Young Thrash Driver

290K km, in Hawera and dereg should slow a few people down. I am sure the panelbeaters who are holding it will be happy to discuss if the damage goes further into the body than the radiator support. @dirtydoogle, what will Katie say On a sidetrack note: are those pre-facelift kidneys?

It would appear your new Hyundai leaks less than you, remarkable.

Ha, you have been working on BMWs so long your body now thinks it is one! Glad you are on the mend.

Why not buy Tom's and wrap it? That blue one...

I had one break but it left enough to get some polygrips onto it. You could drive two screws into it and then lay a screwdriver between them to wind it out.

Get it weighed. Looked up the specs for a previous gen armoured 7er a couple of days ago, they weigh something in the region of 3500kg so a run over some scales should be a dead giveaway.

*cough*manualconversion*cough*

@Gabe79 Your assistance is required, Key Guru!

Brilliant, we have Bieber and something called Cardi now, where did it all go so wrong... On topic, you may have this car for some time- surely a new radiator would be in order? Full cooling system renew and all that, won't cost a lot.

It's all meaningless anyway as putting "tax" and "fair" in the same sentence is what the blue or red team do to try and get our votes, it is a meaningless platitude designed to convey nothing except good feels. Policy by bumper sticker, if you will.

Trump will win in 2020, you sure you can handle that?

I'd be annoyed if I spent 20K on a "full rebuild" and then had to get the tappets reset and a new thermostat.

What size SP socket is required to change the plugs on an E61 with N62 V8? Any other tips regarding getting the rearmost two plugs out?

LOL at getting it certed on 14'' wheels!

Sold the 530i to a bloke in Christchurch. He is an enthusiast too, so it has gone to a good home.

This. I was thinking Max (where has he gone??) should buy it to preserve the km on his one.

So what does the TM button and the knob next to it do? Located where the front cup holders usually are.

Weird, carjam tells me an Audi Coupe S2.

Someone has put a deposit on it and is coming to have a look this weekend. Fingers crossed! Yep I think we are stuck with our cars for a bit, unless we sell them for pennys... Wouldn't have bought the touring if I knew I'd be selling it for half what it owes me but at least it taught me a few things I guess.

How did you get on with that black 540 Chris? Was the head gasket gone, in the end?

See where those two pipes bolt to the forward section? Space them apart with washers. Job done

Norway Oil Fund

Is that that real manky one from Rotorua?

I forgot... they don't have to pay for any Treaty claims, either. What is the opportunity cost in terms of hospitals or roads of that money that iwi now looks after? Meanwhile the farmer bashing has started up which is just odd, I know the data moves around a bit but is clear NZ has some of the most environmentally friendly dairy farms (the sheep and beef farms are tops too) in the world. If you cut production or move to introduce other limits, the market won't accept having less product but will turn to more environmentally damaging sources. Any talk of NZ dairy not being "sustainable" is misuse of the word. What this country needs is less government, not more. A monolithic bureaucracy like the UK is not a path to success. We cannot tax ourselves to success, Norway only works because of their oil. The Taxpayers Union figured out government manages to waste 30c out of every $1 they are budgeted for, before they begin to do whatever it is they are supposed to do; National rightly identified huge scope for bloated ministries to tighten their belts. Socialism can only work if it limits itself and lets capitalism get on with it- that is my theory anyway, socialism has failed every single time it has been tried so I can't be sure. Anyway bed time for me... busy day tomorrow, I am training the cows to all line up backwards and sh*t into the river at once.

This is because 1) their government taxes the bejeezus out of them and 2) they didn't just say no more drilling for oil, oil royalties have made them an insane amount of cash