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Having had a little time to digest your statement, I have the following comment. During my time in sales, I found it was important to quickly qualify the few potential customers in this category. Best you could do was to be professional. They were usually powered by internet "experts", magazines, and unusual theories. They needed guidance, but you couldn't tell them anything. None of the internet "experts" were professionals in this field, yet they held sway... and were more often than not, well off-base. These customers were rarely likely to spend any money with you. By qualifying early, you could be polite, professional, treat them with respect as a potential customer, but still concentrate your efforts on servicing existing customers and new prospects with an open mind, to whom you could actually prove value and service, and even sell products and services to and create or grow satisfied and loyal customers. I can only suggest you've had some really bad experiences to generate this start position. I hope you can find a provider that works for you. Good luck with your search.

Then on those rental properties you'll have to pay tax on inflation when you sell. This may not be the end of the world as they are rentals, but people are kidding themselves if they think the CGT won't creep to the family home. Under the recommendations, if you use your home as part of your (small) business, it will be subject to CGT. A non earning lifestyle block will be subject to CGT. When these owners come to sell in ten years time to buy in the same market the CGT they've just paid on inflation leaves them with less than what they just had. The jealous lot who like taking a stab at land lords, and say they want to encourage people to dump their money into the share market and business, are the same ones shouting from the roof tops when business make decisions to increase productivity or profits in the way of laying off workers by shifting off shore, automation, downsizing unproductive floor staff etc. 'greedy share holders' 'greedy land lords', you can't win with those types its the same old broken record. Is there a housing crisis... There are over 30,000 properties for sale on TM atm. 8,000 for rent. The 'crisis' revolves around un tenantable feral tenants, where no right minded land lord will want in their house. Exacerbated by click bait media. When the TWG pick up on how prices for classic cars, motorbikes, tractors, trucks and heavy machinery has taken off, and still going up in price, you may have to fork out a CGT on you Volvo! Are you on the NZ Volvo FB group?

Been using and enjoying the car a few times recently. Trying hard to crack the 300,000km mark, which is about 300km away now. Its been good but some minor issues are cropping up. Turns out my heater (on the drivers side at least) is stuck on, so the cruise I took the other day, in the hot sun, meant it got pretty toasty inside. Guess like my last M3, the heater valve on this one has probably had it. My standard 3.0 M3 steering rack is rubbish. They're known for being slow and feel dead (and its a 3.0 M3 specific rack, good work BMW), and thats exactly what mine is. Slow, lots of turns lock to lock, and feels almost completely dead on center. Will keep an eye out for a purple tag E46, or Z3 rack, which is almost a direct swap and much better speed and feel. The latest fairly major issue though is that I have once again been hit my the common "BRAKE LIGHT CIRCUIT - SEE OWNERS MANUAL" Check warning, indicating my brake light switch is on the way out, and when tested, I indeed had no brake lights at all. Lovely. Ill grab a new one of those shortly, so I can keep enjoying the car without being rear ended. I really need to clean the car, I havent touched it since it was driven down from Auckland by the previous owner. I feel bad.

@NZ00Z3 Murray, if you do proceed, please do open a project thread! We'd love to complete the journey with you. ?

So if some random comes on here and posts "yeah, Joe Bloggs garage will do that for you, no problems. Warranty will still be sweet mate." You'd take your car to them and then expect your factory warranty to be honoured, just because they said so..? Strange. I think you mentioned on another thread that you were leasing the car, would the lease agreement have any conditions around 'modifying" the vehicle?

Well things have been buzzing in Foxton Beach over the last month. It happened when this arrived not as you see it but in two pieces it was built in palmerston Nth and transported down by truck took two days.This is the third one they have done the other two were only 34 mtrs odd and oil rig tender boats. The number of contractors running around dropping signs lifting power cable etc bees round a honey pot. Once situated by the boat club the two halves were put together and other fitting out work carried out. Today around mid day is a high tide and they hope to lunch her then yesterday they moved her and got it lined up on the slip way. She was on a transport trailer with support brackets when in position she was set on wooden blocks the support brackets removed along with the trailer and air bags place underneath. These were inflated until they carried the weight of the boat. It called the Beast and is owned by MIcheal Hill (Sir ) the jeweller 40mtrs long, 300 tonnes empty 480 all up was told, twin 12v cats around a 1000hp reduced to 800 cruises about 12 knots could be faster. This info came second hand so need to confirm more to come

Have a set of e30 basketweaves 15x7 including all center caps and 205/55 tyres with heaps of tread. Held onto these for ages but figure someone else probably wants them. I put BBS center logos in because I liked the different look $1000 Pickup Auckland - text me 02102464084

Its a very cool place, went on a tour there a few years ago, look on my face was the same When we were there it was all very much in the wind down phase though, so had an eeiry "the best that humanity has ever done use to happen here... but now it doesnt" sad vibe.

the court in Auckland disagrees; thinking of that punter and his Maserati...

Pretty sure that is the Shell produced oil, packaged for BMW. As to whether it is the same as another Shell product in a different bottle... that is a whole nother thread!! Fun fact.. the Shell oil used is actually manufactured from natural gas!

The 70+ year old ones are some of the better ones from what weve been looking at, better built and often better maintained. Some of the 2000's (even post 06 leakyhomegate) are just rubbish and some wont be standing in 10 more years!

love your work, Kelvin. ?

What is totally broken in the current debate on CGT is that the aparrent use of this tax income to provide the lazy and the indolent or underpriveliged with a tax break. Thankfully there were three on the Tax Working Group prepared to politely point out its folly with unemotive logic. Our government is not proposing using the proceeds of their proposed CGT for something useful such as infrastructure or healthcare, but are proposing pissing it away on $500 a year to those who "need it". It's another bloody vote-buying lolly scramble, and is totally unfair, in contrast to the way the media touts it as 'fair'. Fair that they're proposing redistributing the fruits of someone's investment labours and risk-taking? The message is clear: "you rotters making money on investments need to give your nasty ill-gotten lolly to those who aren't". There should have been a riot when they announced Michael 'Socialist Worker' Cullen as the chair. I'm surprised his values allowed him to accept a knighthood. Perhaps absence of riot is based on those who understood this realised it was in fact a charade, that it couldn't happen this time around. Winston is not expected to bless this; perhaps the best thing to come from his backroom deal to power. /rant.

Seriously man, how do you get on with your dentist? Builder? Architect? Physiotherapist? Doctor? What happens when you go out to dinner; do you take the waiter/waitress to pieces if they recommend a dish or wine to you? ?

Interesting proposition regarding a 75-90% estate tax. My bet would be those who are subject to that will have their money/assets off shore, or will cash them in and send/invest money off shore or spend it up. I think your first sentence contradicts itself? As in those who are poor, or are perpetually poor, can pull themselves out of it by merit. Those who are automatically wealthy without merit or deserving it, will likely be in the same financial position some years after the inheritance. I think people who have a similar viewpoint to you seem to think that there is a confined or limited amount of money in this county. Money makes money, and if someone who is poor has the drive & common sense, and perhaps the right advice/direction to become rich, they will do so. I've seen it many times. What sort of threshold will be subject to such an estate tax? Consider two or three kids may be beneficiaries, of say a $2million estate (I don't know what an average deceased estate in NZ is worth, but I'd guess $2 mill is on the high side), well that only leaves the kids with $1mill, or $660,000 or so each. Hardly big dollars, especially if they live in Auckland and don't own a house or have a substantial mortgage.

I'm still surprised people think she was going to 'fix' this, or anything. It reminded me of when Obama was elected back in '09 and there were random street interviews of poor blacks who thought they were going to be given free cars and TVs because a black man became president. If you don't tow the mainstream media line/lie, first homes are achievable. So long as they aren't expecting the minimum wage worker or beneficiary to buy a house, the media seems to present the idea both these groups should be able to have lifestyles afforded by people who've worked their way into 6 figure incomes. And that also assumes FHB expectations are realistic - they aren't going to get a house they grew up in, in Epsom or Khandallah. They might have to buy something outside of the desirable areas, or an apartment/unit, and progress from there. Times have changed since their parents and grand parents bought houses with one income on a 1/4 acre section. People need to stop parroting that broken record.

Whether you hate dealers or not, they are the ONLY ones that can yay or nay the questions you have. Get over yourself, or do it yourself and warranty be damned.

Yeh it was a little less interesting this episode. Although the look of awe on James May's face as he drove Neil Armstrong's Corvette down a shuttle runway at Cape Canaveral was the look of a man who could die happy now.

No offence taken at all, good discussion. I dont think people should sell at my price, however they should probably sell at the market price if they want to sell To be clear, we arent low balling /tyre kicking the market, we just dont want a damp dump for the price of 8 new M2 competitions No hurry to sell is the issue, they are, thats the problem, and likely wont drop below the crazy numbers in their heads due to what they paid as little as a year ago and now will leave in a worse financial position than where they started. Many (most?) of the places up in locations such as manukau heights are like this, and a bunch are leaky on top of that. Owners need quick sales, however likely cant pay their mortgage off at the price the market is prepared to pay for their properties.. Its been massively over inflated, and unless the economy suddenly manages to start paying more people 6 plus figures a year, its beyond unsustainable. Jacinda needs to pull finger!

Dont worry even Huntly is expesive, next door and two in our neighbourhood over $500k. build ours 40 years ago for $39k and section $8.5k. 3 more sections left in street over $100k each

Market is dropping a bit. Hardly a crash, but NZ tends to follow Oz in these things, and they're in a world of hurt. CVs are a council rort. You can (and should) challenge them, but no-one wants to because they like the idea that their house is miraculously suddenly worth $150k more than it was. Real estate agents *love* CVs - they slap 10, 20, 30% and more on the CV and tell buyers the CV means nothing. Of course, they're the first to shout when a property is listed or below CV...

Time and effort are free, I'm retired and fixing the car up will help fill the days. Is it worth the money and expense? Only if I don't spend too much in the initial purchase. The worst case parts list is known and priced with an allowance for the unexpected, as is the market price for the completed car. The total $ outcome is positive at the moment.

That may be, as misguided as it is, but the only people that will be able to yay or nay what you're asking, is the dealer you intend to use. Do you seriously think all independent workshops are in it just for the love and not money? If they were, they wouldn't be open anymore.

The newly painted rims are on might have to eye up a BMW wagon project next, after i've had a bit of fun in the 20v 4age pretty much done now, apart from i might rip the motor out and rebuild the bottom end, i hear a big end rattle under load ?

Interesting paint scheme, a bit like a WWI era Dreadnought in dazzle camouflage.

Be careful using screws with a big head like that to lock the ignition barrel, I did the same thing and had issues because the wires on the ring were being shorted out. My memory is a little foggy as to what the symptoms were, but yeah... Nice job restoring this thing, I like the fact that because it's not actually an M3 you can modify it without feeling bad ?

awesome man, very nice work to bring back a not M3. seriously, some people are not taking care of their cars at all and still think its worth a million bucks. just the amount of work you have put into this alone must be thousands of dollars in parts and labour! love the style 24's and looks SOOO much better than the 20" chromies

Yet another issue that was discovered on the car was that there were signs of oil leaking from the bottom of the vanos solenoid cover. This is a clear indicator that the solenoid seals are beyond their useful life. The other issue I noticed was that one of the bolt heads was missing from the cover, so that needed to be addressed. They are common for breaking over time, so I made sure to have some replacements on hand. I ordered a whole vanos rebuild kit, including new M5 seals (as per a very useful guide) but decided as I was limited on time, and the vanos appeared to be working OK now it was plugged in, I didn't want to take the time to rebuild the whole thing yet. It also didn't help that my fan clutch tool hasn't arrived, so I couldn't remove the fan to access the vanos unit. The solenoid seals are the most common point of failure anyway, and with mine leaking, it's a fairly easy thing to replace. First is to remove the solenoid cover. Its held on by 4 screws, with either a hex head (if original bolts) or torx (if replaced). The broken off bolt was still there, just with no head. I used some vice grips to slowly turn it until i could spin it out The cover was missing one half of the gasket, and had evidence of the bottom solenoid moving in the housing (the black circle on the cover is from the solenoid pressing against it). The bottom of the cover was caked in old oil The solenoids popped out easily, and as expected the seals were flat. The gauze filters were still fitted (usually removed when serviced), although most of the gauze was missing, like the last lot I serviced. Using a small screwdriver I broke off all the brown plastic for the filter, and removed it. I also used a scalpel to cut off the old seals. The old seals were hard as plastic, well overdue for replacement As with my last guide I used a 9v battery and brake cleaner to clean out the solenoids. They were surprisingly clean though, with nothing gross coming out of them like the ones I did on my old M3. Both give a nice solid click when powered. The new seals were fitted, and you can clearly see the improved shape of the M5 seals Everything was thoroughly cleaned, and the solenoids refitted to the vanos unit New gaskets were fitted to the cover, along with a thin smear of sealant to keep them in place The cover was then refitted, with one new bolt (I can't fit my Torx driver in the space with the fan fitted). I will fit all new bolts, and join the solder points on the solenoids, when I remove it all to refresh the vanos later. I noticed when I had the valve cover off that the intake cam sensor had a very big air gap. I know from INPA that it appears to read OK, but I wanted to look further into this. It turns out, looking at the sensor, the previous owner had pinched and hulk smashed the O-Ring on the sensor so it was sitting out quite a bit. The screw was finger tight too. Yeah it shouldn't look like this It turns out you can order these seals separately, but I didn't know I needed them so dug through my viton O-Ring kit and found one that fit well. The one in the photo was too big, but I did eventually find one that sealed well The sensor now sits flush with the head. It probably isn't making any difference, but it bothered me as it was. One last test needed to be done before I could go give it a try, and that was to fire up the old beast and run the DIS vanos leak test. This test is used to see if the vanos solenoids can keep the cam at a certain degree over a certain period of time or if the seals leak, resulting the cam angle slipping. There is some allowance for variation, up to about 5 degrees off target over 10 seconds if I recall correctly. I didn't test beforehand, I should have but I forgot, but after the seals my solenoids can hold the cam at about 3-5 degrees off target for as long as you want. That's pretty good in my books, for a vanos unit that has done almost 300,000km and never been rebuilt. I'll be interested to see if there is as much variation after rebuilding the vanos unit. So, after all this work, there was only one thing left to do. Hoon. The car runs and drives very well, with plenty of power. It feels much more like my old one, pushing you into your seat when you put your foot down. There are still some issues, like the misfire at idle, but overall it's significantly better than when I got it. Not to mention, it looks better! Loving the Style 24s and new Pirelli Dragon Sport tires.

Okay, it's been a while since my last post, but the car has still been progressing. I left off with the exhaust on the ground waiting for exhaust gaskets, and needing to replace the valve cover gasket. The parts arrived, so I got on with it. With the arrival of the exhaust gaskets for the manifold to center section flanges, I could refit the exhaust. This thing is a damn beast, but with some carefully juggling, wiggling and bolting, I got it back into place. Just as a quick side note, when cleaning up under the car I noted that two of the nuts I removed from the giubo were completely wrong. That wouldn't have helped the balance of the drive shaft. They all got replaced, as they are Distorted Thread locking nuts. The top of them is basically squished and distorted, so when you put new nuts on, they bind on the threads and wont come loose. Reusing them is a no-no, because they will no longer bind like they should. Similar concept to Nyloc nuts, but can handle higher heat. With the underside work done, I could finally refit the wheels with new rubber on them and lower the car down a bit and finish the work inside the car. I needed to refit the clutch pedal, as I had removed it to replace the bushes. I tried some flashy delrin bushes, but unless I removed the whole pedal box and fitted them on the bench, there was no way I could press the bushes on in the car, they were just too tight. Instead I went with a pair of new OEM bushes, slathered in grease. Thanks to the bolt I fitted that was missing from the pedal box, and the new bushes, the clutch pedal feels much better now; it doesn't move off the side, and I don't hit the dead pedal now. The other thing I wanted to do whilst under there was to replace the throttle cable, as my original one was well munted and made the throttle sticky. It was also ugly, and I don't like ugly. Removing the cable was easy enough, once you get the plastic clip out of the firewall (have fun one that one), it was just a case of pulling it through the engine bay and disassembling where it attached to the linkage. This is where it all kinda went wrong, all over one tiny little stupid (but crucial) bit of plastic. As I was attaching the white plastic clip back on the end of the cable so it could attach to the linkage, I dropped it. Of all the places, and things to drop, it was a plastic clip, between the 5th and 6th intake runners. It didn't come out the bottom, and I couldn't go magnet fishing because it was plastic. I tried moving and jiggling things in the area to see if it would drop down, and even lifted the car up and tried to fish around with my hand from underneath to find it. It didn't work, I had only one option left. The whole intake had to come off. Thankfully removing one isn't too hard, and it's something I had done before on my old M3, it's just bit of a prick to get at some of the hoses and bolts. Oh there it is, sitting on the starter motor... This little bastard. I then proceeded to immediately drop it again; onto the floor this time, so until it was ready to go back on, it went into my pocket. Having the intake off did give me a chance to have a quick look around, and give the throttles a quick clean, so it wasn't all bad. Back together it went, and on went the new throttle cable (assembling over a large rag, so I wouldn't drop it again. See, I learn from my mistakes!). Whilst setting up the new cable I encountered two things that made me facepalm. One, the throttle return stop had been mangled, and bent back. This stop is what stops the throttle pedal linkage going back too far when you take your foot off the pedal. If it goes back too far, there will be too much slack in the cable and you will never adjust it out. No prizes for guessing how I found this issue. I bent it back as flat as I could, which made the pedal sit better, and allowed me to correctly adjust the cable. Being bent back was no accident; it took a lot of work to bend it forward again, so I can only suspect it was done intentionally to compensate for the stuffed cable. The second issue, was that the throttle stop was badly adjusted. On my car because the shell was originally auto, instead of a normal solid "stop" under the pedal, I have the kickdown button still. The throttle stop/kickdown button sits behind the pedal and is what stops you putting pedal to the metal, or more accurately, damaging the throttle cable by trying to pull it further than the throttle plate will allow. On the flip side, if it's not adjusted enough, it will stop you getting to Wide Open Throttle (WOT). The whole thing is on a thread and screws into the floor, but does have a locking nut that stops it goes in too far. On my car that locking nut was wound way out, which meant that the stop couldn't be wound in as far as it needed to be, which means by the time the throttle pedal stopped, I was only seeing about 3/4" opening, not WOT. No wonder this car felt slow! I wound the locking nut down, and wound the stop in enough that when the kickdown button (which now does nothing but offer some nice physical feedback through my foot when pressed) is pressed, the throttle is 100% open. With that mess cleared up, I moved out of the interior and into the engine bay for one last job for the day. The valve cover gasket. I noticed it was BADLY leaking down the back corner, so ordered a replacement a while back. I had intended to rebuild the vanos whilst the cover was off, but decided to postpone that (for reasons I will explain in a later post) and just stop it leaking. Replacement is easy; Remove the coils, a whole bunch of bolts, and then the cover itself. When removing the coils, you also need to move the loom out of the way, so I rest that on the strut tower. I didn't notice, or remember, that the coil connectors are actually numbered via a small brown plastic tag on each wire (as seen in the photo), so instead I put a small dot for each coil it went to (1 dot for coil 1, 6 for the 6th coil) with a paint pen. This is the connector for coil 2. The dots are covered by the locking clip when assembled. It never hurts to over mark things before disassembly. And off comes the cover. It takes a lot of wiggling to get the back to clear the cable holder and the rear cam cap, but it does fit. This is the corner that was leaking. The gasket wasnt that old, it must have been replaced when they did the head work, but for whatever reason it just didn't seal here The other leak I had was a bad one into a couple of the spark plug tubes, via the rubber washer on the bolts. I ordered a bunch of these (you need 20x btw, I came up two short). The old ones were hard as rocks and shorter than the new ones I cut them all off the bolts, and pressed the new ones on. I slathered them in red rubber grease, and used a socket and a hammer to press them on. Much quick and easier than doing it by hand. Pop the new rubber washer over the threads, hold the socket on top, and give it a few good whacks with a hammer until it pops over the shoulder. The new gasket was then fitted to the head, with a small amount of sealant in the corners of where it goes over the cam bridge in the front, and then back on the cover went. The bolts were then refitted with the new washers. Now, with the bolts be VERY careful refitting them. They are too easy to pull the threads out of the head if you over torque them. In this case I did them to 8NM working from the middle outwards and all was well On went some new coils, and it looked like an engine again. Some testing shows no signs of leaking anymore, which is good. The clutch pedal and throttle feel much better, with less slack and more immediate response. Unfortunately despite replacing the bushes in the shifter, there is still too much play (although FAR less than before), and it appears to be coming from the joint at the bottom of the shift lever itself, so that will need to be replaced, maybe with a short shifter? The biggest disappointment is that despite replacing the coils and checking the spark plugs, there is still a very noticeable misfire at idle. It sounds like the old girl has some wild lumpy cams. I'm working on this now, so hopefully I can nail it soon.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/porirua/107960545/truck-carrying-chemicals-crashes-north-of-wellington-closing-state-highway-1 Glad your OK Hans ?

Looked at 5 houses from trademe today, all circa 900k, all look nice in the ads, all in "nice" areas. Every single one was a mess of either unconsented additions, rotten roofs, leaks, bodge jobs. Its depressing...