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Manual BMWs. Forgot how much I love them. Even if it is just a baby 1.6 haha

(Yesterday) Picked up the other one and drove it home to Palmy

Rescued one ($300 e36 blew it's headgasket, so has now been trailered home) and picked up another. 95 316ti manual

1.5 hours into my 12 hour working day.... at my monday - friday 8-4.30 job Another day tomorrow

Hey guys, so sometime next week I'm going to be retrieving my car from Porirua, meaning i'll be towing an empty car trailer from Palmy down to Porirua. If anyone wants any vehicle moved from the manawatu to Wellington region feel free to get in touch and I can help you out for a contribution towards gas Cheers, Paul

There is an exception to the law for *555 calls and 111 calls.

Working late...

I'd check the wiring, very easy to do if you have a multimeter, or just a bulb and some wire.

Living in a flood-safe part of Palmy! House is dry and safe

Potentially headgasket... As I'm 120kms from home. Not that I can get to palmy anyway since the city is pretty much cut-off haha.

It was/is leaking straight into the gearbox/torque converter. Smoke seems to be more water than oil, as it doesn't leave residue on my hand if i hold it over the exhaust, and looks pretty white. Never noticed much smoke before except under hard acceleration.

Cars that work sweet one minute, then all hell breaks loose.

So I topped up my oil this morning and put some stop leak in it (i know, bad idea!). Drove home and after the first 5 mins or so it started to lack power, and run a little rough. Now it's blowing out plumes of white smoke when it gets to temperature, and the idle is rough as... Am I looking at a blown headgasket? It didn't overheat or anything, just gradually began running rough etc. E36 318i with the M43B18 NB have done an oil change as I figured get that stop leak out, and it was mostly just running rough prior to that, now is billowing smoke.

That reminds me... I need to order some more

Price?

Looking to convert the $300 e36 to manual, so I'm after either a cheap conversion (budgeting no more than $800 delivered to palmy) or potentially a cheap manual e36.. Eg up to $1200ish maybe. Happy to offer up the auto bits on an exchange basis, although I know they are pretty much only worth money as doorstops.. Edit. Perfect one just popped up on trade me. All mine now

I = injected, A = automatic, S = sports? Not sure on that last one. To get it changed you need evidence, eg. Owners manual or a letter from a dealer, and then there is a change of registration details form to be completed. Not sure what Mr # it is, but I do know I've never seen anywhere that has it....

The 2015 Toyota Yaris has a single blade as well. Seems to work awesome on the gfs work car.

NAC used to do half premiums for that exact purpose, not sure if they still do, or if its still half...

Resealed the rocker cover on the e36. Looks like that might have been only one of many oil leaks unfortunately though.

Participant unfortunately. 4 times a week, every week. Luckily our trainers have to wear what we wear too though

Doing PT in the cold first thing in the morning. 2 degrees in t-shirt and shorts.... not cool!

They should be lifting your bonnet, to check the firewall for rust, and to check the integrity of the suspension mounts. So a proper wof would spot them, someone cutting corners most likely wouldn't.

As far as I can see from here http://www.lvvta.org.nz/documents/suplementary_information/LVVTA_LVV_Cert_Threshold.pdf They would require a cert. if it's not specifically allowed by the above publication then it automatically requires a cert.

Keep seeing a tidy e30 with a bimmersport windscreen decal on the street behind countdown rangitikei street in palmy. Catches my eye every damn time.