martyyn

Chaps, I need some mudlfaps for the 316, so if anyone has any please let me know. Would prefer from someone in Wellington to keep the cost down, but just looking to do the simple things to the new car.

Are you forgetting that I won best in class too

*cough*

Wax them before you put them on Paul....will make a world of difference when you come to clean them.

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Come again ?Ahhhh you must mean the Marty with the e23's. It just so happens that I will be using mine for a friends wedding on the 8th April too !

Yeah but why is the smoke only coming out of one ?Is the other a decoy or just a trick of the photo ?

Sorry mate, no idea. I just saw it last night and then saw your post this morning.

Saw this last night....is it any good to you ? TradeMe

Who have you got the Icelink through ? Ive tried several places on the web but they either dont answer emails or wont send overseas

Shiney is for girls...

Defo.

I like the wheels, dish is not always the best. They keep the 'line' of the car being quite smooth IMHO. I would black the mesh, put a black grill surround on though. Other than that, Im not a fan of boston green, but this looks good.

I grew up with the RS2000 as rally cars and unmarked Capri v6's as pursuit cars in the UK and they will always have a place in my heart in the modern day the Focus is a sensational car for what it is, its just a shame they are so ridiculously priced over here. The Mondeo too is the sales reps car of choice in England. I wouldnt want to drive one myself but again they just keep going and going and going and on the motorways they are everywhere. I wouldnt own a Falcon to save my life though, they have to be some of the ugliest cars I have ever seen. But thats a problem in general with Australasian cars (Ford and Holden) the basic design is the same as 20 years ago. Carl hits the nail on the head, how a 5.7 v8 can only produce 350 bhp astounds me. I have around 315bhp with the only mod being after market cats from a 4.4 for gods sake !

Quality

Have you got any designs in mind ?Do you want it to remain static and simple or really jazz it up ? I can easily do the front page and doing the rest wouldnt be too difficult. Ive not used mySQL before but have built e-commerce websites using Oracle backends so cant be that hard I have never used photoshop though (as you can tell with my sig) but there are plenty of people on here who could design something for us to use. Give me a shout if you want me to knock something together.

I used to work for a freight forwarding company and to say you will be creamed is an understatement. They will screw you so badly its not funny. Not only that but they know you will be a one off so will most likely do bugger to help should something go wrong. Having said that, its always a decent risk to take if you will save against the NZ price. Im constantly stunned at what parts cost over here and have regularly had things sent over from the UK and Germany. I wouldnt trust the US though. Ive never had an ebay purchase go smoothly, they are such a bunch of rip-off artists.

They ask the same basic question several times to try and get some consistency in your answers. If you answer the same way to each then you are usually telling the truth, different answers show you may not be !I ended up pretty much on average. Was slightly above for illegal driving but .5 point below for everything else. Interesting that the overall average has me at 0.2 compared to 2.9 average. Dont see why its so different when everything else is so close.

Thats nasty. The fins are too high up, the wheels make it look like a four wheel drive and they couldnt even line up the M and the 7 ! What a waste of a good car.

Its not the overall height of the tyre side by side thats the ssue though, its having the correct profile of tyre that makes the difference.Like Gus says I think you should be getting a new set of tyres with the correct profile height for the 15's your running and you will notice quite a difference. The car looks fantastic though, do you mind me asking what the Bilsteins cost ?

Some good looking cars in there.....Paul its about time we had another one in Wellington dont you think ? We should try and rig the vote so one of us gets the prize this time. Not that the M6 last time wasnt gorgeous but garage queens should be ruled out in my opinion.

So what is it about the car that means its an Alpina spec ?No wheels, no kit, no markings on the seats, nothing

I got mine when I was still in the UK, but Im pretty sure they will send overseas.

Come on guys I want figures, not just 'oh its pretty bad'. As some of you know Im looking to buy an e30 and was settling on a 318 based on comments about fuel economy, but if its a small difference then there are plenty of 320's to look atswell. So what exactly is bad for you guys ? Like I said before is the 320 (or 325 for that matter) 5% worse than a 318 or 25% worse ? How much do you get in a tank on these things? Are they 50l ? Ive always thought that 10l/100km was the holy grail, so to get 11's doesnt seem that bad.