bravo

I want to shoot out rear fogs with my .22. They drive me nuts! BTW Apex, it is illegal in NZ to drive with them on unless there is reduced visibility due to atmospheric conditions. The police did a bit of a campaign on it a few years back and everyone moaned on here. I fully support the police on this. Following someone with rear fogs is distracting. Fronts don't bother me anywhere near as much.

MALE VS. FEMALE AT THE ATM MACHINE A new sign in the Bank Lobby reads: 'Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through ATM machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts. After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE Procedures have been developed. Please follow the appropriate steps for your gender.' ******************************* MALE PROCEDURE: 1. Drive up to the cash machine. 2. Put down your car window. 3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN. 4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw. 5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt. 6. Put window up. 7. Drive off. ******************************* FEMALE PROCEDURE: (What is really funny is that most of this part is the Truth.!!!!) 1. Drive up to cash machine. 2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine. 3. Set parking brake, put the window down. 4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card. 5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up. 6. Attempt to insert card into machine. 7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car. 8. Insert card. 9. Re-insert card the right way. 10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page. 11. Enter PIN. 12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN. 13. Enter amount of cash required. 14. Check makeup in rear view mirror. 15. Retrieve cash and receipt. 16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside. 17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook. 18. Re-check makeup. 19. Drive forward 2 feet. 20. Reverse back to cash machine. 21. Retrieve card. 22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided! 23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you. 24. Restart stalled engine and pull off. 25. Redial person on cell phone. 26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles. 27. Release Parking Brake.

Closed. Good discussion, and personally I agree with much said, but it's getting too heated now. I've edited the last couple of posts that were borderline personal attacks. You've all been reminded about this countless times. Next time you all read a comment you don't agree with, take a deep breath, imagine we're all sitting around having a few beers, and then respond. getting all bent out of shape over a few comments on an internet forum is pointless.

Typo. Was supposed to be 115nm as in my post one or two below that.

OP Fail.

That thing is mint. I hope you slapped him before you agreed to let him sell it! Good luck - there's an identical one up here, but it's far from mint.

Mike - I thought it was 85 ft/lbs aka 115nm. So yes, I believe Glenn is correct.

I've had the same problem, not at a tyre shop, but at a mechanics. Got my own back though. He used to always deny that anyone form his workshop would do that, and that I must have used my rattle gun since to do them up. One weekend he did a quick brake job for me on the way to a 4x4 run that he was also attending. I got a flat, and when I couldn't undo the nuts, I called him over and asked him to undo the bolts he'd only done up himself that morning. Since then, no problem. My wheel and tyre shop use a torque wrench. So do I. Warped brake discs or stuck on the side of the road with a flat FTL. BTW, e30 studs should be around the 155nm mark. Your average wheel wrench is 300mm long, so 1kg = 9.8N, so 115nm on a 300mm bar = 39kg at the end to turn it. So basically if you are standing on the end of your average wheel wrench, and you weigh more than Kate Moss after a big mac super combo, then even with friction torque taken into account, it's too tight.

Hey Liv, it's not all that hard. Full respect for giving it a go!!! Legend. I started to write a how-to, but then I couldn't remember some of the tools you needed, so I did a search, and viola! Good Luck.

Hah - seen that before. Didn't realise it was the same guy though. Quite the comedian....

James WTF - do you get out much? Welcome mate. Yet another Northlander in the crew. There's 9 or 10 of us now. Northland represents hard on here - epic meets. If you're passing through Keri or Paihia, flick me a PM. I'd be keen to grab a beer and check out your ride.

Lol. I was just checking my PM's after dinner at my parents. The old boy and I are currently coughing on our wine and nearly choking to death in laughter. Funniest thing I've read in ages. Awesome!

Ouch. I pulled the same face as the car is pulling when I first saw it! Looks like similar damage as to when my g/f hit a tree at 80 km. How straight is the roof? Might be repairable with a front cut, but you're probably best to start again as you say. At least the towies would have no trouble finding the tow hooks!

Suckers. Two days ago one of our cars had a tiny bit of frost on the windscreen. Yet to hit 0° up here.

Car's looking sweet! What motor's in it?

Just bought online. It better get here before next Friday. I want to listen to it on the 3-hour drive to the release party. Now there's commitment for you! PS: Josh, give Senor Page a rev-up. I paid for my tickets over a week ago and they still havn't arrived and he hasn't replied to my emails.

No worries mate. I'm not even really looking, but I know KT is after a cheapie.

How much you want for the laptop? Does it have wireless?

WTF? English? Some of us do... Nice goodies. I went H&R + Bilstein, and now wish I'd gone coilovers at the same time.

That really blows. One of my favourite cars on here.

I didn't used to like the turkish delight or cherry ripes either. Until one day i got desperate for something sweet, and I remembered there were a few I'd stashed in the freezer so they'd keep until I found someone to give them to. Anyway - they're not awesome, but definitely good frozen. I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier as I freeze most of my chocolate anyway. I definitely prefer frozen chocolate. i even freeze all my choccy bikkies. Frozen macaroons and toffee pops and mellowpuffs FTW.

Once you pop.....

I used Gavin and would recommend him. Ollie is correct. He removes the ecu and plugs his computer straight into the ECU plug (not diagnostic). Throws an o2 meter up the cars bum and writes a map for it. Then he burns it to an eprom, and swaps it into your ecu. There's another crowd out west (Patiki Road) that do a tune and ecu flash via the OBDII diagnostic plug as and specialise in modern euro vehicles Torque Performance They were recommended on another nz forum.

The wheels are BMW Style 2's but are missing the centrecaps. Which according to the wheel catalogue I posted the other month, they come of an e34 as you surmise, but also found on e24 and e32. Edit: The motor had me stumped at first as it looked similar to an m30, but with a different inlet manifold. Curiosity got the better of me, and google seemed to think it was a m30b25v which is carburettored, but the engine in the pic is obviously injected. Which leads me to belive it is a German-built (from your info) m535i with an early m30b34. Which would make it a fairly rare car (only 1400-odd produced) and all of the m-badging factory. What are the last 7 digit's of the VIN number???

...like a lizard drinking.