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Its Porirua, every second car is a Merc on cutz or a $300 E36. the other is an Estima with a mirror hanging off the back.

Maybe they should ban all Euro vehicles because they recycle all there oils, coolants and hydraulic fluids all over our highways

Finally found a suitable replacement for the e39 540 wagon!

bought picking up tomorrow

That can buy enough fuel to... reverse out of the drive!

Just finished an auction for a 2000 E38 740i for a tidy up Sunday driver Stoked and just need to get it back from Tauranga , later this week. $2400 bucks, WHOOP WHOOP cheaper then I first thought it would be :D Likely I'll need the cash now hahaha

Local council passed a bylaw which means you can no longer wash cars on the driveway. Apparently the local BP drive through car wash is my only option now unless I create a grass area. Only thing with creating a grass area is the council passed a bylaw protecting the trees on the rest of the section a couple years before. Might as well start using sandpaper on the paint finish now

If you (not anyone in particular in this thread) had a budget of several million dollars to make your opinion on the TPPA, your opinion would be valid. Unfortunately you don't, I don't, so we collectively rely on the government that we have voted in and paid to be there to make the decision for us. The facts are that no kiwi individual has all the facts. This is exactly why i haven't put myself in a position here or elsewhere where i support the TPPA or not, I do not have all the FACTs to make my own mind up, so i rely on the Government. Same with Asset sales, I did not have an opinion one way or the other, and relied on my government to make their decision. The assets have lost value since being sold. One argument is poor Kiwi Investors. My argument is they shouldn't have brought in. The numbers just didn't stack up when i looked into it and kept my money elsewhere in the share market. The government extracted the maximum value they could. Don't forget when you sell a business is unlike selling a car. The price you set for the company is far higher than the assets value. Included is the profit that would have been gained over the next X number of years. unlike a house or car where you are only selling the capital value, not the future benefits. We are still being paid the "lost profits", we have already got them. I relied on the government we put there to make the correct decisions which on the balance of FACTS they did. If you really think you are hard done by the National Government, you would become a refugee in another country. I am very right leaning, but even i will admit if a Labour government was in power, I am still very fortunate to live in a country where the citizens collectively choose who to put in charge, and for the most part both parties do not abuse this privilege. Don't forget, if you voted someone other than the current party in power, your voice IS still heard through the party you voted for, proportional to the amount of people in the society that think the same way as you do. Its not a National show up in there. They are forced to listen to other parties that are in the house. National cannot do whatever they please, as they rely on other party support. One of the reasons I didn't vote National last election despite my support for them, I am not comfortable with one party having an outright majority by themselves, it doesn't work out well elsewhere in the world.

So I've had my fair share of weird cars after my last E36 M3 and a brief stint with an E46 M3. So after feeling the need for another M3, I initially looked at the Church St European M3 (Tom's old M3) but missed out by a day to another member here. Feeling slightly gutted I called the owner of a M3 CS in Christchurch only for them to waste my time in waiting for their car to be wof'able and two weeks later I got told they will be taking it to Aus with them. After all that effort I was about to give up but I sent a PM to DSC0FF for his car. Sort of went like this: https://youtu.be/-KgFZhGT26w Anyway long story short I have finally picked it up today and I am loving driving again (funny because the BRZ was a really nice drivers car too). Just gave the car a nice interior groom with products the OCD boys use bt he weather is quite bad right now so will do a full polish job next weekend! Looking forward to being active in the forum again!

Well done. Hard to beat the E38

Tried Mr Minit at Botany?

$26 mill is nothing really - you'd be amazed at the money wasted every day. Even though you think it's a lot, it's probably more than you think. Of course you aren't allowed to publicly say bad things about the "establishment" you work for... and they are all the same, to varying degrees, it seems - like everyone didn't already know THAT! Seriously - $26M is about the value of the gear "A guy I know" looks after in "his" department... in a certain establishment (with 3 outlying establishments), in a small town - and that's only the little stuff, most expensive singleitem is about $250K, the BIG gear, that's kind of built in, is more millions, per system. That only covers 150K of the NZ population. "Social Security and Welfare" costs about the same as Heatlthcare AND Education combined!

You can programme the intermittent speed in the E36... let me find the instructions... You might need to replace the wiper control module (I didn't need to).

i really really miss the window wiper speed setting available on the e46 and newere bmw's compared to my e36 which is like.. OFF > Once every 8 seconds > NON STOP > SO FAST ILL NEVER USE IT i wish there was like one every 3-4 seconds which is what i need most of the time.. sigh

My little Bichon had a tendency to jump and climb over the crates so crate training didnt really help but I've heard wonders

To be clearer, not all of Wellington, just Porirua district (for now).

Do it in the middle of the night, in the dark. #YOLO

Mad tv ~ Can I have yo M3? M3_Boy Strikes back uh my names m3_boy, its spelt like m3_boy but pronounced like 'i need to have a new m3'.. yeah uh i just wana say you have a beautiful car thanks you're welcome, so i was wonderin.. you got a price? a price? no, i just wana drive my car. so u dont have a price, thats cool.. so listen, i wana ask you semething.. can i buy your car? can i buy it? can i buy it? can i buy it? will you let me buy it? im sorry but its not for sale. oh so i cant? thats cool, thats cool man.. uh so.. whats the cars plate? uh DSCOFF... DSCOFF? thats a beautiful ass plate.. ok thats enough for 7am in the morning...

Finished the bonnet insulation. And it's only a small thing, but one of favourite parts I've bought so far - new key blanks with the little light that actually works! Much OEM!

We could re-enact the 70s and 80s where anyone who didnt have a job worked for the railways everyone was content and unicorns were in abundance.

I replaced the factory radio in my e39 with a 1 din sony bluetooth/cd/ipod headunit, obviously the placement isnt the same, but i found on TM an adaptor that conne ted to the steering wheel button input wire and controls the headunit. You have to make sure you get a headunit that has the plug for a wired remote/ steering wheel control on the back, but mine set itself up once it was installed and it works perfectly. The bonus with going this way is you can use the GPS on your phone and get the directions through the stereo as well. Good luck.

always possible to view things you intended to view them before you started. I don't think we NEED to change, but we don't NEED a lot of things the government provides for us. I like the blue and red one with the fern through it over the current flag. However if the option was the maori flag thats been an unofficial one for us for many years i would vote no. The idea was tabled before the last election along with asset sales, and the TPPA has been in progress for over 10 years. and yet people still put National in power with the biggest majority for several decades. As usual, its the people with the smallest percentage in society trying to make up for their lack of numbers by having a louder voice.

ha ha.. I agree. Trying now to get my hands on a 00 740i here in town but the owner and I are still a long way away from eachother on price. The body and upholstery are shot and it's done over 300k. BUT. Its had a 6 speed manual conversion and someones done the work and put a large case LSD in it. I want those bits in my 740..lol

The reason it has to be done this way is because if the first referendum was "Do you want to change the flag?" people would say "it depends on what the new flag is".

Pulled the back seat out of it last night to clean it and found 2 marbles (someone has lost theirs) and $1.20! Score.

I think due to public demand a showroom thread of said E61 must be created.

Fiji tomorrow.