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You don't know his situation, he may have had diarrhea, and needed to find the nearest latrine quickly, before getting to site to use standover tactics on his apprentice to reinforce toxic masculinity Jus' sayin

I think it's: "What else can you buy for $70k that will explode a gearbox this fast"

I found trial fitting the baby capsule to a dual cab Ranger was a no-go and the standard rear facing seat was a tight fit. Not a roomy or practical family wagon. Funny enough the passenger seat in our "average size" Lexus GS is in line with the driver seat with that exact same baby seat. Although neither offer quite as much room as my Austin 10 W212 wagons are currently my flavour of the month for next family car upgrade, in diesel and a light colour so it looks less like a Volvo V60 at the front. Was going to be an LS600h...but that's hard to justify For the most part, many utes do offer reasonably low cost of ownership (minimal depreciation) and most are fairly trouble free for most users for the first 300km or so, if you do decent milage. And quite a few of the current crop return pretty good economy. The majority of them are now a nicer place to sit than an e53. Not sure if that's impressive or not

Most e36 and e46 will be due for a second, or 3rd cooling system now. I would put zero confidence in the plastics at that age. They're also a bit harsher on brakes and suspension than a generic Japanese car. And window regulators, and...everything else. Unless you don't mind DIY, avoid it

The spare tyre cover also falls through when you put a toolbox in the boot to do remote servicing on a rally. Quite poor.

1st gen, they must quite easily be the worst built bmw I've ever had the misfortune of driving/fixing. Would rather drive a spoon up my *rse than drive another of those

That lovely nissan you're driving would have a much nicer interior and ride than an x3 though 😬 they are absolutely ghastly

But with our super cool and unfair ruc system, 5.5L/100km on a diesel works out to be around $4k/yr, which is the equivalent of my cheap and garbage hybrid doing 6.5/100km The RUC thing is garbage, unfortunately

I'm glad I got my mundane hybrid for 3k now. I'm not too worried personally because my toy vehicles are either very economical, or they probably will be finished anyway.

Are you sure you did the fuel cap up correctly? Thats more likely to throw an EVAP code that self clears. Maybe try bash some 95 in it again

All depends on what you are wanting to do with it. If you plan to give it the bash, I would be a little hesitant to use stock springs. New orm springs will be okay for a stock rev range on a stock cam

OEM springs and retainers are pretty mediocre on most BMW motors. If they're willing to check a few valve seat pressures you will get a good idea of condition Chances are the old springs will be at 45-50Lb of seat pressure. Fine for tootling around, not particularly good for giving the bash A fast road m5x requires 85lb at a minimum for 7000rpm and a moderate cam All that sealant gives me reflux man

Oh so you went to see old mate Ricard down Gordon rd? He's a blithering idiot. If there is a next time,call Danny at Autocerts in Ashurst, he's up here a heap. Absolute top bloke, has done a few cars for us. Charges less than Premier Autos too

What are you planning on doing with the car? Koni yellow and H&R springs will outperform BC golds or BC reds on the road XYZ adjustable set up are cost effective and great starting point for track work, speed factor in Tauranga sell them. Manual conversion is getting pricey now but is a great way to make the car more fun, typically a getrag kit is well upwards of 2.5k, plus it's foolish to not replace clutch/flywheel/master and slave at the same time, add another $1k to bring good quality gear in from overseas.

4.5 a year is probably a smidgen over estimated when it took 11 years to gain consent and begin building Turitea windfarm, which isn't finished yet. Was plenty of talk about infrastructure projects (current and planned) at the EEA2021 conference when we were there, I guess its just not particularly sexy for news these days

You're welcome to try ours out. Pretty similar functionality to the IS There's very very little real world use of the touch screen system in a GS, push one button and adjust the fan speed on screen. Push another to see how bad the fuel economy is. Stereo and calling is separate. I'll find what brand bluetooth adapter Katie fitted to ours, it's got canbus support, so all works like OEM We have a drive-pro unit

The system UI is very easy to use in Japanese. But you can get it converted to English, was around $600 when I looked for our GS and I never got around to it. Even in Japanese it's better than early iDrive 😁

If the bolts look okay then re-use them. They're not under much stress and they're not tight enough to stretch them. Yup those rings are yuck 🤮

Always check clearances. Plastigauge is easy enough and cheap enough

Oil control rings, pull a piston, I dare ya

Its buggered. Throw it out

Check for colored marks on the backside of the bearings before ordering, measure the clearance of the old bearings (plastigauge or micrometer, either is fine for this application) There are 3 colour codes, off the top of my head it goes Yellow, Green, White in order of largest to smallest clearances. Hopefully there is a spec for the colour coding easily available Replace the rod bolts, too. Use the old bolts when clearance checking the journals And oil pump will be fine with lock wire. If budget allows, replace chain and gears. Otherwise just check em carefully

Cheap to own Jap imports and Big Oil conspiracy i guess

Given it will take approximately 25-30 years to theoretically change the fleet over, we can probably manage the extra 2 megawatts of load that we can almost already manage anyway And we will all be far to impoverished to own a car by then, anyway. And I'll probably die of boredom or a messy self flagulation related death in a Leaf

I would expect so. The technology has a very long way to go currently to be as efficient as a BEV, but I love the idea