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bss325i
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 7:12 pm
.... Are now £420 + vat!!!!
BMW have 30 in Germany and must be a recent batch made which has meant a price hike as they were about £100 not that long ago.
The days of mint second hand panels for £50 are over!
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Andyboy
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:14 pm
They were about £200 plus VAT a year ago. I sold a nice clean one for 60 quid last month, was probably too cheap I guess - wish I'd known they were £500!.
Folk said I'd never get £800 for a Getrag 265 OD, but I certainly did. Just takes patience.
The next mint E30 dash I have will be £150-200.
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gooner1
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:19 pm
Still got the Schwartz one you sold me Andy.
Still in it's wrapper. Investment, innit.

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87mtech27
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:50 pm
Andyboy wrote:They were about £200 plus VAT a year ago. I sold a nice clean one for 60 quid last month, was probably too cheap I guess - wish I'd known they were £500!.
Folk said I'd never get £800 for a Getrag 265 OD, but I certainly did. Just takes patience.
The next mint E30 dash I have will be £150-200.

Fortunately I purchased that too soon. Unbeknown to me a spare sunroof panel came with my shell. Good thing I'm lazy or I was about to put it up on sale for £60a˜°
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Simon13
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Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:02 pm
they were £130 odd 6 years ago more like
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appletree
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Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:44 am
With the vat that's about what it will have cost me in parts and paint to go non sunroof!

You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity
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Andyboy
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Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:02 pm
Beware scummers selling E36 ones. Once unbolted from the cassette, they look very similar to an untrained eye.
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si911t
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Tue Nov 18, 2014 11:53 pm
Just bought one off eBay for 70
Seller didn't write anything about condition an picture was poor but worth a gamble as always return it if it's crap
Only put on sale today so well lucky I read this post !
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powelly
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 9:27 pm
They have gone up since July, I spoke to dick Lovett and they were£350 at the time, they only had 5 in stock in Germany so you must be right Barry, new batch. On the face of it though how many other manufacturers still make/sell parts for a car that's been out of production for 20 years...

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Duke137
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:32 pm
Andyboy wrote:
The next mint E30 dash I have will be £150-200.
Random question to anyone who may know but how difficult would it be to copy the E30 dash for a company who have the equipment to do it? When you are up at that kind of price it could become more of a real prospect to copy and reproduce them...?
How do you pronounce 'either'? I say 'either', but some say 'either'. Either is correct.
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DanThe
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Wed Nov 19, 2014 10:48 pm
One of the south african forums had a group buy for GRP dash's
They were shite....
I doubt you could reproduce one for £150 - £200