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And yet... you didn't cast one in aluminium!!! Where's the commitment?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261842753495

Throw lumps of ice on their roof all night. No evidence in the morning. After you run out of ice, throw cheap bread on their roof and go to bed... just after dawn, there'll be no evidence (after the hellish racket that sounds like a whole rubbishdumpfull of seagulls trying in to get in ) particularly good when they keep you up, but they want a sleep in

Cut a bit of tube to fit and urethane it in??? (it's probably been done somewhere )

Our road being closed at one end. I have to go the other way, to the other end of town on the way home now.... GRRRRRRRRRRRR! Took 17 freakin minutes to get home yesterday.

I can leave 3 cars with for a while to help you out with using it up

Paul at Milland will get me anything genuine I want. Usually cheaper than the dealer, AND makes sure It's the right part (Twice, a dealer has tried to sell me the wrong part even when I insisted it was wrong). I got it with a bunch of other parts, and it was rolled to fit a smaller box with coolant and some small parts (I believe Paul got it from a BMW dealer here in NZ, and it was STILL cheaper than the dealer quoted me!) If you use F2, it HAS to be the "heavy duty" or whatever the better one is - some say not suitable for headliners, and standard F2 isn't, I think - I used it on a Suzuki van, and fell off on the first warm day. Wurth Heavy Duty contact adhesive spray didn't fall off though.

I ordered a set of genuine replacement foam from Paul at Milland, for Dads E30, and they've been on probably a year, and are still perfectly fine: no sagging, drooping etc. They came folded in a box, they happily unfolded, the adhesive seemed fine - damn sticky! Maybe your dealer had a dud one?

Megatard. BMW does make a 420hp 4.0 V8 (E90/E92 M3) Turns out VW now make a 210 HP Beetle, so that's what my '72 Beetle has got, right?

Sounds about right though - pissing out coolant and oil. Do they rust too???

I meant BMW Scanner to change the VIN in the cluster to match the car. Not for mileage.

I don't lend it, but can do it if you come up here at a time that suits me. Odo correction isn't really easy, if you want it to go down. Up is easy - it will do it by itself. You can buy BMW scanner 1.4 and NCS etc for not much $$. X-car 360 for BMW Scanner 1.4, and Cable-Shack UK for NCS. They're good to own anyway.

You know why it rained at all though??? I fed a tankload of water down from the neighbours, so ours were 3/4 full before it rained... typical!

The lower milage clusters will update to the milage stored in the LCM. If you fit the M5 one, it will also show 210,000. If you fitted one with 300K on though, your car would update at a 100 km rollover marker, and the whole car will have then done 300K. They update to the highest one. If you ever want to sell the M5 one, I'd suggest not fitting it :-) It'll get 90K added onto it when fitted to your car. Then you'll need Tom to "wind it back" to sell on possibly.

There are some things that will be different inside, but may not be a major. Ideally it should be coded to avoid issues in the future. You should have the tamper dot up next to the milage display too, because the VINs in the clusters don't match. What changes, depands on high/low OBC too. I'm assuming your "new" cluster had lower milage than the original.

I dunno... There are worse things around - I offered to get her a V8 Caprice or Statesman, but she said NO WAY - they're REALLY ugly. so they must be somewhere between them, and the E39 - coz she's OK with that.

Plus... 12 is better than 8 for the girls.

Barsteward! That's a lot of car, for not much money. My Mrs thinks they're ugly. She's insured though

yep

Dunno - The sunroof is the thing that makes in E30 in immosibility for me to own. For one, they do nothing for me... but mostly because I get a sore neck everythimer I go in Dads - the sunroof is right where my head need to be - the extra clearance is needed for us tall, fat clumps...

Bloody BMW drivers! Get a dashcam

No proximity key though

If you want to pay vast amounts of money for one , I could try to tempt dad - he's had it for about 17 years though, and not really keen to give it up, but they're retired and should probably have a "sensible" car that's more "reliable"... this one did break down once... IN the mechanics workshop...

Yeah, I remember how upset your better half was, that your bill was what I paid for our CAR There are a LOT of modern motors that have timing chain failures though: Neighbour had an Alloytec Commode with 80K on that had jumped teeth - common problem. VW 3.2 VR6 I have for a "project" known chain and tensioner failures VW TSI engines - SOME models - grenade with the pin already pulled Plus MANY other brands, including a bunch of Jap ones. I'd prefer a belt really!