Jacko

Other than the cable ties, butchery to wiring harness, horn?, ignition booster bullshit box?

My insurance is due to renew, previously paid $800PA for AMI agreed value at like $14k, this year its now $1200PA with agreed value dropping to $13700.... No claims, no accidents, no changes... Anyone elses insurance sky rocket? Hawkes bay/Auckland floods the cause?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/130i/listing/4272504210?bof=EOVwkm6c - Brakes.... also got some weird stuff under bonnet. Looks like cert was done by dealer on import, kinda curious to see what suspension its running.

The amount of stupid sh*t coming out of Wellington in past few years is mindblowing, its like every government organisation got a lobotomy.

Docking is well documented online, plenty of how to's, although its frowned upon practice for this breed.

Wont have had a rebuild... still dirt cheap. Be worth snapping up for that price.

Just got it back again, again, hose blew off top of waterpump... fingers are crossed. Yup woodhill, Im fairly regularly up there trying to not fall off. It shat itself right when I got into carpark, missed out on hero dirt...

Nice! more manual 130 people, we are smaller in number than the slushbox crowd, but have far better taste.

Taken a month of pulling teeth, but think Ive gotten somewhere. Got in touch with recaros Marketing Manager in the US, who got in touch with the VP of Recaro Japan.. and things happened. All the Recaro minions, like Recaro Aussie rep, were much less than what would be considered helpful. Documentation with the cert man... hopefully I have an LVV cert shortly.

Id be checking the basics, like is the big yellow plug under the seat plugged in?

Yeah, had hoped it wasnt actually a VW as well... all the reports say they're better but proof is in the pudding. Toyota Ractis to the rescue, which cost less to buy than what Ive spent on Skoda repairs, and the 300,000km BMW as daily for a bit (as its way less of a ballache!)

Timing chain and waterpump/thermostat. In the US this would be covered by the class action lawsuits, in NZ... suck it up.

Didnt even make it 48hrs. 100% makes 335i's look reliable

BMW Touring Coupe concept, best looking thing out of BMW in a longtime.. bit too many wings and sh*t.. and note how they dont show the kidneys...

Car owned by my company, no CGA. Turns out Skoda are as scummy as you would expect the VW group to be, spent 4.5k on engine work now... better not sh*t itself again, if it does will just fix it myself.

So parts warranty doesnt apply once cars out of warranty....

Just looked, I got my HELs through ebay UK, was 130 pound.. pretty cheap.

I have HELs, from amazon I think, no issues at all and no cert needed (cert man even commented, nice brake lines ) been through probably 6 WOFs with them. Don't quote, but I think the deal is if they are swaged fittings, no issues. I wouldn't suggest aliexpress units, but if you go BFgoodrich/HEL/etc I doubt you'll have any issues.

Yeah I spoke too soon Giltrap are good, Skoda came back and said 50% parts and labour... Why yes! I would love to pay for 50% of your dumbass part that still under warranty and 100% your problem and not mine haha.

In with Skoda at moment, confirmed they will be installing its third waterpump and thermostat as good will. Customer service from Skoda seems good so far...

Cool story brah

FCP just advertised something like 70% cheaper international shipping, havent looked, but looked interesting. Its not really apples to apples, as I have big yellow brakes, but really rate the Brembo NAO pads in them (for spirted street use at least)

Ahh sorry, words, yeah faceballs.

BMW NZ Discussion/Parts group. I paid 13.5k for mine 8 years ago, with double the ks, and it was cheap then. The 130i market worldwide is slowly climbing in value, places like canada can get access to the JDM stock as of late last year... its drying up... NZ's in a weird little bubble of cheap 130s, it will pop at some point.

Id consider that to be a win. If you like the noise of a 116, you will love a 130