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Some are being advertised for - frankly - silly money. I've seen them at $3.5k, used.

My flywheel is lighter than your flywheel ? ;-) This one is on a M12. The M12 is for sale if anyone wants one.

I wasn't able to change the Hosts file on my work PC. The systems people are a little slow on the uptake at times, and stop anyone who might know more than them by locking files and folders all over the place. Then moan when you want to do something... Using 'another' device I have edited the hosts file, accessed the 'new' forum and have posted a new thread called 'Test from new forum' in the Forum Help & Support sub-forum. It's slower than the live forum, but seems to work.

I'm using Chrome and selecting the IP address James posted, right-click and 'Go to 114.31.212.141' took me to http://bimmersport.co.nz/index.php?app=ccs&module=pages&section=pages&folder=&id=3. Current pages as far as I could quickly see.

Huge thanks to Colin - Kopua Cowboy - for the gearknob. The interior is pretty tidy, and the gearknob was really letting things down (as Dave saw!)

There's a slot on the top of the shaft, but doesn't appear to be anything matching inside the knob. I'll have another look tomorrow. I like the analogue clock. No segments to stop working! I swapped the digital clock in a 928 for a square Jaeger one. Looked much nicer.

Replaced the gearknob in Miss M's car with one received from Kopua Cowboy (thanks ever so much). Now looks like this: Getting the old one off was interesting. "Give a good tug" is the normal instruction, but I suspect that works best when they've not been fitted using insulation tape, black mastic, some sort of superglue... This is what I removed: The new knob does need something to stop it rotating, but it doesn't need that much stuff!

Now the fun starts. Miss M has passed her driving theory test, and now has a learner license. She got 34/35. Let's hope the one she missed wasn't too important!

ACS rims are a good fit on an E36. 17x8 et38. There's some stock E46 rims in the 17x8 & 8.5 sizes that would probably suit, too.

Do you need significant luggage capacity? If not, I'd definitely go for the Z4M. No 'M' is going to be cheap to run, but this'll be one of the less expensive options. It's also great fun to drive, has top up/top down versatility (increasing carrying space? ), and a little different.

The et13s only fit at the rear if you roll the lip and really stretch the arches. Miss M's E36 had these rims (or copies of them) when we bought it, and a lot of effort had been made to get them to fit, but they still rubbed. We've fitted Style 73s to her car now, and it looks a little 'off' courtesy of the amount of arch-stretching that had been done. This doesn't mean they don't/can't fit. It has been done many times.

The BBC have responded to criticism, and His Shoutyness has been busy on Twitter.

I wonder if that'll include fitting a silencer to Chris Evans?

Reviews and views are mixed. A 'wooden' (or unimpressed?) audience may be being supplemented by canned laughter. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/06/04/top-gear-reboot-boosted-by-canned-laughter-as-viewers-brand-it-t/ And the Beeb replacing Clarkson with Evans hasn't really worked - Evans is still running his breakfast radio show, and doing the days associated with Top Gear. On more than one occasion he has (allegedly!) been called on by the production team to 'calm down' after upsetting members of staff by ranting at them (reducing one to tears), and he is increasingly becoming a diva at the radio show too.

Very nice-looking car! Welcome.

It's an 'escape from Auckland' weekend. SH1 southbound was at a standstill north of SH20 from about 2pm.

Left home at 03.47 this morning... And people say an office job is an easy life! Couple more beers and I'll be mellow... Couple after that and probably fall asleep.

Where to start? So many things... From cars that have mysteriously developed a misfire, through crap, aka holiday, driving, roadworks, promises made and not kept... Beer. I need beer.

I'll stick to using the yellow ones. James - thanks for fixing them. (But we still need a thumbs up one!

Party time!

I hope so!

This time?

Billie Piper also separated from Evans after 3 years, and divorced him in 2007. No little ginger monsters from that relationship, either.

Sweet - thanks. I wasn't sure if the markings would be visible, and didn't want to go to the trouble of lifting the car and then being annoyed. ;-)