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I think they should be legal, but that said I would not get them. I can't imagine that the beam pattern will be as good as the stock Bosch ellipsoids we have on our car. The guys in the US get shitty plastic ones and would kill for our Boschs. Same can be said for fitment; OEM is the best. Lastly, they just look ugly.

Perhaps you could cable tie the corner indicator somehow? Or, DIY it and epoxy a piece of plastic in place of the broken clip on the headlight to replicate the original rail. I know what you mean, I've got a set of lights with the broken plastic rail as well. You definitely need to replace the whole headlight for that plastic rail.

Hmm. That's possible. Some others did mention that it was missing the rego/WOF sticker

Having said that, it's been seen on Queen Street a couple of times, and also in Papakura, Mangere... places in South Auckland. So it sounds like it's a car being used daily.

well anyways im thinknig of getting my ATF changed at bmworkshop which i already asked the quote for. i still cant believe imma pay someone to change an trans fluid for my car first time ever !!

after they change it im going to ask what type of fluid is in it

Which workshop is this? If it's in Auckland I may be interested. Would appreciate it if you could shoot me a PM about the price. Cheers

ive been getting this error too.. but ive got stock lights on !! i was like wtf the check light on the dashboard lit up... so i pulled over and looked at the OBC.. brake curcuit falure ... see owner manual??? i had my mate check my rear lights.. reverse, brake park light.. and it all works fine.. what gives??

I had that happen before but it was due to contacts. The contact was not too good between the bulb holder and the light housing (the metal circle ring bit) so when the car moved around it sometimes made it lose contact. You can use some ghetto fixes to fix that, what I did was stuff a little piece of cardboard behind the metal ring on the light to make it push forwards a bit.

Also, I've heard that some bulbs that are on their way out will cause this error. If you have a new bulb you can experiment. Something to do with the filament and how the computer uses resistance to determine if the bulb is 'there or not'.

ok im a bit confused about my tran pan.

its not like the ones for a A5S310Z that ive seen in service manuals and online. and also it dont have any stickers to say which fluid to put in.

picture taken looking back.

i felt around the pan to see if there are any other plugs, nada.. its just those 2.

If it doesn't look like the A5S310Z, maybe it's the A5S300J? Which, if it is, that's my transmission, and I want to do a fluid change but am told only 'ApolloOil ATF DIII' will work. Dexron III for sure, but I know not all transmission fluids are the same, they say you can only get it from Japan or South Africa

Have just installed a couple of new aftermarket rear tailight assemblies for a 95' 320i sedan.Lights are all functioning without fault and OBC display shows " Control Check Clear" until I turn my

main park and headlamps on, it then displays" faulty tailight display".

Has any one encountered this probllem before, and how is it remedied????

Would appreciate any feed back Thanks

Did you mean the 'tail light failure' error? It happens with OEM tails when the replacement tails do not have as many pins as the previous tails. Usually the new ones have 7 pins when they should have 8. I would assume it's the same sort of problem for aftermarket tails, that the tail lights you got were meant for a non-OBC E36 (ie: 318).

Congrats on the purchase, love that car, still looks new! Can't believe you've owned two E46 M3s already. I think I saw your second one on TradeMe sometime ago, the suspension was for sale I believe. What caught my eye was the lip on the front bumper, what lip is that?

From my experience that will be their car - they just swap to some stolen plates. Thats the new (lazy) way to do it rather than steal a car to steal more cars with, attracts less attention.

From someone who has had every car he has owned broken into or stolen and stripped out, I will be watching closely for you!

Also I had been thinking for a long time about a vigilante justice run, spoke to a police prosecutor and while the cops wouldnt be too happy about it they probably wouldnt be able to charge you with anything for swatting a staked out theif with a baseball bat a few times.... anyone else keen?????

Thanks I think it's their car too, because if it was stolen they probably wouldn't have bothered swapping the plates. You could also guess that it's theirs from the bad taste in 'mods'

I'd prefer to settle the score the legal way

they look like islanders (no offence).. that car should be easy to spot around. ill have a eye out for it if i do spot a car like it. mags like that are ugly ass hah !! rolling on some shinny dinner plates LOL

does your mags have any distinguishable feature?? or is it in perfect form?

Cheers guys, a guy from another forum pointed out that in one of the pics (coming off the ramp) you can see a guy in the backseat lighting up a ciggy too.

The BBS RC's have very little rash on the edges, there is some, but they are very clean, the insides of the rim you can see some faint scratch marks, like the person who cleaned them used a pretty stiff brush. The main distinguishing features though, would be the centrecaps. They are scratched pretty badly on at least 1 of them, on the BBS cap part (check out the pics to see what I mean).

sh*t man that sucks,good luck with it.Nicely done chris lol

Cheers mate

Bit of an update, got more pics! I still can't tell exactly which model Evo it is (1/2/3), but some of you may be able to.

Those wheels look familiar, but I'm unable to come up with the brand/model, anyone know?

Car looks to be black, and those bonnet vents are white for sure, you can see in the animated GIF below. There are at least 2 people in the car, maybe 3, can't really make out if that's a 3rd person in the rear.

Animated GIF of the above pictures:

Animated GIF of white bonnet vents:

Alll good, posted on the CF site for you, with a pic, someone on there will surely know whos car it is.

Thanks for that Chris, I've also posted a thread on ChosenFew. Much appreciated Help me keep an eye out for that car! I'll see if I can get more pictures from the building manager, if they have a copy of the video it would be great, I hope the police haven't taken the only copy.

Doubt it's an Evo IV, don't they have the big spotlights in the front bumper?

Its an evo 1/2/ with evo 3 body kit or an evo 3. sorry to here about the loss mate good luck

Thanks

Dude that sucks, those wheels were mint! PM me your wheel source please (or if you're selling the type 3's)

Haha, how'd you know I have Type IIIs? I've considered selling them, but they just look too nice on the car. Thinking of getting them refurbished and powdercoated

Hey everyone,

My car got broken into early this morning along with 2 other cars, around 4:18am, in my apartment carpark in Auckland City. The offending car was caught on surveillance camera, and it looks like it's a Mitsubishi Lancer. The licence plate didn't help at all, as according to the police, the thieves took it off a car sitting in a car dealer lot in South Auckland.

Does anyone know what model it is (Evo 1/2/3?), and of course if anyone knows who owns that exact car, that would be the best! Those chrome wheels are pretty unique too. I would also appreciate it if everyone could keep an eye out for those wheels.

Stuff that got stolen:

1. 4 x BBS RC304 17"x8" wheels, 5x120, ET38. They were still in boxes, ready to be taken to get mounted onto the car.

2. Some car detailing stuff such as Meguiar's wax, clay bar, carpet cleaner etc.

Pics as follows:

Thieves' Car:

Cheers everyone.

Welcome My E36 320i gets ~400km on a full tank, but that's with relatively heavy 17"s. With the stock 15"s I think I can get 480km. Mine's 1992 so it's non-VANOS, not sure if VANOS has better fuel economy.

Sorry to hear man, hope everything gets fixed soon, and good luck on your claim from the council.

Good choice That's my favourite spoiler as well. IIRC The M3 GT wing is slightly different to the M3 LTW wing, which is the term more commonly used. Hamann also makes that style of spoiler for E36 sedans, I would think they make it for the coupe also.

On SD European's site they have a picture of the LTW spoiler on an E36 coupe, maybe you want to try emailing them?

If you want the risers (the blocks to bring the wing to full height), very few replica wings have those, the risers would either be fake or the whole wing would come as one piece (high/low). The genuine LTW wing with risers costs too much though (goes for ~$1000USD).

hey guys

just after some help

every now and then at the lights the car has a bad iddle,its a bit of a shudder, revs decrease.any ideas?

also twice now the car has just cut out.I have read this could be a camshaft or crankshaft sensor? any ideas?

THANKS GUYS

Have you tried cleaning the idle control valve?

definitely the best way to go, pedal boxes are cheap now, and you get rid of all that crap BMW thingamajiggy linkage!...............

Saw it earlier today, that's a huge boost in the price Conrad! Interesting to see how high it will go... someone snag this for their E30!

Try www.forums.bimmerforums.com, I'm sure you'll find lots of information there as many people have done it.

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I think he meant many thanks to the guys in this thread

On the subject of Japanese BMWs, my car is a 1992 E36 320i imported from Japan. Everything is great, there are the typical problems for E36s of its age but nothing that I would single out against Japanese imports.

The only gripe I have is that my car uses a Jatco transmission and these transmissions were only put on BMWs in Japan, I suppose for cost purposes, and the rest of the world got ZF or GM ones which are widely available. For a DIYer this can be quite frustrating as there is next to no information available on it, it even says that the 'lifetime transmission fluid' which most people change on their BMWs has to be ApolloOil ATF and has to be ordered from Japan or South Africa.

E46 & E36 can use the same wheels - I think their offsets are very similar, if not identical. They were genuine Alpinas, I saw close up photos of the centre - they had the Alpina stamp. Not bad, with a lip they'd be real nice. I think they're quite heavy though.

Yeah I thought about those dimples before. cant cut em ae...

is your car silver with one piece projectors by any chance?

It's possible to dremel down the nipples, but it might not look that great unless you cover it up with eyelids.

They're interchangeable among all E36s. Some people actually prefer the non-dimpled to the dimpled 'facelift' ones as it's easier to mount eyelids without the dimples.