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What happened to verts being "for gays"?

So Flipping Dumb i presume.

Loving those wheels! A very good looking car indeed.

You might be hard pressed to give that away tbh, not many people want to retrofit back to one of those and would only really want it for parts if theirs broke.

I make no excuses, i LOVE driving manuals, when driving for fun, but autos have their place. The future is automatic ratio changing.

because driving a fun, fast, manual car really slowly in start stop traffic sucks. An auto 335i with Alpina trans tune though, now you're talking.

Ill also say, dual clutch is great fun for playing around with but terrible in start stop traffic (having to slip and engage/disengage clutch over and over). There should always be an option for a manual IMO, but the way things are going (hybrid, really good autos etc) the manual is on borrowed time.

Does it once, thinks he's an expert

having to deal with Wellington rush hour traffic on SH2 each day, i would never go back to having a manual daily. Nope.

Really not liking the color matched rub strips, would look so much better with them left black. It needs that contrast to break it up.

i actually saw this car yesterday on my way home. Looks better in person than in the photos. Still not a fan of plastidip.

Typical jap rubbish. Generally either cant be, or not worth converting. Better off just buying a new unit (its nothing special, just a normal double-din unit).

All the pinned items in the Maintenance section now take up almost the whole first page (leaves only one actual post visible). Maybe we can condense them down into a sort of FAQ thread?

The website also seems to have a glitch whereby it thinks that govt plates with the rego on hold (and some others just randomly) are available. I can buy the plate on my old M3 even though its currently registered.

Having to use plates from a "approved agent", when there is only a single "approved agent" is a stupid monopoly anyway. I dont understand why we cant use anyone we want (or at least open it up to a few "approved agents") to make the plates as long as they comply with the requirements (font, size, shape, reflective, color etc). The argument is that anyone would then be able to go out and forge a plate, but dammit, that already happens (or people just take the plates from your car).

Whats with the "Asking price $10,000" and then stating over and over "OFFERS AROUND $15,000 ONLY. "? Looks like a really nice example though, with all the good bits on it.

I like it, its the same software on a lot of other forums im on. Far better than the old one that was on here. No obvious issues on Chrome/OSX El Crapitan.

Lol good to see im not the only one that had trouble taking photos of my Hellrot E36. Always looks bloody orange.

92 seconds to load the first page, on 30mbps fiber. I feel sorry for anyone with slower internet than me.

IIRC thats what he did, and it broke the pulley.

+1 on the spanner and hammer method, used that on a couple of cars now with great success. Stick spanner on nut, and strike the end of the spanner sharply with the hammer (in the direction of undoing). It uses the tension of the belts to hold the pulley in place, and the shock from the hammer to crack the nut.

E39 M5 would be cheaper for sure, its a relatively simple car in comparison to the E55. Air shocks on the W211 are getting cheaper, with a factory reman option available now, but still a lot more than the standard shocks in an E39. A well looked after E55 is good, especially with a warranty, but nothing on a decent M5.

In your opinion. Why you such a hater. No wonder i visit here less and less.

Lol, adding arm rests to my E36s was one of the first mods i did. Guess you dont miss it until you have had one, but it was easily one of the best things i did to them. In Christian's case, the recaros clearly cause a conflict with the arm rest so i can understand removal. Love the recaros though, they look very much at home in there.

ugh.