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that would be worse! Just faster with a waay bigger thirst. Narr.... Need to move this along first then I'll start seriously looking.

cheers. it has to, so, anything on the menu will need to pass the driveway 'test' first.

this is a fair accessment. Kyu. But I'm sure you are probably safe to drive a $1000 car into town. If the country is serious about getting the road toll down then there needs to be some realisation that it's not just speed and booze. I mean they can throw up all the Police checks they like (I have no problem with them) but yesterday I followed a procession of 5 cars following a complete POS at 20km/r down a main road. It had 1 reverse light on and either no indicators or he didn't use them as he weaved left and right moving between 5-20kph before he crashed into a curb. Seriously. How is he competent to drive. He couldn't drive down a suburban street. No wonder the car looked like it had been in a demo derby. Imagine him on the open road in that? Let alone past a school at lunchtime which he was. it seems to me the most incompetent drivers also drive vehicles not fit for the purpose they are using them for. Police need to target that 1%. hahah........a bit off subject. Maybe I should move this to the rant section. I'm going to make a great grumpy old man I reckon.

The point was in torrential rain I'm still doing 100, when all the other traffic drops to half that. I get not every car is capable of maintaining speed in heavy rain. Personally I think there should be stricter laws around what types of tyres are allowed. More part of a wider problem. I know the little compact car that's holding up traffic is going as fast as it can safely. But should micro city cars with terrible quality tyres be allowed on NZ's open road? surely there should be a minimum standard.

Time for another M something. Yeah. The X5 is .... too good. At everything. It's boring. It's the weight plus grip. it's incredible. bucketing down I'm doing twice the speed of any other car on the road with no problems. I think it's the perfect car for when I'm 60.

Neal. Can I ask. I've heard you can't launch SMG's as they lunch clutches. Is there any veracity to this story? Personally I've never driven but in a big city I like the idea of the flexibility

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=937208315

Lovely car. Lovely colour. It's a credit to you. What a classic.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/bmw/interior/auction-930031897.htm

you will need to check they cover cars over a certain age / km reading. Some don't or have decreased coverage limits.

my bad.... try now http://myvodafoneexperience.blogspot.co.nz/ make sure you have a nice hot cup of tea to go with it....

This an't no quick rant. I got bored on hold to them once....so I blogged about my experience. It's kinda like an open letter. http://myvodafoneexperience.blogspot.co.nz/2014/12/vodafone-nz-customer-experience-first-3.html

Len's Brown's average 9% promise. really Len?, mine was 36%.

add on "special" channels. I pay for sky. Quite alot. All I seem to be able to find these days are re-runs or freaking reno or cooking shows. Yet there's a few new shows that are out... only on freakin soho or rialto. Channels that you have to pay more for. Then there's netfix, amazon will have the new Top Gear..... the list goes on... Sorry but i'm not going to pay a subscription for each show I want to watch. Nor for each sport I like. They can piss and moan about piracy all they like until they sort their sh*t out and decide on a standard service I'll download them all.

+1 add Vodafone billing, Vodafone sales, Vodafone installations, Vodafone Complaints... Infact all of Vodafone less their social media (twitter) team. Whom actually did something. I haave the most ridiculous story just to get broadband installed you wouldn't believe half of it.

improvements in technology never fail to impress. I have a jump pack the size of a suitcase in my garage.

saw you driving through Lunn ave last week Dave. Really is nice in that colour.

Are they chartering their own plane?

If it's the one I'm thinking of it's genuine but in rough condition. alittle rougher now.

Breakdown insurance. This whole thing as cost us $250 excess. luckly. yes. I guess we have to trust mercedes that the intake was infact cracked, as they couldn't tell me where or were prepared to show me.

So there's an end to this story. $3500 of replacement intake system. Next day the light comes back on. Back to Mercedes it goes. They worked out there's a fault MAF sensor. Light hasn't come back on since. Now. Question is. Was that the fault all along?

yes don't rub it in Ray. 8M3 is epic

everything needs an S62.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/bmw/auction-911655404.htm do want

cool. but you loose a AC vent?