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Looking like the dude has died.

Had to remove some of the storm debris to get out of the garage , but considering the amount of thumps on the roof Thursday night I'm pleased that none of our trees came down. Thought one of our Tawa trees was going to topple. Wicked wind eh !

Caution on the second hand amp. Only buy from someone you know or can vouch for condition. Had a PG AMP go and couldn't repair as getting matched transistors was a problem. Brought a S/H one off trademe to replace. Turns out the amp in so call excellent condition had a serious fault. When connected up in tri mode the sub and left channel worked. However , a serious amount of smoke started coming out of the rh side of the dash. The amp was faulty in such a way that the crossovers smoked up. It also killed the voicecoil on one of my Boston components mid bass. This all only took a few seconds. The whole car could have gone up which was sitting in my garage at the time.

Did this last year. Brought in a set of re11 bridgestones. The quote I got from Nz worked out cheaper but I couldn't get the rears. BS tried to get them in for me , but this was post earthquake and couldn't get them in time. Bs nz offered semi slicks instead at a great price , but neded tyres for mainly road use. Shipping was via TIrerack was over 400 usd and gst was added to tyres and freight Would have been around $1900 nz if they could be sourced locally. Was $2200 via tirerack but still happy with the purchase at that price

Insane pace ! Same weight as a mini and 400 bhp !

Tend to agree, living in London 2005 / 2006 I would regularly see 2 csl's that were parked on the streets due to a lack of garages. One started looking quite sad due to other cars hitting it and it had been coined. The inside resembled a tip. There are a few good second hand bmw dealerships that I came across when looking for a e30 M3. Can pass on the names as they were better than most. Cat d cars are to be avoided, these have been written off and repaired. A check on the vin will show that up.

Have you thought about a MDM solution such as Airwatch ? Good for updating and pushing policies to "I" devices. Can be used for Andriod as well Airwatch Has a free trial

After a left trunk liner for a E46 Coupe with fold down seats. It's the grey carpet cover that covers the CD stacker / sat nav / rack. Part no 51478266569 Thought I'd try bimmersport before resorting to importing.

Not working from Ipad ..... Don't get an Apple Andy

Rear fogs on for no reason is for the dumb and stupid. Front fogs are a pet hate of mine when I'm on the motorbike and the road is wet. At night if you have a car following the fogs bounce of the wet road, into my mirrors and onto the helment visor. Basically I can see sweet fa looking forward , as you cant see the side of the road you cant move over to let the car pass. Low beams don't bounce off the wet road in the same manner and the beam sits below the bike mirrors. If you like running front fogs on a wet night and wonder why that cop on a bike pulls you over , this will be the reason why.

Food for thought I did consider getting an entry level commercial grade compressor. My brother who's been a mechanic for 30 odd years point out that for a similar price I could get a sidchrome socket set ,screwdriver set, an 1200kg engine crane , a floor crawler , a grinder , axle stands, alloy race jack , roller seat , a compressor , various air tools, spray gun , a power drill , router , jigsaw , circular saw and a host of other tools for the same price. The only thing that has failed has been the rollers on the roller seat seat which SCA replaced out of warranty. Brother thinks the compressor is fine for non commercial use. Other use is tyre pressure management for 4 sets of mini rims , 2 x motorbikes and 4 x cars.

Brought one similar from sc a couple of years back. It's had light use but has had everything from staplers to air tools and media blasting connected to it. Only thing I hadn't tried is using a spray gun yet although I have one to try, an entry level job from a pro paint shop for similar reasons to other posts here. Forgot to add, I have two air lines. One for air tools that lub via the air line . Another for media blasting painting etc. Would also have brought a retractable hose reel and mounted it on the garage wall if I'd given it more thought upfront.

Special program that BMW runs for custom options. Typically interior trim as specified by the customer such as custom colour combos.

Didn't sorry , but for a while there seemed to bea number of custom e30s painted Yamaha blue like the 1999 r1

Sure it's not yamaha blue ?

Managed to get a better slalom time (.25 seconds) in a F30 320d M in sport time than my M3. Very easy to get and keep the power down. M3 had traction problems at the U turn which might have slowed it's time

Have also been known to use oven cleaner on some of my mini trim as a last resort ....

Other leather trick is Shaving foam with Lanolin , The lady that made my wife's motorcycle leathers told her to use it. The Lanolin is natures natural conditioner. Worked a treat on my Spyke leathers after 15,000 kms of adventure riding in South America.

And people give us SMG owners a hard time ...... No slop on the SMG gear lever action Car is looking great with a polish

Either way it's a shame. Ford verse Holden verse chev has given us years of fun in our family, Although I've been one eyed BMW for the last 25 years. Shame to see the aussie icon going.

Made the boot baffle board today. Trial fit wasn't too bad. Will add some foam rubber to the edges and carpet over the foam. Should give a snug fit. Next stage carpet to match boot and spray front enclosure baffle gun metal.

Your comments are interesting on the VW. Does it have time alignment compensation ? The M3 has mid and tweeter in the upper door. The mid doesn't sound to bad, but I'm not a fan of the tweeter, BMW sell blanking mid / tweeter blanking plates so I'd drop a tweeter into one of those.

Sub box has had a good dose of filler. All wood work completed. Needs sanding and carpet / paint. Also need to make up a front baffle board this weekend. The idea is to fill the boot gaps around the edges to force more of the speaker via the ski pass in a manner similar to a IB baffle board setup. Then next steps simple amp rack for / PC / Crossover to use area where gunk tyre pump sits. Last step will be working out what quadloc / amp spade connectors to working in with Nav Speaker loom if I can't get aftermarket speaker cabling into the front doors without butchering the door wire connectors. Tossing up trying door install for tweeters rather than my usual front dash /A pillar corner installs.

Simple delay relay between the remote power on input on the amp and the white cable that goes to the factory amp will stop the thump. Link A dsp can be added to the factory system via a box called a intravee and a sony pxa processor.Link or look out for a 3sixty.1 2 or 3 and do an RCA output mod to your factory tuner. I think the newer 3sixty.3 also accepts balanced audio so should be able to connect between the tuner and amps.

Might pay to buy a 5 channel amp or 4 channel amp plus 1 channel sub amp. I'm not sure how well the BMW amp would react to running rear speakers only in a mix in match mode. Put it this way ,not a mode that I'd run as you need to ensure that the factory amp doesn't go unstable without having a speaker load to run. Last thing you want is a amp smoking up behind trim panel.