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Can almost gaurantee it's auto and probably a 4 cylinder. Maybe a little 6. If it was a better car, they'd have liked driving it more 🤣

Holy sh*t, Check out the front arch gap! It's got more space in there than my Land Rover 🤔 I should be considering and interesting body swap...

I did a trip alone in our old E39 525i (manual) and it got to 7l/100 km, with some very "sensible" driving, Whangarei to Warkworth... wich is not really flay, straight or economical. On a trip up north from Whangarei to Kawakawa with the family of 5 on board (also, not really optimal for economy), it was on about 8.5L/100 km but once we were there, I realised I was getting a(nother) kidney stone... the urgent trip home (some of which was following an E46 M3, passing everything in front of me!) managed to get the average up to 12L/100km and it took MUCH less time than the trip up 🤣🤣🤫I dumped the family at home and drove to the hospital, so I could get loaded on morphine😁.

If I had a big shed (and money!), I'd have one too... I have 2 VW's and a Land Rover, so who am I to take the piss, anyway??? 😁

7 hours. How much of that was spent towing the Alfa? 🤣

Imagine having to be in an LS400 for 1,000,000 miles... I'd need a lobotomy.

Ummm.. You should probably think about blocking me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! https://www.manheim.co.nz/damaged-vehicles/000000000006615523/2003-volkswagen-passat-sedan It's registered...

I've got about 75 litres of home made, old-fashioned, all-molasses, cask strength Rum aging here... so my little Whisk(e)y collection sits soooo much longer in my 110 year old safe... because those guys give me too many silly ideas 🤣.

I was going to ask the purchase price, but thought it might be rude! 😁 I guess there is a very limited market for a poked W8 passat though. For that kind of money, it'worth it just for a spare trans, and it wouldn't surprise me if someone would pay that for the ECU alone (internationally!). Manual mk5 R32 ECU's seem to sell for about NZ$800, and a manual W8 one has to be orders of magnatudes more rare!!! If I was single, I'd have probably bought it myself... or if I bought it, I'd be single now... same, same. 🤣

Yuss!!!!!... Now I can tell my Mrs about you, and I won't look as bad...

Sorry 😁

https://www.manheim.co.nz/damaged-vehicles/000000000006628329/ Just sayin'

I've have plenty of 300K+ cars, that you'd not know by driving them (including plenty is a rental fleet I managed). Plenty of shitters with much less too! One 90's Legacy had 425K when I left the company, and I'd run it dry of coolant once and it still didn't use a drop of oil between changes... and had the arse thrashed off it by me and my manager before me.

On my Touran, you open the rear hatch, open the in-floor storage compartment, lift out the access panel where the "mobility kit" used to live, fold over the insulation sheet and there it is! Riveted to the floor, that was cut out and flipped over for the 4WD to get fitted 😂 Lucky I always have the same WOF guy... but I still open it up every time 😁

I've ordered from Spareto MANY times and never had card issues, so probably coincidental

My wife always says I think I know everything... 🤣 Nice to find a fault... but not as nice when it gets expensive 😞

Yep... maunal... don't they know it's supposed to be manuel???

Mmmm. Shiney.

I used to have a facelift 525i factory manual for my Mrs... that @Young Thrash Driver adopted after me. It's still my avatar pic, in fact 😁

Talk to Paul at Milland. He got my E39 ones years ago, much, MUCH cheaper than the dealer here (and he never supplied a wrong part, like the dealer often did!). It was all factory, matched and reading to go, just needed syncing, as normal. I assume he gets them from a dealer overseas somewhere?

Even a quick drive in the rain would make it look better!

Try Wrack Auto Electrical.

@aja540i... start collecting parts now...

Needs better sounding tyres 😁