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    1 hour ago, Olaf said:

    it's a tough call between the IWC and the Magrette!  A Leoncino, nice!  I like the Tudor below it, too - never seen that model before.  

    Haha I’m actually selling the Leoncino if you know someone who might be interested. 

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    3 hours ago, Palazzo said:

    You mean like my new toy?

    Oklahoma Joe! Nice one :)

     

    1 hour ago, M3AN said:

    Family Q  + Longines + Tissot + Casio (dive watch)

    Q's are great - I prefer cooking on charcoal for the heat and flavour but nothing beats the Q for a few steaks or sausies in a hurry!

    47 minutes ago, Olaf said:

    you guys doing some slow cool smoking, then?

    I'm just on gas, where I live charcoal needs more committment with the wind.

    Bit of low and slow, bit of super hot sear, and some in the middle.

    And yeh wind can be a challenge with some charcoal cookers, but for smoking an insulated chamber smoker will fix a lot of that. My Chubby (above) will go fine even in a howling gale.

     

    3 hours ago, sobanoodle said:

    Share some pics!

    I buy and sell as a hobby so far too many to list, but here's some recent highlights.

     

     

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    4 hours ago, qube said:

    but I thought you were considering a wrap in that smurf blue in which case its probably a waste of money?

    Yes I asked about that but apparently colour wraps aren't anywhere near as protective to stone chips etc as PPF film is. Plus, I'm considering 'eventually' smurfing it, can't really do it for the 3 years the car will be on a PCP - at the end I need to decide if I like it enough to fork out the balance, at which point I can start experimenting a bit with it, or just hand it back and start paying for a new model.

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    1 hour ago, M3AN said:

    Wow, up to $4.5k?

    In that case I agree with Andrew, put the money in a passive growth fund and use the proceeds over time to repaint as required.

    Have you spoken to the guys at OCD about options?

     

    Haven't spoken to them, no, but the $3.5-4.5k range is based on a quote for approx $2.5k from the Wrap Shop for a full frontal PPF, plus adding up approx $2k from OCD's website prices for exterior and interior ceramic ($1k exterior ceramic, $0.5k prep, $0.5k interior)

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    7 minutes ago, Jacko said:

    Post 93(ish?) they changed the suspension geometry which reduced that tendency, I had a 95 SW20 for awhile, was well behaved. 

    I had a 92 so I was definitely in the thick of it.

    7 minutes ago, BozzaFC said:

    Surely you're not trying to tell me that oversteer is, in any case, a bad thing??? ;) 

    Controlled oversteer is the greatest joy in driving. Uncontrolled oversteer, especially lift off oversteer when all you're expecting to do at the time is slow down, is scary AF. Especially when you wind up on the wrong side of the road about 1m from the cliff edge you were heading towards.

    Only time in my driving life I've ever had to pull over at the top of the hill and gather my nerves for a few minutes.

    Even remember the exact corner : https://goo.gl/maps/5GxfGt43E5S2

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    26 minutes ago, Jacko said:

    MR2s are one of the things that popped up in my brain, even a "dull" non turbo SW20 (2nd gen) are quiet fun and very reliable 3SGE camry underneath. Bit long in the tooth, but.. MR-S (3rd gen) is also an option, would meet more modern safety standards, and are convertible which gets girl bonus cool points. 1st gen AW11s are very rare in any condition that would be worth buying, unless you're an absolute enthusiast (they're awesome fun though) 

    I was 100% gonna recommend an SW20 MR2 but the lift-off oversteer can be horrific if not managed well and is probably not ideal for a beginner driver. Almost killed myself twice on the Hundalee's in mine and I wasn't even driving that aggressively.

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    1 hour ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

    So not what's in the new M135i then..?

    My understanding is the new M-1xx's use a Haldex-like version of XDrive, where is full time FWD until it needs rear wheel traction.

    As opposed to the current implementation of XDrive on most cars, where it's a full time AWD system with a nominal 40/60 front/rear torque split, with the addition of an electronic multi-plate clutch and sensors that allow you to send up to 100% of torque to front, rear, or even 1 specific wheel. That's the advantage over the normal Quattro system Audi uses as the Quattro system will always apportion at least some torque to every wheel, even if they're slipping.

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    3 hours ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

    I thought the Haldex systems were all electronic, and didn't have mechanical locking diffs in them?

    Could come down to your definition of a "Haldex" system as there are quite a few of them under the generic name of the company.

    Yeh they use electronics to sense front wheel slip and then kick in the rears via a hydraulic clutch. 

    1 hour ago, KwS said:

    Having seen first hand what the Haldex system on an S3 can do, there is no way a FWD could corner quite the same.

    Dismissing AWD and FWD because "RWD is just better" is ignorant.

    I’m not dismissing AWD at all - it definitely has its place. But personally I prefer Torsen and other full time AWD systems to modified FWD like Haldex and others. 

    Actually I watched a really interesting video the other day that argues that XDrive from BMW has actually stolen a bit of a march on the Audi Quattro system (Torsen implementation ala S4 and higher) which is why Audi has adapted so many of the principles in their new e-Quattro system. 

    I’m actually quietly looking forward to when EV AWD is affordable, each wheel having its own motor independently driven and all controlled by a central brain. Sure, possibly more to go wrong, but the control possibilities would essentially be limitless. 

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    1 hour ago, Gaz said:

    Aside from the X5M, the current M5 is the first ///M with AWD which was only launched late last year

    I actually don't mind them having AWD as long as it's a full time Torsen system with a rear bias set up.

    But the new 1 is an icky Haldex system like a Golf R or A3. Essentially a front wheel drive until it can't handle being a front wheel drive no mo'.

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  22. Posted · Edited by BlackrazorNZ · Report reply

    It’s surprising how much of a gut ol’ Clarkson has got in the latest season. Was one of the first things my wife and I noticed and I’m hardly a svelte machine myself. 

    Life on Amazon money must be good. 

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