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The others seem to be 50 gram bars, like you say a small bar of soap. Pacer have 185 gram size, is this what you had? http://www.pacer.co.nz/shop/product_info.php?products_id=542 Id be in for a group buy if this is a good one? 12 @ $53 each

1 x Tyre near new. $50 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=885460233&ed=true

+1 ...Well ive tried to twist their arms up their back but ive never hit one.

Perhaps a system to improve the service to customers, make trademe more money, and help lazy car dealers would be to register the VIN number when listing and have a feed to LTSA that replies back to trademe when the car changes registration or is first registered, this action would auto delete the listing.

I've reported one listing before took two weeks but ad did come down in the end. If they keep doing it do they risk loosing beings able to advertise?

Hmm i might start asking if they can please please please find me one ASAP as I have the money to buy a car this week!! So after they have rung round all their dealer buddies and find one get it to the yard and ring me back ill have to give them the bad news that ive just bough one from <insert car yard opposite them>....

Very frustrating ringing up about car dealers ads on TradeMe. They keep listings up months after the cars has sold trying to get calls out of the old listing rather than doing the decent thing and take the listing down!! All manor of excuses and BS when you waste your time calling... oh its all trademes fault, car just sold then two weeks later call again, car just sold... etc etc. Any one else noticed this? Top of the list: Buy Right Cars Auto Z Cars

Brilliant, hope he does a few more. If he comes to Auckland he will probably coprolalia himself inside out!!!

Easy, try a TIG welder, grind tungsten to a fine fine point, at a 22 degree angle at 1amp or less touch screw with this and do a dud start . Tungsten will be welded on, then twist out. This method is guaranteed to work every time, 60% of the time.

Correct - otherwise know as the race for Perpetual Motion, you cant make more than you start with.

Cool is it like this one? http://www.rmcybernetics.com/projects/DIY_Devices/hho-hydrogen-water-fuel-cell.htm My mate made one for his E36 325i

I rang about the car, spoke to BM workshop. Besain vanos kit with rattle kits. New bearing shells, crank oval but within tolerance according to crank machine shop not worth touching. New thermostat, New coils. And service. Could be good for an enthusiast who can fix up al the little things that would cost too much at the dealer.

Possibly have one if my car doesn't sell for the right money.

Here ya go. http://www.trademe.co.nz/869215092 Good package if you add it up, what it would cost to build. Happy to split off parts as I have had a number of requests for bits so far. Wheels, suspension etc

*****SOLD*****

Yes it made a good difference bringing in vanos advance sooner, car came alive. I had done the Beisan seal kit before that too, got the most out of it. Healthy vanos is the key to those engines.

My plan is to try and sell the whole lot in one go, but if no interest at a reasonable price I will strip goodies off the package along with the price until it sells. Did you want the Kings or XYZ?

Sad to see her go = a lot of spanner work! Room to move on price especially if it stays in the Race Series. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=869215092&ed=true Call me 021 327 822, Dave.

It was called Valet One, was in union street next to Fast Forward the Porsche guys. Good fun - hard work.

I used to have a high end car detailing business in town and I used Autoglym. It's the shizzle alright!! I'm still getting through a 4 Litre barrel of high gloss wax I bought 10 years ago ... Down to the last 2 liters now.

The revenue is billions but the question that is never asked is where will the money be spent. If it was like user pays for road tolls for example to build better roads I'd expect some benefit from yet another tax from the importing arena. Or will it all go into the government slush fund for an extra MPs pay rise and air NZ flights for the rest of parliamentarians lives??

The only transmission I've every cried over was a Nissan Primeval CVT rental car. What a pile of doo doo... mushy whaley kenwood mixer. Defying the Natural law of physics that rental cars rev higher, longer and go fast than others..... While I was hooning on the open road overtaking a car, me on the wrong side of the road, jandal in carpet, V2 rotating, pulling 120+ with an oncoming car ahead, the revs start dropping off!!! (equalizing the torque band?) the car was still accelerating (bearly) but I was for sure certain that I was going to die in a head on collision. I said a potty word and threw out all four anchors. I lived to tell the tale.

Perhaps some one can enlighten me. Often wondered how a DCT would be like to hoon around in, like if you were sitting on the side of a road and wanted to show off and do a power slide U turn. Needs a bit of clutch balance to break traction and do a nice sideways power slide up off the road. Or doing a gym khana on the skid pan at Hampton, slide the car around a cone and hook reverse into a cone garage, then forwards off, so fast gear changes and slipping clutch a bit for presise angels to get set up for the next cone. Ya know what I mean ? I imagine DCT would be a bit naff for that?

Not sure about bolt up etc. Totally different gear ratios 6 vs 7 cogs and final diff ratio is miles appart. That's what makes the DCT quick through the range.

I think a manual would be more fun to pedal, I've driven three DCT M3s, very cool. DCT you can sloop around town in auto, and for a race application you can't beat banging through the gears, it is a bit faster (not by much). like you say never miss a gear or crunch one, can cant over rev downchange so that's a plus. You need to drive both and decide. But the box will take as much of a hiding as the manual from all accounts.