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If the bearing is designed to run with grease, CRC will do nothing but wash the grease out... Leading to a demo jobn of the bearing and whatever else it takes down with it. Best get it seen to.

Or 1st thing Saturday morning after Port Adelaide beat Geelong.... Edit: Personally I would be sticking it to the dealer and GMH - it is their job to sort out warranty issues like this (not yours). I have a real low tolerance for passing the buck and poor customer service from companies that know better, and have had your patronage in fairly large quantities. Maybe send them a bill for your wasted time?...

Good to hear that nobody was seriously hurt. Can you imagine a VK Commodore t-boning a MK5 Cortina or even an E30? 20 years back there would most likely have been a powerhose and body bag involved after the fact... Just shows how good the safety systems are these days - most of us will never need the systems built into our cars.

Ahhh yes - Mr Blackmore. I have been in his toyshop, and my oh my he has some nice taste in vehicular transport. There is more than one classic in that garage for everyones taste including motorcycles. Respect. That car is actually the one I had for my wedding and I see he still has the 2x Hefner cars which he had sold at the time we got married (I wanted to go out in style and what more stylish than a Playboy Mercedes Pulman). Guess the sale must have fallen through. Sorry - back on topic.... Edit: that Merc was owned by the Hong Kong film studios and used to drive Bruce Lee around (I was told that it has actually featured in a number of films as well).

Do you still have the std e46 bootlid? If so, what kind of condition is it in and what colour is it? Might be interested in a titanium silver standard bootlid if it is mint....

- Test driver / head of product development for Cigarette Powerboats - Pilot (damn my eyesight) - Rock god - Indiana Jones If you aren't totally sure what to go for, it might be a good move to do a Morrisby assessment. It is a kind of combination of a psychometric test along with your natural preferences and abilities. This is then compared to a database of profiles of people in industry to give you an idea of what others similar to your mindset and preferences actually do.

+1 for Philips (also rebranded as Hella). Osram also have good products in this area.

I agree with Johno and wouldn't touch those with a barge pole. The danger with repairing alloy wheels is that aluminium work hardens (gets harder and more brittle the more the metal is worked) and must be heat treated correctly to releive this. Doing this kind of repair incorrectly and you may find that it ruptures again when you hit a pothole or bump at some stage in the future. Nobody wants that at 100 km/h.... In theory they may be fixable, but economically why would you? It isn't like wheels for an E46 are rare...

Haha - look at the size of uranus...

If I remember correctly, this 14 cyl bad boy is used in the Emma Maersk - the largest container ship in the world. Now that's how engineering is done!

Toshiba are actually planning to install one in the middle of bumf**k Alaska to power one town which currently uses diesel generators. So, yeah they do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galena_Nuclear_Power_Plant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S

That is sweet!

Not sure how many parts the sedan and coupe share. If I remember correctly, there is only about 1 or 2 panels in common between them (bonnet & bootlid) although I could be wrong. And the compact is a completely different animal again.... As Apex says, you can do lots but be prepared to spend mucho dinero.

^ I like that idea.

Wow - that's damn near 50% of respodents that are saying we are ready for it now! Small sample and obviously skewed, but I am more than a little surprised at the result so far. There are around 400 commercial reactors running worldwide (and on the increase) and their safety record is actually pretty damn good. Accidents at nuclear plants are scrutinised in much more depth than any number of other industries (even non-nuclear accidents). I guess this is good (as the consequences of a serious f**kup are enormous), but bad in that some other industries can have worse individual accidents without the regulation and public condemnation. Haha - I actually read that book! And damn it was scary how easily he did what he did.... Dead right though - nuclear energy gets compared alongside atomic weapons (and to a certain extent justifiably so) which does nothing but misinform the public. Ignorance is bliss? Maybe it is easier to say it is bad or dangerous without open debate, and put our collective heads in the sand over the issue. I also think it is one of those subject that tends to polarize people in one direction or the other. Yes - and then consider that coal ash is also radioactive, and the particulates cause any number of respiratory diseases. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Windscale, or any of the other accidents that are less well known were no walk in the park and do leave a long term impact, but how many miners die every year in Chinese coal mines? Lots.... True - but only if the alpha and beta emitters are external. If you ingest an alpha emitter like Plutonium you are in some seriously deep sh*t.... Any radiation needs to be treated with extreme caution which is why they take so many precautions in plant design. Also true - they switched off all the safety systems (for those that weren't aware - the test they were attempting was a good idea if planned and executed properly, but wasn't authorised or executed in any way sensibly and they didn't really understand the way the reactor design worked). But at least 50% of the issue should be attributed to the dodgy design in the first place. Positive void coefficient (means it produces more power when you actually want less - ie: when it is overheating) and no containment building was always a dunb idea. Guess the Soviet system is also partly responsible for permitting such a flawed mentality about safety - and this wasn't the only example. I don't think Chernobyl was the only reason for bad publicity though.... Just look up "Nuclear Accidents" in Wikipedia - there are loads of incidents that most have never heard of. I think they generally accepted best location (although maybe not the first) was on the Kaipara - the current supply lines feeding Auckland are mainly from the south and this limits how much power can be fed in via the existing network and also creates higher risk of major failure. I didn't realise that we had actually laid pipework though! Yes, we do rank very highly in the renewable energy tables, but it can be a little sketchy on reliability for base load generation. I'm not saying that nuclear energy is THE answer, but one worthy of discussion at a higher level in the future.

I feel like less of a man - my car only has 2 exhaust pipes. 8 makes me feel inadequate..... Lambo doors???? WHY?????? These things were designed and engineered when BMW owned Rover, and I believe they are actually not a bad car. If you can stomach the looks (minus lambo doors) that is.

Seeing as the 23rd anniversary of Chernobyl is this week, and there is a big push globally to reduce carbon emissions I thought it would be a good time to see what everyone thinks about nuclear power (specifically in NZ, but an opinion on it generally or other country specific is valid). Nuclear has been a dirty word for a long time now - basically since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl (although those aren't the only accidents). Having said that, there are many new designs that take safety to a whole other level by using natural phenomena as opposed to mechanical systems for emergency core cooling. I personally think that it will make big contribution to the future low carbon energy mix worldwide. Solar, wind, and hydro are all great, but are pretty reliant on the right conditions and not good candidates for base load generation (hydro might be an exception there in NZ anyway). Will it happen in NZ? I don't think it will in the short or even medium term, but I also think it shouldn't be ruled out, and we need to start talking about it. It will take a long time to get up to speed with the technology from where we are today and we will need to draw heavily on overseas engineering experience / expertise. The Americans are no longer the leader in this area (France and Japan are) and even they are having to play catch up - so imagine where little old NZ sits..... Your thoughts?? And for those that think NZ is nuclear free - think again. There are thousands of industrial and medical instruments out there that rely on radioactive sources to operate (not to mention domestic smoke detectors) - we just don't have nuclear power, uranium mining or heavy industrial nuclear research / manufacturing activities here.

Yep - they started production around mid year in 2000. There will be some cross over with the last of the 328's being built in 2000 as well. Also, the registration year is not always the same as the build year... Mmmmmm - E46 M3.

I actually thought there was an ongoing stoush between TVNZ/TV3 and Sky about Prime being on Freeview... I agree - I don't think any petition will bully Sky or TVNZ/TV3 to put Prime on there.

That sucks monkeyballs. Hope you get the deposit (or some of it) back in the end.

Wonder if that email address is being spammed yet??

Huh?? Translation? I personally think he got off lightly, and I am totally sick of hearing about it. He is in the media himself - and it is a dog eat dog industry. Did he think that his former competitors would go easy on him?? What he did is f**king low. It may not be the worst thing the court heard last week, but still lower than pond scum. On top of that submitting 'modified' documents to support a lightening of the sentence borders on fraud if you ask me. The suicide attempts aren't serious ones (if they were he would have only needed one crack at it) - which smacks of attention seeking. He needs to keep his head down for a while. Enough already - there are much more important stories out there. Like how similar Frank Bananarama is to Robert Mugabe (or how he would like to be)....

^ 1TB is one hell of a lot of porn. Seriously, what do you download to get to that level??

Oh HELL yes!! That bad boy is simply awesome! For something a little less extreme.... Linky