mechanic). But a decent chunk of that will be time. Sounds like you would need to check the rust situation. Interior looks reasonable. Could trans swap to manual. You may have seen it already but figured I'd post in case you haven't. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/320i/listing/5154077551

Do you know how many of these were sold new in NZ? When you say "one of very few" do you mean this combo? Or just E34 M5s in general?

This is a long shot. But if anyone has images/scans of any of the brochures for the E36 318is MS release I would be keen to see them. Searched around and these pics were all I could find.

This was listed on trademe at some point. Sat there for ages. Figured they sold it (looks like they just removed it from trademe). That price seems crazy though. The 3.8 litres usually go for more but still...

Ok. Didn't know that. Looks like nothing has been done to it since the private listing though. Guess the vendor believes the lighting and photos will help fetch a higher price.

Maybe the E12's that continued after 1981, in SA, with the E28 interior are rare? That E28 was on trademe for a while. Then Sunday drive picked it up and cranked the price without any improvements (maybe they gave it a wash). Classic dealer.

Wow. Good to hear you've come through it. I had a similar experience some years back now. Helmet was probably the only reason I'm around today as well. All the best with the recovery.

Yea same. Looks mint. But 318i/auto - not at 25k.

I don't know much about CAN bus and ECUs in vehicles. I find it interesting though. It's cool what you are doing with the dissasembly. Interested to see what you eventually come up with for injecting the new function call. For context, I work as a software developer so I'm roughly following your disassembly process. Just haven't done anything with CAN bus etc.

This one just popped up today. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/325i/listing/5151467948 Recognised it from here. https://bimmersport.co.nz/topic/68330-1989-m325i-e30-coupe/

Searched around the forum for anything on this converted Alpina B12 5.7 850 CSi. Sold on BAT last year. Couldn't find anything on this forum. The search function on this forum doesn't work well for me. So I just use a search engine (which works well). Still nothing. It's had some history in New Zealand. Eventually imported into the US by the seller and listed on BAT. Beautiful car. Thought maybe it was discussed on here at some point, or someone here knows some more of the history behind it.