Olaf

yeah easy!

bummer dude. it's not like caramel is your favourite milkshake flavour, either.

is it registered and warranted? does this mean you'll be driving yourself to the wellington meetup on 10 April?!

same here. refills in my original 13 year old wiper blades failed last year, bit bullet and went to Jeff Gray. $100 later I had fitted these new-fangled blades. They work well, wipe well. Nice clear vision. Only downside is the rubber they use only lasts 6 months - now wear is evident, and they're starting to chatter. I was getting longer life on Silicon. Looked at supersheep auto on the weekend, their equivalents come to about $90, and don't have the tidy clip profile. I'll stick with the BMW blades. Is there a source in NZ for the BMW wipers that is more reasonably priced than 100 clams? PN 61 61 0 037 027 cheers

If I had a garage, I'd be in like Flynn.

Sales? No mate, I do sell ideas, though. I work in IT. Please don't think any less of me, I do it to feed my family. Everyone needs tyres, it's not like ice to eskimos. Thinking about it, there are a few fields in which there is constant demand, rtegardless of economic circumstance. Haircuts (short of being bald or shaving your head/going hippie, all need haircut) Tyres (we wear them out, they build roads with chip seal) Funeral directors (the ritual of death never goes out of fashion) Doctor (people will usually try to remain here as long as possible before meeting the above) Bad news (the media) The oldest profession (I have read that there is always business) Fuel sales (at least for a few more decades, people will drive and need gas to do it) and, (if one was to believe the wheel magician website), mag wheel repairs Less-than constant demand: Clothes - there are always options when times are tight (mend what you have, thrift stores) Food - massive diversity, no guarentee you can sell food Coffee - contrary to popular belief, people without income will live without that $4.50 latte Dentistry (people put that off) Optician (supermarket or internet specs) So it's not too tough a sale, selling used tyres. One needs to find a market, and apply simple guidelines. Shhhh! Don't tell everyone! My views on "how to win at TradeMe". Write a good ad, break it down, make it simple. If you were looking to buy, what would you want to know about the item? display good images. Folks want to see what you're offering research your price and competition. no point trying to get a top-end price when there's ten of the same thing, cheaper. Make your market. answer questions promptly and politely (eliminate objections, as a salesman would say) be straightforward and easy to deal with. Folks fail at trademe because they're too bloody difficult to deal with, or write a lazy or poorly-worded advert with fuzzy poorly-lit photos, and make it difficult to understand what they're selling. Anyway, thanks for the positive comments. Nothing more to see here. Stinky black rubber bands have gone. Now to figure out if I should sell my Style 45s when this mini-project is complete. Olaf

I've been gathering information. 33531094518 = 8mm E46 325It - 5mm - 33531136385 E36 325i - 7.5mm - 33531136386 E36 325i - 10mm - 33531136387 E46 325iX - 15mm - 33531094754

"SOLD SOLD SOLD!" (as they say on those American shows featuring the noisy and verbose auctioneers). Thankfully these are not Sagitars or Effiplus.

SOLD - pending payment.

damn, they might have made a part-exchange for your springs! #; )

Trailer tyres?

PS - they're the 94W rating, not the wimpy 91 load-rated version. This no doubt makes them more useful for, well, keeping your rims off the road?

now that's exactly what I figured they'd be attractive for: doing some skidz on #8 ) so Ahmed, these could, ultimately, be shredded... on the end of somebody's diff. And hey, if you were in a hole and just needed some llantas negras that hold air and pass a WoF until you can afford some real tyres, these are them. My tyre guy described them as being a fine tyre if all you're doing is punting around town... and added something like "until it rains", so they could be useful for skidpan training too! When you're done, you can add them to that retaining wall you've been building, or make a few tyre swings! How 'green' is that? Reduce, reuse, recycle... our dingbat mayor would be pleased I guess if you out--of-towners are keen, if you arranged it with Andy's Bimmersport Freight Services (™), I'd happily drop these out to Seaview. They is going on TradeMe tonight at $150, so snag yourself a cheap tyre bargain today. Hell, these are cheaper than a bottle of good Japanese 18YO Single Malt. You know it makes sense.

I should point out: I'm not a tyre specialist, not in the motor trade; I'm just joe blogs selling them out of my company as they're not required. I don't have more to sell. thanks for looking!

Fellow Bimmersporters Here's a bargain for those of you needing some rubber in 225/45/17 without impacting your beer budget. Yes, a set (FOUR ONLY) of HiFly's finest HF805, pre-loved. They're tyres, don't you know. They've been run on a staggered set, so two have crowned a little in the middle. WYSIWYG. Condition: No punctures: I've had a look around the inside of each; no puncture repairs! And they held air for me sunday/monday until removed from rims this morning. Tread Depths: from left to right in the image below: Left: 5mm (ranges from 6 to 5.1) Centre Left: 4.4mm (ranges from 5.1 to 4.4) Centre Right: 3.9mm (ranges from 3.9 to 6) Right: 3.5mm (ranges 3.5 to 5.9) General: honest used tyres. No warranty implied or expressed. Where? They're in Wellington. How much, Olaf? Before I put them on TradeMe, I thought I'd offer to Bimmersporters: $125 the lot (including GST). These cost about $115 each when new (according to the ads I've seen), so I figure that's a fair price including delivery in wellington. I'll deliver them to you for that price, as far north as Paraparumu, or Upper Hutt. Very happy to meet you in central Wellington! Oh, and for your entertainment (these are not my words) "HIFLY HF805 225/45/17/94/W. HiFly HF805 is a high performance, low noise tyre. The Unique assymetrical tread meets ultra high handling and traction requirements. Features include: Superb stability Low road noise Reliability Right, and in case your curiosity is getting the better of you, some pictures!! Fig 1: here's the identity parade photo from this afternoon: FIg 2: you were wondering if they were round, eh!? Here's the mug shot.

it's like Gordon Gekko's catchphrase has mutated. in a good way! "Rake is good" edit: for those who missed the 80's, take a look at 80's blockbuster Wall Street.

I think that was 'whilst approaching "close coupling" with the 4RE, our intrepid driver experienced a brown trouser moment'. #8 ) James, that's looking like a whole heap of fun!

can't argue with that, Ron. The guy I'll be using is recommended by a good friend, who has more german cars than I have digits, and additional sets of rims to boot. very particular is he. It was particularly refreshing to find a tyre guy who genuinely knows his onions.

man, 003's are exceptionally well-priced at the moment. I started looking around on Friday, and found - as Ron has pointed out in another thread - that the average to mid-range performance tyres come in from most places around $1k , with the premium end $1.2k-$1.4k. Imagine my surprise when finding sub-$900 pricing for 003s in 225/45/17 and 245/40/17 on the car. If you were completely ruthless and pushing for the lowest possible price and nevermind the impact to the market (eg you get Tony's Tyres trying to undersell the world to buy your business), it is entirely likely one could push the envelope and find these llantas for the mid-to-high $700s. On your car. At least at the moment. Best discovery made while I've been looking around, is finding a company I want to do business with for tyres and alignment. The pricing is sharp enough, but the service is worth more to me than the lowest price so I'll happy to be in the sub-$900 bracket.

can someone PS that image with an e24 please? it's nearly perfect.

yes thanks, I sort of stopped thinking about that suff when I bought another BMW after selling the Nissan. The VQ30 is a beaut engine, but I went for the full package with BMW #8 ) and bought a car that - largely - works.

I've often wondered about this, Ron. I used to know an induction systems engineer from Visteon. The effort (read: cost) that was expended in the average intake manifold and even the airbox for your run-of-the-mill Ford Focus, VW Golf, etc, amounts to the hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. It seems odd that given the development budget for the M54 which would have been in the tens or hundreds of millions, that they "got it wrong" and the earlier one was much better? Nissan were doing 'clever' manifolds on their VQ series V6 for a while, the 'MEVI' intake manifold had an RPM switch that opened some butterlies to give longer effective runners at higher RPM, and shorter at lower RPM for better torque. Or do I have that the wrong way round? They were also using plastics in the 90's for intake manifolds. At any rate, in the Nissan world folks were locating these later manifolds and fitting them to earlier cars, contrary to the M54/M50 approaches! cheers

like the t-shirt reads: I'm not a gynecologist but I'll take a look

nice work, John! Sorry didn't mean to sound as though I was doubting you; more about 'I wonder what wheels he's done that with, and how does it look? Total class, mate. Kia Ora for that!