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What the actual f**k is this about? https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/this-australian-city-wants-to-charge-people-to-work-on-their-cars A $400+ permit, every 3 months, to work on your own car? Tell him he's dreaming.

I absolutely love having clean wheels and also totally love cleaning them. Its not as important to me to have a clean car exterior as it is to have clean wheels. So I bought a kit. I generally use different products for my wheels than anything else, so I thought I'd buy a proper kit and bucket to keep it all in. I got this one from Waxit. I also got the CQuartz wheel and plastic ceramic along with a bunch more application micro fibre pads as CQuartz never provide enough. The kit was good, but as usual the big, long spongey thing didn't fit between my spokes, so I needed to use a detailing brush and a larger brush that I already owned (been doing this forever, the spokes on these wheels are frustrating.) I did a full clean with the wheel cleaner, it has an iron killing product in it, so I found that I could just use the cleaner and nothing else on the wheels. The tyre cleaner and handled brush were awesome. Made cleaning the tyres so easy. Once everything was clean, I decontaminated with isopropyl and applied the ceramic. Two coats. I bought 2 bottles as I have a lot of wheels to do, half of one bottle did two coats on these. The X5 has 20's so I reckon probably 3/4 on that. Then, for possibly the best part, the wheel cleaning kit comes with a tyre black applicator. But, this is possibly the greatest sponge of all time - its a great size, quite stiff and HAS A COVER! When you finish applying the black, you just put the cover back on! This is revolutionary, I normally have to try and find safe places to put my tyre black applicators as they are covered in silicone and tyre crap. Or, you use something which just falls apart. This applicator is the bee's knee's. Get one. It's worth it. The tyre black is also like a cream, its very thick but goes on really thin, its very easy to use with the applicator. Ayway, after a big clean, decontam, ceramic coat and tyre black the wheels went back on and they look awesome. Thought I'd share.

Happy new year!

@Duncan hopefully they have a good hard look at Toyota. Both EVs AND performance vehicles!

https://apnews.com/article/japan-nissan-honda-evs-foxconn-782913451d6487ed177a3517a9ba5be5 The world's worst kept secret? What are we to expect here?

This lady loved her FD for 25 years! https://www.topspeed.com/80-year-old-woman-donates-fd-rx-7-mazda/ My brother in law. He's nice enough to let me drive it whenever. He'll likely not see this, but I'll try: @r-is-for-fun got any pics?

Hagerty posted this yesterday.

I'm lucky enough to have one in the family. A bloody fun car to drive.

Oh yes! So so cool.

Gotta admit, I love the 20b Cosmo.

I might have gone a little more South Efrican. But this is off topic. 😍😍 FD 😍😍

Depends on the part of NZ. No probs with a short duck. 🦆

Absolutely agree. For similar reasons as @GTSBoy pointed out: long nose, short deck. 😍 But while production did start in 99, I don't see this as a "90s" car.

Only non pop-up NSX and that didn't happen till the 2000s so your point is moot.

Its a fact. On appearances alone, the FD takes the cake. It has aged better than all the other JDM master pieces of this era and is still absolutely gorgeous. I include the 2000 model year also which is the crème de la crème of the FD. Followed closely by the R32 GTR. Convince me otherwise. ☠️

Hey, no biggie. It happens at 15 posts but you've already proven you're not a spammer so I've added you to the group. You should have no issues now. 👍

Thank you!

That's kinda what I was thinking. Sand it all down and use something like that.

I have a small lip on the boot of the E90 and I've been toying with the idea of trying to mould it in to the boot to remove the gaps. I guess shaving the seams? No idea what the terminology is here. What I'm wondering is, if it's current double sided taped down, what would I do to more permanently attach it so it makes a good base for the filler? It only has edges so no way to bolt it down unless I add some braces. I've done a lot of fibre glassing in my time so that's nice and easy but I'm not sure what my options are here. Sorry, this is the best pic I have and I'm 4 million ks from home ATM.

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Nice, thanks. Thats why I was asking, there'd been a fair bit of discussion in the E90 world about vents and where it makes sense to put one (ie, over the filters is not great as that is inline or slightly behind the struts and in higher pressure area). I struggle with air flow and pressures. It sill weirds me out that a radiator in the boot can work.

Forgive the potentially silly question but are the vents for bay temps? I've been toying with how to reduce my bay temps because man, it gets HOT in there and a small subtle vent somewhere I think might help. Or, maybe they're to assist with just the intake temps?

Great link. Thanks!

Can you put longer studs on the hub and use a slip on spacer?

Brilliant. Thanks. I'd hate to ruin my rugged good looks.