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Avalanche Coffee for Supermarket brought beans for home made espresso. They seem to be the best tasting and consistent beans for the money. There is only one place in Papakura who make a good Coffee, its on the round about on the main street, Mottletop ... other than that if I'm out and about I generally look for Allpress as I know its always consistently good and I am not going to feel ripped off

I like fashion, preferably the kind you can throw out after a couple of seasons.

Polax = expert. Looks sh*t to me. Funny you could buy a nice 325i for 4k a few years ago and now jokers want 4k for sh*t like this?? Sure some 20 year old cars will have history but this one has more baggage than a 30 year old single mum with three kids to three different father's... You know she's a rooter and might be a bit of fun but you would not marry her, especially at full asking price.

All valid points and a good discussion, I guess I am just a bit sour over what has happened to me recently and I am in agreeance with the nanny state comments. Would just like to see people become accountable for their actions. There are some f**kin dodgy cars in Queensland though, have hired a couple that would not pass a WOF in NZ in a million years!

By them not having insurance and you having full comprehensive you are taking responsibility for other peoples short comings. Compulsory and regulated insurance would lead to a massive influx of people buying insurance and would bring prices down and lower premiums? Maybe not, I know its no cheaper in Australia or Europe. Picture say you finish your project after pouring thousands of hours and dollars into it only to have it written off by your insurance company because the party that hit you was uninsured meaning your company cannot recover costs from them so will offer you a low ball amount minus your premium costs and minus your excess and leave you with f**k all and an unregistered car than you can no longer use or compete with? Maybe you would think differently then? Possibly not.

Exactly. If they have insurance your company contacts their company problem sorted, you don't have to pay out your excess to cover costs of fixing your own car. If a privet party has no insurance and does not admit liability you have to pay your excess to have your car repaired because they drove into you, it just gets messy on all accounts. Its a case of being a responsible human and not taking a typical low life Kiwi attitude. The filthy whore that hit me went AWOL for 6 weeks and my claim took about the same amount of time to get sorted. Fancy six weeks without car? Compulsory insurance would also worm out people who should not be driving, no licence, no insurance, no registration. No low life on the road ready to drive into us and take the stand point that its not my fault. I am a "at risk driver" and my 3rd party is still only $200 a year on my sub $5k daily driver, there is no excuse for not having it.

So many dreamers. Beautiful car mate, good luck with the sale. Have noticed the guy in "Lie to me" drives one, cool cars.

I'm sorry but its a 996 and its yellow. Is anyone actually sad?

Great looking car! Love the colour and it looks to be bloody mint, very jealous. If you look at tracking it I would recommend a second set of wheels, possibly the OEM 18's and some decent tyres, those new wheels and tyres may not like corners and rumble strips/guttering.

Funny, happened to me a few months back, I was making a delivery and giving my Targa Megane RS a run when a women pulled out of a driveway without looking right, she collected me and sent me backwards into on coming traffic. She wrote off three cars off including mine without going faster than 15kph and cost herself well over $60,000 as she did not have insurance that would have probably cost her $200 a year. I didn't get a an apology or are you O.K, she was more concerned about the cops turning up and how much it would likely effect her benefit. Compulsory insurance is a good idea, even if the government pays for it for the poor, will save them money in the long run.

I don't think they check much at all. I had a Lexus IS200 once and the reg tag simply read. Toyota Lexus. Was this not the car with AC Snitzel stickers and badges and intake and other things that was for sale not lot long ago for a reasonably good price? Would rather a reshelled car than a fixed bent one.

That's BF Goodrich. When I called up Michelin NZ they tried to sell me some BF's as they did not offer any tyres in my size locally. was gutted. If you have a common sized tyre I hear Tyretech in Takapuna are doing very good deals on Michelin, was blown away with what they are offering them for. They must be parallel imported or something.

How does the saying go. The most expensive car in the world is a cheap BMW? Yucky.

Maybe BMW Australia? They had them fitted to a few didn't they?

Budget?

The M3 is designed to be a fast car. The 328ci is designed for women and men that wish they had an M3, some even put M3 badges on them and pretend. Although in saying that one man’s fast and precise is another man’s slow sloppy so its personal I suppose, I think my 1.3 Peugeot is fast in isolation in a tight back road

Have just fitted them to my car and I am warm on them so far, sure they have good grip but to be honest they are not that nice coming from Continentals 5P's, they lack the feel the Conti's gave making them unpredictable. Thinking it is because of soft sidewalls, I remember reading part of Good Years plan was to make the tyre lighter. I have only had them on a week and to be honest have only driven them on wet and damp roads and hope they come into form... but usually this happens because you adjust to them and forget how good the old ones were. Its a bad feeling when you know you have fitted a tyre that you are unsure of, to think you have compromised your cars capabilities and will have to live with it for a year or spend another couple of grand on new tyres. Dam you Continental for setting the bar and your prices so high

Flush transmission oil. I did this on ours at 125,000km and the guys said the oil was still like new. Not sure I would bother, I called BMW and apparently they don't require servicing. The 328i is not a fast car nor is is designed to be, they move well and the speed they do have is deceptive due to the smoothness and quietness of the straight 6, they are designed to be flexible and have "adequate" performance for 90% of drivers, due to its low down grunt and auto box the trump card and where it really excels is from a stand still to say 30kph, I'm sure they did this to give mums and dads a thrill off the line and this is where that said 90% of people want performance, ours would get off the line very fast but it would be a bit average say getting on the motorway or over taking. Maybe go and drive another one to make sure, no point going on a witch hunt for power that was never there.

Not sure if this is quite good enough but I'm sure you can edit it. Was just testing some day time running lights, got the idea from Abdul my courier driver, they almost look OEM on his 1993 Hiace. Would look good in the calender and promote road safety.

Thanks for the news flash! The old man had a E39 528i new in 1996 and then another later on and both had constant cooling problems even after being back on factory recalls and having parts replaced. They are beyond sh*t. I remember numerous stops on the side of the road even when the car was relatively new all the way back then. There is a lady who parks in the car park out side my office and I laugh at her in her E39 everyday, every time she goes to leave she routinely opens the hood and tops up the water. German engineering at its absolute worst.

I ran it. But would like to audition them first. We will be at the Normandy Road Hotel tonight if you could send a few there.

For Targa we are on the control tyre, Federals. We run the two types, a set for the rain that are similar performance wise to your RE11's only they have stiffer side walls and softer compound and a set for the dry that are much like the Dunlop Semi Slicks. Like a lot of teams we are still coming to grips with them but am learning how they work, pressures, heat etc. I would not discount the European Road tyres in terms of performance, like I said the ContiSportContact 5P that were on my car new last year were out of this world in every condition, tyres have come a long way in the last few years and you cant compare the technology from as recent as 4 years back to how good some of the new asymmetrics are as all rounders, they were so good I can honestly say that a good chunk of the cars talent was in those tyres. It just so happens there are no Japanese or other Asian tyres that fit my car currently available in NZ that are similar to OEM in construction.

That was my reason for buying them, the fact Goodyear have has a look at the wear ratting impressed me and ultimately sold me, anyone can make a tyre grip more by making it ridiculously soft like Bridgestone but it takes true skill to make a tyre perform as well but last twice as long, not many can do, Michelin is one who manage to do this. They are made and engineered in Germany too, something a lot of people don't realize. They are quickly becoming the favorable OEM tyre on a lot of sports sedans and hot hatches. Do you mean you got out of European race tyres or European tyres in general? European race tyres are not economical in NZ and that's why we don't run them! Guess where all the top tyres are developed and where all the technology comes from, Bridgestone for example are all developed in Europe by Europeans

My car come with Continental's OEM and they are without question the best road tyres I have ever used, they simply worked great everywhere and did everything amazing... unfortunately they only lasted 10,000km and cost near $900 each and whilst they were unbelievably good, I cant afford to be buying $5,000 worth of tyres each year. The latest set of tyres I have brought and had fitted today were the Good Year Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2, from what I have read and what I can make out they are the best tyre available for my car, $560 each is still not cheap but beats the cost of the Continentals and with a 300 wear rating I should see 20,000km out of them. Cant wait to test them out.

That is a good point. Out of the 7 or so options I was looking at only one was available locally, I have just had to do the same and ordered a set through Tirerack.com as I could not get the tyres I wanted in NZ without waiting 5 weeks.. also nice is that they cost half as much through Tirerack as they would have buying from a dealer. The RE002 looks to be a popular "aftermarket" tyre on a few forums I am on, they represent great performance for the money.