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Being blocked by them actually seems like an ideal outcome... Thanks for the heads-up.

I realise that ATE are OEM but Brembo rotors can be had from many places in NZ and are just as good.

It depends on the characters used. "ABC 123" works because the "1" is thin, on the other hand "ABC 223" does not work.

Is this "vibration absorber" done up correctly?

Well spotted but you should see what they are worth now! Almost worth taking off and selling separately, they're worth mega-bucks and the ones that match the motorsport skirts are NLA.

Lots of hares down there! That's real shitty luck.

There's not a lot of room for decals on these calipers but have a look at @Jacko's recent thread for info on doing brakes well. I got my calipers powder-coated black after weighing up other colours and stickers.

BMW parking for sure.

And over-priced IMHO. None of these 30k+ e36's are shifting.

I realise some people will like it but that wood trim is pretty in-your-face. It might pay to see if you can find some inexpensive replacements in a more 'integrated' colour? Sell both with the car. Obviously if these are M5 specific then "inexpensive replacements" is moot and my idea isn't so practical.

Well for $250 you can get it repaired professionally and that's less than the retail cost. Unfortunately you're going to need to chalk this one up to experience, as AJ says you can't reverse into the van, regardless of its speed. It would be a different story if the van hit you but in this case you hit it and are at fault. Since you're at fault and they're offering a 50% discount I'd take option 2 and run. But before doing so get explicit confirmation that the van driver has actually denied liability and it's not just a matter of the insurance company or your broker trying to be expedient. After the claim is settled move insurance companies to one that will NEVER touch your premiums if you have a no-fault claim, that's BS.

On these islands...

Or a well placed car. ?

You clearly have no idea what an Evo is, or is capable of. Go back to Google.

FWIW, as an example, buy 2 Evo V's, add a piggy back with launch control, anti-lag and boost ramp, add cages. Now you've spent half as much as the BMW and have TWO cars that will be quicker around any NZ track and you can race with a mate as opposed to pleasuring yourself. And I can promise you that the Evo's will give you a far safer experience on the limit than the BMW. Bin both of them and you can still buy another two.

If you think a race car only costs the purchase price then you need to spend more time on Google lol. You can have twice the fun for half the price. Period.

No, twice the fun at half the price is what I said, you even quoted it! Your reinterpretation has nothing to do with what I said. It's a luxury indulgence for the very few, you could have twice the fun at half the price. Fact.

The reality these days is that you can have twice the fun at half the price. I can't understand why BMW keep pumping these incremental models. All they're doing is devaluing something they've just sold. It strikes me that they're no longer selling to people who value the engineering excellence, just those who want a status symbol. Well boo-hoo, it's no longer a status symbol, its just an automotive cocoon that we know you don't know how to drive. And unfortunately that devalues the entire brand. I jumped on the BMW train because it was an engineering train... now it's just a marketing train... Audi seem to be doing the better engineering job these days... sad.

Gotta love new members that take great pics! Props and welcome good sir.

Heading there myself in a few hours, I here the weather is about to pack in. ?

No... the relief for breach of contract is rarely the reinstatement and execution of said contract. Rather, the aggrieved party might be compensated for actual losses which, in this case, is likely to be negligible. Now, if the original buyer had gone out and purchased a couple of 850 engines on the belief s/he was going to receive the cars for said price then that would be a different matter and a different case. Any magistrate would also be interested in how fair the (original) buyer thought the price was, if they knew they were getting a killer deal that would not be considered favourably. Essentially in the law's eyes this is probably about haste, naivety, mistakes, opportunism and possibly a little greed, nobody has suffered any serious loss and the law would look at the circumstances, not the morality. I suspect that if the seller had approached the original buyer and said "hey look, I've just got this better offer and it looks like I priced them wrong from the outset, could we negotiate?" the outcome might be the same but the parties would all feel better about it. I think that's the lesson here.

Oh, stink! That sucks. I drove around with a busted oil cooler bracket too without knowing it, when I discovered it I realised just how lucky I'd been, losing that would be messy and potentially terminal.

So what's next Kyu? ? GLWS - it's a very good looking car.

Man, all X's are fugly but that one is supa-mega-fugly.

Nice one Mazar and welcome from down under! Man they look good from the back, squat and aggressive.