Michael.

Just buy everything from Japan. All the best stuff is made in Japan.

You get what you pay for. Also assessing the tool is fit for the job and realizing using some tools when used no matter there origin comes with some risk. Hydraulic presses, grinders, axle stands, jacks etc to name a few all have a lot of forces involved when being used so should be treated accordingly with safety in mind.

Satisfying work once you get it right.

Yeah I asked a question on that but the guy doesnt seem to respond, noticed he didn't answer questions on the previous listings of the same item. $200 is getting up there if they need $150-250 2x repairs for two rims.

Looking for a set of style 8 16" wheels, if anyone has or knows of someone that may part with a set let me know Cheers!

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That will be great.

Wow that is gorgeous.

Awesome. Looked like a lovely time!

That's awesome Love the way the turbo setup looks.

Might want to edit the title. I was concerned for a minute haha.

I know right it's been ages! (about 7 years) This car will be exclusively BMW too. (In before Toyota jokes har har)

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Will be interesting to know what the specific cause was in these instances. I think it is easy for most people to forget anything like a vehicle that requires a high density energy source to power it, like a chemical lithium battery or petrol is always at a risk of combusting if the conditions line up triggered by some kind of technical fault.

Yeah it's probably my favorite. Particularly because this wasn't abused or worn yet, just needs a good clean here and there. I was going to ditch them asap but they have Mich PS3 tyres with good tread so may as well get some use out of them. Not too sure yet, some kind of BBS / BMW style 17" will do the trick. Yeah I found that before I bought the car, few familiar faces on there haha!

Cheers! Spent the weekend cleaning up some interior parts (Removed and scrubbed individually) and doing some minor repairs, looking even better. My goal was to find a really clean example and then get it even cleaner. Will take time but it's going to be pure TLC

E34 540i6 or M5 and spend the rest to rebuild most of it.

Yikes. $62.4k! Huge money. They are also coming for you meat and anything else fun in life.

Yeah pics are good at doing that. It's definitely the cleanest e34 I've had the privilege to see. If it was average I wouldn't have bothered buying it haha.

Haha yay. I have the same thing in the Soarer community, people fawn over the black interiors, even spray paint their grey or tan ones black (terrible results to the purist) or pay a fortune for black cloth interiors... I've just never seen the appeal myself. Also imagine taking out the grey/white interior in this E34, the seats and trim are in perfect shape only having 86,000km, if I hunted for the rare e34 parts scattered in NZ the best I could probably find would be a manky old set of 275,000km sad leather seats with broken electric motors, haha, yuck 😂

Haha I'm not really that interested in manuals so not so too bothered there, I did once come into the possession of a manual 5 speed M60 kit that I sold for $3000 a number of years ago but I didnt have an E34 then. Black interior? Haha definitely not, black interiors are generally quite awful imo, just look a bit too generic and show up dust easily, the reason I bought the car was the very clean white / grey interior. My favorite colour combo (Soarer is also grey interior ❤️ )

Yeah the values are quite inconsistent, I talked to quite a few people and found listings for various listings of 540i E34s in recent months to get an idea of what it was worth. I made two offers to the seller but they wanted to let the auction run, so I just had to bid it up to where I was comfortable, in the end no one else bidded and I got it for less than one of my offers, so ended up being a win.

It's been sometime since I've had a BMW, the last time was when I sold my E36 coupe with its 1UZ-FE V8 conversion, seven years ago in 2014. The desire for an old project BMW has remained, the only model that tickled my fancy were E34s so meant slim pickings. A particularly nice 540i came up this month so I had to drop everything and make a move on it. It's exactly what I was after, wasn't going to bother with any old thing. This one is exceptionally straight and has only had 2 owners since NZ new, I'm now the third. It's just about to tick over 86,000km I've placed a huge order of service items so that will allow me to get the car back up to scratch, I'm probably going over and beyond but I tend to be like that if I deem the car as being worth it. This one is no exception. Eventually I'll sort some nicer wheels and fit an Eisenmann rear muffler, but those additions can wait.

Hahaha fun times.

What model car have you got?