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Damn, hard luck there. Least it seems traceable and the possibility of a resolution. Hopefully she's a good sort and she/insurance comes through for you. On the bright side at least she didn't stove the rear quarter in! That would be total heartbreak.

That's the Wokke? 850. Probably a good page or contact to keep an eye on if you're unfamiliar with what he's up too. Seems to be pretty hardcore e31 nutbag capable of making these fly. Fabs up bits and pieces for sale. Restores/refinishes wheels, Sells plug in chips/tunes for these too which is why I ended up watching what he's up too. Seems quite an interesting, knowledgeable, eccentric fella Wolf. https://www.facebook.com/pages/wokke/112449428857682?ref=profile

I keep an eye on that page. It's all "OfferZ or swapz yo". I'll score what I need, when I need to from it.

Ouch. You may as well post some pics of the damage, We know you would have taken about 150+ snaps! That's a pretty hardcore reverse launch from parked.

"507BHP"? Launching off the lights into Waterloo Quad this am.

Wow. $1800, that's another whole Vulva..

Nail/head with e34's having bottomed out already. If you have a good one hold onto it because you won't be losing any cash you sink into it maintaining it. As the time goes on and these and e30's, e32's, e28's, e26's become more scarce in Europe, ours will get siphoned off and head back there in containers. Same happened with pre fat-chick VW beetles and split kombi's. With those particular vehicles practically overnight we had a reasonable supply in NZ and all of a sudden they were rocking horse sh1t commanding $8K+ for a basketcase. I see similarities because the BMW models mentioned above are one of those iconic German auto's. They have a 'look' of an era of times past. the 36's and 39's are the next generation and have a while to go before seeing any fluster of activity. I mean if you want a tidy e36 or e39 you can just go grab one, it's not hard to find a nice tidy one, you'll have the choice of 20 any day of the week if you've cash in hand. Not so easy with e34's. If anything those little e30 coupes should be raising eyebrows. If you want one for a good price right now is the time to throw 4K at someone selling a clean honest one, because 5-6 years down the track you'll be paying double that, minimum, for a hack. I don't see those e28's hovering around much longer either.

I had seen those before and blown them off to be one of those "too good to be true" deals. There has to be a huge skimp on some component of it for the price, likely ALL the components. Avoid.

Reads a bit like being taken advantage of, if the lead up to it was "Yeah they're for my car". Not the kind of system I personally subscribe too. But then again if you got your asking price, or near too it.. I'd be a little annoyed all the same thinking you were helping out a member of the "community". Even if we are all strangers. In saying that I reneged on purchasing something here I said I would, once I realised I was going down a path that was going to cost me several hundred more than I should be spending to get something I wasn't entirely comfortable with. I felt a bit stink about that because a deal is a deal where I'm from. That might be understandable though, maybe.. In saying that I've had someone come round to my house and drive off with my airbag reset tool, and I had no idea who he was other than being from here. All fine and good, he used it and I got it back a week or two later. No hassle no drama. I'm a bit old school in that someone showing the same interests and is a "member of a community" should be given the benefit of the doubt, or just the benefit really. Thankfully I haven't been burned too much with that sort of thinking. I guess I've been lucky but I have an expectation that regular kiwi folk have a decent moral code, some of it might be a little loose but it's all common sense. If you borrow it you return it. If you break it you replace it You don't sh*t in your own nest.. Kind of thing etc etc. I've also bought stuff and walked off with it and thrown the cash in the bank 4-5 days later from folk I've bought from here, so it's swings and roundabouts. I wouldn't be feeling too burned if I was you unless you allowed the price to be clipped back thinking you were doing the guy a help and THEN find out it's all for profit. I think even then you can't apply that to everyone. You can only pin it on someone elses looser definition of moral code/compass to your own. I don't think it's too much to expect transparency though, but that's just me.

Gorgeous! Nice pic too.

I had briefly looked into it in the past. There's no avoiding a middle-man and their cut. Something like beforward.jp is helpful for pricing things up. I've never used the service or gone down this path though. It boils down to relying on professional services doing everything right so you get what you're expecting. Mostly around the vehicle inspection itself I had figured, everything else is paperwork. Good luck.

That's a nice wee car.

OK, who was it? What his number?

Pretty unforgiving course, totally dominated.

So what was the final cost after having been quoted $250? You ripped all the panels out and reinstalled yourself eh? So your upholstery dude just had to do his magic without any of the fiddly nonsense?

That e34 has a funky looking steering wheel. Quite like the tackiness of it but id get sick of looking at it after a while. It must be a reasonably obscure item? Must have had the OG purchaser of the steering wheel giving it a bit of thoughtful consideration even in the mid 90's.

I did wonder why the options re material used for these hub rings was limited to the softest most brittle media. Id figured cost, didn't consider corrosion at all. A similar reason there's a lead anode screwed to the leg of outboard motors eh.

Oh good. I have those blue anodized ali bbs ones on my watchlist. Was wondering about the circlip though. I dont think itll get in the way of anything with 5mm between hub/bore. They're alright though? They look like the best quality/value out of whats available. I dont need to try them thanks, im confident.

Swanson-kumeu backcountry roads have some nice long flat sections that wont throw up any surprises. A section between taupaki and riverhead springs to mind as a quiet convenient location to do that sort of thing. The right turn at the roundabout just after the riverhead turnoff on SH16 produces flat quiet roads too.

"|| M3 ||" At the corner Princes and Shorty street yesterday PM.

Thats exactly the kind of thing that would annoy the hell out of me and have me demanding a court appearance to try yak my way out of it to a judge. Even if it did cost a day off work and $100+ in court cost. $600 seems unreasonable and ott. How does "annoying" make it into law outside playing your black sabbath too loud on your new aiwa midi system at 2am at home on a thursday morning? Pretty vague and subjective. If id done it deliberately and been snapped id wear it. Seems quite a sharp cost for a genuine accidental skid though.

Well Miss, Thats probably about the best lesson a new driver could get. Us generation X'ers had to learn the hard way through tough and unforgiving circumstance in what were (in reflection) fairly unsafe conditions. Back in the day police wouldn't touch or look at vehicles. That was for the TC's and if they pulled you over you got a ticket for something, they'd keep looking till they found something so they didn't feel they were wasting their time. Their job was traffic and only traffic, and they weren't everywhere, most NZ towns had just one lone TC. The police dealt with burglary and whoever it was that punched someone in the mouth down the pub on friday night. Vintage escorts and cortinas could be had for $600-$800. If you wanted to chop springs and throw 3ltr V6's in you could, no cert required. So long as the lights and indicators worked you were legal. XY coons, VG valiants and HG holdens didn't cost much more. The full on safety features of a bmw e36 was a brand new vehicle back then and completely out of reach for anyone I knew. We did dumb sh*t all the time, deliberately. There wasnt anything else to do, and practically no one to stop us. Bulletproof kids with no road skills let loose in cheap vehicles with the only redeeming safety feature being a seatbelt, actually my mk1 consul didn't have seatbelts, never came with them from the factory so wasn't a requirement for wof, neither did my split Kombi's or an a100 prefect I had. Must have been mid-late 90's seatbelts were compulsory across the board. I do wonder if those of my generation who grew up caning and crashing these old classics and survived ended up being a more cautious driver now, probably not. Interesting to speculate what might have happened in your scenario with these older cars though. If id hit a concrete wall at 28mph in my kombi id have a concussion at minimum from smacking my forehead on the heater channel or panel above the windscreen, maybe cracked ribs on the steering wheel. I'd have been fine in my XR coon, would have just bounced off and kept driving. My mk1 consul would have rolled at the initiation of the turn and been sliding on its roof well before it even reached the wall. Thats a good stack to walk away from. And now ive reminisced of the safety aspect of what I grew up with and recall what our mums used to drive us around in, that volvo may as well be a NASA space shuttle in comparison. My old lady had a ford anglia with biscuit crossply's. Lol!

I paid $170. Its reasonable condition with a little leather wear at 12 o'clock. I dont know if they're a rarity in NZ. From what ive read the 370mm variety is scarce elsewhere. They just look right. the size cuts off the view of the speedo though.

Just out of curiosity, did you end up on your lid without breaking a window? I don't see any glass scattered anywhere.

I swapped my 385mm wheel out for a tech2 15mm smaller. It's sharper but not overly, just the reduction in diameter affecting the turn radius. Not by much but it was noticeable initially.