sonic_attack

Popcorntime is the shizzle. Been running it for 6 months. Imagine all those pay for streaming gigs rolled into one displaying every Tv series on offer, plus every movie, all in HD, all available instantly.

I don't know how long it'll last though. At some stage the industry will have to admit defeat and buy into popcorntime, or there will be some FBI-esque raids and it'll all turn to custard.

The chicks had already flown the coup, popcorntime really just did the flyby and took a big crap on the rest though.

It does mean of course that I have 2 spare DUDMD chips that should work by right in any other 404 DME. But lets see how this new thing goes first, before we get carried away.

Nice work on becoming NZ DUDMD chip distributor.. lol!

I can do that too. No drama, you have my numver.

I'm a screenprinter. Likely I can do what you need.

Rod 0275366468.

Id managed to survive through winter on around 16-18 hours a week of work :-/ so rightly my priorities were on existence and survival...

Looking good now though, plenty on so tossing up the dudmd / wokke options. Im also tentatively looking at late 90's kawasaki zx7r's.. lol!

Actually. Sorry, not trying to step on toes or be a buzzkill. Just sharing the details.

As mentioned my german plates had a german coat of arms on the left side. So not your standard stars/fern or whatever the local offering is. Probably a flashing beacon for a bored pedantic constable, oddly he's pointing out the font of the german plates which does differ from the monospaced sans squeezed out locally. So there you go.

$100 infringement, but a warning only, plates gone obviously. No huge drama, a little disappointing maybe but meh.. I was aware of the possibility.

The whole gig to me highlights the rape we're subjected to for these items. Looking at replacement regular plates and the replacement cost for a set of two is $20 from ltsa. Wtf? Euro plates retail for what? $900ish? Pffffft.

Be warned. I had my German plates siezed last night, coppers on the lookout allegedly. The suggestion was the typeface was the giveaway.

My europlates did have the german COA though.

Tis an honorable position to take, just unfortunate it went that way.

Just out of curiosity, why did you not entrust Team Mac to do this? I imagine the cost may have been considerably more but surely there would have been a fall back for this very occurrence? Or they would have known to look further? I don't know any better but I personally would expect a place like that to be well up for the job.

Wouldn't you find it easier to offload the evo than the v12 bimmer?

Pretty easy sale there id have thought. Run it through the $12 gassy carwash and list as "mint sounDz goes hard"..

Pretty good lesson in all of this is - do it once, do it right". If it comes down to the simple diagnoses Brett delivered in the flywheel scenario. Its an awful roundabout way to throw money and time away to wind up in the same place and facing it all again weeks later.

Bummer for the guy with a new car with a chewed clutch. Bit of a depressing scene for both parties.

the dual mass flywheel will be buggered and a new clutch wont last long at all.

the 2 parts of the flywheel will be flexing all over the place cause the clutch to slip.

have seen this happen many times.

Ouch. Good to learn.

I think once theres talk of front cuts and alignment machines you're going to want to be seriously in love with that car to progress.

Surprised to read the damage report even based on that pic alone. Theres a tidy/straight e34 well inside the cost of getting that looking like it did prior to stacking it. It was a nice car so I imagine youll be quite critical of the repair.

Crap scenario for sure. Ouch!

Cars not in eden terrace now is it?

What's with the T-Stars anyway? The real deal?

Awful wing mirrors. You'd think they'd be molded into the door and not styled like a bolt on repco afterthought.

I'd be pulling it apart in the driveway and into it with the port-a-power and BFH.

Hard to imagine any structural damage at that speed, the passenger side supports yes, but doesn't look too dramatic based on that pic. Biggest hassle will be getting all that stuff painted to match.

Bummer.

Lol. 3pedals, you must commute around in a homicidal rage seeing you have a demented fixation with how a car handles, but you drive something with the aerodynamics of a cement block and a center of gravity resembling a ferris wheel.

*edit: OP, Go drive both. You'll end up with the extra 2 cylinders - Why have six when you can have eight? If gas mileage was a consideration we'd all be driving Mitsubishi Mirage's and Honda Civics. I can get under 10L/100KM driving like a nana on the motorway, or 16-19L/100KM driving way heavier than we're allowed to on the road anyway. Your e39 will handle fine regardless of either engine, you're not the resurrected Ayrton Senna so you're probably going to drive for the most part like everyone else does. I can steer my old boat around corners and over shitty lumpy NZ roads just fine without falling off it.

Dumb question: is the subframe/trailing arms a straight swap in for a sedan?

Snapped? I bet that gave him a fright..

I'd say a bit of time/skill or money involved in bringing that back. Reads like a good parts car though.

I might have seen Andy tucking into a pie in the countdown cbd carpark. Tidy e30 convert?

Just go buy a shitbox Nissan Bluebird if you want a hack. There must be 40+ of them on trademe for under 2K. Reliable as and tidy.

I forget the name of it, but at the end of Cain Road in Penrose is a compliance center. You can't miss it, it's at the very end of the road and just through the gates.

You must have a good stash of exhausts.. The sound of that scraping everywhere would annoy the sh*t out of me.

I had to get the 1/4 tinted too, it doesn't match because the existing tints are faded... It's not far off though.

Even more disappointing was the discovery of the shatter trip for the alarm when removing the 1/4 rubber. If I sorted my alarm I might have saved my jacket at least! Ahh well, that's life in inner city Aucks.