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    aussie need to look at why asian car makers are spending massive amounts of money setting up manufacturing plants in england and other european countries yet everyone is running from oz.

    The fact that the employment law in aussie is designed to pay the least skilled laziest employee lots doesnt work, this is why the big companies in the USA went under.

    they would be naive to believe its impossible to compete with the wages of asia

    Spot on

    Unions and government have made their bed... Now the workers get to sleep in it

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    http://maps.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/aucklandcouncilviewer/ - awesome tool

    If you can put up with the smell and lack of space at rush hour the train is OK... I hate public transport but some people don't mind.

    There's a lot of free car parking 5 minutes walk from Newmarket if you get here early enough. I start work on broadway at 7am and never have trouble finding a (free) park

    Otherwise earlybird caparking is $7 - get around birds shitting on your car everyday...

    Avoid the motorways at all costs!!!!!!

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    I'm after the intake elbow that connects the MAF to throttle body like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Intake-Air-Boot-BMW-E34-525i-Touring-and-Sedan-/260696370001?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3cb2b6eb51&vxp=mtr

    Also this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/BMW-E34-525i-M50-Touring-Air-Hose-from-Idle-Control-Valve-to-Air-Boot-Brand-New-/140621173996?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item20bdacd4ec&vxp=mtr

    0274977188

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    Obvious questions:

    -What fuel are you using,

    - what tyres & pressures do you run ?

    Our E39 528 averaged 10.6 over the 298,000 km it had clocked up when we sold it:

    - worst was 14.6 when booting the crap out of it

    - best was 7.3 on a trip to Rotorua with the full family of 5 and all the crap including mountain bikes for a weekend of fun.

    - Start stop stuff was around the 10.6 - 11.0 mark.

    P.S. it was manual.

    I only run 95. Tyres are Bridgestone Potenza G3 (predecessor to the re001 i believe) @ 34psi

    I have the early m50 - so no vanos

    Manual box does make a hugee difference - no doubt.

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    I Cleaned the ICV out today. What a huge difference that has made - car is running the best it has since I've owned it. In doing so I also managed to identify 2-3 serious vaccuum leaks that will explain the fuel consumption.... so time well spent.

    The ICV clean took much less time than I expected so I went and bought some new plugs to occupy the rest of the afternoon.

    I somehow managed to break one of the coil pack connectors.... so now the old girl is running the worst it has since I've owned it. That also means I have to take the train to work for the next few days until I can get it running on 6 cylinders again :(

    Will be interesting to see if the cleaner ICV does anything for fuel consumption or if that will only improve when I get the hoses/intake replaced

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    I think the main issue was the font is slightly different on the overseas ones because plates.co.nz complained and said "their" font couldn't be used. And our speed cameras can only read the font used by plates.co.nz.

    Plate surrounds are therefore ok.

    I wish - Have had 2 camera tickets with the euro plates...

    106km/h on a long weekend and 61km/h in a 50 area...

    "Safer communities together"

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