Palazzo

It’s a mongrel anyway, albeit a very good looking one, why not just convert it? It’s cheap considering what it has on/in it.

Here you go, in this thread (from 2015), it says listed in 2009!

5 hours ago, Brianr70 said:

The data was provided for CAR180 by MotorWeb on 10 December 2019, 2:01 PM 😂

It’s longer than that. That car has been discussed on here years ago.

2 hours ago, Sammo said:

For a minute I thought you were trying to tell us something.

This is what I was thinking of.

https://f15.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1618734

I was meaning smoke that could be seen from space. I’m pretty sure  there’s a YouTube vid of someone fitting a catch can to a diesel X5, have a look.

Worn turbo seals I’ve seen in the past have poured blue smoke out.

Good choice, would have been a little surprised if the 30d didn't do it for you.

I want to replicate the finish on my 21” factory wheels, apparently Prismatic Powders is the best bet. 
They are like a black chrome with blue finish. I’ve found a few colours that are close, but nothing in the Dulux range.

16 hours ago, KwS said:

Hope he secures it better and they dont come back for a second go.

It’s at the police yard, then off to the auto sparky…

Dulux colour, Metropolis Coal Dust Kinetic.

Prep is absolutely the key. If I’d known you did this, would have come to see you.

Just trying to help anyone who goes down that road. Some of the advice was poor, the service laughable and some of it was top notch. The place I used does a lot of commercial work (railings, verandas etc) as well as wheels. I told them this was the first time I’d done this and they were spot on with advice and communication.

I’m happy with the result, aim was to get a serviceable set of wheels to avoid 21” tyre tax.

I bought some spare 20” wheels for the X5, they had been painted (badly) and were pretty rough.

Decided to powder coat and got them sand blasted, then powder coated, result is below. Note, due to a combination of laziness/desire to get it over with and some indecision over the alloy wheel filler I had standing up to the powder coating oven, they got a quick file of the worst bits, so there are some ripples on the edges, but the powder coating itself is mint. Ironically, the worst damage (3rd wheel from the left) happened on the way to the powder coaters in the back of the car.

Stuff I learned  @aramoana

Sandblasters aren’t equal. I had one guy do one as a test. He moaned about how hard it was and would only take $100 in cash. The second guy charged $80 + gst a wheel, pulled themselves up at not getting them perfect and redid them, then laughed at the other effort and redid that.

Powder coaters aren’t equal. One company gave me a quote, then told me it was all too hard, they didn’t have the colour, wouldn’t order it and to try somewhere else. As a sales pitch, unbelievable.

BMW wheels have some god awful rubberised coating on them that is difficult to remove.

Make sure your wheels can’t move in the car, alloy is surprisingly soft…..

The powder coating guy recommended stripping the paint before sand blasting. He also recommended against chemical stripping as they have had the chemicals “get into” the alloy and then ruin the powder coated finish. Make sure the wheels are as clean as possible and try not to touch the face once prepared.

If you buy cheap centre caps from TM, you will get what you pay for. I thought the fake carbon ones that came with the wheels were rubbish, the stickers on the new ones aren’t even stuck down properly.

Be patient.

Im really happy with the result, they did a great job and were $30/wheel cheaper than another place I tried, not the one mentioned above.

An update for you that might be of interest, got my wheels powder coated for $62.50/wheel.

1 hour ago, Allanw said:

Did they realise how slow it moved? 🤣 *jokes*... kinda 😉

 

Haha. Good result! Pisses me off that we have to stress about losing the things we work hard for!

Ha! Maybe. It had a full tank, so seemed a bit random.

One of those weird things, took a different way home for my second lockdown coffee and stumbled across it. Neighbour is stoked, that’s the main thing. And yeah, having to stress about your stuff sucks.

FOUND!

About 1200m from home, perfectly parked.

This is my neighbour’s 70 series that he’s been slowly fixing up and loves. Stolen last night from Mt Albert, probably end up as parts or sold somewhere. If you see it, let me know, thanks, Scott.

Come to think of it, it was later, '06 onwards at a guess. Either the same car, or identical looking, very high spec and immaculate.

You'd possibly have remembered my mate hurling a flaming pot into the common driveway area and screaming "fire" if you'd been there later.

At a guess between ‘02-‘07?

26 minutes ago, MD13 said:

But wait there's more!

Pink

Never seen this colour before...

If I was to buy a car like that, I’d want to open the garage in the morning and go “f**k yeah!”

With that, I think only the first word would come out.

2 hours ago, ssbmw said:

I remember buying the car magazine they talk about in the advert as I was gearing up to buy a 635csi in the late 90's and early 00's. I found it actually extremely diffficult back then to get one - hardly any came up for sale and I wanted to have sports seats which were such a rare option and the switchable auto box ( resigning myself to the slush box as manuals seemed rarer than hens teeth).

Wanted to one in Henna red as well - never saw one. They were anecdotally $135,000 in 1983 when Ross Jensen (who was the BMW importer back then) sold them.  I eventually got a 89 Highline in burgundy - a car that has been discussed on these forums. I thought 218 BHP was quite grunty back then. Funny how things change.

This thing needs some 16" E34 5 series cross spoke or 17" style 5's.

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Did you live in Grey Lynn at one point, Summerfield Villas?

17 minutes ago, m325i said:

I think the vert's kept going for longer pre FL?

They did.

Yes, but they’d sold it for more after agreeing a price.

Reminds me of the seller of a bumper recently “don’t bother coming, it’s been stolen”.

Whatever.

Not too much use unless you know someone there, but Tauranga Pickapart have one.

On 9/26/2021 at 3:38 PM, Jacko said:

Any suggestion on best place to get a vehicle weighed? Weigh bridge at the tip seems a little crude, want a reasonably accurate number for some math and logging.

I did the X5 at Henderson tip, added up what was inside and compared to handbook, it was pretty much spot on.