Post Your Latest Real Life Purchase. - V2  

_Ben

Not my *latest* but pretty recent.
05 BA SR, 135ks

8700s14

The good wife bought me this little get-up, should come in very handy for all my little jobs to do around the house!

yoshimitsu9

its quite suprising how good some of the ryobi stuff is for the price. ive noticed alot more people on site using them lately

8700s14

They seem to be reasonable, some of the cast parts look a bit "how do you do", but they feel pretty solid and do the job for what I need.

yoshimitsu9

for use at home ryobi would be perfect. the 18v tools being frequently used on site might suggest they are up to the heavy duty tasks as well. nearly makes me question why im spending a fortune upgrading alot of my stuff from makita to bosch professional

ive got a whole bunch of doors to hang at the job im on at the moment so i went to bunnings to grab a laminate trimmer to do the hinges with. had the choice of ryobi or makita. all i can say is the ryobi certainly didnt look like it was worth the $100 they were asking for it. so i went with the makita, but it definately appears they have started to cheap out as well

Auditude

PC power supply blew up and took out the motherboard and i7 processor. So bought a quad core Android PC + air mouse/keyboard/universal remote to tide me over till I can afford to build another gaming rig.
Torrenting through my TV ftw.

_Ben

Should make the paint feel a little less like poo, then I can give it a nice polish and wax!

1TUFF80

Two of these.

And fitted.

that_rodeo_guy

Looks crooked haha

1TUFF80

Yeah I fcuked that one up.

MJ80

Carbon fiber diffuser and polished quad pipes fitted to refresh the rear end.

vk134

497 Turbo Kilo Watts make it happen, the number plate demands it of you, lol

MJ80

hahah ill be over halfway there after this chip goes in

wolfman101

Is that carbon? Looks like just gloss. And have you done the exhaust, or is it just tips?

VashBandicoot

If you look very closely you can see weave of the carbon fibre.

MJ80

Its carbon fiber, i did say that...

Just tips, the standard exhaust in the 335 is surprisingly pretty well done by BMW, so theres not really worthwhile room for improvement there, and i dont want it to be any louder. it sounds great as is with the vacuum removed so the flaps are always open and im terrified if i purchased a very loud exhaust that with all these crazy new laws i wouldn't even have to be giving it stick for the police to think i was.

Heres a better pic of the CF.

wolfman101

That diffuser looks porn. Not super keen on the exhaust if just tips-walking dangerously close to "fake m3" territory to me, though I doubt that was your intention. I am notoriously sensitive to up-badging and such though.

MJ80

Yeah its a good diffuser, some of the other options were so overdone and tacky it was ridiculous.

Though Its not even remotely close to fake M3 territory, seriously thats not sensitive thats just totally ridiculous, theres a huge big 335 badge right there and a 335 factory fitted M sport rear bar, not an M3 bar with an M3 badge.

8/10 after market exhausts for the 335 are quad piped anyway so regardless of tips or not as well as pretty much all diffusers, quad pipes are suited for this caliber of car and engine. Just because the M3 had quad pipes doesn't mean the 335 shouldn't or cannot especially considering the caliber of the car/engine in the 335 and even more so considering its probably the engine the M3 should have had rather than waiting for next generation for BMW to put similar in to the M4/M3.

Its not as if its a 320d with quad pipes and an M badge on the ass. Ridiculous.

wolfman101

Like I said, I'm pretty easily set off on that. I also said I doubt it was your intention.

vk134

the 335 is a bit of an enigma, most people dismiss it until they get spanked by one

wolfman101

Yeah. Back when I had my SRT6 I was of the opinion that the 1351/335i were the only comparably under-estimated vehicles on the road.

fearlesss

Picked up 2 of these babies for under $400 NZD



Now to figure out how to put them back together ... hmm

wolfman101

Airsoft is legal in NZ?

MJ80

Thanks to BMW's silly model names everyone thinks its a NA 3.5l 6, lost count of how many people have asked if its a v6 lol every single person has been suprised when i tell them its a 3.0l tt. and of course the whole wolf in sheeps clothing thing, its not in your face so no one really knows.

fearlesss

Man, you can buy fireworks at the local Warehouse super store in NZ.

Over the counter at any fishing/hunting store you can buy,
Co2 Air pistols, air rifles, crossbows, paintball guns, fireworks. The only thing you need to get a license for is real guns.
Plus most of the streets are either 100 or 60 ( they don't changed 40 times within a 2k stretch like Australia).
Some of the streets that were 100kph I was struggling to even hit 80 on the corners.

If NZ didn't have a crap economy I would move their tomorrow.

Don't even get me started on Car importing rules and mod restrictions lol, Nz doesn't have either of them.

vk134

Yes it is so fkd here now in that regard, the joy of open slather fun toys

Rookie

Earlt xmas present for myself Husky 440E

Doc

short shifter.

wolfman101

Wait, so you are in Australia? Importing airsoft? You know that you can go to jail right? That's a gun as far as Australia is concerned.

vk134

That ain't no airsoft, it is a full blown Gamo 410fps .177 Co2 pistol, total one way ticket to Federal and State butt reaming if no licence and permit to acquire. Total BS IMO as it is just for fun, we should be allowed these simple non lethal sporting goods.

I'm hoping for his sake he is in NZ, as if he did the old dissassemble, luggage smuggle trick, there may be a knock at the door in a few weeks, getting it through customs is only half the fun.

vk134

V6 fn lol, ignorant fkrs, I think the 135 has taken the grin off many an assclown

fearlesss

Pretty sure I'll be fine. I haven't driven modded import for 2 years now

vk134

Would you seem surprised if the scanned images from airport xrays, and post centres are stored and processed later...........

fearlesss

Not at all, Because I didn't even go through customs . I walked up to customs . The guy checked my customs ticket and asked if I had anything to declare that was not on the card. I said no. He said no worries go to row 5 which went around the xray machines and straight to the exit lol.

vk134

Nice work, great little fun pistol, You are aware in qld it is mandatory 60 penalty units and 1 year imprisonment from unlicenced concealable firearm, enjoy all the same, new laws are gaylord