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Take the valve out, pretty easy, 3 hoses and an electrical connector. Should be fairly obvious looking into the connections if its blocked. Theres a few members handy with a spanner down there in Dunners. Im sure someone would help if you asked.

i dont have cruise I concur on motorbikes too, crazy/stupid bastards. I wish there was a way to police the use of motorbikes better.

would pay to talk to NZTA then, might be able to change the address or something.

might be able to get it in under SIV if it doesnt comply, but you'd be lucky. Needs to meet this criteria

i'd bet Lux Soap flakes will work wonders too, like it does on gross steering wheels.

man, wish those SA11s came in a fitment to suit my M3. The americans have them on E36s over there and they look awesome.

i had a cut and welded shifter assembly (shift rod and the main alloy arm) from a 4 banger on my old 323i, wouldnt recommend it. It was never perfect, would highly recommend tracking down a 6 cylinder shifter assembly. I eventually swapped them out, and it was much better.

Strangely, check the back (towards the engine) of the oil cooler. Mine was very dirty yet the front was clean. Still dont know where the previous owner had been driving!

Alright, youve done it now. My paint skills are called into action. Black is the shifter Blue is gear knob red is the boot. where it dips down over the shifter is where it is rolled in on its self. If i unroll this at all, there will be a section with no tricolour stitching. Trimming the bit inside the rolled section that is against where the shifter increases in size should allow me to move the boot down the shifter further.

mine is about 95-100 normal temp, 90 on the motorway and 105 when driving hard. A few things can alter the temps, including oil viscosity, ambient temps, and any blockages to oil cooler etc. My temps are more stable now since i cleaned the mud (!) out of my oil cooler.

i think the section thats unstitched on mine is a little longer, but it'd still bug me. damn OCD. maybe next weekend ill take a knife to it and make it look better.

Are drilled and/or slotted rotors worse for dust than standard rotors?

Whatever the pads on my M3 are at the moment are shockers for dust. Doesnt help i live up a hill which means every time i drive i spend a good 1-1.5KM on the brakes. Wheels are black within a couple of trips.

Nope, see, yours has a patch without tricolour stitching showing too. Fold that under like i have and youll have the same issue

I see someone had the same issue as i do here, just doesnt looks as good.

the stitching only goes so far up the top of it, so if i roll it down there will be a bit at the top that doesnt have the tricolor stitching. I also cant slide it further down the shifter because the shifter increases in size drastically, like this Only option is to trim the boot so it can fit futher down the shifter.

Too much O_O nice to use though

So, i stuck my knob in the car. Feels nice, noticeably lower. Havent been for a drive yet. Its a shame though that the gearboot covers the metal trim, but the only way i can fix that is to cut some of the top of the gear boot down which im reluctant to do.

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)