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haha, i find this too. No one gets out of the way for the Honda Fit flying up behind them, but when they have a BMW flying up behind them they get out of the way pretty quickly.

because that matters in this situation? O_o

the current registered owner will get sent a payment demand for that outstanding rego (of one year, the time from it expiring to it deregistering), so make sure you know which address the car is registered to or you may make even more trouble if they send it to baycorp. Keep the plates, let the plates people know they are no longer on that car. If you are selling the car, and the new owner intends to re-register it, if you can try to give them an old certificate of ownership or something as that will help them to prove previous ownership of the car (and that it isnt stolen etc). If you dont give them anything they may come back to you so you can prove you sold it to them.

tunnels make good exhaust noises, all i can hear next to low walls is intake noise (which also sounds great).

Clown shoes are awesome. Huge plus points for being far more uncommon then most other M cars. Would own in a heartbeat, but not that them dollars!

I prefer the sound of the terrace runnel to the mt vic TBH. Have done many the tunnel pull in the M3, so good.

Only if you can prove it was their work that is causing the fault now. (e: in regards to claiming CGA on the outfit that repaired it)

Does Invergiggle have an Authorized Apple Service Center? Get him to take the phone there if they do. Telecom are NOT authorized repair agents for Apple products (they can send the phone to one, but they are not one themselves).

Last time i went to the DT we had another party on a conference phone, so that might be one way of them doing it (either holding it down there with him, or up with you and one of you calling in). Sounds like the guy is being very unreasonable though.

the lesson here is not to lend your car to 'friends'.... way too many stories of 'friends' borrowing cars only to ruin them.

Sketchy running with a fan missing a blade.... well balanced, im sure.

Some people like V8s, some people like tractors. Each to their own, no point trying to flog the diesel horse over and over. Not a huge fan of the X5s personally, too big for me, but the sport kit ones do look pretty good.

USB to serial does not work (or i would have used one of my many, much better, laptops with USB and my existing USB to serial cables), it must be a native serial port to work with ADS. USB to serial does work with the 96 onwards E36, and the E46/E39 (no idea about E34 etc). Ill have a look some time this week and see how big the virtual machine files are and get back to you.

Wondered where this went, been on TM for ages for about 17-18k.

argh, please say you have plans to remove the chrome strips from the door edges. Looks good in the sun, pretty tidy inside too.

Or better yet depending on what it fails on, get the wof and flick it off for $1500. Cheap reg/wof cars just arent that cheap anymore, so $1500 would be reasonable IMO.

Gotcha, that spreadsheet is pretty awesome. So over a long period of distance, provided that the diesel is more economical than the petrol, it will work out to be cheaper to run. Time to roll some coal.

For those KM though, due to RUC, does it work out much cheaper at all to run a diesel over a modern petrol?

Genuine question, why do people wet themselves over old diesels like this? I understand its cheap and its a wagon, but surely a petrol one would be better than an old tractor lump?

how do you check that the IMEI isnt blocked?

bold, wouldnt buy it myself but itll be a great deal if you can get it road legal without too much effort. Should make a project thread about it. Would be interesting to see if a decent cut and polish would make most of it red again.

I paid about that for my old 523i a year or two back (with 250k odd km on it), so id say thats a pretty good price for a facelift even with the minor work needed. Bet you'll be glad to be able to drive around without that lovely oil smell every time.

I think everyone is getting sick of his (mostly) worthless posts.

ah thats right, i also had to do the oil filter housing gasket on my e39 at the same time. Looks like a big job, but it really isnt too bad. Should be obvious as there will be oil down the side of the block on the LH side.