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To the original poster - are you doing donuts? I'd guess that one wheel spinning for several seconds is pretty hard on a diff. It would make the side gears do heaps of work...

Without the legal system there would be no incentive to stick to the rules (ie safety). Lawyers aren't completely without use.

They comparison is about 30% better off taking into account cost of living, and they get the conditions they have signed up for (proper staff levels and they can take their leave). Free hospital cafe food is apparently not a great deal. Jobs, like pretty much anything, still come down to supply **and** demand - for the skills in question - there's a shortage of truck drivers in some areas and there're sufficient earnings (thanks to the resources boom) to pay those higher wages. There's (corporate) cash to pay for lawyers and accountants, and competition for the good ones keeps the wages (for good ones) high. There's regional variance in NZ - Christchurch pays lawyers/accountants about 20% less than AKL. For some reason from a pay perspective, the demand/supply thing is not so strong for engineers (I've never understood why - the study is hard enough and the knowledge/skill as well). I seem to recall a (necessary) jump in police salaries a few years back as part of the recruitment drive. Money talks. For doctors (junior and senior), supply is very restricted and demand is high. NZ's superior lifestyle doesn't matter that much to your average 25 year old doctor.

I've asked my wife before about that - she says: a) there aren't that many people in ED with colds/flu (I didn't ask ethnicity because I don't care and neither should you) b.) she said that there are a lot of people who are in ED because they have something which they should have seen the GP about weeks earlier (but presumably didn't due to cost), which has now become serious c) a significant number are related to diabetes and its complications. I know you can (and probably will) put an ethnic spin on that, but you shouldn't, and again its a problem which can be fixed by more health funding (eg free doctors visits). Re: Nurses - apparently some senior nurses are very, very good. However, they don't have 6 years of specialised training and as a result they have a narrow skillset when it comes to diagnosing patients and managin their care. It's not a criticism, its just a/the reason why they don't have the same responsibility as junior doctors. My wife says the hospital would not/could not work without the dedication, compassion and skill of the nursing staff.

That's Damian (Damo) on the forum with the 335i turbo build/rebuild in progress. http://www.bimmersport.co.nz/forums/index....showtopic=14509

Locum is a "reliever" doctor (like a reliever teacher at school) - someone who is contracted to do the job day by day. They should really only be used to cover when doctors are sick or on leave, not to fill vacant positions. Its tremendously expensive. Imagine if your job was being done by a part-timer for 3-4x what you are paid, and they left at 4pm since they don't have to deal with the issues the next day. It isn't quite as simple as plugging symptoms into a computer. Don't forget, immigrant doctors with qualifications we recognise go to Australia too, since the pay is better. There is global competition for qualified doctors. The ones we don't let practice here don't meet the qualification standards here. I guess what I'm saying is that you can't rely on immigrant doctors coming here to fill the positions - they aren't doing it now and its only going to get worse. Honestly, they're pretty smart - while being a doctor is apparently nothing like Grey's Anatomy/ER/Scrubs/House, whenever my wife and I are watching those shows and there are obscure injuries (ie in House), she almost always knows what it is. There's less random sex in real hospitals. (edit) At least that's what she tells me

Both. $55-75k isn't a good whack. Google what investment bankers earn. 7-8 years ago, when the majority of them were 18 years old, they probably had no idea what doctors get paid. More importantly, they probably didn't imagine they'd find themselves working in a job where they were made to feel guilty for taking leave, and where the part-timer (locum) beside them doing the same job was earning 3-4x what they were. Don't focus on whether you think $55-75k is good money, focus on whether doctors will stay in the country and who will look after the public. The doctors that are still here are actually the loyal ones...

I'm obviously biased (although I try not to be). A lot of the problem is that the media gives a reasonably even weight to what the DHBs and Cunliffe say. They aren't playing with a very straight bat... For instance, the average pay for house surgeons (which are 1st/2nd year junior doctors) is nothing like $88k - I have no idea how they get that #. My wife's on the top rate at around $76k pa - that's because she's currently working in surgery and works the longest hours (7am start not 8am, 2 long days per week not 1, etc). I think its a 65hr/week pay scale (for 5.5 days a week - thats 12 hours a day), although she works much more than that by the time she's stayed late a couple of times a week and worked the long days. Who knows where the other $12k that Cunliffe refers to comes from... The DHBs are worse in some ways - all they talk about is how the junior doctors lack loyalty. They should be more worried about the medium and long term effect of the exodus of doctors to other countries - its going to get worse... Apparently most of the senior doctors support what the juniors are doing - they understand the implications of underfunding a key resource in the health system.

Disclosure of interest - my wife is a 1st year junior doctor at Middlemore. Cliff notes, coz this is long: - We have a junior doctor shortage - The strike is to address the shortage - Shortage is causing lower quality of care, not the doctors - Shortage is cause by uncompetitive pay rates and conditions First up some "facts" (nothing's precise in all this, so I'll do the best I can) based on my missus: - they do get $55-75k pa - 1st/2nd year junior doctors get about $22-25/hour for hours worked - They get 6 weeks of paid leave, the extra time makes up for the: - 1 weekend in 4 that they have to work - having 6 weeks of holidays sounds good, but they are too understaffed to have holidays. I know someone who was refused leave related to her wedding (as in, she was refused leave in the couple of days before it) - pay scale depends on hours worked, which depends on department - they get free food - they are paid for 50-60 hours a week, but most will work about 10 more than that - each week will feature 1-2 long days. This means working from about 7am 'till 11pm. They're back in there at 7am. Plenty of people think this sounds like a good deal. The point they're missing is that: - its a stressful job - doctors need to be extremely smart and precise - no part of the day is spent looking at Facebook - they work very, very hard - mistakes are bad, very bad On top of this, there is a severe junior doctor shortage - its not uncommon for there to be 50% vacancy rates for salaried positions. This has several affects: - the junior doctors that are there have to pick up the extra work - extra hours and stress. There is no extra pay for this - to fill (partially fill, actually) the vacant positions, the DHBs pay locums (basically reliever doctors) $75-100/hour, and sometimes more - obviously they don't want to pay this, so to the extent possible they force the extra work onto the junior doctors. The strongest incentives for resident (salaried) junior doctors are to either move to Australia and get paid around 30% more to work in a well staffed hospital, or to locum here in NZ at around 3-4x the pay rate and be able to choose their hours. The high locum rate is a symptom of the severe doctor shortage - this will only get worse and the longer it goes on the lower the quality of healthcare that can possibly be delivered. So - arguably the strikes are about money, but the reason the strikes are happening is to get the DHBs to change their attitude to one which will retain doctors. If they don't change, in about 5-10 years we're screwed.

Google tells me you've been aggravated in the past by people telling you that your asking price on this car is too high, and I'm pretty sure I won't be the last.

I'm a mod on some other site. BFD. Oscar is the seller, that's why he is grouchy with me.

Fair enough (although it's only fair OSCAR has another go since I just posted again before I saw this). I'm not feeling aggro at all - its just a discussion about car values.

That's surprisingly personal, regardless of whether its true. If you can put aside your "M3 is the greatest" attitude for a while, you might notice that my first post indicated I know that they are rare. Rare doesn't necessarily mean good, it means rare. You can buy one from Europe. Simple. You may not be able to drive it here, but since you've done about 200km in a year in yours that's as close to "not driving" as you can get. If you use your car in the manner for which it was built, its value will drop reasonably significantly. Why are your panties in such a knot over what some guy on the internet thinks anyway? If its so friggin' great, why are you selling? Palazzo - the equivalent E36 (the 2 litre Super Tourer) competed in BTCC and Germany and did pretty well, from memory. Its less of a car than the Grp A M3 from a pedigree perspective and I never suggested that E36 M3s should have the same value as E30 ones - they common by comparison. It does raise an interesting point though - $100k for an E30 M3 cabriolet is getting into Grp A M3 money, and I know which I'd prefer as a toy or as an investment.

Which bush? The one 3pedals says is definitely available in urethane and definitely a good idea in urethane. Not sure the one you want is though.

Can and did, then had to wait a couple of days until I was authorised (and I had to fish the confirmation email out of the spam folder) before I could look at the thread. I'm surprisingly grown up, which you could figure out if you read some of my other posts. I even have a lesser M3, so must value them to some extent. I bought it recently and there were a lot of cars sitting with asking prices 20%+ too high, and the price on your car feels the same. Look I don't especially want to spend ages arguing with you - its not going to change either of our minds. I'm not the guy who spent $100k to refurbish a car which has been driven 200km, but if I was I'd probably be pretty touchy about its value. I'd still put the value of this car at no more than that of an Evo3, so if you get the same $80k IMHO you've done well. I think it's only worth $60-70k (the resto job does look to be excellent), but either way its worth what someone will pay for it. Maybe now's a good time to sell - there's been close to a decade of good economic times globally and it looks to be turning, so there's nothing to say the value won't change negatively soon. Good luck.

Maybe he means adjustable height.

Sorry I wasn't clear. I thought the M3 **arms** were stronger, and stronger hub etc. It seems the top bushing is the same for M3 and non-M3. There isn't an obvious aftermaket option I can find which isn't significantly more expensive, and I'm not sure it would add much on a street/track car rather than a full race car.

Someone who knows might chime in - I thought they were simply heavier/stronger. I had a quick look on realoem - all E36 top rear bushings seem to be the same - probably about $100 each given the US$ pricing.

For the front bushing, I paid about $70 each for the BMW M3 ones, vs less than $90 the pair for Noltec ones from BNT (which are solid, and much cheaper than the ones from George Stocks). BMW ones went on my car, and the Noltecs on Jonathan's (JiB) E30. My car is a street car, his is for track.

And for Greg, which bushing do you mean? There are $$$ upgraded ones on the Turner Motorsport site, but they recommend the M3 ones for non M3: http://www.turnermotorsport.com/html/detai..._ID=33326775551 They have an upgraded one too. Personally I'd go factory.

Boost Junky - nothing wrong with urethane bushings, but the M3 rubber ones are hard anyway (ie similar level of performance and should be better comfort), and last for about 100,000km - it is a bit questionable how long the urethane ones will last, and for not that much extra why take a chance on a street car. I got OEM ones for my M3 (I actually got the offset ones in combination with Evo arms, so have even more caster), but would get urethane for your car given its purpose and they are cheaper.

I drove it before it was removed - went into all the gears nicely and didn't make any nasty noises.

Just to add to that (its at my house), the body is rusty, and the engine runs reasonably well - it was driven there. Also missing battery and interior fan, and a couple of minor bits of trim. It has a manual steering rack. None of the manual conversion bits (ie pedal, clutch master, prop shaft) are in it. It does have discs both ends. There's also a 325i auto gearbox with sport mode (and lever and sport switch and gearbox computer, but no loom), torque converter and piping to the radiator.

It should be easier/cheaper if he can find the correct one. **If** being the operative word.

Well, if your customer won't buy it for top dollar I suspect no-one will then. I am actually more surprised he found someone willing to pay over $20k for an M325i. Thats a huge premium over the "normal" M325i price and pretty difficult to justify. I don't know the car, but I know it can be extremely difficult to find a buyer for a car prepared to pay for condition. Why would you buy an M325i, no matter how mint, when it's into M3 territory? At least an M3 is actually rare and has motorsport pedigree (and mechanicals for that matter). And if its coz of the mint condition and you believe its collectible, why would you buy an M325i that you couldn't drive? I can't look at the resto thread coz you have to register (I have, but I need approving apparently). How "restored" is it? The leather doesn't look new. Also 200km since rebuild isn't like new. Its like rebuilt. Don't get me wrong - I think its a very nice car (not to my taste), but the pricing is crazy and anyone paying that price is crazy. There are way better and/or rarer cars in that price range.