sharkfan

You need the VIN really - it used to be the last seven but the few online VIN checkers these days ned the whole thing. You could try the registration at a local BMW dealer but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Anyone else going to raise a glass of rum to the old sailor this evening? RIP Philip - a full life lived before he became consort and a role invented and lived for 7 decades afterwards.

Ahhh, damn shame.

That's better condition than some of the complete cars on ebay.

Took my E34 out for a run yesterday - simply glorious noise from the V8 but also the E34 driving experience seems so much more raw and connected than the E39 daily driver. I was out for about an hour around Surrey and used the Switch-Tronic the whole time except the last five minutes in a train of cars getting home. I can well remember the entertainment factor of the manual boxes in the 540i and M5 E34's but the engines were chalk and cheese - massive low range shove in the V8 but trailing off over 5k compared to the where-is-the-power nothingness of the S38 until you get to 3.5k and then pure screaming banshee to 6.5k. The 4.6 Alpina lump has the best of both worlds - even more torque than the 4.0 and just as much high revs power as the straight six. I understand why the PO kept the car so long now - it's 26 years old and has only had two owners and is only ever likely to.

Happy Easter Mick and anyone else celebrating April bunnies - hope your E28's are still going great Mick? I took my E34 for an Easter Sunday spin for no other reason than I wanted to - it was brilliant - fabulously noisy, engine pulling like a train, AC working perfectly and I even fixed the key with a couple of replacement batteries when I got home.

Well done for sorting it so quick.

Did it work previously or is the car new to you? I have installed discrete little switches as interrupts on the fuel pump supply on a few cars as an immobilising device.

Just bumping the thread with a TIS link https://tis.bmwcats.com/doc1061082/

They are perhaps going on a private jet with another family of five - unfortunately they are not 'well liked' and a third party is quite willing to make phone calls to let appropriate authorities know.

Some rich people I know of are circumventing the system by declaring they are going abroad for a necessary business trip... with their two teenage and one 10 year old child...

Why does such a new car need that level of surgery?

It's a bog standard E38 rear bumper with a cut outs for the Alpina dual pipes on each side; and then a small trim to go around the pipes to make it look tidier.

If you are after the full Alpina look you might want to get hold of these cut-out trims for the rear bumper - Alpina will only sell them to an owner with the proof of both full chassis numbers but these guys are making copies. http://alternative-parts.eu/en/sklep/rarytasy/alpina-diffuser-for-the-bmw-e38-exhaust-system/

Is that for the E32 or E38?