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kiwi535

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  1. that is more attactive to me than the e34 manual for about the same money.Logic says otherwise but....
  2. was was referring to the odd way it is mounted
  3. Gee a 1979 car ...I wonder why the colour is so....80s.Agree wheels are wrong.Whats up with the number plate!
  4. yes i drive past every day monday to friday and other days too.There is an original mini often parked behind it
  5. leave a note on the windscreen it always seems to be there.PM me for the location if you want
  6. i am pretty sure there are more than 3 down here,The red one has been around wellington for a long time.The kapiti one was my one which came to wellington(from Auckland) in about 2002.Before i bought that one I drove a grey one(very close to the time i bought mine) with grey interior which was at a Welington Dealer.I am sure there are more.How many are there in NZ?.I also drove another rough example(Another "black" one) in Kapiti.I think that one was an ex uk car,it had manual seats..I paid 16 k for mine in 2002,it was in Central Auckland.
  7. mainly the first.i usually sell around the 250 k mark,and the last couple of times to move to a new motoring interest
  8. ouch....e 34 M5 considerably more than E 60 M5...
  9. i had a "80 percent" map put on my 120d,revved a bit faster and generally felt better if you can call 4500 revving!.NZ performance tuning did i think ,they came to me and did it on the side of the road at work!
  10. they been watching this thread
  11. I beleive you can drive on an rft that is absolutely flat.That is the idea of them.You can drive for up to 80 km
  12. those seats would be awesome
  13. its the downward weight on the ball that will possibly be the issue withthe fancy BMW towballs,and they will amost ceritainly be a 50mm ball too I think its matt here had an e61 diesel wagon for ages.
  14. not sure of the tow figures on the BMWs,rsearch options and toungue weights.Some of the bmw tow bars are nifty fold away or removeable items but they have a very low toungue weight..How far do you want to tow the boat ?I would think a 530i will easily do what you want ,but they will be pricey at the pump compared to the navara.No contest in any other comparison.I am pretty sure the in line six is very solid compared to the V8s which .All the issues with all of the e60/61 are very well known now
  15. they are a FUN little car though....i reckon a 123 d would give a 130 a run for its money in open road situations and stil get nearly 1000k out of a tank
  16. and a 123 d will be quite satisfying to drive,my chipped 120 d was lots of fun.A bmw salesman friend even said "they go like a rocket" If i wasnt 190 cm tall i would get a 123d hatch 6.5 around town and esy 5.5 l 10 k 0n the open road
  17. 300 sq metres is bigger tham most houses.just over 17x17
  18. i had a 120d with run flats.It had 205 55 16s or something like that.When i bought it it had two bridgestones and two continentals.I think the bridgestones wore out and i got two more continentals......the continentals were more compliant than the bridgestones.I never ever had any issues with grip of the tyres.Sometime later near xmas i needed to buy 4 new tyres....i couldnt get ANY.Later i did find some pirellis but they were expensive,but i had no choice.They were better again than the continentals.,I needed another two i think and this time they were much more reasonable in price.In this time i had a puncture (the tyre pressure sensors went off.I think it was down too 20psi.The tyre looked perfect.Tyre clinic wouldnt repair it.I drove maybe a kilometre at 80 km hr,then another couple of ks to a place to pump it up.It was a slow leak. i would say they were slightly less compliant than the 235 45 17s i had on my e34.they were noiser on chip seal.The 120d was a hatch,and it had a huge battery (diesel) so there was really no room for a spare.
  19. airflowe did the paint work on my fortuner to match the arb bull bar to the body colour .I cant tell
  20. at least he put the wof sheet up!Credit for that
  21. define decent....its a shed.One look at a double garage built by these outfits compared to how a builder would do it will reveal what you are gonna get as the size inceases.They maximise every span and use the absolute minimum of materials..They have special designs.I cannot replicate their designs in my truss program.The trusses "fail"
  22. 90 km hr sounds the classic control arm bushes shimmy.I did the bushes twice in the E34 if i remember correctly
  23. didnt know the range of movement wasnt as good,but in a e34 535 it was perfect(the sports seats i mean)
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