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Do you need cruise Sam @Sammo? Can’t see closely enough but it may not have it, just a speed limiter?

I agree. Having been on the end of some far less scrupulous secondhand car deals with buried issues and felt let down by humanity, in contrast you’ve behaved as well as anyone could be expected to. Your conscience should be clear; but acknowledge that it feels “off” to be in your situation. And as you say, 16 year old high performance, complex European car. It has a leak, admittedly an annoyingly expensive one to address, but that’s the nature of the beast.

That’s why I asked. Didn’t see you were in the US.

Is it left hand drive?

I never go to BP, they often never have 95 down here and just have 91 or 98 at ridiculous prices. They do have nice peppery steak pies but I can be agile in my choices of cuisine

That annoys me, grrrr. Like the stations that still don’t comply with the requirement to post pricing of all fuel types.

Sorry to hear about your cancer diagnosis @SmithyInWelly, and congratulations on spending some money on a toy or two! Your A250 looks really nice, I like that grille but imagine you can get an AMG one online? Great colour!

Hi Sam @Sammo, taking advantage of free/discounted selling on TradeMe today and seeing if I can get a reasonable offer on this and then refocus on pursuing a manual later in the year. Also going to be selling the GP after April-May too, as three cars and two garage spots makes for a dirty Golf. Starting the process of disappointment early lol 😂 @adro mentioned he maybe selling his at year end perhaps which could be a good replacement down the line, or something like that, lots of water to go under bridges of course.

Agree!

I like the one on the left ♥️

Oh wow! Custom grunter people mover

That paintwork 🤤 sooo good

BMW NZ… an odd-shaped 3?

You only live once

Wow Kees @Kees that’s looking good, thank you for the story too, good read I have done that highway the other way, also picking up a new-to-me car in Auckland and driving it back to Wellington. I missed the turnoff to the central plateau and ended up doing that long way too! Ha know the feeling. How was economy, not bad?

You have a 3.2l Touran? That must be rare and high spec?

My fiend has a towing business that does police recoveries etc: apparently one of the most stolen cars too for joy rides.

Those are the kinds of neighbours I like

Corolla, if reliability and cost are top considerations. Golfs can be “ish” but $1k/door central locking failures on Mark 5s, aircon compressors on 4s and earlier 5s, 1.6 manual Mark 5 transmissions fail. And maybe finding something that runs on 91? Nothing European in this price bracket will be “set and forget”, maybe find out what the post-purchase repairs budget will be and if you/someone else can do maintenance and tweaks? Might be being the voice of doom lol

We used to have registration bands based on safety ratings or similar but they got rid of that. Next step could be UK-style emissions bands which could be in the mix?

It is a great looking example with those upgrades.

That’s the base set up eg for some 316i models. No clock, centralised stereo etc. looks nice and clean. In some models the dash had no rev counter so had a big clock instead. So made sense to have only one clock or as per this late model example, no clock. IIRC the first LCI 316i models had the no rev counter look then the later ones got a rev counter?

I think about that too. But these are funny times. If a 325i and original maybe the “10x” @lord_jagganath? But you just never know

Keep fixing it Adrian, keep fixing it 😉 @adro

And… appears it is SOLD!