Olaf

Woollarding. It's a thing. Named after William Woollard, former Top Gear Presenter, who was renowned for adopting a specific pose while doing his pieces to camera: bonnet up one foot up on bumper discuss engine or performance. Fig 1: Woollarding defined, last century. (with thanks to realmotors.co.uk) so, get yer mates (or yer tripod, Nigel), and produce your Unofficial Bimmersport Woollarding Image, and post it to this thread. Linkage: Wikipedia explanation and background bio Sample imagesIt should be noted that Swiss Toni is not strictly Woollarding, though he does deserve an honourable mention. Fig 2: Swiss Toni, not Woollarding, yesterday. (with thanks to totalmcars.com) It should also be noted that Grace Jones did not have Woollarding in mind when she sang Pull Up To The Bumper.

surely 'actually about cars' would be missing the point? #; ) We should have an official Bimmersport Woollarding thread. Images in the Woollarding tradition, only. In fact I think I'll start one! EDIT: whey hey - I did!

Maaaate, where's the commitment?! It's green too, tapes are free at your recycling centre. #8 )

yup, me too. once you're using a decent sytem with good resolution, 320k sounds sh#t, Actually no, even my iPhone with simple Sennheiser PXC-250-II noise cancelling cans reveals 320k is shh**tt compared with lossless. And on a good hifi, lossless is laughable compared to WAV or CD. short version: Yup, I disagree.

I've been on telstra clear/voda cable since 2003, upgraded to their high-speed offering a couple of years ago, and 100mbps/unlimited for more than a year. I get 125mbps down, 12mbps up, and 8ms ping, so when its working, it's excellent. Voda Cable TV is excellent insofar as no rain fade, though the user interface is not ideal SkyTV have clearly eyed up Voda Cable TV and decided to do worse with their new Sky interface so I'm laughing. #; )

awesome. if voda ran monitoring on their cable network they could do the same. ooops, and then I woke up! great service Allan. what sort of speeds do you get over your wireless connection?

F*#king internet and cable TV gone out at home. on thursday. before a long weekend. power reset cable modem. called voda. nope, can't find your modem. We'll have to send an engineer. next wednesday. New Zealand Day weekend with no TV, no internet, no netflix, and the one dayer in wellington. f#@kers. I'd pay $20/month on top of my current monthly bill to have next-day on-site technician. not an option. I curse Spark and Voda for their low-margin low-SLA service provision contracts with Downers et al. brought to you by mobile 4G modem.

ported subs are the work of the devil! sealed box is faster and more tuneful! #8 )

this linky might be useful... though reading that they're up for sale, reminded me of a herald article last year about BMW NZ in court over race car lease/loan/sale to M Delmont. I wonder if it's resolved? They sure look like a great racecar, if you're sufficiently well-heeled.

yeah, love the wheels on the 'Z. the grey rocks on your e36, too. I saw a Z3 done up on RetroRides in gloss grey very similar, loved it.

buy some earplugs, Elijah. your parents will be uncorking chapagne and celebrating tonight! #8 )

mate, your parents must be worried at the prospect of another non-moving BMW on their driveway!

do a google on 'trademe used car sale scam' or look at this link as your starter for ten... I was approached when selling my maxima, they weren't too clever ultimately. The story was he was working on a ship, buying car for his son, liked the look and could see I was very honest, was happy to buy sight unseen and ship to england. Every time I asked a question to qualify, their answer involved a compliment or reference to my trustworthiness. I asked which port he worked out of, and name of vessel. They wanted to communicate via email, and lo and behold... gmail messenger, they really took off with the pressure, though it was clear they were having muliple conversations at once and forgot which name they'd used with me. Then we ended up on voice calls. They were funny. I decided to turn the tables, and said yes, I would sell to them. I was very concerned they were buying sight unseen, and the only way I'd feel really comfortable is by obtaining a PPI. I'd be happy to arrange; AA (cheaper as I was a member), VTNZ, Car Inspection Services... provided prices... and when they'd selected which PPI and paid me via PayPal, I'd arrange the PPI and provide them with the report same day. If they were satisfied the car was good, I'd then proceed with freight arrangements. I was scamming the scammers, though I think they knew I'd twigged. Suddenly the comms dried up; they were working some other mark. They didn't even bother with the pretence of "oh, I've changed my mind, I don't like the colour". Key thing is, don't tell them you know they're scammers, otherwise the'll learn to change email address etc, and could be harder to spot for other unsuspecting punters. The scam works on you paying freight deposit, which they'll pay you back for in their bankers draft - which of course never happens. Just remember: if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. You could have a genuine offer, though if it is, you'll have to spend a lot of time qualifying it. cheers A Maxima for sale, some time ago...

looks great, not much work to return to the road, yeah? wheels look mint too.

welcome, Dave. one of these days I'll have to try a 130i, sounds like they're a hoot.

are you the first NZ owner? Wondering how/if any deferred maintenance impact as your ownership develops.

lovely vehicle, well done! do keep us posted on the radio/sat-nav conversion. an e60 or e61 is in my future too. regards

yes, for the cost of the car yard, they need to turn over x units with a $5k margin to make costs. They'll balance that with some units with higher $$ return (prolly same margin) and on it goes. I've a friend who's brought in a few cars through IBC, you take on the risk, and save a little money - if it all goes your way. PS - today's the end of the month, today's the day to SEAL THE BEST DEAL. Tomorrow (1 Feb) is a new month, and your salesman is starting again on his rush to meet budget. First car of the month he'll be fighting to retain margin.

jolly good sir. I guess the extra stiffness is magnifying the impact of the bushing wear. Sorry I don't have the tool to assist, looking forward to meeting someone with a well-sorted e46, especially going to stiffer bars. EDIT: I'm sure you've looked around; this DIY press looked cheap and easy to source parts for and make http://www.bimmerdiy.com/diy/e36rtab/

John, have you already done the rear sway bar links and sway bar bushes? If not, recommend you start there. Replacing these has radically tightened up my e46 Touring (152,000kms), I've not noticed the RTABs needing attention since having these components replaced. HTH

I drove a 1967 Falcon in the US that had been in my former sister-in-law's family since new. All of the siblings had learned to drive in it. all ten of them. one had had a fender-bender around 1974. They repaired by chaining it to a lamp-post, and reversing up, replaced the guard from a wreckers, and rattle-canned it the matching bronze-gold colour. I gave it a brake-job in 1988 or 89, found the crumpling, and a broken coil spring on the left front; asked about it, and got the whole story. It was a car you had to lock because it looked so bad, people thought it was abandoned so they'd fill it with trash. Anyway, this form of panel repair was 'Ford (ap)proved', back in the 70's, so I guess these engineers in Nevada have graduated to BMWs now #8 )

listening to Gary Numan. loud.

mate, I'm halfway through series six already. #8 )

watching netflix (US, UK etc) on my TV. sky via cable is getting very little viewing already. (disclosure: Gaz, I've been bingewatching SOA!)

you're very welcome #8 ) yep, they need some TLC as they age, perhaps more than you're average common-or-garden mid-market runner, but as you say, very rewarding. let us know how you get on!