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I still use the BMW pads. I give the rims a good coat of car polish once a year which makes washing the stuff off easier. The dealer seems to also pressure wash the rims during servicing / warrants , but this ended up lifting the clear coat on my old Type 1's so wouldn't recomend doing this too often .(wife's car factory painted rims where fine with this)

on my E36 325i the most was $3800 on wear items at around 225k km including rotors,pads,sensors, front tyres and insecption II. Otherwise $400 -$600 roughly every 14,000km for BMW Dealer service including synth oil.

Sorry , just can't help myself .....

Get about 4 -5 weeks 1000-1200 kms with CRC wet look before I re-apply. Not sure on yoru other products

Was the engine supercharged in the past ? Other wise not sure why you engine would have an after market rising rate fuel regulator added. I have a fuel pressure gauge on my mini turbo engine. Handy for spot checks to make sure that fuel pressure is 4psi higher than boost pressure.

Used Brasso on restoring my 40 year plus taillights on the Mk1 Mini and many of the old plastic parts. Takes a while but the results where worth it.

check out the times for last year wallacville hillclimb. There was a tidy 318is coupe competing which shows performance and pace has a lot to do with a drivers ability. 0-100 km is nothing if you can't make it around the next corner. 318is performance is fine. http://triumph.net.nz/PDFs/Wallaceville%20...limb%202011.pdf btw , check out a collegues mini 1275 time. 110 hp max.

1, The factory speakers at either rated at 20 or 40 rms depending on model. I think the mid bass drivers can be replaced with 5.25 speakers. Depending on how much volume you like will be the factor in if they factory ones need replacing. You JBL would more than likely be capable of frying the factory speakers if you where to turn it up. 2, Line level conversion will work however , you'll loose some calirity by having two amplifiers in line. Jaycar is one place where you can get these. If your car has the sperate factory amp then the connection between the head unit and the AMP runs balanced audio. If your JBL supports balanced audio inputs you are in luck as you can take a cleaner noise few feed and bypass your fatcory amp. Jaycar also sell unblanced audio to RCA devices. These come in two channel mode only so two devices are needed. I haven't used these but did consider these instead of modifying the factory unit. Another option which I'm going to do is modify the factory unit and add unblanvced RCA output and bypass the balanced audio OPamps on the circuit board (in my case the factory tuner / pre-amp in the boot) 3, A few people can advise on ipod intergation devices that will use your factory head unit & steering wheel controls in lieu of a facotry CD changer.Dice is one brand that make devices to work with BMW sytems 4 , You'll only need to feed four channels into you amp (front and rear) e.g. no need to run a sub feed. You amp will do that.

I like the shots gained from the remote controlled car and the DSLR being carried by that small helicopter. Imagine the footage you could get for motorsport events at quite a low cost.

Great filming on this

Isn't the use of copper grease on the caliper side of the pad suposed to help eliminate pad rattle & squeak ?

Sounds like you have an an exceptional example. Was giving an indication of what a well looked after standard NZ e36 325i 5 speed eather coupe went for. Car had full dealer history and was garaged day & night. Price has nothing to do with engine technology, more to do with market reality. ( e.g. one of my Mk1 Mini's I brought at the same time for 10% of the BMW's price ended up being worth more ... which is the better car ?) Maybe my old E36 could have reached $5k. I wasn't too worried about the price as I'd had my use out of it and it had owed me nothing for quite some time. Mind you, if someone wants to give me $9K for the E36 328i they can have it tomorrow

Agree on price. Traded my 94 NZ 325i Coupe / leather / Type 1's /5 speed with 225k kms for $4000 Aug last year. Paint was in mint condition . Car dealer put it on trademe for $4000 and it sold within 24hrs.

My understanding is that when these where first released Honda wouldn't support getting parts or servcing to protect values for current owners for what was a top of the line offering. A well heeled friend of mine looked into importing one about a year after they came out and that is what a dealer told him. Mostly likely different now.

Birds London also did a number of Conversions. The NZ new ones where also largely converted to RHD. Not sure if they were done in NZ

All of the equipment in front of the web server is capable of logging information. Even if your bandwidth has been be saturated you still can log the information of the traffic that is making it through. If you have a quick read of something like this link you'llappreciationaitation for the security layers that will go in front of Web servers. http://www.libraryinsight.com/events/technology.htm It's a bit like your home PC on steroids steriods You have your ADSL router . For a large enterprise you will have many routers connect to the internet. These are capable of logging a substantial substancial amount of data on where traffic comes from and is going to. Next stage will be firewalls. These will allow / deny traffic and are capable of logging internet traffic. A large NZ enterprise will see a few million log entries a day , most of this being virus / bots / hacking engines and the odd real attempt of hackers trying to steal information / break in. Next stage are load balanacers / traffic directors. These will typically handle web sessions and pass them off to the Web servers. Again this is another logging point Then you have the Web servers. If you knock these out you still have another three layers of security and logging that are up. So for people silly enough to attack these web sites from home it will be more than likely that the web site will have the internet address and times of the attacks and can just pass these onto the authorities. If it's like the European hacking groups who tend to use remotes bots / Trojan servers spread around the world ( p@rn users pc's typically are effected by these) then it becomes far harder to trace the source of the attack. However , you'd have to be pretty dumb and neivee to go after a USA govt web site and think you'd get away with it.

Anyone want to shoot a bimmersport e30 music video ? I'm sure we could do better

The first version gain my respect when one finished third at Bathurst hrs despite hitting a wall at 180 kmh in practice. They needed two jigs to straighten the chassis it was that strong. Honda NZ also had a policy of not supporting Jap imports which did well to protect resale values which are still high now if you can get one.

I remember the days of going passed "PDL" in Wellington in the Bus in thd 1980's and seeing a road going Rs500 in the car park. These where manic as a performance car then let alone a race version.

Have seen a few examples here in the last week or so. Tend to be rust free with faded paint as oposed to cheap mods and hiden rust examples that I saw when living in the UK.. Plenty of USA seem to have the tunermotorsports 2.5 crank and evo cam inlet cam replacement done which is a nice way to go . Check out the gearbox specs as the 2.3 has an over-driven 5th rather than the CR ratio 5 speed in Europe. Plenty of info if you seacrh bimmersport on importing. As these are all 20 year plus they are easier to import than when I looked at doing the same in 2005 when living in the UK. From what I've seen have the owership seems to be either track day cars or collectors with immacutale version. But the overall standard seems to be higher than the UK.

From what I can tell you need to add the factory siren , tilt switch and ultrasonic sensor (if you can be bothered with the odd false trigger) and a DWS led for visual indication which is the Rearview mirror on RF based remotes . Looks like the flashing LED connects back to the General Module so adding the possibility of wiring in your own. From what I've read so far I'm getting the impressson that it won't matter if you have the RF or IR remote to enable / disable the alarm function, but haven't been able to confirm either way. have a read here for the base understanding of the general module and have a read of the dws section http://www.bmwmotorsports.org/BMW_docs/x5zkeIII.pdf

Firewall logs / site minder etc. Gives you IP addresses / ports for all of the traffic. Place court order with ISP to convert to user names if people are stupid enough to run these from there home machines.

It's made the news on CNN here in the USA http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/19/business/meg....html?hpt=us_c2

Currently up a few miles up the coast from San Deigo. 650ci 645ci convertables are a common site as are last years 5 series. Haven't seen a single e30 but have seen a couple of mint big bumpered E21 320's and an E36 Dinan M3. Also seen about 4 v10 M6's and a pair of fighter jets that are patroling the sky's.

If Johno hasn't sorted it and your mate has time you can get manafuactured to order from the factory RE11's for about $250 less. I've been able to order 235/40/18's & 265/35/18's via Bridgestone NZ as they are are of stock / only to order the 265/35/18 size. These will still go on the factory rims but run at the minimum end of rim width recommendation. Check out http://www.tirerack.com for reviews.