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Roadtrip to Tongariro at Sparrows fart for 8 hours of torture, aka the Alpine Crossing. Some great driving roads on the way. Managed to get 10.7 l/100km before i got bored and started hooning when i got past Otorohonga.

Yep, it's meant to sound like that. Old skool.

Owners have the option of hiding their personal details from any low-level search. That is the case in the results you have given. To get the info in such cases you have to write to NZTA with a reason, your details and a small fee. the system works, the fact the guy got caught shows. Typical Hosking blowing smoke.

Which report do I buy from Carjam that provides ownership name and address details? When I've purchased Carjam reports the private owner info is redacted, "individual owner, xxxxx km as of date, Personal details protected by law". Full details for any company owners are provided.

Carjam actually sells this info... License alone suffices for just about any info you could want from an owner. The system in NZ is a bit simple, this is great for ease of sale, this is also easier for people willing to commit fraud though. The mitigation is the system works pretty well here too, so it's unlikely you'd lose ownership of your car this way.

Sadly, number places can be seen whenever your car is on the road. It'd also be easy for someone to see a random number plate, add 1 to it, look up the details in carjam.co.nz, then have the details for a different car. Like this one, which is an 'off by one' for my number plate: https://www.carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=XA4555 So I don't particularly care if my number place is online. However, some people do care - and I appreciate the effort photo takers take when they remove the number plates from their photos.

Thanks for this, Mike at Coby is a good guy to deal with, my new wheel is on the way :-)

Clearly you've assumed one too many things here. Firstly, i have an auto E30 that already has an m40 in it with fairly low kms so why would i swap it out for a m42? Secondly, i did not state that i'm doing it myself. My post clearly states i'm looking for advice on where to find a manual conversion kit not how to convert an e30. Cheers for you're input though.