Gabe79

Wind turbines usually remain usable in their location for a long time... Water turbines rely on running water. The expectation is that the water will continue running. Another word for 'renewable' (as distinct from fossil fuels, which are finite) is 'sustainable.' It isn't the water, or the wind the pushes the turbine, as such, it's the flow of water, or wind. Nothing is 'used' when wind/water flow through a turbine.

Erm... confused. Teslas don't devalue much, or at all on a 3-5 year timeframe. Who cares what happens later? What other car can this be said about them?

You may be right for the i8 specifically, i don't know. For Teslas, they do not devalue very much at all... The low end of EVs do devalue, but again, not actually quite as much as one would think.

I dunno, if I had it, I'd pay that kind of money for a Tesla.

I'm not sure we read the same article here, but ok... The study is by a university, which, generally, is an institution that doesn't employ clowns, I think you misread and thought this was a circus? They show their data in the study, you're welcome to dispute the data if you'd like. As an example, I'll dispute the data you state about an EV costing $40-50k. I paid $10k for my used Leaf. Same same here. We went from $100-200/month to no noticeable difference in our electricity bill. The car pays for itself eventually. No ICE can have that said for it... It means that the emissions go down depending on how clean your energy source is. The 50% argument is made against coal, if your energy sources are clean already, like they are here (and the example given which is roughly comparable is Sweden...) then the decrease can be as much as 85% less emissions in total.

We've had some discussions in the past about the total emissions impact of EVs versus ICEs... This study is very interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/25/electric-cars-emit-50-less-greenhouse-gas-than-diesel-study-finds “On average, electric vehicles will emit half the CO2 emissions of a diesel car by 2030, including the manufacturing emissions,”

Funny you should ask... I'm ordering control arms this week. PM me what you're after?

Don't know if it sold or not. Carjam seems to think it came from The Nertherlands. https://carjam.co.nz/car/?plate=ievo3i

Bump. Now on trademe, with lowered pricing. https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1448187078 https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1448187254

That makes sense. Thanks. So in NZ the year a car is first registered counts as its model year, sort of? Weird as.

That's production date though, not model year. Could be a '97 model year, no?

E39, E46 and E53 X5s are affected according to the recall website. Japan's weather varies more than ours in temperature, but our weather is much more humid (yearly average in the mid 80s here) than theirs (yearly average in the mid 50s) and this recall is humidity based, so the Japanese weather isn't the problem... That said, there are no known cases if an airbag failure here. I don't know about in Japan.

Have a good read here: http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=897616

Oh, that sounds good, in a hopeful sorta way. In my case, they originally said nothing needed to be replaced. I hope that's still correct.

After everything I posted to date... I got a second letter from BMW today saying to bring my car in again. Will be contacting Jerry Clayton early next week.

One thing to note... if you’re in a situation like I was, my fuel filter was 16 years old. It was causing a misfire in cylinder 2.

Note there was a plug like this on my CCV unit itself. I’ll find a diagram when I’m in front of a computer for you, but same kind of plug as those. This did not come in the kit and I had to find mine as it had snapped off and I had to hunt for it...

I ordered the FCP kit, plus bought a can of throttle body cleaner and a short length of vacuum hose. If your upper intake boot is shot, you’ll need that in addition, and if you’re taking off the intake manifold you’ll need new gaskets for it, also, if you take he manifold off, you might as well buy the coolant hoses that go under there and replace those too. I did not find replacing the CCV system with the manifold on hard and I am a newbie with this stuff.

Hi James, How much are you looking to get for this car?

It looks great mate.

With FCP Returns, you post to them at your cost, they post to you at their cost.

I found these videos incredibly useful when I did mine... Wasn't exact for me, as I have an e39 instead, but should be spot on for you. EDIT: Note I did not take off my intake manifold. Not confident in my abilities to do that. If you go that route, the kit from FCP euro contains the injector gaskets, but not the manifold gaskets, so get those too (and get the coolant hoses that go underneath there if you remove the manifold.

I haven't asked them what happens when I buy something and ship it to my parents, but then want to claim the warranty on that item from NZ. Will they post it back to me in NZ, or just back to me at my parents? Mind, not much difference either way I suppose. I have a store and forward service I use sometimes too, but their shipping costs aren't much cheaper than FCP Euro's. Should try out youshop sometime...

Pics?

Always UPS. USPS is mediocre now. Ive paid as little as $30 in shipping for small boxes, as much as $130 for heavier items. Edit: I normally cap out at $75ish in shipping. Three valve covers cost $130ish in shipping.