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Nice car. I really enjoyed my E24, despite only owning it for a short time. What can I say? I was young, impetuous and went through a lot of lovely cars (looking after them as I went!) in a fairly short period of time. I had a quick look on eBay - I've heard some people made significant cost savings by importing tyres. It may have been viable, if looking for one or two (I'd recommend a pair), but no luck. At least, not within budget - they run to (equivalent) $150-200 per tyre. I suspect your hope is that someone has a metric rim and tyre lurking in a shed, but checking the quality and age of that tyre would be very important. OK. Do you have a M635CSi? I think they were the only E24 that came with the 240/45-415 (TRX) tyres on (IIRC) a 175TR415 CH TRX rim. The Motorsport (Series 2) cars had 220/55-390 tyres, but (and this may be useful) the non-Motorsport cars had 195/70-14 tyres on a 14x6.5" et22 rim. I entirely understand your view on this. Buying a set of rims and tyres really doesn't make sense if you're only looking for one tyre, but in this case it appears that a secondhand, decent set of rims (with good tyres) will cost less than just one metric tyre. This would keep you on the road, and give a little time to find that elusive correct-fitment tyre. (I had a similar issue with a Porsche 928: 245/45-16 tyres were completely unavailable for a time, and owners were forced to wait until a manufacturer produced a run of them.) There is an additional issue in that it leaves you with a set of rims to store, of course. The E34 had 7x15 et20 rims which are similar in appearance to teh stock E24 rim, and would fit easily. They're not expensive, although I don't know of any currently for sale, but would bolt straight on and not significantly change the appearance of your car. They should be easy to resell once you have the correct tyre for your metric rim, too. My apologies - i appreciate I'm only really reiterating what others have said. I think we'd all like to see your car and if there was an easy answer to finding a good metric tyre, that wold be the choice.

agreed, really enjoyed this season amazing turn around, eddie is terrible, sabine is odd and paul harris needs better lines and timing but you can see it getting better, had some great cars too which has helped

there I was thinking you'd been peddaling a Soarer, not a Celica. I learn summat everdays.

oversteer vs understeer. what else?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1298930945 UPDATE: SORRY HAD WRONG AIRBOX DOWN - IT IS A KARBONIUS NOT G STEELE $20,000 for bimmersport members. Can do deal with airbox,underdrive pulleys and schrick cams if you want to Engine was build by Chris, one of the VAC Motorsport mechanics for his personal use. We imported it for use in a new E46 race build but have decided to go to an S65 for that race car. Build is as follows 11.5:1 CP Pistons (actual compression is approx. 11.7:1 after head & block machining) Pistons are coated with a tough skirt coating and ceramic dome coating. SP Components forged h-beam rods with ARP bolts ARP head & main studs VAC Motorsports coated rod & main bearings VAC High volume oil pump with upgraded shaft & sprocket -VAC Stage 3 Ported & Polished head ($US 4,000) - all new gaskets and O-rings -Vanos Puck modification. All s54's benefit from it with tighter tolerances - Vanos is rebuilt to its fullest extent with Biesan Vanos seals and anti-rattle kit. -Cam and Vanos bolts upgraded -new breather parts and related hoses/ pipes - all new timing chain ramps - new oil pump chain - new idle pulley Also have available at extra costVAC under drive pulleys and belt (frees up to another 11 HP) Karbonius CSL replica air box. A great HP and sound upgrade. With a set of matched headers this combo was built for a 390BHP beast with a 9,000 RPM redline on standard mapped ecu. Capable of more with aftermarket ECU and cams and followers. (have a set of Schrick available at extra cost)Designed for sprint and endurance events. Ideal E36 conversion engine or targa beast. Advertised elsewhere. Am also selling a full S50B32 engine/headers/airbox/computer/lo­om. Which ever one sells first, the other one is going into my E36 M3 race car

The M5 badge is on a 550i for sale in Dunedin.

Six episodes in and I like this new Top Gear (sans Evans) more than I like The Grand Tour. Clarkson erupting and the other kids throwing their toys out of the cot might have actually saved Top Gear. These new three (+) have injected a new life into Top Gear IMHO and LeBlanc is doing a pretty good job. Harris has yet to find his stride I think but if/when he does he could be brilliant. On the other hand I find The Grand Tour rather underwhelming, it's just three old geezers regurgitating schoolboy humour from a bygone era to a cursory backdrop of cars. That's pretty much what I thought Top Gear was becoming. But at least Top Gear had guests, this 'Grand Tour 'kill the guest' thing is beyond its 'use by' date.

Found that my silly car will do 0-100kph 1 second quicker if I turn off the active suspension so its not working while driving... haaaa

The live searches are terrible. And the expired listings searches are all-but non-existent. Absolute rubbish. Nothing some more search filtering, or filtering of search results wouldn't cure. And the results... Search for something valued up to (say) $5k, and get results for things starting at $17k. Kinda defeats the object. Filtering older car searches by year is terrible too, with 10-year brackets to select. Looking for something between 1985 and 1995 means you have to trawl through everything from 1980 to 2000. Assuming the seller has been bothered to advertise something correctly... Right. That's enough for today. Sunday morning, the sun is shining. Wife and daughter are out for a while. I'll get something useful done, then perhaps we'll pop out and enjoy the sun for a while.

to be fair, I'm not sure I'd be trusting VTNZ to even judge or correctly measure tint value/visible light transmission. Take it back to AC BMW for the WoF! They WoF'd it first time. Problem solved. And you can speak - face to face - with their sales manager. I'd be disappointed too. Though I'd get it resolved to my satisfaction. Let us know how you get on.

E36 Jatco conversion, anyone know a good glazier for custom glasswork? (coffee table).

Bank charges in general... One months interest on savings of thousands of dollars - $1,40 less tax, go a dollar overdrawn for six hours ovenight - $10 charge plus interest...