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Here’s something you certainly don’t see everyday, especially on a grey Thursday morning! First Lagonda I’ve ever seen in person.

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227,000km WOF time. Failed on a leaking front left shock. This was pretty annoying as they are only 14k old but it seems the dust boot has shredded and maybe got sucked into the shock breaking the seal. Looking back through this thread you can see the dust boots the shop put on originally are very baggy…classic scenario of $10 part shags a $300 shock. Anyway, new shock in (another Bilstein B4) with a new (bmw specific this time) dust boot and new ‘updated’ E46 wipers from BMW and the WOF sticker is on! And off to Bunnings for some insulation to make the house healthy homes compliant.

Got out for a drive last night to see if my oil leek repair had been successful and its definitely better. Got to and from the motorway on the test mission and made some observations: Driveline is smooth which is really nice Calculations seemed to be accurate and 100kph was about 2250rpm Really got to get the throttle response / idle sorted as it makes shifting and cruising at moderate rpm a bit pants It feels much faster than you are actually going, probably just getting used to sitting much lower plus the sound Radiator performs real well, showing about 40 degrees at radiator outlet to the engine indicating partial thermostat opening under steady state driving. Oil temp never gets high enough which I'd like to sort but really don't know how, most I saw was about 70 degrees at the tank Seems to pull fairly well, yet to get past 5k rpm as there is just a lot going on experience wise 🤣 Booked in Monday for the airbag recall at BMW then to see if the Nissan folks can do the idle air volume relearn process via their diagnostics etc. Got the PWM radiator fan controller mounted up in its little 3D printed box ... learnt that the power is on all of the time and draws about 100mA in standby so might need to put a relay in front of it. Works well though, highly recommend the controller if you need one Below some more snaps from the making of the intake tubes, the carbon sleeve was SO much better than trying to spiral wrap !! Peel ply applied and hung up to cure. Moved to a 100mm wide peel ply and was pretty well behaved to wrap. The PVC conduit pulled out of the tubes fairly easily once I softened it with steam again then it was down to getting the noodle and tape out. Made up a series of hooks out of 8mm steel rod with a sharpened end ... worked away until the mother load came out ... very satisfying. Test fitted the tubes and should work well ... once the filters arrive i'll finalise the length and make them pretty by painting on more resin, sanding back and clear coating. Also got the radiator fan mounted up with two bolts out of 4, bit floppy but functional

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Callbacks... Try Aramex. It's fair to say that given the number of items they ship, some will get lost. I understand that, but would have hoped that given a certainty, they'd have a system for dealing with it. Days to get a reply by email. Phone calls are a complete waste of time. In the meantime, the customer you've sent something to (often) wants to know why they've not received their package; the saving grace with that is that an increasing number of folk know the service is sh!t so even sympathise when you're trying to get something sorted.

Hi All, I hope all is well. Just looking for some e39 parts to spruce up my 2000 528i e39 factory manual car. Any one have the parts below for sale? - Body kit - exhaust - headers - turbo kit - BBS centre caps - miscellaneous items Please note, I am just putting my feelers out, seeing what is out there. However, I would like the bolded items first. Feel free to let me know if you have any thing that would be of assistance, I look forward to hearing from you, cheers

An intriguing back story…..

looks like they have taken photos of images on a screen, great quality 😂

New brakes, intake pipe (034 motorsports), and wheels Need to replace the dog bone bushing too, axle hop when smashing out the DSG farts is annoying, then Im going to leave it alone.... Interesting comparing the engineering whilst spannering this thing. That is one big f**k off single pot caliper out of the VW parts bin (GTI performance option unit), everything been definitely effecting by the accounts department. All the subframes and control arms in it (same as mk7 GTI) are all stamped steel and welded tubes. BMW on other hand are all aluminium forgings etc, and even the stamped steel parts BMW spit out are done less agriculturally... VW/Skoda are definitely built to a price. VW must make a killing on GTIs, as they are more expensive than the Skoda for the same conglomerate of parts.

As above CarPro Perl is legit, cost effective and best of all - you can dilute to your personal preference for gloss / matte level and dilute further to use on trims / interior etc. A bottle should last a few years.

Agreed, lost some very expensive items recently and when they did turn up they were unusable.