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    Bruski
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    Audi b8 s4 avant
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    BMW z3 m coupe
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    VW Polo Cross beep beep

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  1. There is also a strong case for older cars that benefit from upgraded performance parts that were not widely available or were not fitted to the factory edition such that a modern equipped older car will arguably be a much 'better' drivers car than when it left the factory. Bigger, newer brakes for starters. MUCH better tyres!
  2. Bruski

    The cheap Z3

    For the rubbing on the front guard, you can always cut out some of the plastic guard where it rubs. That stops the rubbing!
  3. Bruski

    Quick rant thread.

    eek! Not an suv in sight 😉 Place Vauban On Any Given Sunday Morning - Speedhunters
  4. Bruski

    Quick rant thread.

    People tell me to stop reading the Guardian, but every now and again.....comedy gold: Parisians vote in favour of tripling parking costs for SUVs | Paris | The Guardian
  5. Bruski

    Quick rant thread.

    Has anyone tried Cove for car insurance? Shopping around after receiving the same shock - from Tower = up from something like 640 to 880 on the family shopping trolley is outrageous. And that is after raising the excess last year post a fairly hefty increase in 2023. Cove came out the cheapest. All the others were close to or a lot more than Tower. Cove seemed one of those 'too good to be true, probably is' moments.
  6. I concur with your assessment. On the new SH1 m'way heading north from Auckland over the peak holiday period Waze was remarkably on point. Then again, given the time of year, running on the presumption that there will be 5 0 around every third corner of a brand new, safe as you like m'way, is probably as good a bet. I was busy telling my kids in the back of the wagon that the BIB like to sour holiday makers and add a fun tax over the holidays, when sure enough, a soccer mum SUV got pinged right in front of us with a laser doing what can only have been a smidge over 107, downhill with a tailwind. I mean really, what risk was this person posing to society and their fellow motorists? Zero IMHO. They were more in danger when sliding and swerving to an emergency stop on the lose gravel at the side of the m'way. Needless to say, the radar detector did not go off in my car nor did the laser detector.
  7. This is way off topic but maybe belongs in this thread..... I stumbled across these characters on the webatron the other day and have now skimmed through quite a bit of their material. It is some sort of hypnotic catharsis.....anyway, way off topic but worth a butchers hook if only for shtz and giggles: Ghost driving while roof and car bonnet surfing (youtube.com)
  8. Bruski

    Quick rant thread.

    Agreed. More on Waze the better. Get the message out there!
  9. Echoes of the z3m coupe. Terrible colour for a concept car IMHO. Alpina looking alloys too.
  10. Bruski

    Quick rant thread.

    This was a topic of conversation in the office the other day. General consensus, yes, traffic is billy bonkers. I think everyone recognises traffic spikes after schools go back but it does seem to me that traffic post school holidays has gone way beyond the 'normal' difference in traffic load. Maybe if schools started later, finished later, there might be some load balancing. Maybe. Then again, the route cause is arguably the politicisation of induced demand stifling new road building and the spin put on it by vested interests or politically or maybe better put zealotry: Why is induced demand still ignored? - Greater Auckland New Findings in the Netherlands about Induced Demand and the Benefits of New Road Infrastructure - ScienceDirect Skim to the conclusion......hmmmmmmm.
  11. If you want rust work done, try Brendan at the Rust Surgeon. Located in Glenfield. Good guy, does good work, and is good to chat to about what you need doing. He only does Rust. Body-shops etc are probably going to turn you down.
  12. £250 on fleabay back in 2009. Not bad depreciation in .... consults computer calculator ..... 23 years
  13. Thanks guys, that about sums it up, you get too used to modern then going back to vintage is not great. And yeah, H7 as standard.
  14. This has probably been addressed elsewhere but a hunt around the tinternet did not really yield results. I'm guessing others have had this problem too. I want to swap the original candles in my 2000 z3mc. Since picking up the z3mc in 2010 it has had a HID kit installed by the previous owner. 11 years of MOT and the first few years of WOF here in NZ it has been fine until my father took it to VTNZ - while I was in Singapore, without asking. Nuff said. Anyhoo, I took it out the other night, raining, couldn't see a thing. The original lamps are useless, shockingly bad. Especially when c/f modern lamps. I'm not keen on putting the HIDs back in, they are very bright I've been told, and rules is rules and all that. So, what to do? For every bulb that is on sale there are as many good reviews as bad. I would rather not spend big bucks on some fancy xenon retrofit, plus I don't really know what that is, all I really want is something that is brighter. I'm also after something I can source locally in Nu Zulin, so have avoided the US and UK forum postings on this - there are a myriad of options abroad. Any suggestions?
  15. Do you think he'd sell that cupholder thing separately? 😉
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