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Young Thrash Driver

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  1. E30 timing belts. I have it looped around the camshaft and crank pulley, but am short those vital 2mm to get it over the tensioner
  2. Well that's certainly an innovative way to stop Auckland house prices from climbing...
  3. Pics of the interior? Want to know what you mean by "interior needs tidying up".
  4. People complaining about their random hookups.
  5. The km make for an excellent bargaining point in your favour though...
  6. I got flamed recently for sugesting a 530d, but I'm standing by that. E61 535d: http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-910856677.htm A bit older than 5 years and with higher km, but 210kW/ 580Nm is pretty attractive...
  7. Any legislative proposal will clearly have to have some kind of performance based metric behind it. Banning tyres because they sound Chinese will just get Bimmersport labeled as a rogue wing of the Labour party Snow tyres have their place. This place is not wherever in Auckland 3pedals is. I'd like to see a minimum wear, grip and water dispersal standard instituted on all new tyres, coupled with mandatory disposal after eg 10 years. Second hand tyre imports banned- safety and an environmental concern. Or maybe a maximum of 2 year old and +7mm tread for second hand imports, and no snow tyres imported second hand. I wouldn't expect great public support from the police hierarchy- would sound too much like "Oh we have got it wrong, the road toll isn't actually ALL about pissed speeders" and you'd have to catch a politician on a good day to adopt it- I doubt it's sexy enough; and Land Transport thinks batter trained drivers will be cocky and cause more crashes so God knows what they'd think of giving everyone more grip. However I'm sure the social cost of substandard tyres contributing to accidents far outweighs the cost of creating a new law.
  8. It's a funny old market at the mo. E9x 3er selling for good money all over the show, while cool stuff like this just sits there.
  9. I could, but I'd have to grab it from the bin and besides, I put it on a post and put a few rounds of 7.62 through it before I binned it...
  10. CSL is much more than just a carbon roof and a cool name over a normal M3. I'd suggest waiting for a CSL, these are appreciating nicely here and prices are heading stratospheric overseas.
  11. Pretty sure current gen Hilux's have drums on the rear. And the mother in law's Yaris has drums on the rear. E30s have disc rear. Toyota is just lazy, and making cars for lazy people.
  12. Clearly it's a write off and needs to be parted out.
  13. My E30 actually has really good headlights. The brakes, however...
  14. Have never seen a manual one in NZ. This looks like a fantastic deal to me!
  15. It's quite a silly, wide reaching question with very little specific info, so I'd say... $3500 p.a.?
  16. Welcome! Waikite huh, almost took a job out there a year ago.
  17. What is it? Looks like a Zenvo crossed with a Corvette. And how is this cooler than an E30...
  18. Maybe you should manual convert it?
  19. And if worst comes to worst... you'll have a 325 manual. Win!
  20. Car no longer for sale sorry. Got stuck into fixing things and now she's my baby again.
  21. Your new signature gif is... disturbing Having fun cleaning 25 years of oil vapour/gunk etc from the intake system. It's pretty grotty.
  22. Kyu is right, you need to do a really huge burnout to check properly.
  23. ^ This. Side lights should be banned. Except angel eyes on cars that were equipped with them from factory.
  24. Nah ACC is a scam. You should just drive around with no rego. FTP!
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