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I sometimes put on 'Five O'Clock World' by The Vogues when I finish work, as a little bit of a fun tradition. Except it's one of those songs you want to sing along to, which can be somewhat embarrassing in heavy inner city traffic. I have the same problem when ABBA plays in a car. I need help.

Some might disagree with your terming 'beautiful and classy Z3" and "Embarrassing old school '80s hit"! I don't really keep anything on repeat, but right now, Supertramp is in the CD player.

Keep the centre of the wheels black and have the lip stripped and polished. Nice- gonna do some of your leather restoring wonders to it?

I have custom made merino skin covers on the front seats of my E30. Not cheap at around $350, but they fit really well. Might not suit the aesthetic of a post 1990s car, though. Where are the side airbags located in an E90? My mum wanted seat covers for her Suzuki Swift Sport but couldn't because of the seat located airbags...

Prices jumped heaps in a few years- my Granddad paid $72,000 for his 320i in 1988 at Shelly BMW. Still got the receipt!

316i's famously started at $39,995 (with absolute bugger all spec)- the 'under $40k BMW'- quite a few ads for them in old car magazines. Options seem to be where BMW make their money... you could probably have specced one up to $60k if you were keen!

Sometimes it's nicer to have heated buffalo hide seats, than to deal with petty tenants. Keep buying new cars, you wonderful fat cats, so that we may continue to run them into the ground in twenty years time!

Nothing like a fast understated car and some Victorian ecclesiological architecture to get the heart racing! Very nice.

Cars like this are always 'For Sale'! I strongly suspect it is just a way to get one's phone number available to all manner of skankdom. Good luck all the same!

I think that's hardly a just criticism- the investment in rail is for freight and suburban commuter rail, whereas the petition was for a 'scenic' passenger service- there is no money in long distance passenger rail when domestic flights are comparatively cheap and take much less time. Labour's buyback of the rail system will by and large focus on long distance freight, and commuter passenger rail services, because they are the by far the most used. The one you speak of (the Overlander, I think it is called?) was/is a loss-making sideline that was under-utilised and probably only survives now because of nostalgic whimsy- I don't think anyone signed the petition because they thought it was a great money-spinner! However you do reinforce a point that has already been made about populist hysteria coming before logic and sense. Sure, Labour might have spent a few hundred thousand on hip hop tours and the like. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of millions John Key and his knob-squad are likely to siphon off us and into his banking buddie's hedge funds.

I didn't really think it was funny, perhaps a smile, but that was it- it's the sort of thing you've heard before by all manner of lack-lustre New Zealand comedians. Surely we can do something else? Or are we that boring? There was always hell to pay if I was to "murder a vowel" as a child.

Nice to see someone else with headlight covers! (Welcome to an exclusive little club) That's a really beautiful car, best colour for a cabriolet I think.

Mine has done 177,000km, which works out at less than 10,000 per year. My neighbours have a similar vintage 320iA with about 60,000km less than mine, and I know mine is in better condition. I think by and large, older BMW's that still survive are generally either in the safe hands of enthusiasts, or are being abused by the chrome wheels brigade. They seem to have moved onto E36/E39/E46 models now, though, I suppose it's a life cycle thing- some BMW's must die an ungraceful death in order for the rest to survive! Fortunately with BMW's it seems to be the less desirable spec cars(import, small engines, automatic etc) that get 'pimped', so hopefully the bulk of survivors will be the models people want, and they will also be well maintained despite potentially high mileages. We have to remember that these cars are 'The Ultimate Driving Machine', not 'The Ultimate Keeping in the Garage and Not Driving Machine'!

I don't support it... there was little protest from those who are creaming it (the trucking companies), it was just the small guys getting caught up in typical unionist fervour- well, that's what the media presented us with anyway. No one has really mentioned it, but trucks do cause a lot of wear and tear to the nation's roads, it's really only fair that the by and large big, profitable companies behind them pay for their use. And in case you don't believe they're making plenty, read Mainfreight's investor prospectuses, there's still plenty of money in trucking. Oh and speaking of the spelling police earlier- did anyone see the trucker's protest banners?! I couldn't even make some of them out! Maybe it was an obscure and slightly misguided white supremacist reference, but 'Klark and Kullen'?!

I had a look at it at Jeff Gray's today while I waiting to be told that an E30 electric aerial would cost $550. Neither that price, nor the X6 took my fancy. The 123d Coupe in white did, though.

Can I just tell you off for that job title! I'm an architecture student and we're sick of our esteemed(we hope!) and hard fought future profession being used with gay abandon in IT job titles. Technically, it's illegal to use the word 'architect' if you are not registered with the NZIA- I realise you don't invent the names, it's the work of those god-awful women who seem to proliferate in recruitment agencies but yea- get your own word! You can't very well call yourself an Enterprise Doctor or a Justice of Logistic Management(I hope no one in recruitment is reading this, I can just see those being used in the jobs section next week). Haha, that rant aside, my mum is a reading recovery teacher. She reckons they are outnumbered 2-1 by ministry officials, who do nothing but get a lot of catering. Seems every second person you bump into in Wellington works in government. Not sure if this is the case in capital cities worldwide, but the job titles you see advertised for Public Service roles get more and more trivial, and more often than not they are listed as 'newly created roles'. Obviously there's a bit of excess going on here. Maybe Roger Douglas is onto something. I reckon if Canberra want our public servants, they can have them!

Wow, that Porsche is quite out there. That said, I'd like to order a new Z4 M Roadster in (E36 colour!) "Fiji Green" with white leather seats/ door panels and black dash/carpets/trim, maybe with a little bit of light sycamore dash/door capping accent too, just to make it totally resale unfriendly.

My brother used to have a disturbingly over-powered AW11, good fun little cars. Try find a set of facelift 15" alloys to replace those piddly 14"s. Will look much nicer.

I'm studying architecture, and use the E30 to get to uni for that. I'm also something of a professional housesitter and so far 'added extras' have included an Alfa Romeo GTV 3.2, a Range Rover Vogue, and a Mini Cooper S. Oh and a Honda Civic LXi.

*1979 SAAB 99 Turbo 2 door saloon, in orange. *2008 BMW Z4 M Roadster, special order in Fiji Green with white nappa leather. *1970 Honda S800 *1995 Citroen XM TD Estate *1963 Gordon-Keeble GT

What a ridiculous idea. Since when was Wellington ever "congested"? And do they not know that public transport is exclusively for communists and gays? What kind of image are they trying to give of Wellington here? That we are a city of Bolsheviks and lezzers? Oh right, public servants. Sorry.

I've currently got a 2004 Cooper S (supercharger) model to drive. It's quite good fun, but I must say it looks rather um, queer. Get a 130i manual! Or a Clio RS.

All fixed for $20.58 from Jeff Grays, and half an hour of fiddling. Thanks for the advice Glenn, given the whole system a good spring cleaning.

Cheers guys. The water appears to be pissing out of the whiteybeigevalveypump thing so I figure that's what's bust.

My windscreen washers have poor pressure flow, one of the outlets only just touches the screen with water and the other misses altogether. When the bonnet is opened, the little white/beige pressure pump thing at the base edge of the bonnet from which the hoses lead to and from appears to be leaking. Does anybody have one of these or know how to fix it? Oh and it's a 1990 E30 318i Cheers