Bigmor

I have had four beautiful cars stolen and ended up driving an Alfa Romeo for 7 years, cos no f**ker would still one of those.....now, I have a BMW and preying some dumb sh*t don't steal that now. So feel your pain and most of the time, you will never understand why some f**ker thought your hard earn stuff is better off with them..... Good luck.

Guys, I just went into Firestone and got a quote (18inch wheels). It may have been a bit more, but they had a 4 for three on etc. I actually went for s0001 for around 900 and they performing brilliantly.

It has a pod filter!

Not sure if they have your size, but my tire guy from fire stone would of got me a set for $1500. Special order from the NZ importers. Could be worth asking, he was cheaper than Beaurepaires

It's a thrashed GTI with 174,000kms on it......that's why it is 8k.

Congratsand welcome!

I own one and love it, so might be pro the 135i N54...but here are my learnings from reading to much internet and getting facts once actually owning it. Clogged up values and the need to walnut blast - only a problem if you only do very short journeys, or running tons of boost and even then, only have to be done every 80,000km if it starts running rough. BMW work shop can check to see if one needs done very easily, but it's not the issue made out on the Internet. Also, BMW not me not to bother with oil catch can. BMW will tell you if any recalls are on your car and the major ones that you read about on the Internet like Injector issues, high pressure fuel pump and Turbo issues are mainly from American version of the car. And don't apply to most of our imports. Seems 2009 way better year than the 2008 with some upgrades which make a massive difference...like having an oil cooler and upgraded iDrive. BMW is great place to get inspection. The car is amazing to drive and very quick. Would be great to see what happens if you remapped the ECU and made a couple of engine mods, but I am being patient on that front; as standard still goes really well.s Good luck and if you have any question fire them through,

Keen to get some upgrade to performance suspension for my e82. Key is performance and would ideally like it to sit lower to the ground. I like the idea of doing it properly and am considering ordering Dinan stuff from states, but understand your paying a premium for their products. But if I brought locally, what would people recommend and who would you recommend to talk to in Wellington about doing it?

S001s have been absolutely brilliant and holds to the road, which installs confidence. Done 10,000kms on them and wear okay, no difference from my02 that I used to run on my old car. Noise is a little less on the S001 and the biggest difference is the stiff side walls whigh make the turn in more accurate, especially when your pushing hard. MY02 were okay, but performance is no were near what you get out of a S001. Price wise, MY02 cost me about $170-180 a corner and I got 4 S001 for the price of 3 - I think about $990 for four tyres.

It's with customs?

Manual or auto?

Run flats are sh*t (my car was crazy lose on them) and cost more. I changed to normal tyres and got more grip, quieter and apparently long life...should be no issues with insurance and both the BMW dealer I know personally recommended normal tyres over run flats for the above reason. Oh, bmw sold me a flat tyre kit for $150 in case I got a flat.

Nice one, will give that a nudge next time as well.

Got today about cleaning car windows with Carnauba wax and decided to give it a go. Worked a treat, probably the best way I have found so far! Worth a go if you also struggle with keeping your windows mint.

Awesome!

What purpose do you want it for? That is probably a really good starting point. They all have slight differences and obviously costs are difference. Personally I have tried a couple Fitbit and vivofit, but once you have worn them for a month; you know what a good day steps wise is and a bad steps day is or how you slept without a watch to tell you (Argus app on your smart phone provides pretty much same info). Now there is more advance watches which give you better info like GPS, HB, perspiration etc as well. But all comes down to what you want it for. Hope that helps you.

Hi Guys, Is there any real difference between these type of scanners listed on trademe? Or is there another type I should be considering. I am keen to get engine and performance information, like engine temp, boost pressure etc using some sort of application; so any suggestions would be great. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/SearchResults.aspx?searchString=obd2+iPhone&rptpath=all&type=Search&searchType=all&generalSearch_keypresses=6&generalSearch_suggested=0&generalSearch_suggestedCategory=

That's pretty crap!

Is number 4, nz new? And what price are you thinking for it?

It would be very interesting to see...what the difference would be. I could imagine 25,000km engine would be looking worst by far, but I guess they expect you to upgrade to a new version before its a problem. I am thinking of sticking to 10,000km services with fully synthetic oil and see how that goes. I think that is a good compromise at this stage and if I do any modifications to the engine, then I might start doing them earlier.

Watch this....most standard air boxes are better designed that after market ones. You might get a different sound at best.

Awesome, that was about what I thought reasonable.

Stopped into my local BMW garage to see about a service and they told me it is not due for 18000km...I have done 7000km in it since last change. They started talking about long life oil and only having to do an oil change every 25,000kms, which just seems ridiculously long intervals considering the engine (N54) and that they have a tendency to run hot (From the Internet, I don't have a temp. gauge operating). I am also used to historically doing every 10,000kms of the dot with previous cars. Is 25,000kms a real or are they just making service cost more reasonable, as I didn't think fully synthetic oil lasted 25,000km - and at a push I could stretch it to 15,000kms? Love to hear people's thoughts and experiences?

Firstly, I paid $600 including gst. I got radio, gps setup with new nz maps - no disc. Personally, I wanted to do it properly; which Mark did and the system works perfectly accept for the radio reception. After Christmas I will follow up to get this element sorted properly. Fully worth doing properly instead of after market gsp system added- but that's my thoughts and others probably feel differently. Cheers,

Hi Bud, I got mine done from Mark at capital auto electricians in Wellington. They all seem to know each other and do work for each other...Mark seems like a great guy, but two things happened - they loaded first software wrong and in the process delete my under seat speaker from making noise...and had to get back the next day to re-programe. Then the reception on the radio is really grap, worst than my girlfriends car with no ariel plug in, can't get any radio stations unless right in perfect signal. Mark, was going to try find a solution and get back to me, but never did and I haven't followed up - it's a know issue with iDrive upgrades from Japan...but Autogravity have a fix apparently. Good luck and hope that helps. Oh, GPS works perfect.