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9 minutes ago, Contrails said:

$67.00 for a WOF check at VTNZ. And an hour long waiting time. 

WTF? Is that the normal price now?

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$5K +gst bill for some custom hydraulic lines, of which $2800 was for 28 stainless hose ends. I’m in the wrong trade it would seem!

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17 minutes ago, Contrails said:

$67.00 for a WOF check at VTNZ. And an hour long waiting time. 

Wow gone are the days of the $20 WOF.  Long gone.

 

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Showing your age now Dan...

"I can remember when... beer cost less than a pound a pint, and WoFs were only $20... my son"

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22 minutes ago, leichtbau said:

$5K +gst bill for some custom hydraulic lines, of which $2800 was for 28 stainless hose ends. I’m in the wrong trade it would seem!

100 bucks a hose end is a little on the high side, but overall,  the complete cost is not so far out if the 14 hoses (assuming flexible stainless braided hoses are on the EXARO hose register.

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18 minutes ago, E30 325i Rag-Top said:

Showing your age now Dan...

"I can remember when... beer cost less than a pound a pint, and WoFs were only $20... my son"

Good ol'days huh.  Paid $15 a pint (US Pint :( ) in the CBD last week.
Even my local Gladstone Pub is $9 a handle and it's only open Wed to Sunday.  No more Monday drinking.

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15 minutes ago, lord_jagganath said:

100 bucks a hose end is a little on the high side, but overall,  the complete cost is not so far out if the 14 hoses (assuming flexible stainless braided hoses are on the EXARO hose register.

O-ring end fittings and 8 of them are constantly sitting underwater (salt). Yea no drama with the cost overall, the labour and travel to see us was more than reasonable. Wasn’t braid, plastic(?) coated. 

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Ah, got you. 316L or duplex is not cheap. I do a lot of SS equipment for the F&B Production/manufacture and variation in costs can be whiplash inducing. I can get items made up in italy and shipped over for half the cost of doing it here.  

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Reality is if anyones charging less than $50 for a wof, they're making their money elsewhere...

 

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$49 for a WoF in town. And I can take a look under the car at the same time.

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It's cheaper to take the M5 to BMW for the WOF than to VTNZ, and BMW wash it as well. No brainer.

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The good thing about VTNZ is no appointment necessary and it was for the Suzuki Swift. Pretty sure it was $59.00 last year.

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On 7/1/2020 at 1:13 PM, balancerider said:

May be some truth to that, it was >6 weeks until I could get my 335d in for the EGR recall.

So my EGR cooler replacement has been re-delayed because the wrong part was ordered...

Oh well, got to do my commute yesterday in a Mini Cooper S instead

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10 hours ago, Contrails said:

The good thing about VTNZ is no appointment necessary and it was for the Suzuki Swift. Pretty sure it was $59.00 last year.

Yeah it was.  I got a VTNZ WOF this time last year and it was $59.

What is strange is that CarJam does not show that I got this WOF.  Or are they one behind?

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waiting for my $5 stubby aerial from aliexpress for a month and no tracking number.. 

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E36 parts prices are now heading the way of e30 stuff and in some cases, more expensive. 2k for a ZF manual conversion, $1200 for a 220 conversion... makes the $1500 shipped from the UK I paid for my 6 speed a few years ago a bargain. 

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Well E36's are the new E30. People buying another box instead of repairing them and MX5 guys fitting them is going to push prices up also.

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I knew hoarding e36 manual conversions and useless OEM junk was my great retirement plan 

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It's mainly the RFB boys, they finally caught on that the e36 is a well balanced and more importantly cheap platform to go drifting

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That's quite true. But there's a whole lot more as circuit cars here in NZ than drifting. 

 

I'll stick to hoarding parts and driving old British cars instead

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I wonder what all those broken and damaged e36 bits that I just didn't have the heart to throw out will be worth? Like 3 sets of incomplete coupe door cards! ? 

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Got a mint drivers black leather one you wanna part with? 

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Sorry no. If that was a subtle reference to another thread then I'm pissing myself, if not then happy coincidence.

I will be selling an average quality full M-Rain e36 M3 interior though... I'm returning mine to stock after that one went for $37k.

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1 hour ago, M3AN said:

I wonder what all those broken and damaged e36 bits that I just didn't have the heart to throw out will be worth? Like 3 sets of incomplete coupe door cards! ? 

Why don’t you try selling them then instead of having a whinge about being called out for sh*t stirring. Subtle enough?

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