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You can buy filler caps which have vents in them. Don't ask me where but I know you can get them.

NFU Mutual work on the same basis; when factoring in the real life costs the online searches are never the cheapest. Dan, honest advice. Give Brentacre a call, they are bloody brilliant and their interest rates are low because they are a "specialist" and not a website used by every Tom Dick and Harry. I know a fair few people on here are insured with them and rate them very highly. They quoted me very well, but couldn't offer any vehicle cover so I couldn't use them. NFU Mutual do unlimited any vehicle cover from any age if you are interested in that, as far as I know they are the only insurance company to openly do so without charge.

Yeah, it creates a vacuum and means the pump stalls. Quite common on older cars. Glad you worked it out, that would have sucked. Any new pictures for us?

Thanks Matt, keep up the sport. He could always be really awesome and go pre 1960, then he wouldn't even have to MOT or tax it. Don't want to labour the point, and I appreciate this is the time to step away from the keyboard; however the first paragraph of this link explains it perfectly and might be a little bit of an eye opener for other scenario's - http://en.wikipedia....ubprime_lending *edit* Martin, are you a home owner? My insurance is paid in one lump now, but when I got my name on a property it dropped my interest rate on my insurance by a noticeable chunk.

I'm going to reply to it just to piss you off. My 1955 Ford 100e has never once had as much as an advisory for any MOT over the 10 years I have owned it. It's something called maintenance, people who drive a car all year and then throw it in for an MOT and see what it fails on are morons. In fact, touch wood I've never had a car fail or even get an advisory on an MOT. The answer with regards to why Elephant charge an additional £500 if you pay monthly doesn't change though;

Well if you can afford it why bitch about it? Go get a loan, or a credit card? But you say you can't get one... Not being able to get credit means you are what is known as a sub-prime lend. Basically means you are more likely to default because you don't have credit history; it's very rare that insurance companies refuse for monthly installments because they deal on high APR's to subsadise the people that do default. It's hardly a difficult concept. Stop being a willy to me, it's getting really tiring. You say I irritate you, well people who post stupid things that are answerable by common sense about insurance f**k me off too. Because we all have or had to pay it. So man up and borrow it off Daddy if you can't afford it. Or do what Matt says and buy an old car, they rock and then you have a car that isn't shit and cheap insurance and can pocket the difference in initial purchase cost for when it breaks.

If you can't afford to pay it, you can't afford to drive your car and need to get something smaller and cheaper to insure. Simples. *edit, actually that's not even that expensive? What are you complaining about, that's not bad at all! I'm only a year older than you and you know the sort of shit I drive, that said I've got double the no claims you have.

I love the way he talks about his wife, he just seems to "natural" about everything. Totally at peace and just enjoying what the world has to offer. Hero. Makes my life thatbI think is so awesome seem shit. Stuck in a showroom all day and never leaving Plymouth. Such an inspiration to get out and do more.

With no cliches involved, this is truly one of the most incredible stories about one of the most incredible people I have ever seen. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18910560 His photography is almost poetic in the way that it tells a story and captures everything within the frame perfectly, I spent last night franticly googling trying to find out more about him but as far as I can tell the last 23 years of his life have been undocumented on any social media site. Discuss.

Don't you have a go pro Alex? I've got an exterior suction mount somewhere if you want it?

Done. I had a total fanny of a day, last night I fell out of bed and snapped the plug for my S3 in half whilst it was plugged into the phone, so no charger which = no pictures past about 10AM. sarted off by going into work and seeing the guys at Rapid Fit who cross drilled and removed my wheel nut, which was last put on by Thor himself. Got all the wheels on and took a quick picture on my phone, which promptly died. Then I drove an hour and a half to Redtuth to pick up a set of coilovers, they were £225 on ebay and I turned up having not paid because they had a card machine on site. Turns out it was some super sick VW workshop and all the guys there were really sound, I stayed for a while chatting about VW's and and gave them a couple of pointers on where to get a couple of adapters and gauge fittings for their projects. They let me have the coils at cost and were generally really nice blokes. They were building a really smart TFSI Corrado that I would have loved to have got some snaps of. Drove back from Redruth to Truro to do the plate transfer for my Clio, and I ran out of fuel about 2 miles before Truro. Which pissed me off, but I could get over that. But as I ran out of fuel I pulled onto the verge and it was a soft verge...I curbed the f**k out of my two nearside wheel. I bet I looked like a right retard walking down the road in shorts, flipflops and a Cannondale t shirt that says "FLASH, AHHHHH SAVIOUR OF THE UNIVERSE!" on the back of it in fluro green writing whilst effing and blinding about my wheel. Walked into the dealer I work for's truro branch and got a lift back to my car with two Jerry cans. Grrrr an hour and a half wasted. Went to Truro and waited like a wanker in a hot office full of sneezing, coughing old people. And paid £105 and a 6 week wait for the privilege. Went to Lou's dads work, jacked the car up and started fitting the front coils. All 3 lower bolts for the lower shock mounts were fused solid. Had to head them up and knock them out with a pin punch and then replace them all, annoying. Struggled like f**k removing the top mounts, probably sweated a pint of liquid. Fitted the left hand to the right hand, then had to swap them round. Put the wheels on and the lips were too wide and they rubbed on the assister springs, so I had to remove it ALL again to remove the assister springs, then I made up a spring seat on the lathe at Lou's dads work and just run them on the main springs. SLAMMED it on the floor at first, to the extent that I beached it on the lower chassis legs on a lightly raised painted mini roundabout and had to reverse it off and drive around it. Literally impossible to drive. So I raised it up and an inch or two and will let it settle and then re-adjust when it has bedded in. Having a problem with the rear, in that the rear tires are just too wide. So I rolled the arches with a jack handle front and rear and it still rubbed. So I am going to get a set of Z4 top mounts which will give me a bit more negative camber so I can drop it right down. I never knew so much work had to go into getting decent fitment! Car looks a bit silly now, but it'll be there once it's settled in and my Z4 mounts/adjustable arms are in Gave it it's first polish, wax and all that jazz. Polished it with zymol, sealed with two coats of collinite, one coat of Autoglym aqua wax, bumper cared the black trims, rain-x'd the windows etc. SUCH a transformation in a week! Just desperate to balance the ride height out now!

Ap can sort you out. Pictures tell a thousand words and all that shit - You can guess the rest, 3 out of 4 isn't bad I guess. :/

D2 coilovers were sold along with the Clio, I only lost the currency conversion from £ to €. Jamex this time round. That looks so good Alex, such a sweet color.

George is like a lucky charm for track days, his presence made my A3 drive without fault (for the first time in my ownership) for an entire 20 minites!

Ordered coilovers, camber plates, rear top mounts and adjustable tie arms this morning. Good old pay day

No I don't, don't be a mug for effect or just to jump on the band wagon. I'll take an opinion on the wheels from somebody like Bucky who actually knows what he is talking about, but otherwise everybody can jog on. I've found these for £500 which were posted this afternoon, which have got shitty allen bolts instead of the genuine BBS press pins (£120 a bag) and are in need of a lip polish. http://www.edition38...howtopic=461243 (for those who can't see the link due to not being E38 members) And I've just found these for £550 without tires and with allen bolts instead of BBS pins in exactly the same nick as mine, posted last week and sold within a day - http://www.edition38...rums/index.php? showtopic=455215&st=0&p=4578358&hl=bmw&fromsearch=1&#entry4578358 And these which are £640 with worn budget tires and the bloke wanted an extra £100 for the BBS pins and they have incomplete center caps, but with a snazzy pink refurb. Again, posted within the last couple of months on E38 and sold within weeks. http://www.edition38...1 I still don't think I am wrong at all and clearly the guys selling those doesn't either, £800 might be a little high but if I was going to sell them tomorrow I would put them up for £750 posted or something like that. I bet somebody would bite. You can't possibly argue that having a second of the more expensive wheels, proper allen bolts and 5 brand new tires isn't worth £250/300. And here is a set of the RC009/10's that Bucky says are a £800 if minging and only come in 18", but in 17" and in the 8/9J staggered offset he says they only come in for £400 with tires. Posted yesterday on E38 - http://www.edition38...howtopic=458262 In short, I don't think this is the right forum to be posting about the value of split wheels on. Because clearly none of us (myself included) have got a clue about what we are looking at or what they're actually worth because it all depends on the seller and buyers perceived value of the wheels. I seem to remember Simon having a similar argument with us about the splits on his Civic coupe and on his hatchback only a few months ago; so it isn't JUST me. I've posted my examples, I've posted three comparable wheels without tires within the ball park price range. So please get off my back and move on; because by the looks of it I was right after all. Here's mine as a before and after, I've given the centers a very quick wet sand and re-polished the lips with a wire wool and Auto Glym metal polish and then lacquered them so they look original, I used BMW Titanium Silver 354 on the centers and the press pins and four coats of lacquer on the centers and lips -

My wheels are f**king awesome. What I meant was go and find me a set of the wheels I have for the price that you guys say they are, because I looked and I couldn't find any comparable wheels on ebay/pistonheads/bimmerforum let alone cheap. I'm not being shitty about things Bucky, or being a defensive fanny. But unless you link me to a set of wheels and show me them then I don't believe it; if you do link me to a set then I've learnt something new and I was wrong. BBS RC090's ARE Style 5's and came in 17 or 18" with 7 or 8J, unless that's what you meant/I'm mixed up? http://bmwtips.com/tipsntricks/wheels/BMWWheels.htm Why do people on this forum think I have a problem with being wrong? I'm wrong all the time, but I learn from it and move on just like everybody else.

Well go and find me a set then Bucky? I am all up for being wrong and learning stuff but so far nobody has actually shown me anything otherwise.

And that draws a line under it nicely, I agree 100%.

Inur they aren't the same wheels. They are BMW 5 series wheels, see how the spokes are closmfer at the join and mine have straight spokes? You guys are wrong, and none of you actually know enough about them to comment. Nor do I to be fair but I know you couldn't buy the same wheels in the same condition for less than £500 if you were lucky and that having an RC042 spare all with brand new tires easily adds another £300 onto that. No George I totally get that, but the flip side of that is that in the same context these guys could be just as wrong.

You guys are amazing. You yourself just posted a link to 4 wheels which need a refurb without tires for £350. My wheels do not need a refurb, they are mint. And there is one more of the wheels which are more expensive. They have 5 brand spanking new branded tires on them. I just told you what they sell for on their own, and you can't say otherwise. Go find me the same wheels in mint condition with brand new tires, or price them up on their own and then tell me I am wrong.

Jason, the buy it now is £350 not £300 and then you have to collect them and then you have to refurb them and then you have to put tires on them. And that is for 4 and I have 5, 4 of which are totally immaculate. I am so right, how don't you guys see it.

Rich, I think you are wrong and out of touch with the retail market. Simples. I didn't buy the wheels at auction numb nuts, I saw a car for breaking on ebay and went round the blokes house within two hours of the listing going up. His missus had written the car off and wasn't going through insurance. I offered £250, he said 3 and we met in the middle. Have you never bought something cheap off somebody because they don't know what it's worth?

Your definition of good and mine are two different things. Of cause there are the £1500 bargains out there, but there are also higher priced ones too. Have you looked on Pistonheads recently?

Rich never disputed the cost of the wheels, meerly made the point that an item is worth whay somebody will pay for it.