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I've noticed as I'm sure others have, lots of old/dead stickied posts that make the place look like it's unmaintained. I reported a fair few of these last year but no one seemed to be home (quick to delete my for sale post as I was trying to edit with a pic tho). How about a clean up / take out the trash? A couple of examples - there are more General discussion - Car Folie (pinned) - created 8 Jan 2011, user indicated business has closed on 15 Nov 2018 General discussion - Bimmersport Downtime - created 22 May 2016, last post 20 Dec 2016, hopefully resolved by now? News - Bimmersport News RSS feed - created 2 Jul 2007, unsurprisingly this no longer works. The FORUM RULES (yes all caps) - created 19 Nov 2008, the formatting of the post is awful and there's some real strange stuff in there (e.g. Warez - good memories) For Sale - Bimmersport 2013 Wall Calendars on Sale Now - 28 Nov 2012, yea For Sale - Bimmersport T-shirts - 8 Feb 2007, assuming no longer available, etc. Thoughts? And before the usual about how busy the mods are with family, etc. I'm happy to do this.

A new project has come up so I'm looking to sell my E30 and over $5k of parts is up for sale. WILL NOT SPLIT 1989 318i facelift auto Coupe. Delphin Grey. Wof just expired, reg on hold. No Sunroof! Running, driving car. Even has cold air con! Does have minor rust in the boot and passenger floor pan to get WOF. Comes with panels to fix this. With: Genuine OEM Mtech2 bodykit E36 M3 ZF 5speed gearbox M54 3.0L engine E34 oil pan, pickup (suit m54) and dipstick Mint uncracked dash E36 328i 5 stud front hubs, brakes and suspension Spare: Boot inner panels Wheel well and battery tray (to fix minor rust) Quarter windows Passenger door Heaps of misc trim pieces

Ill ask my dad. He fitted his own using a trademe kit iirc. Or ask brent if hes still got it off our wrecked e91 prelci

Did you check Micks Garage Graham???

Did you check with Startech for pricing? They are usually quite reasonable for parts.

This. Do it tomorrow, and you can fit in bonus BMW Club pub night with Bimmersport ?

Backseat and Boot pics for @hunter

Pics added, note engine is now partially reassembled.

what we should do is I drive down to wellington, sell Pete my M135 and buy Koda's 130 and drive it back up. win-win-win situation

I know right, its crazy. And there is really nothing special about an E30, unless its an M3. Used to get them for 2k all day long.

To think I sold a rust free non sunroof e30 coupe 318i in diamond Schwartz with M technik rear spoiler and rear bumper for 2k.. ahhh

Been reading all the posts regarding the battery charger. Fun times. Anyway, I'm looking to invest in a slightly bigger charger (but probably not as flash as Glenn's one ). Mainly because I'm looking to do my xHP flash pretty soon as well. Unless someone has a charger (at least 20-25A that they can lend to me for a day / few hours) I managed to do the big MHD flash (~40 mins) with my CTEK 5 amp charger without any issue, but from what I hear the xHP flash draws a lot more current than the MHD flash. So to err on the safe side I'll probably look towards a 20-30A charger for my piece of mind. If anyone has any brand or model recommendations (e.g. CTEK), what are your favorites?

That's an interesting idea I hadn't considered. Googling around it doesn't look like converting is that common.. I wonder how it would stack up on costs compared with just paying a couple of grand extra (and obviously waiting a while) to find a manual. For me it has to be manual, I like to get out on the twisty roads and be as involved in the drive as possible, not really that worried about shaving tenths off a quarter mile. There were a fair few around on Trademe in the last couple of years but the only black one I've seen this year worth buying was the one listed here and sold back in Dec/Jan. My parter has a tuned 2012 DSG TT RS (low ks and mint) which we could probably offer up a good deal on a trade up if someone was looking to get into one of those.

And just like that it's changed up again. Gumboot Rally in a few weeks, so I've made a few changes. I added clear paint protection film to the headlights as well. Still gotta wire up my CB properly and add the monster aerial - I was talking to someone in Mangere while driving around in Albany a while ago when I tested it haha. Once the rally is over I'll be swapping it back to standard and running the e92 18's for a bit

a cgt should be part of flattening and simplifying the whole tax system Make it more difficult to avoid /evade taxes then everyone pays their share.There is a line to be tread here.If they make investment in property too difficult then is the government going to become the landlord of choice?Cos mum ans dad propery investor will have fled

The thing is though, the Working Group never wanted a CGT- until they were told to go away and think again. Political interference is at play here. The 3 most (only??) clued up members of that group were and remain dead set against any CGT.

My point exactly. National will wring their hands and say how terrible it is, but if implemented, National are very unlikely to repeal a CGT. After all, they introduand ced the brightline nonsense, while saying there was no housing issue in NZ. They didn't want a CGT, so they've pigeon-holed it called it something else. The TWG suggestions go too far in my opinion. As others have said, lifestyle blocks and homes used to run a business shouldn't be attracting a CGT. Review of the whole range of suggestions is required, and while a CGT could be applied to a family home, there should be a threshold, evaluation of any gains made, and time limits applied. The family bach overlooking the sea in East Coromandel (it'd be nice!) which has been owned for 75 years is a case in point - how do you assess gains on something like that? An agreed length of tenure means, in my opinion, that CGT shouldn't apply.

we should stand firm against a CGT. We are taxed too much as it is now and if you think they will reduce other taxes to balance it out your dreaming , maybe in the first term but like all taxes they will go up over time. once introduced there's no going back.

The brighline test is paid on profit (short term). A percentage of sellers who fall under it will profit from little to no reward but you can bet in this flattened market there is no one buying for short term capital gain, unless they are buying & improving properties (Reno, landscaping, adding bedrooms etc) and selling for profit, and there is nothing wrong with this. The majority of CGT won’t be paid on profit, it will be paid on inflation, and or hard work (building up a business). And nearly all families will be paying it on a family home, either through inheritance, if the home is business tax deductible (and a lot of small businesses rely on the house as part of their business), or the 400,000 of so eligible lifestyle blocks in NZ. The bright line test is a ‘fairer’ way of targeting property speculators. I’d extend it to the family home to avoid any loop holes speculators use to avoid it, and bad luck to any private sellers that happen to buy and sell within five years. As I said before most property investors are in the game long term. Buy and hold, pay down debt on P&I mortgages and increase cash flow. It’s not a huge issue to most of them. It will end up hurting ordinary kiwis more - those with small businesses, those who stand in line for inheritance, those who rent out the granny flat, the single dweller or couple that Airbnb their house a couple of nights/week to help pay the mortgage, the family on $80k per year who want to sell their $400k rural lifestyle block (while the family on $250k pa don’t pay it on their 2.5 million dollar Mission Bay mansion).

The point of difference is that this is a (high) tax-payer funded tax break, a disingenuous Robin Hood-esque redistribution of wealth, regardless of which party has touted it. Can somone explain to me what the economic benefit from this particular lolly will be, if it's thrown through the air? $500 will easily be soaked up in fuel, or energy, or staple food inflation; fuel of course being a very efficient generator of tax revenue. The $500 tax break wont benefit small business owners, or improve GDP. It'll win votes, though. Sounds like a lot, $10/week...

funny different for everyone, I thought Matt was excellent after the first season nerves and especially in the last season, his dry humour worked well with Chris and Rory, which for an american was quite unusual. I thought he had the potential to be better than clarkson less ranty and just the dry humour. His absolute joy in doing the stuff showed through better than clarksons as well. His pieces about some combine harvester /tank or whatever were brilliant the bit where he and harris were testing those battery moto-x bikes and the all terrain thing when they were hunting bigfoot was great and showed the potential those two had. Sorry to see he bailed.

Considering it's just a short E36 coupe, I could think of many other uglier BMWs E90 non facelift X1 X3 X6 2 Series Active 5 series GT F02 7 series E65 7 series and more!

Every one is entitled to their opinion so lets agree to disagree on this one.

It's true... We arrived 6, maybe 7 years ago. Get our citizenship next month. I saw National offfering two tax cuts at the first election we were here, at a time when labour was saying the country couldn't afford them. The first tax cut went through, but the second didn't - National subsequently agreed it was unaffordable. The last election I felt national didn't actually have a manifesto, and trotted out some words when it became apparent Labour were doing better than expected, including the offer of a tax break. I said at the time that I felt National didn't want to win the election, and still wonder if that were the case. There were several things happening which were - and are - going to be difficult to deal with. CGT is paid on profit from gains realised through little or no effort. 33000 houses were empty in Auckland alone in 2017; these are typically owned by investors who bought them with a view to sitting on them, selling them in a couple of years, and gathering a 20%+ profit. (Whether they do get that sort of profit is another matter.) Effort - zero. Other than having the money to begin with, and there are people who do this for a 'living'. Applying CGT to these gains (to me) makes sense. Applying CGT to Kiwisaver, small business gains and so on is a different matter. Scrap the brightline bullshit (which, let's face it, is only a short-term CGT by another name) and do the job properly. It's sad that reying on a government to do someting properly isn't a rewarding passtime.