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I quite like the way he's integrated the park bench seat into the rear bumper and am a particular fan of keeping the standard shitty steering wheel. Maybe he's trading up to that 525 with the 850 front?

They work better with two, one for the intake and one for the exhaust.

Mate, I've seen your car around and it looks (ed?) great, so sorry to hear this. Good luck with it,. I've had this twice, one win from Wellington CC and one loss from Auckland CC, who said it was just one of those things (broken balljoint). Luckily, Lexus thought better and replaced it for free. Try Nazistaffcars mehtod and the key as always is to make a nuisamnce of yourself, eventually they will pay to make you go away. Good luck

This piece of crap (the "850 nose 525"for clarity) appeared in an earlier forum somewhere. Hideous. Terrible. I'm astounded anyone would pay $5k for it. Must have a look around the house and see what I can weld onto the front of the convertible. . . .

Unless the 320 is dirt cheap (read free), why bother? Just buy a 328. By the time you've bought all the bits, got them fitted etc, you will probably have spent about the same and have a bastard car with questionable resale. It's not like 328s are expensive, a mate just bought a coupe, manual, Msport kit, NZ new with 120kms (that's 75k miles to you) for $10k. My 2 cents.

Pretty sure it's M50 and seeing as how we had a '91 model, I'm picking they came out in '91. Autocar and Motor (UK Mag) tested it at 0-60 in 7.3 and 15.8 for the 1/4.

If you decide to part it out, I'd probably be keen on the bonnet, esp. if it was zinnoberrot. . . . Let me know, may be someone wants to keep it whole. Cheers.

I used to have one, heaps of fun and a great noise. Try and score some carbs like the old 125T had, I think they were side draft dellortos (40s? 45s?). They had that and some big valve heads and cams I think, went well for their day. Please don't rotor it. . . . .

Hubcap spinners in chrome.

Strangely, I'm in 100% agreement with *sic, moan, moan, then moan some more. If this doesn't work, try repeated moaning, then mention Fair Go, Consumer Guarantees Act, their advertising and anything else even vaguely relevant. If they still haven't had enough, then try moaning. It's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil.

A large number of those (written off) cars appear at Turners Damaged. Unless you really know what you're looking at, or for, it's probably best avoided. Pity, looked like a lovely car.

Get an LS400, get a warranty, before the suspension smashes your bank balance into little tiny pieces. Apparently, there's a twin turbo LS around Akld which must be fun with an open diff. I'd keep the 3.

Yeah, I'd be fascinated to see a detuned n/a M3 putting out 600nm of torque.

A 320 is a V6, not an 8.

There's another 325iM running around in Akld, pre fl, full Mtech 2 gear, think it's dark blue(?). Only about 130kms from new, but was in accident about 18 months-2 years ago. Owner bought it back (had had it since new), but couldn't source Mtech1 parts, so used 2 instead.

Have the Feb '05 version of Total BMW mag, with a Misano red M3 vert on the cover, was part of the inspiration behind buying the 325i vert. If only they looked the same. Heard the one in Wgtn sold for $29k in the end, which would be cheap compared to this. Sadly, have been told 4 cars is not on.

I have one, with ABS and an Mtech 1 spoiler.

OK. time to stir it up. I like my car and Williams (Topless), E30 M tech kitted, pref lowered a bit. Bog standard E30s look a little off. The power hood is supposed to be a nightmare on these, so flag that option. Z8? Are you serious? It looks like something Pavarotti would drive, if he could squeeze his fat arse into a car. Z1. Awful. Z3. For women who don't know any better. Z4. Not sure, quite like the look of it, but seems to be attracting the cheescutter cap brigade. E36. Pus in a 318, quite nice in an M3. E46. M3 only please, then possibly squeezing ahead of the E30, but would struggle with the pleasure versus price differential. My 2 cents.

Would have been handy on Sat night in Chch perhaps?

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Rear fogs at night, esp in the rain, are a pain in the arse and anyone who uses them all the time is a complete f**king moron. I often wish I had a hammer handy. Fronts make sod all difference unless they are horrendously misaligned and I agree with Carl there, the law is anal, but where isn't it with regards to traffic regulations. Remember, it's the Helengrad lowest common denominator theory we're heading for. . .

I'm surprised how good the colour looks, wheels are OK and I owe Graeme? (Bravo etc) an apology, as that looks like a standard 2 dr interior (still not sure about the $1k bit though), BUT, otherwise, just not a fan. Old story though, if it's cheap enough and YOU like it, who cares? I'd still go a full cab though. . . .

Leather interior for $1k? Where? Unless the Baur is different to my cab, they have a completely different rear seat, so you can't just plonk any 2 dr interior in. I've had a quote for $1800, which I thought was pretty good. There is a Meguiars product that polishes the "milky" crap off the windows, otherwise, imo, go for the full cab, I've never liked the Baur, although I could conceivably be accused of bias.

Supposedly, the centre carrier bearing decided to give up 1 day after the new donut was fitted and will now be replaced shortly. Naturally, another mechanic reckons this doesn't sound true at all. If the new bearing doesn't fix it, I will not be happy.

Steve Crow is the porn guy and David Blackmore is the other. He now lives in Akld and all the cars are his. Arnage Turbo (with blow off valve), Mercedes Pullman 600 Limo and Lambo 002 (?) 4wd. Most of his Bentleys have big bores and chromes and some have matt black paint, with skulls instead of Bentley emblems on the bonnet. They're all kept in a warehouse near where I live. he has a Pullman 600 convertible too, which is sweeeeet.