Olaf

buying fresh fish at the markets without paying in body parts. eating wasabi peas in the car with my kids. the genius of Dave Grohl's drumming in Them Crooked Vultures. life is good.

awesome news, Nathan. you'll be all ready to swap in an M54B30 now, yeah? #8 )

weren't you bolting in a whole bunch of forced-induction audi 4x4 kit into the Touran, Allan?

no good really. only third party.

tons to choose from on TM: searching 325i 2000-2005, up to $7,500 nets heaps of results... Nice looking 325i with under 100k kms in New Plymouth at $6k. and it's "the right colour". Or there are cheapies around $3000 up. Plenty to choose from, and enough change in your pocket to put on some good rubber and have some judicious servicing done. The world's your oyster!

the Aussie strippers will know where those koiwees have been mate, and won't go near them. they acheive this by kinda not knowing what to do. sounds like it worked worked out just as they planned. Either that or they simply didn't understand foreigners.

so it closed at $5,150. Bruce wasn't kidding; some of his photos were the same, just cropped! I guess he won at TM #8 ) Car looked tidy, and likely honest enough.

OTOH.... used un-sparingly, bought reasonably, dealer got rid of the - marked, original rims - put cheap rims and tyres on for the bling factor to bring in the flies like sh#t. For all you know it's been religiously serviced!

I tried to buy Sonax - couldn't find it. The Penrite store locator found me Penrite stockists (usually a good thing, as I use their oil)... but not their wheel cleaner stockist.

is it manual or auto? sorry re-read the ad. Auto.

they look great, I like the semi-gloss appearance too. You're going to be on a promise keeping those up to scratch, now #8 ) 20 nuts/bolts per rim, and all that thread locker. Must be a patient man! A stunning result. cheers

plenty of selection for new tops from the bay of e; uncertain if they're common/relatively inexpensive here too. worth a crack. It'd be something different to do, eh?!

that'll be Style 63's, yeah?

you got that right!

looks like you'll be buying this from Kyu next week, Smithy - job done!

from the photo - at least - the old head gasket's looking pretty dodgy at the back end of number two cylinder... thought naturally there's nothing like seeing it IRL great outcomes, Nathan!

at this rate we'll have the orientblau touring maassif #8 ) score! You'll be wanting some style 45's then...

it's gotta be worth $40k, anyway.

looks very tidy. Makara really sets it off. welcome along!

perhaps you're mistaking "dysfunctional" for "not neurotypical".

looks pretty clean. congratulations.

I dig the roadmaster. always have done. make like the hitmen in Grosse Point Blank.

"I'm really sorry, we're not able to make it". We live in DC, it's not the middle of the summer holidays; it's just a short break around xmas.

well yeah, but think of all the freendom and choice you have!?

wow, thanks for making me aware of this. good fun. unusual to see Guy on TV for 45 whole mins and he ommitted his catchphrase "that's a proper job, that is" #8 )