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Yeah the leathers mint, shes decided to pass on the car she was looking at and wait a couple months and then flick it - but at least thats gives me an idea to tell her. Thanks guys

It's Calypso Red, colour coded skirts and bumpers, and is Auto.

Gf looking to sell her BMW to buy a classic car, ones she always dreamed of and wants to know what her cars worth. 94 BMW 318iS. 114,000km, singapore import, new wof and reg, new rear tyres. Just serviced, standard mags. Paints in good condition, does a scratch or two. No rust. Full leather interior. What might she be likely to get for it, and is there anything we can do to increase its value with small outlay?

Done Wonder how the Zephyr would go in that competition lol

CHURRRRRRRRR!!!! Back up for the world My Hiace was optimistic til I put new higher profile tyres on it. Its now slightly pessimistic, but since I have GPS then next time I'll go higher still, make it more pessimistic - help my odo Ummmmmmm, 32 in the back and 28 in the front I believe. Haven't checked recently to be honest. I make the gf do the weekly checks (oil water etc etc etc) so she gets in the habit of it and learns a bit, plus if anything changes she knows it might pay to scream at me til I fix it GPS accurate to within 100m (smallest increment it displays during a 'trip'). Odo on car read higher than the 5km travelled (which backs up the theory of spoeedo reading 'optimistic'). And as said above - originally a trip from my place to gfs was said to be 80.2km, GPS said its 76.1km, with new tyres its now 72.0km (something to that affect)

Since I live like 5 minutes from the 5km Ramarama test I can say yes I have And that it was wrong. And you can't tell me 3 of the 5 units we have read wrong lol. The speedos all read high - 110 indicated is 100 actual speed. I can't see any reason why a car manufacturer would not have a reason to do such a thing - technically it safer cause if you obey what the speedo says then you're going slower, using less gas and means less likelyhood for the driver to get a ticket. Effectively it gives them a sense of security they dont know about it. And yes I'm sure they are 215/70/15. Would you like pictures? lol They're bigger tyres than the Suzuki 4x4s we have at work lol. Side note - you probably sold my workmate the set of wheels he has on his Hilux. Pity he bent one recently.

Could try DS Wholelsalers in Station Road Penrsoe, they do a huge amount of second hand wheels and quite cheap. Thats where the 18x8.5 Rays Engineering wheels for my van came from - $1100 with near new tyres (well, had to sell the tyres cause they werent load rated, so probably cost me a little over $1100 all up)

How you figure that?? If the speedo was reading 10kph faster than actual road speed then if I put bigger tyres on the car the speedo goes slower thus making it more accurate........ Thus, ifat 110 indicated it was doing 100 on GPS, then take off your 8.8% and you get 9.68 km, making it approx a kph wrong at 100.......... (considering GPS & Speedo dont measure in decimals you could in theory round it up and make correct at 100, but I'm not gonna nitpick on finer details) Reason other tyres were changed was not lack of tread but lack of grip.......... Still had 4mm across the width and round full circumference. And bravo - which GPS model would you like? I've got a Navman N40I, A Navman NCN630I and 2x Navman CNC635I (all 4 are in car units), Theres the garmin handheld one floating around too Anyways, I'm not here to argue and make enemies - not my thing

They'll never have to replace the tyres again on it Shoulda added this in to post above but meh

Wrong. GPS puts it 10kph out across the whole speedo. And I've tried it in a number of other BMWs and had exactly the same result. Always 10kph wrong across the speedo. With the 215/70s speedo is now 1kph slow. Also meant the odometer was counting up too fast - originally a trip from my place to gfs was said to be 80.2km, GPS said its 76.1km, with new tyres its now 72.0km, so car should in theory hold value a bit better being that it now gains less kms for the actual distance travelled. Car originally slid about all over the place with old tyres, now holds the road nice and tight and can be flung into corners much more agressively and with far more confidence. Not worried about any acceleration it might have lost (Sweet FA if any) becuase at the end of the day it's the gfs car and shes not gonna be racing it. And the ass doesnt look any more in the air than it did before

For gfs car, as above. Old tyres were 205/60/15, want as wide and as tall as I can get to give more traction and to get the speedo better. For now I replaced them with 215/70s. I know I can get 225/55/15s on them, but can I go higher profile? Or wider than 225. Curious for next time they need changing. And to further that - same for front. They're not needing replaced for a while but again I'll be going bigger than 195/XX/15 that are on there now. Cars too damn low. Factory iS suspension. Thanks

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I tend to think it's probably likely to be an LED, so replacing it would be difficult, but in theory possible. You'll have to be good with a soldering iron though

I would imagine it would simply be a case of supplying power to them, cause all the switching etc would be done with the buttons on the side of the seat, as apposed to having to wire every motor to work when told.

You'll need the plug mate or you aint got a hope lol.

Owned a lowered E30 and currently driving gfs untouched E36, I'd say the 36 handles better and feels nicer to drive overall. But I didnt exactly get intimate with the 30. Cant help ya with the transmission queries sorry.

This one came from Singapore......... So would it have it or no? I'll investigate the above if I haven't seen a reply prior to my getting some daylight to enable me to see lol!

Eureka! Found the switch and found that Einstein hasn't plugged it in, so traced some of the wiring that was in that vincinity and found the plug dangling round one of the intake manifold pipes. Untangled that and plugged it in and it works! Cool! Now, if only I could sort out why the 'CHECK' light doesn't go at all.

How much to get it to Aucks? And do you have a ball park figure for how much you want? Weighing up options

No cable aye, bugger. Might be easier just to change out the factory one then, obviously its no good to me without a cable. Although I might be able to butcher it, hmmmmmm

What a waste, and it didnt even last long.

Well theres no obviously blown fuses, and tracing I can do but to be honest I really rather not lol. I'm not as worried about the check light, it'd be nice to have it working but I guess it's probably run off an ECu or a computer somewhere and so theres unlikely I can do anything about it, but still thought it was worth asking just in case it's something simple someones come across before. The oil light however I really would rather have, and I can get around that by putting in my own oil light, if I can find the switch........which would be where??

As above, the pin that slides into place when the locking is activated to lock the fuel flap closed has been busted on the gfs car. Hoping to source a replacement, thanks.

Guaranteed working?

Ok, well after removing the dash board to find out if the oil light bulb was blown, I found it aint. And I found the check engine light bulb doesn't go either. Neither of these light up at all - but the bulbs work cause I swapped them between different lights. And I stole a spare one and got the seatbelt light to work Lol. But anyways, any thoughts as to why neither the oil pressure light or the check light don't work? I don't know how long they haven't worked for, but i'd really rather they did. Thanks (once again - car is E36 318iS M42 motor auto)