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I lived in Wellington for 20 years, take a coat. And some merino.

Nice car, I know there will be a few jealous people who have been looking for a motorsport coupe. Welcome to Bimmersport.

Found what appears to be an oil leak from the lower timing cover. Cried a little inside.

Anyone seen the Pascha interiors fitted on Porsche 928s? I quite like it!

I would personally prefer tax at the pump as it would make my life easier, but the pragmatist in me says that what we already have is actually the simplest system. Everyone who wants to deal with IRD more please raise your hand now....

Wowsers! 15's? Edit: yep, just saw you're selling some 15" tyres. Where did you get these?

hopefully i will see this when i do the next order!

Here she is sitting on the new wheels, getting a 55 profile tyre fitted tomorrow which should fill the arches a bit more. I wish, sadly only a M20B20 though.

Lol not if your car is broken! Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

Wow it has a tape deck Might need that audio budget after all.

The current system of Road Users is based on farm vehicles using diesel and not the road and that's why there is Road Users for all diesel on road vehicles. So before we start picking on trucks doing damage to the roads, just some facts : I own a 44 tonne 9 axle B Train For the first six months of this financial year, I have already paid $39,000 on Road Users. In my 18 years driving trucks, I have spent in excess of $1.3 million of Road Users. My new truck is 20 months old and Ive already done 170,000kms. Just the fuel bill for the first six months was $61,000. My trailers have done in excess of 1,000,000kms and I still have the same brakes. And this is only one truck, multiply that by however many there are and we MORE than pay for fixing the roads. Not picking on anyone, but just some facts. We also own a diesel 4WD. Its not the trucks causing the damage, but the Contractors using substandard materials, they chip seal it one day and the next day the chips are already coming off. In the early days when Ministry of Works were doing the roads, they chip sealed it, rolled it with big, heavy rollers, swept it, painted it and it was useable by that night. Now they use the trucks as rollers and all the chips stay in the tread of the tyres.

I get my RUC paid for me, but have to pay for the fuel at the pump - so from a totally selfish point of view, no keep it as it is!! From what I remember from my time in HT, the whole point of the RUC system is to allow for people that use diesel power but not on the roads (tough sh!t for all those petrol users - boats, bikes, jet-skis, ride-on mowers, etc). It then gets a bit murky for things like log-trucks that spend a lot of time off-highway, but also spend time on the road - things like eRoad and GPS tracking have been brought in to count that and claim the money back. So in terms of people like my old man running around in his 116d it is a little bit odd to be paying RUC and also weird that he pays it at the same rate as I do for the mighty 330d. Get rid of the RUC and move the tax to the pump, off road users can claim back (as most do already anyways) and introduce a graded license payment, or Rego as most people call it, based on emissions - don't forget diesel license fee is also more than a petrol for some obscure reason! Over to you - go Dan. If you want a hook up in the MIA let me know, there has been a lot of discussion around this in the industry already as it is hampering new diesel sales in private vehicles.