Crazy Dave

Gonna miss seeing it in the car park at work

The guy at Tait had a silver 540 touring but he left the company about a year ago. His was pretty rough but also had the kids booster seats. Unless your thinking of mine which is a Silver 525 touring at Taits

Hi Steve, Welcome to the group. I read your post on the radio but it would seem that you reside in Wellington so not easy for me to recode it for you. Not sure who in Wellington can do that. Good luck with what looks like a great car.

So when is there power on the washer heaters? What switches them on? Now that it is winter here in Christchurch, I would be interested to know? The original tubing does get brittle, but I found that clear plastic tubing from the Mitre10 garden section, with the ends heated in boiling water fits really well.

If you end up having to acquire the whole mirror, mine is starting to de laminate and so I am just after the glass. However I need one with the electrical dimming and heating connectors.

Well it did NOT seem like a good idea at the time. Initially in the morning the beams would be pointing up in the tree tops and the next they would be pointing 2 metres in front of the car. Identified the broken adjusters as the problem and when you grab the back of the lamp units they wobble up and down. I thought that if I disconnected the leveling motors then the lamps would still move around when ever I went over a bump and the beams would be all over the place. However they seem very stable and it has gone through 3 warrants now with no issues. The downside is that it is giving me no incentive to get on and fix them.

That write up looks promising - So where is the best place to get replacement adjusters?

Mine have been broken for a while - never got around to buying the crappy little replacement plastic rods that break. I just disconnected the headlight leveling motors, set the beams up and it passes a warrant every time. (I don't drive at night much) I did take one lamp unit out once and tried to separate the lens from the rest of the lamp. Gave up in the end and went away to think about it. ..................... Am still thinking about it.

Hi All I was just about to add the speed camera database to a recent map disc, but as another forum member pointed out, my database is quite old with some of the cameras no longer in the reported positions. Anyone know of a recent reliable database? The AA website seems to have a reasonable list but I need it in a CSV or some sort of downloadable file.

Mine came with these Now aesthetics are in the eye of the beholder, however these are EASY to clean.

It should be noted that I also have the High beam lamps on my E39 set as 50% brightness Daytime Running Lamps so I should have been reasonably visible.

Something I have is one of these http://www.carcameradirect.com/?no1selling-carcam My one has front and rear facing cameras and records while the the car electronics are awake, however in light of events like this I might just wire it permanently on. It records to SD card in HD and overwrites the oldest recordings. An example of it use is here when someone went through a stop sign in front of me http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=vb....5713&type=2 Now with a big capacity SD card and wired permanently on you have a small chance of catching external events. Of course not much help if they break in and see the camera.

Hey Greg, Am interested in knowing how you get on with the Car Kracker. It seems that you take out the 6CD changer and put this unit in its place. It then (from a music point of view) allows you to play MP3s of an SD card or select an AUX audio Input when you select CD on the front panel. I see it wasn't designed to work with the 16:9 screen but just wondering how it works with it. I know your car is set up in a very similar way to mine - Bluetooth, Digital TV, reverse cam etc so I will be interested to hear about the audio side of this wee unit.

I have one of these kits - Got it because the dye had worn where the seat belt rubs - seems to do a pretty good job. Must give the rest of the seats a good clean sometime. I happened to be passing through Timaru the other day and stopped at Subway for lunch and parked opposite Pelle. Would have gone in for a chat but it was Sunday

Welcome, Wanna see pics of both cars I was working in Little Rock AR last week and shopping in Tractor Supply Company (for kiwis, thats a Mitre 10 Mega for the rural Agricultural sector) and got chatting with a girl who worked there who had a 328 (from memory). I told her about the wealth of info available on this forum so hopefully we might see her and a few other Americans on the forum in the future. What stuns me is the cheap price of BMWs in the US. Pity the steering wheel is on the wrong side.