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Hey Jun, what sort of money does 300ml of Liqui Moly Ceratec go for down here? (Edit: 300ml bottles)

I read one site that ascribed it to too fine a tolerance from crank to bearing. They advocated the BE bearings also.

you're sorted! great result. ?

Man, that's a beast battery! 950CCA would probably restart a submerged U-Boat ? Jun, did you get battery registration (coding) done in the car? If not, I recommend you get that sorted. Charging is regulated by the system according to battery type and age; if you dont 'tell' the car it has a new AGM battery, charging at the old rate may significantly curtail the life of your new battery. Oil? Be very wary on what you use in the S85. In your position I'd be getting oil analysis before running anything that deviates from the BMW Spec (including additive concentrations). Interesting thread here (includes link to BE Bearings website)... https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/3876322/1 HTH

The point of difference is that this is a (high) tax-payer funded tax break, a disingenuous Robin Hood-esque redistribution of wealth, regardless of which party has touted it. Can somone explain to me what the economic benefit from this particular lolly will be, if it's thrown through the air? $500 will easily be soaked up in fuel, or energy, or staple food inflation; fuel of course being a very efficient generator of tax revenue. The $500 tax break wont benefit small business owners, or improve GDP. It'll win votes, though. Sounds like a lot, $10/week...

there are 3br HOUSES smaller than that! ?

great news Chris, congratulations!

Great job! Mate, I wouldn't know where to start! I'd love a hand with doing my e46, thanks; let's get this on the 'round tuit' list. ?

When are you due back, Dan? returning to godzone takes a certain amout of cultural recalibration time, though it has its rewards...

Strangely enough, your chosen strategy is to not speak with the people who have the ultimate power to say yea or nay the dealership service advisers), and you’ve found complimentary advice that confirms your own bias. Result!

sorry mate, I don't spend much time in this room. my mistake. ?

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/man-fails-to-get-90-000-maserati-refund-after-wrong-oil-wrecks-engine/

Asking $8k8 111kms Needs driveshaft, trans, engine, exhaust. And elimination of that hideous bodykit. https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-1980686992.htm?rsqid=af9ef603488140d2abc7f3f48b522888

wow, she's a beauty. $10k? hell, it does only have 20k kms on the clock! pics for posterity...

my daughter asked me how it all worked, and how did they get back to earth? I explained this, and noted it wasn't because we were taught this in school, but between the ages of 7 and 10 I'd get books out of the library, and read up on it... that (back then) it was pretty recent history, and... they were still going into space! Now we don't even have Concorde. Still, we do have t'interweb to find videos ?

I formed a similar view when buying in the late 90's. Here's my list from the time when we went shopping: - Anything solid (1900-1980's) would need work on insulation. - Avoid Villas, no decent regs, frequently built direct on ground. Great timbers, but often gloomy. High-ceilings nice, but cost more to heat. (what was I thinking - power was cheap, then!). - Avoid 90's to new - No soffits, what are they thinking? Dodgy cladding, dropping standards in the building codes will cause issues in future. (boy was I right). - Avoid 80's - open plan and low thermal efficiency; declining materials quality. The cheap Mt St Helens cedar was nice, but will it last another 20 years? (I was wrong, it's lasting well). - Avoid 70's - frequently dodgy cladding products. A qualified 'proceed with caution'. - 50's & 60's - okay, good framing, good cladding. Solid materials, built well. - 40's: a bit gloomy, budget to eliminate concrete tiles (earthquake hazard), possibly butchered in the 60's/70's. Be prepared to remediate. - 20's & 30's. Excellent materials, generally sited for sun. Reasonable building regs at the time. Concrete piles. Old enough to have been re-wired, re-plumbed, re-gibbed. Downside: re-plumbing likely to have utilised Dux QEST. Probably bare-timber repainted, eliminating lead paint. - Pre 1920 - (Villas) avoid unless you're really keen to do a full rebuild, repile, the works. So we liked the style, bought in our (heavily biased) sweetspot of the NZ Californian Bungalow. Insulated and re-lined those rooms that hadn't had it done. All homes require constant maintenance; sadly kiwi homeowners seem to take the same approach to this as they do to their Euro cars! Today, I'd be looking at 40's to 80's as the sweet spot, and expecting to re-plumb and fully insulate, and double-glaze. YMMV.

I have no issue with the theory of CGT, and agree that implementing a very well-considered and carefully constructed one, in Godzone, would be acceptable... particularly with a further simplification of the tax system... such as drop to 20% taxation (as an example), or similar. The implementation must go hand-in-hand with doing something *useful* with the increased tax haul. You simply cannot discuss this *stab at CGT* and ignore the politics of why and how; the current proposal and the drivers to do so are plain stupid. If I buy two rentals in the next three years, and get them paid off by retirement, I'll be very happy. I'll have paid tax on my labour to generate the deposits, I'll have paid tax to all of the professions and trades hired to acquire, maintain, and manage these properties and their tenants. I'll have paid tax on the income. Sure, tax me some more if I want to sell them to fund my retirement, to ease my sorry old bones burden on the state as I age. I guess I'll be better off holding them, and living off of the income they'll generate, evil landlord eh? Guess I should invest in the NZX. Except that there's sod-all protection for retail investors in NZ, IMHO. Errant directors are slapped with a wet bus ticket. I'll do my equities investing offshore, thanks very much. And pay taxes here, as a good citizen. I cannot get past the arguments offered that "because other countries do it, New Zealand should do it... and piss the gains away". I'm paraphrasing of course. Were they all given a reading list with Robin Hood at it's head, before beginning deliberations? /rant

the court in Auckland disagrees; thinking of that punter and his Maserati...

Looking forward to seeing this in Wellington for its sea trials. They did the same with those oil rig tenders a couple of years back. Must be great for Foxton's economy. I too dig on the dazzle-esque camo, it's far too regular though.

love your work, Kelvin. ?

What is totally broken in the current debate on CGT is that the aparrent use of this tax income to provide the lazy and the indolent or underpriveliged with a tax break. Thankfully there were three on the Tax Working Group prepared to politely point out its folly with unemotive logic. Our government is not proposing using the proceeds of their proposed CGT for something useful such as infrastructure or healthcare, but are proposing pissing it away on $500 a year to those who "need it". It's another bloody vote-buying lolly scramble, and is totally unfair, in contrast to the way the media touts it as 'fair'. Fair that they're proposing redistributing the fruits of someone's investment labours and risk-taking? The message is clear: "you rotters making money on investments need to give your nasty ill-gotten lolly to those who aren't". There should have been a riot when they announced Michael 'Socialist Worker' Cullen as the chair. I'm surprised his values allowed him to accept a knighthood. Perhaps absence of riot is based on those who understood this realised it was in fact a charade, that it couldn't happen this time around. Winston is not expected to bless this; perhaps the best thing to come from his backroom deal to power. /rant.

Seriously man, how do you get on with your dentist? Builder? Architect? Physiotherapist? Doctor? What happens when you go out to dinner; do you take the waiter/waitress to pieces if they recommend a dish or wine to you? ?

and yet in the USA, BMW sells its own branded oil... and they've recently changed from 5W30 to 0W30. https://blog.fcpeuro.com/why-bmws-switch-from-5w-30-to-0w-30-doesnt-matter

S3 ep9. I am entirely nonplussed. The new Aston Martin Vantage is so entirely homogenous IMHO, I don't know why they bothered. It could be an MX5, an Audi, a Toyota. At least they're using REAL COLOUR. They're using that acid lemon-green that Datsun used around '75/'76, BRILLIANT! Linked from Ratsun.net, 112 Yellow: \ Linked from Autocar.co.uk