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    What Cement has said above is 100% relevent.

    I've got a Prusa MK3S+, which is nowhere near the size you require, though. They do an XL now (with a long wait list!), but I think it's probably $4K with shipping!

    The main reason I went with a Prusa though, is that they just work. Mines only a baby: since October 2021 it's done 47 days of print time and 3.1kms of filament, but it's had no issues or adjustments. I have done a print that was approsching 30 hours once too.  I just give it a wipe occasionally and vacuum out the enclosure (I built a "lack table" type of enclosure for it). It's also capable of printing just about any filament out of the box, but it can be upgraded too. I've only tried nylon once, and it was a pain in the arse, but it was a complex bracket, so I don't know how good my printer really is at it.

    I'd be more inclined to buy a better quality printer with a smaller print bed and print in multiple parts. "It's not how big it is, it's what you do with it" 🤣  It appears some people give up on 3D printing when the printer doesn't meet their expectations or is too difficult. Some of the big printers are really expensive and I wonder if the lower end big units are worth it? I've not spcifically looked into big dimension units though.

    The actual printing part is the EASY part - 3D modelling is much harder to master, and I struggle with a lot of things - I should really do a course, or at least do more than just the first episode of the Youtube tutorials 🤣

    Also - filament dryer: get one. SOOOO many proglems or quality issues are solved by drying filament. I got the round Sunlu Dryer on a Briscoes-like special. They seem to run a special deal every second day. You can use an oven or dehumidifier, but the Sunlu work well, holds a 1kg spool and is automatic. I pop it open now and then to change the humid air and spin the roll a bit. Damp filament makes crap prints.

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    1 hour ago, leonf said:

    e46.   Peak BMW, imo. No fuss, not too much extra, but pretty much everything you need.  Hopefully this car is a 6cylinder and 3 pedals?

    Can almost gaurantee it's auto and probably a 4 cylinder. Maybe a little 6.

    If it was a better car, they'd have liked driving it more 🤣

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    I did a trip alone in our old E39 525i (manual) and it got to 7l/100 km, with some very "sensible" driving, Whangarei to Warkworth... wich is not really flay, straight or economical.

    On a trip up north from Whangarei to Kawakawa with the family of 5 on board (also, not really optimal for economy), it was on about 8.5L/100 km but once we were there,  I realised I was getting a(nother) kidney stone... the urgent trip home (some of which was following an E46 M3, passing everything in front of me!) managed to get the average up to 12L/100km and it took MUCH less time than the trip up 🤣🤣🤫I dumped the family at home and drove to the hospital, so I could get loaded on morphine😁.

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    8 hours ago, Twistee said:

    On a non car related tube channel, just got into whiskey tribe - didn't really need more of an excuse to want to collect beverages but why not.

    I've got about 75 litres of home made, old-fashioned, all-molasses, cask strength Rum aging here... so my little Whisk(e)y collection sits soooo much longer in my 110 year old safe... because those guys give me too many silly ideas 🤣.

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    I was going to ask the purchase price, but thought it might be rude! 😁 I guess there is a very limited market for a poked W8 passat though. For that kind of money, it'worth it just for a spare trans, and it wouldn't surprise me if someone would pay that for the ECU alone (internationally!). Manual mk5 R32 ECU's seem to sell for about NZ$800, and a manual W8 one has to be orders of magnatudes more rare!!!

    If I was single, I'd have probably bought it myself... or if I bought it, I'd be single now... same, same. 🤣

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    I've have plenty of 300K+ cars, that you'd not know by driving them (including plenty is a rental fleet I managed). Plenty of shitters with much less too! One 90's Legacy had 425K when I left the company, and I'd run it dry of coolant once and it still didn't use a drop of oil between changes... and had the arse thrashed off it by me and my manager before me.

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    On 3/14/2023 at 7:59 PM, Cammsport said:

    My cert plate is under the trunk carpet as I didn't want it in an obvious location like engine bay or door jam. 

    On my Touran, you open the rear hatch, open the in-floor storage compartment, lift out the access panel where the "mobility kit" used to live, fold over the insulation sheet and there it is! Riveted to the floor, that was cut out and flipped over for the 4WD to get fitted 😂

    Lucky I always have the same WOF guy... but I still open it up every time 😁

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    Talk to Paul at Milland.

    He got my E39 ones years ago, much, MUCH cheaper than the dealer here (and he never supplied a wrong part, like the dealer often did!). It was all factory, matched and reading to go, just needed syncing, as normal.
    I assume he gets them from a dealer overseas somewhere?

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