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Another suggestion: if you're looking after your own vehicles, set the CBS metrics to the moon, I think I was able to change them all to 300,000kms and 2035 or similar. The whole CBS thing is mad given some of the "lifetime" claims made for some component consumables. People don't get that "lifetime" means the lifetime of the new car warranty, not the actual car, or owner. Fortunately somebody that will not depend upon CBS purchased mine.

I had a devil of a time resetting my brake pad CBS warning, which I found particularly annoying because, well we have physical sensors for that, and the pads were thick-as, sensors not tripped. Anyway, I had to reset the CBS warning I think three times, with some driving in between (presumably because you need to run some miles for a new reset to have actually new data). This was simply done through iDrive, not ISTA. Having said that, I never encountered any errors or such, just some head scratching, and self reflection on general competency, until brute force worked. I cottoned on to this because when I retrofitted cruise control, I had to reset the steering angle sensor at least twice, possibly three times, before it stuck, even though it said successful every time.

Bump before Trademe.

Holy crap, you've done a good job on both of those! F**k me, nice work.

Nice one. Your car sounded great driving away the other day, that's not a fully stock exhaust right?

I'm looking to get some wall mounted wheel racks, anybody have any experience or recommendations? I'm probably looking at getting two racks, each at least 1100mm wide (up to about 2m max), and they need to be mounted on a cinder block wall. Both would need to carry the weight of four rims with mounted tyres. I've seen these advertised locally but would consider importing if the options were better. https://www.aceofspace.co.nz/products/adjustable-tyre-rack https://www.topmaq.co.nz/tyre-rack-4-tyre-wall-mounted-avmi3010 Please share your experience or opinions, cheers.

Do let us know at the end of the day what you end up paying per corner.

Looking good Chris, the weather gods have been good this week for working outside too!

That's a great looking result. If you haven't already, check in with Mikestan just up the road if you need more powder coating, I had a great experience with them for my M3 parts, and they were literally less than 1/3 of the price of Arkro. This was a while ago now, so thing may have changed.

SOLD and collected.

Tyres Tires - one genuinely good reason to live in 'merica.

I've read about the charge cooler leaks, how many k's when yours happened, what were the symptoms?

I had Pirelli Dragon Sports on my 328 and, for what they cost, they were fine. IIRC they were around $200-$250 a corner? In similar sizes to what you're looking for. Okay in the wet too but quite noisy in the dry. The benefits of these is that the construction is unlikely to fail on you and most people won't look at the tyres and think you've cheeped out. Most people don't even search for Pirellis when thinking "inexpensive but not cheap tyre". P-Zeros, these are not. Edit: just looked they were even less expensive, 4 x 225/45/17 = $546, less than $150 a corner. They were from Hyper so I suspect I got 4 for the price of 3 or something. And that was 2017! Can't find them on Hyper at the moment but they have these for $185 a corner: https://www.hyperdrive.co.nz/product/122154/pirelli-powergy

I'm going to contact BMW and ask why BMW US have explicitly acknowledged "defects in materials and/or workmanship" and BMW NZ have not done so, publicly at least (as far as I can tell). Did my engine come off an entirely different, mutually exclusive, production line? Answer: no, it did not. I'm not expecting to get far but hey. I might ask Consumer NZ also. Can we search for, or find, these mysterious TSB/SIB notices?

That's what actually got me interested... in the US BMW are offering NZ$4000 F series valve cover replacements under a 15 year extended warranty because of PCV design faults... I'd like to think that was applicable in NZ also but how do we search for that? The PO of my car actually paid for this work in November last year (I have the actual BMW work order and invoice) which, whilst I'm grateful, is absolutely BS by BMW if they're ducking reasonable (and responsible) liability here in NZ, where we actually have stronger consumer protection laws than the US.