Young Thrash Driver

Should probably add- whatever you buy, be prepared to spend another 1K or thereabouts on a cooling system refresh. There are plenty of these cars about with old pipes etc just waiting to fail. Case in point, within a month of buying, my current 530 required a new top coolant hose and a new radiator cap.

V8's will have issues regarding cam chain guides etc at these km if the issue hasn't already been fixed. If you are daily driving around the city, you will probably find the inline 6 a much nicer steer. When buying my 530i, I considered the expected lower maintenance and fuel bills, and the nicer steering, more important than the grunt and noise of the V8. I'd advise you to test drive both, decide on V8 or I6, and then choose a car on it's own merits. Plenty of 200,000km plus cars about (with either engine) are giving reliable service.

I am assuming they went for this particular light as it would have input for self leveling suspension?

Yes I am assuming they are all made by some coach builder who gets the Scania or whatever chassis and builds a body for it

Have become aware of a few of these Scanias about lately, check out the headlights.

Regal Automotive, 41 Glasgow Street, Tauranga

Vehicle manufactured July 1998

Looking for an E39 boot lock actuator. Thanks.

I'm looking at an M20B25 and it doesn't have washers

A Mercedes, huh? I hear you can get penicillin for that now.

It's like a Torana lite. I quite like it, as far as silly body kits on older cars go.

Saw an i8 by the Paengaroa roundabout, very cool looking car

How much kerbing is on the 9'' rim at the back, Kyu?

Waiting for all the dickheads to see the double glazing and start going on about their bullet proof limo...

What smart arse is selling Falkens for more than RE003's? That's a good joke

Probably $400 up to Auckland via Captain Transporter, Dave.

What an awesome story. Good luck!

Should have taken up the offer for a hug

Did you chicken out CJ?

Oh dear what a shame

The tshirts are excellent, FYI for anyone wanting to get one. Still have mine from 2008 or thereabouts and it still looks good

Interesting, I have had shops rattlegun wheels on and I have found the bolts finger tight after a days driving before...

Cheat Ronin has an cool BMW car chase in it

It's all for sale, at the right price! All this hand wringing over 40,000km is nuts, I do slightly over that in a year. Seriously Kyu- they are all relatively young cars, just buy the prettiest one, you are overthinking this. On the topic of mileage, there is a 2004 X5 on TradeMe with over 500K km on the clock that the vendor is having some trouble selling, too much of a good thing perhaps

I don't care how few km this car has, nearly $15k is taking the piss.