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6K? Hell I thought a fairly immaculate e34 at 2.5K was a bargain. That's a lot of car for the price. Damn..

Fitted e34 M5 Euro blockoff plate for the boot. Not sure about the boot release button hole, might look a little goofy but I'll find some type of grommet or something to fill it in a little at some stage.

Wow. Pretty serious refinements, nice work in completing that. Be interesting to see if the value is recognised. Now is the time to buy these e30's as they're pretty plentiful and cheap for a tidy classic. It must drive amazing!

If anyone has a boss kit around for fitment to facelift/late e34. Ta, Rod. 0275366468

That M1 luggage is super tacky. Was that an option? Did BMW just chuck a set of that in when you forked out for the car?

I imagine Brent @ BMWorld will be sitting on a stack of 10-12mm sockets and ring spanners that'd rival Smaug's hoard of dwarfish gold.

Waterpump and new alt/air-con belts while I was in there. I empathize with anyone else having to undertake this task on an M60 by themselves as well. I don't think I've owned another car whereby your tools are so easily lost down the nooks and crannies of the engine bay. The 2" 3/8 drive extension with 10mm socket lost under the engine management/computer/electronics box at left rear of an e34 engine bay had me howling some filthy language. I mastered the two fingered long-nose pliers operation like a brain surgeon in the end though... :-/

Lol. Oddly I found blank ones with no printing on and a very small border when I renewed my parking permit at auckland council. I grabbed a couple for my rego too.

Nice wife! :-) Who slapped the rego sticker in the middle of the windscreen though?

One of my first jobs was to remove the "Alpine" branding on the stereo's with lacquer thinner and print the "BMW Audio System" in it's place - Horrible job. Good to see my crafty skills hung in there and stood the test of time though..

Yeah, Charming job. Halfway through and need a 19mm O-ring for one of those bast@rd ali tubes running under the plenum chamber. And why someone decided to put one of the bolts behind the crank pulley is an oddity. Interesting to note though the pump supplied by NZAD is a metal impeller as opposed to the plastic/composite one that's crapped itself. There's probably a reasonable reason for the plastic, I don't like it though. Cheers again.

They're good plates. Quality is fine. The Ali is just thinner than the over-engineered NZ plates. Easily worth the asking price+ You won't be disappointed.

Thanks Mate, Sorted through Darren at NZAD. Just the job I wanted to do on a long weekend though... :-/

Don't suppose anyone's got one of these sitting around for pickup in Aucks this weekend. New preferably. Just the hose clamp variety. Long shot I know. Rod 0275366468

If you had a longish piece (the longer the better) scrap angle steel, you can drill it to line up with a couple of the clutch threads and bolt it to the flywheel to stop it rotating. Then bust out the power bar and slide some dirty old pipe over it for leverage. A good hard crack to shock the bolts loose would work on anything else.

You probably sold the only rex in NZ that hasn't been completely thrashed and had the shiz caned out of it. One careful NZ lady owner practically it's entire life? I'm assuming your wife isn't the stereotypical hoon... I'd have bought it for $1000.

Being a bit of a hunter/collector I'll comfortably say there's a fortune in medical equipment props laying around discarded in the dirty old Hawera Hospital. A long time ago (25+years) I got to explore an abandoned pub. The Mungamahu Tavern out in the sticks from Wanganui. This wasn't just any pub, an old victorian establishment that would have served a huge area in isolation. Quite a surreal place with china cabinets full of knick-knacks, a floor to high stud ceiling library stacked full of books, pots and pans in the kitchen and on the coal-range, cutlery in the drawers etc, bedding, carpet and embossed wallpaper peeling off the hessian covered kauri. Was to be a thriving place but for the railway line being laid elsewhere and the place shrivelled and died, but for the pub/hotel which was so magnificently built. Nice work there anyway, I like it.

Nice car. Chuck that SC on it with a 6-speed. The impracticalities of an e31 be damned.

Not sure of the validity of it, but the miner trapped underground for 17 years in the link on the right is a pretty radical read. 17 years? pffft...

I need a spare if someone has one sitting around collecting dust. ET15 from memory. Ta.

I would. You just want to try eliminate all the possibilities. If there's no shake with OG wheels sans spacers/hub rings you're ticking a few boxes off.

Did you notice any scaling or rust on the hubs when you installed new rotors? Did you get the wire brush onto the hub prior to installing rotors? If they're out the tiniest twack because the surfaces aren't even it won't be helpful. I recently, actually yesterday installed new rotors/pads all round on my e34, soursed from NZAD. I questioned the quality because of the price but don't have the issue you have, well I do but it's the hubcentric rings causing my wobble at 90KPH. More noticeable on braking too, but that problem existed prior to new rotors. The dial indicator suggestion is a good one, that way you'll confirm sketchy rotors at least, then be able to hit up Darren? from NZAD. He seems a reasonable guy, I think being armed with and sure of the problem would be a better approach. You have a lot of "new" going on to isolate the problem - If the wheels/tyres have been balanced you could safely scratch that as a possibility, the mating of the rim to hub with the spacers/hubcentric spigot rings would be worth another look too. The front end of these cars seem to take a lot of having everything right so it works properly. Which is probably a good thing because you're forced to acknowledge and remedy it .

I had that 6-speed in my e-bay watchlist too. A little over $1000USD for practically the whole conversion components. + Freight. My finger wasn't hovering over the BN/Offer but it was an attractive price considering the 6-speed on Trademe for 3.5K Just out of interest, what are the manual trans options to bolt up to the M60b40? Any e34/e39 V8 + the ECU only? I've done some vague searching but haven't turned up much more than that. Those 540i/6's must be a lot of fun to drive.

X4 new rotors and pads all round. $500 or so. Should keep it stopping for a while.

Service sticker is a little confusing. WTF would you include a picture of that? So it had an oil change 2 years ago. BFD.