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If it's deregistered you'll have to whip the plates off and hand them over the counter at postshop with the required paperwork. Sis might have to pay the back dated rego too if she's just left it to sit and expire 12 months+ since valid rego. If the rego has expired within a year of last rego Sis will have to pay the back dated rego cost to bring it up to current.

Neighbor has a black one for the cross country drives, I've never driven one but I imagine they'd be a good choice on a decent long trip. The AC Schnitzer variant just transforms these into a sweet looking car IMO. A little too much money but a hell of a lot of car for 14K.

The top of the steering wheel is a bit ott. Quite like the rest of it. Copper and tarnished copper is a nice finish, for anything. Pretty good job really.

They're just regular dirty old monoblocks though. I got 2 piece. You lose the concavity but gain a polished lip. I'm only waiting on someone to throw up a set of Oz Breytons for a ridiculously affordable price and the type 3's can go too. There's a very tidy looking silver e34 540i for 3K on that facebook BMW page right now. Be worth investigating though it's in outback south canterbury (or somewhere thereabouts).

Too late now. I already have the type 3's and committed with tyres and hubrings lol! I can get the inserts for the spokes if I end up remorseful anyway.

Theyre all schnitzer. Not fake or repops. From memory 3 are ronal and 1 is oz, or somesuch but all identical apart from manufacture stamp. All cast with schnitzer logo and made in germany etc. Youre welcome to come look, although theyre still on my car right now. I just need to swap tyres onto new wheels I have. Rod 0275366468

Yeah get the rotors from NZAD, I replaced mine and pads 3 months ago, all fine. Around $530 give or take all up for all 4 corners including pads.

It just turned up in the driveway, a gazed it it shaking my head while walking past. My first words were "WTF is that?" Totally out of my control, and yes you're right. It was sold when running and replaced with a Nissan Bluebird.. lol.

That's up to you. It's a lose/lose scenario.

So you'd be cool with the same scenario in reverse? I'm not judging you BTW lol. I doubt there's a person on the planet who'd respond with casual acceptance upon being $300 down and holding a busted item having been described in excellent condition.

I was in a similar situation last year, well not me personally but the mum of my son went and and bought some little MG hatch (because it was purple) Within 600KM the rubberband transmission needed a full rebuild. $2800+ The previous owners came through with $1000 and I was trying for full refund. She'd had it for a week and had driven to TeAroha and back and shopping around town a few times. My immediate thought was "Motherf#@kers..." Who knows though. Used goods are used goods. Sellers were regular folk, tidy and presentable and seemed genuinely shocked. They're in the same boat though, wondering how this stupid woman could have destroyed the transmission within a week when they'd been using the car fine.

What does his TM feedback suggest? I reckon 220 odd individual feedbacks should be a fair representation of someones character. That's a broad generalisation I know, but it should show if he's a PITA buyer or seller. He got back to you within 1 day of receiving the item, that's a good indicator that somethings up. I personally don't think your responsibility ends at the close of auction. He's shelled out $300 for an item listed as "Excellent Condition" and what's turned up isn't. He's standing there looking at his excellent condition phone with a blue screen with a big line running through it and $300 lighter in his wallet thinking "WTF?!?". Me personally, i'd be taking it up with the carrier and claiming the maximum. I don't think it's his responsibility to deal with making it right, or waiting. You're $300 up and he's $300 down. By the sounds of it all he's done is open the packaging. You could assume that the guy is dishonest, but don't be disappointed when that's assumed of you down the track. It's a tricky one, used goods are used goods and could fail anytime. I don't think it's unreasonable for something to turn up in good working condition though, that's what I would expect.

If it's advertised in "excellent condition" I'd expect that. Some blue screen fault on arrival regardless of how it was caused isn't excellent condition. He's paid for something in "excellent condition" but what's turned up isn't. I'd be giving the full refund and then taking up the damages with the carrier. There's a $200-$250 insurance cover isn't there?

ET: 13 from memory. It's 13 or 15 anyway. Pretty good nick, a couple spots of kurbing but nothing too dramatic I don't think. BMW center caps all there and functional. They scrub up nice and tidy and presentable anyway. Not sure of the value of them but I reckon $600 is a fair start, priced sans tyres. I do have a couple of Westlake 245's that I'll have no use for. These would have seen 5000KM that I'll negotiate if required, otherwise I'll throw them on Trademe. Centre bore is e39 74.1mm?,and 120X5 fitment but I have brand new Ali hubcentric rings to reduce to regular 72.5mm hub inclusive in price.

My headrests aren't working either, I wouldn't mind but they're in the "up" position. :-/ Who ever needed electric headrests anyway? I'd have rather had proper cupholders..

I had something similar that I haven't completely remedied yet. You could google something like "e39 resync door locks" and see if it's applicable.

The Wokke/Wolf character had a fix - E34 koni's with tiny mods to the strut. ie: a hole drilled into the strut bottom by the spindle and a different locking collar. Fairly negligible modifications from memory of what I'd read. You should read everything that guy has written, he's like the e31 reverse engineering mastermind.

Might pay to shop around. I got new Koni adjustables from Mueller Motorwerks for $140US a corner.

This ones tidy. Doesn't have a smacked in rear bumper and misaligned boot lid! ;-p

Nice work. I must have bought 15+ cars over the years for $100 or less. Its not that uncommon. Amongst my best scores were a "trekka" for a tray of lion red and an old tin tank XR500 for a packet of tobacco. Lol

On Trademe lately there's been a few crazy items. Someone managed to pickup KW coilovers for an e60 for $220. The same seller had more coilovers for some other BMW he was practically giving away. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=755765132 Could be worth a question if he ever lists anything again. e38 might be pushing it though.

That colouring can depend on the treatment and application prior. I spent a long time screenprinting anodised ali and the dye inks vary in consistency and quality, as does bake time and temp. Ali though, you'd have to baby them.

My old lady bought one of the first imports into the country, a blue turbo one. They were always pretty goofy looking, even more so now.

Put a thread up in want to buy. There's one on Trademe starting at $450. I wouldn't expect to pay much more than that for one anyway $400 - $600 depending.

I'm sure you could pick up an m30 locally before even considering looking outside NZ. You could buy a vehicle with an M30 and drive it home for the less than the cost involved in buying an engine offshore and shipping it here..