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towbar can be very hndy at times,bike rack,trailer of rubbish to the tip...dont need a hilux for that

8 minutes ago, Eagle said:

Yeah the benefits of air suspension are given. My comment was aimed at the butchery of which appears to have distorted the system. Nothing worse than people attempting half ass fixes.

sorry my mistake i though you were deriding the option to spend the money and repair it back to working order

1 hour ago, Eagle said:

Haha wtf. Why wouldn't you just convert to coil springs. Only major problems my fathers had was air suspension (gone now) and heater core o-rings leaking (2nd time). BMW engine and transmission are the best parts and still solid at 230,000km

for the same reason they had air suspension in the first place Lower ride for the ride,higher ride for off road .Apart from the silly sized wheels and tyres they have they are very good off road,one of very few to be good at both

can use the fuel tank jst clean the tank out well

6 hours ago, gjm said:

I sincerely doubt we'd ever get into the 4s with our 320d! I think we saw high 5s after a long, gentle drive, but that could have been a miscalculation.

the 120 had insanely high gearing you wouldnt change into 6th until at least 100 ks...going up through levin,foxton bulls that you could be in a line of traffic getting readings in the threes ,but that went up in smoke as you start climing after hunterville

 my 120 d(manual and chipped)  average was 6.5 l 100 k,5.5 was easy to get on the open road,and i reckon you would get high 4s if you really tried on the open road if you lived in a flat part of new zealand.mmy fuellyy average was 6.4l 100 k

is it a square setup?Maybe they are actually recently off the rear?Fronts normally scrub the outsides

and the ruc are over 6 c a kilometre now doesnt sound like much but i fork out over 600 bucks for 10000 k at a time

i dont know why ,if you were going to do the east cape why you wouldnt go round the coast one way and through the gorge the other.Two completely different scenarios and coming from the north its perfectly logical.White island is worth a look but its a whole day,the wharfs at at Tolaga, Tokomaru and Hicks Bays (not all three) are worth a look.I have belonged to the AA for yerars i have only used them a couple of times a couple of lockouts and once when the battery was dodgy .in your case it may be worthwhile if you get a flat.Its a remote area and the road is rough in places esp round the coast.

ahh heated seats.The new wagon has heated seats,not particularly fussed myself  but her indoors seems to like them

they are a nice wee car imho nice steering and brakes,not as roomy as you would think esp compared to a fwd hatch.ride is harsh with runflats.

2 hours ago, zero said:

I can see the problem - you've been using the wrong coolant - it should be blue.

that would be an entirely new story  but just as scary!

that really is scary!

even my 120d warned me well before i think you would notice by any other means.Try it out.On a quiet road(have a compressor!) let say one of the rear tyres down say 5psi at a time .I am betting you will get a warning before you can spot the difference

22 minutes ago, Gaz said:

That's pretty poor. Runflats are just as repairable as normal tyres, and if they took the tyre off you can see the damage or lack of on the inner of the tyre. 

yes i was somewhat put out.I am pretty sure that the tyre didnt really go below 20psi.from the outside the tyre looked 100 percent.The only good thing was that the tyres were pretty near the end of life anyway.

the only flat i got on my 120d with run flats was unoticeable until the warning went of on sh2 at 100 ks....i was close to a traffic light and only a few ks from work so i drove gingerly to work(50km hr max.I pumped the tyre up at lunchtime and that evening the tyre was s till at good pressure.When i went to get the tyre fixed they wouldnt fix it.so i had to buy a new one.So dont bank on using the tyre again anyway.Their excuse was that they didnt know what damage the tyre may have suffered.

and even then its still 2x dearer

On 11/2/2018 at 9:36 AM, Olaf said:

.......................................... will grab some this weekend ??

good luck with that mate

i deal with tyre clinic in the city have found them to be excellent i thinks its fifeshire ave next to the audi etc dealer

travel insurance?I haven't bought that since my first credit card

7 hours ago, _ethrty-Andy_ said:

avoiding paying tax is illegal for everyone, including the wealthy. 

and bear in mind that over 40% of working kiwis recieve more from the state than they pay into it, whether it is working for families, accomodation suppliments, acc, a free education and health system and so forth. the number is far higher when you then look at people over thier life time from birth to death.

Im not saying for one second that the poor have it good, but its the wealthy that are the only net taxpayers

that true andy but the system is too convoluted and there should not be any means to avoid tax...the sytem makes it legal but it should not be so imho. it should be a wider and flatter system

9 hours ago, qube said:

um... no? why would I? 

are you sure you are getting 8.7L/100km not 8.7km/L?? city driving of open road?

 

because once they are rolling they are quite punchy and the consumption was  6.5 l 100 k

15 minutes ago, qube said:

my only complaint about the e87 130i is probably the hard suspension (for daily duties around town) and the poor fuel economy.

everything else it is excellent!

get a 120d then

it is purely to look at the options the car came from the factory with,no other purpose

can you pm me the vin please