Spudooli

Can recommend Precision AutoWerk on Archers Road on the Shore. They did a great job on my car and the service excellent.

Our F22 N55 is not quite 9 years old, done 72,100km and I today I had to spend the first money on it that's not tyres or brakes, but for a bloody oil leak. A cam cover gasket oil leak. Every time I watch a Youtube build video of any model BMW, seeing a bloody robot sploodging goo on some surface that you just know is going to leak in 72,100km I shake my fist, bloody. That's its first strike. Two more and it's being replaced with something newer.

https://www.bmwblog.com/2022/05/20/bmw-m1-hommage-timeless-beautiful/

I'll add this to the list of a '71 2002 Tii, an '87 M535i with new crate engine and dogleg box in excellent condition, another '87 M535i, an E39, an E60 540, a 1986 E28 528i from the UK with all the options and an E12 and probably other models of BMW things that I will regret getting rid of at some point all for the want of a 7 car garage 🙂

@aja540i I've DMed you. Sorry, @Thomasobrien4321 you are first runner up if @aja540i can't fulfill any of his duties!

This big 1.4m BMW logo sign didn't make the cut when I recently renovated my man cave so it's looking for a new home because the wife won't let me leave it in the living room. It's hung on my wall with LEDs behind it for maybe 12 or so years and would probably look pretty good in someone's garage. It's got a couple of cracks on the front and the back. Pickup is in East Coast Bays area of Auckland. I'll take $50 for it if you like and I'll throw in the string of LEDs too.

I had the exact same problem on my E39 540. After spending well over $2000 at a couple of trans shops trying to get it solved and it still went into limp mode on a hot day with the AC on, I traded it in on an E60 540 the very next day 🙂

The passenger side doesn't have control of the windscreen airflow.

As @E30 325i Rag-Top says, I've never really noticed any traction issues with my F22, 99% of the time. It hooks up really well from traffic lights, even in the wet, and the twisty parts of the Desert Road, no problem. The only times I really wish for a LSD is when I'm driving into my driveway and one rear wheel lifts completely off the ground and perhaps when playing around wet roundabouts. Yeah an LSD would be much better, especially if it was specified on the build sheet. But not $6000+ better if it's not there now.

I only know a single person that had an N47 in their X3 and their timing chain broke. So that makes a 100% failure rate that I know of. If that stat is any use to you?

And no one seems to mind if you leave your car in the middle of the road at Mangaweka

Taking the F22 for a fang over Lewis Pass

Take note of this though - https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Video-Products-End-of-Life-Announcement/dc529d39-0e58-43cc-96f0-8f0eed0d002c

Thanks for this info. I did not know this was the process. State have not accepted the claim yet as they need to know who was driving and Bridgestone will not tell me (which I can accept they need to protect their employee). I'll go back to State and make the changes as you suggest. Thanks for your help!

Yah, that's the conclusion I came to, too. I had to laugh when I went back to them to get more details and they offered to pay my excess. I thought "Yeah man, you will be paying my excess for certain, and then some"