Bored? Offer your 2cents on a few cars..

[BlkPnthr]

Cheers, you've replicated my thoughts on most of those. I quite liked the RX8, especially how sporty it was sitting inside it, but found it lacking in power. Very smooth powerband, but never quite "went" like it felt like it should.

Never ended up driving a 350z, hopefully i don't like them..

Made my decision, and ended up with something that's got plenty of things about it i wouldn't like, but for the price/condition/kms/features it was too hard to turn down. $5-8k cheaper than everything else i was looking at, still fun to drive and sounds good when you put your foot down.

Took pictures last night to post up, but just arranged my new mags and they'll be on it tomorrow afternoon, so will wait till i have those photos now..

[stira]

Plick

[G-unit]

???

[nt_a_foz]

i know i know hahaha

not telling either hahahah

want to see these rims man should loko all good ay...

[stira]

I see the plicks are multipling.

[BlkPnthr]

Gutted! Had the new wheels on for about half an hour this arvo, looked mint but the rears were too wide and rubbed on the guards. Had staggered 8.5 front and 9.5 rear. Back to standard again now, will be in tomorrow to get 8.5 on rear as well. Looked nice with fatties on the back, but no go

[QRAF]

so put up some pictures already?

[Guest]

 BlkPnthr said:

Gutted! Had the new wheels on for about half an hour this arvo, looked mint but the rears were too wide and rubbed on the guards. Had staggered 8.5 front and 9.5 rear. Back to standard again now, will be in tomorrow to get 8.5 on rear as well. Looked nice with fatties on the back, but no go

It is now time for guard rolling/pumping!

Do not give in. Those rims WILL fit!

[BlkPnthr]

No luck trying to find someone to roll the guards, it was all getting too hard just for the sake of wider rims on the back. So have the narrow ones on front and rear now, the bigger lip on the wider rims looked nice on the back, but i guess now i'll be able to rotate the tyres etc..

Anyway, finally after much unnecessary anticipation:

Originally:

With new mags finally:

1998 BMW 328i

50,000km

Fully optioned (sunroof, electric heated seats, 3 memory positions for seats, 10 speaker stereo, sat nav, TV that works!, full leather, trip computer etc etc)

All for $15k, thought that was pretty good. Like i said, couldn't afford to get what i really wanted, so got something much cheaper that's still in mint condition and nice to drive until i get more funds again

[nt_a_foz]

Looking nice bro..

Hey if you want your guards rolled theres a guy in the mount that does homers after work at night..

Comes to your place did my fronts recenlty real nice job and knows his stuff...

45-50 a corner i think which is at least what you pay in a shop

[stira]

Bought time, looks nice. Manual or auto?

[BlkPnthr]

 nt_a_foz said:

Looking nice bro..

Hey if you want your guards rolled theres a guy in the mount that does homers after work at night..

Comes to your place did my fronts recenlty real nice job and knows his stuff...

45-50 a corner i think which is at least what you pay in a shop

Bummer, too late now. Rang two guys but they'd both stopped doing it. Oh well

And it's a gay auto, that's the worst thing about it, but the pros still outweighed the cons. Tiptronic but takes half an hour to respond to gear changes. Overall happy with it despite that

[newsuba]

Not bad...

Jap import judging by the tupperware.

Only 50km ???

Any service history ?

What's the interior like ?

Cloth or leather ?

5-speed auto ?

It should pick up it's skirts when you use kickdown.

;D

[BlkPnthr]

Yeah Jap import, came over last year with 30,000km, one NZ owner. Certified kms.

No service history, but interior and exterior are mint. Hardly any marks anywhere, just a few very minor scrapes (about 1-2cm long) on a couple of the corners. Paints nice and smooth.

Full leather interior, carpets are like new, boot looks like it's never been used.

5-speed auto, and yeah it can go if you want it to, just doesn't compare to an STI of course. But then rear wheel drive with traction control off is fun 8)

[newsuba]

Nice buy for $15k.

Did you get your wheels sorted ?

Looking at your pic, it came with 16's ?

The staggered factory options were:

17"; F 17x7.5" 225/45-17, R 17x8.5" 245/40-17

18"; F 18x8" 225/40-18, R 18x8.5" 255/35-18

[stira]

 BlkPnthr said:

Yeah Jap import, came over last year with 30,000km, one NZ owner. Certified kms.

No service history, but interior and exterior are mint. Hardly any marks anywhere, just a few very minor scrapes (about 1-2cm long) on a couple of the corners. Paints nice and smooth.

Full leather interior, carpets are like new, boot looks like it's never been used.

5-speed auto, and yeah it can go if you want it to, just doesn't compare to an STI of course. But then rear wheel drive with traction control off is fun 8)

If i lived anywhere with traffic I would get an auto if it was my daily. As i have gotten older changing gears 300 times just to get to work seems a bit pointless when you could be having a coffee.