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Same in the US in the warmer states. They are bloody noisy but the roads will likely outlive all of us!

Done and done. Fantastic thanks Andrew- tanks tested perfectly.

Cheers, still a long road ahead to get mobile !! Maybe some Nissan emblem bars sticking out of the side of the BMW one Big milestone today, getting the first item reinstalled on the car !!! (even if it was just fuel and brake lines hah)

So good news. Only 80% of the sh*t jobs they did last year need repairing this year..... You should see the roads in the Wairarapa already. Only after a few hot weekends many of the roads are just bleeding tar. The logging trucks have absolutely rooted the roads that have had fresh chip dumped on them out toward castle point. I am glad that muppet Twyford is gone. But I bet it is just "Here's the new boss, same as the old boss". https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/433287/motorists-should-expect-delays-travelling-to-holiday-hotspots-this-summer

I drove SH2 to Napier, and SH50/SH2 back to Welly after xmas. Apalled at the state of the roads, I've not seem them in that state of disrepair in more than 30 years! Crumbling small quick-and-dirty patches, breaking surfaces, drops/compactions... I guess the govt is spending elsewhere?

LOL come on, a few hundred more gets you my modified 335i https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/335i/listing/2842863904 More than double the power, and a dual clutch transmission... why would you buy a 320i at that price? 😂

Been a while but still been chipping away at trying to get it to final sand down. Started sanding down the guide coat that was on it 2 weeks ago and found these hidden Christmas presents no one in the house wants to own up to cause it was flat when I left it !! Lucky only a few hours to get that flat, bizzare no one knows how it happened, looks like a chair leg connected or something. A bit of force required to make those dents. Anyway went over the kinks and lines with fresh eyes over the holidays and realised those lines were definitely far from being sharp. Technique has come a long way, amazing to learn that with the wrong technique you'll get no where on a complex contour which this e46 has taken me on crash course for. Learning to spend more time using lighting and shadows to guide the final Sanding Ontop of Long primer runs with guide coats Got a good break of decent weather this week so provided I can sign off on those quarter panels I'll be doing full car sand down and diaaseably for paint this week.

Saying something when you can get S65's in them...

The M25 around London was started in 1975, and at that time they used concrete as the road surface. Its still there after 45 years.

I'm on the shore, if you can get them to me I can probably sort them out. PM me for contact details.

Such a wicked build - need to slap on a Nismo sticker somewhere once done and blow some minds 🤣

Prepped and painted the underside now ... can finally start to get some lines reinstalled and the fuel tank / subframe etc in !!

This is the one I got... https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001261507545.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.5b164c4du8l1Is

Destined to sit on a caryard for awhile.. In saying that... remember when you could get a tidy E30 325 tech 2 coupe for under 10k and people said that was expensive for an old car

Well this weekends idiocy saw me careful dismantle the gauge cluster again, even using the melt and drill method instead of removing needles that would just not budge, carefully clean the contacts, install a new LCD screen, reassembled again and tested to find the same dull screen on the right side... experience is hard fought and of course the problem was two blown backlighting bulbs... A rookie mistake and I feel an absolute twat... anyhow, it all ended well and the dash is now all good, except for one pesky column of pixels that is hardly noticeable... one can say I'm a bit more savy with clusters now... I also installed a replacement heater valve and all good, splicing in another connector as mine had broken. A bit of cleaning in behind the oil filter housing is bring the engine bay up pretty good now... A bit of a drive in the arvo, followed up by sanding down a spare rear bumper I acquired today, to replace the one on the car. My spare parcel tray is in getting retrimmed and I fitted another motor to my spare blind, ready for the changeover. This week I hope to get my painted up 66's back and get them fitted up. Pleased to say the 540 is now at "operational" status now