Jacko

"This club is Copyright and protected by the New Zealand Customs Service. I, Zahra Mafi am the rightful owner to the club name and accessories. If you use anything from my club without my permission you could be imprisoned up to five years or fined up to NZD$150,000" Thats not how the law, or faceballs, work... Im good...

Tardme'd https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/listing/3793117938

This things f**ken hilarious. Vrs mode and it sounds like a RS4 V8, completely fake, but it goes from boring generic middle management wagon into snarling angry terrier, its proper agro . Set the Old Taupo Rd (W) Vrs time, good fun, gearbox is cool (very clever software), steering is dead but suspension is well tuned. Even with the thrashing still ended up with 7.1l/100km over 640km journey.

Sump gasket is best bet, look further up at rocker cover etc too

Forgot to add, starter and battery (Varta E44) replaced in last 2 years along with the steering rack ends, driveshaft guibos and centre hanger bearing replaced in last 20,000km... also just found the service history for it from previous owner back to 2016 (BM Workshop).... My FCPeuro account is fire

Wonder if they will shake up the tyre market in NZ?

https://www.newtis.info/tisv2/a/en/

Ended up with a 2016 Octavia VRS, DSG with 162kw, NZ new with one owner (other than Skoda NZ who used it as promo car for cycling event) and 72000km on the clock. Looked after by the one skoda dealer since new. Will haul it back from Welly later in the week, good shake down drive

A whole swag of F20 rally cars, and GR Yaris around Whitford. Epic.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/130i/listing/3786120963 - Dirt cheap needs some love but would be a nice project! That interior is factory... someone optioned that https://bimmer.work/vin/pcfbe73be3513fac63bbc35adeb592b9f/

Will go on trademe in next week, some fresh pics after a vacuum and fusso KOG

Octavia Vrs TDI looks more and more appealing.

whats up with the B47s?

Yeah suspension setup for motorways, was bunch of people in aussie trying to get their money back on them due to dangerous handling on real roads, the fix is apparently WRX struts. I took one for a drive around town, felt OK, but not really "real world", 1.6 was fairly punchy for a 1.6 though. CLA is interesting, will have a dig. Want to have a look at this as well, https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/320d/listing/3545353213?bof=t8nrTqd7, its B47D20 according to VIN. Lots of the LCIs in the 2015/2016 bracket still seem to have N47s. These are also on the list - https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/skoda/octavia/listing/3757007674?bof=t8nrTqd7 https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/skoda/octavia/listing/3771809985?bof=t8nrTqd7

Looking at updating the company wheels, Ractis rattling like sh*t on the open road is doing my head (going to keep it though)... Need a decent sized wagon that isnt snot boring to drive, is white, is good on gas around town and open road is livable. Needs to be reliable and cheapish to run 20-25kish max budget.. will have it for 4 or so years, so will likely see 200k on the odo in my ownership. Few things considering - Subaru Levorg, probably 1.6 - Fuel economy isnt apparently as good as advertised and suspension is garbage (plus CVT might be a hand grenade, not many have much more than 100k on them) Skoda Octavia Vrs (diesel or 2.0 petrol) - Seem pretty good but price is kinda steep for whats out there F31 320d wagon (Msport so not a boat, 2013-2017ish) - How reliable are these? Timing chain issues on the PreLCI? They are comparatively cheap. What the diesels like on short trips?

Yeah, auto. There is only 1 manual 330 e91 in the country

Anyone interested in our 330i M sport touring? Reshuffling the family fleet. Will list on trademe in next few weeks, unless someone wants to snipe it before hand. Very rare 330i touring, UK import (no rust) was bought over by a family immigrating, kinda hard to price as there isnt many out there. 10k seems like a good point? 170xxx km, will check. Sparkling graphite, has cool pink/purple fleck in sun. Automatic, shifts fine in sports and normal Full beans N52B30AF with magnesium rocker cover and hydraulic power steering (for the purity) Standard Msport bits, Dakota Leather interior (manual heated M sports seats which are way lower and have better movement range than the electrics) Android CANBus integrated headunit All works well, no errors or gremlins to worry about. Its a good solid well looked after car. About the only downside is UK apparently didnt like xenon headlights, so its got standard halogens. WBAVS32050AF81214 Its been looked after by me, so is mechanically pretty f**ken shweet Sump gasket/rocker gasket/all other gaskets/waterpump/CCV/engine mounts/shocks (Bilstein B6)/tophats etc etc etc etc have all been replaced in last 30,000km. Full set of new ATE rotors and pads in last 10,000km. Oil changed every 7000km. Wheels were refurbed last year. Will get full detail and clean up before sale, paints pretty good other than a stone chip or two and a bird sh*t etching on bonnet. Cleans up nice. Near new Nankang NS20s. Latest pics I have, will post more if anyones interested.

Farting armchairs added to list.

People in - Late model mustangs (particularly ecoboosts, but applies to all) Teslas with inane number plates Pile of sh*t AU/BA etc falcons GTIs with pops and bangs tunes Ford rangers with all the middle age white man bedazzlements you can stick on Anyone driving a modern "MG" Farting Armchairs You are not cool. Nobody thinks you are cool. That is all.

Sounds like a karcher or bosch is in future, Ive used this nilfisk for 5+ years and treat it mean

Is it just me, or are Nilfisk waterblasters no longer available from anyone in NZ? Mine is starting to show its age, was looking to replace it.

Bump if anyones interested, taking up space.

My Onkyo did the same thing, I bought another Onkyo as fanboi

They may offer like 2-3k as a trade in, not worth it.

Amazon etc have them cheap, ive run amazon ones for years. $120 from repco etc isnt bad though.