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They only make a handful of decent looking ones if it's for the 5 series u need big wheels to look any good anyway which there is less of. Just leave it as is

true, saw one on 22s... LOL

Gonna put it out there

All BMW wheels look the same to me

agreed.

also BMW people are a very strange breed. very very strange.

they seem to be incapable of acknowledging other makes lol.

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With GM retiring all the reps wanna rock black wheels on their company cars now - he had/has a ban in place because he despises black wheels that much. When he ordered his S5 he paid extra to have the base model A5's smaller / non black wheels put on it lol

they seem to be incapable of acknowledging other makes lol.

see, what did i tell ya.

just get some rotas and put ebay BMW centrecaps on. no one will know and you'll get heaps of BMW owners approaching you asking where you got em.

oh alex, get this.
had a little problem on friday, but was under pressure, and had to head over to the storage warehouse to measure something up.
anyway, young bloke we had hired had gotten a bit comfortable.
sends me a msg saying "youre a shit talkerwhatre u going over there for"
i reply "excuse me?"
to which he continues being a smart arse.


did this flamin mongrel really say that to his boss?
put him in his place when i got back to the shop...
not sure if i should warn him or forget about it.

I've always wanted push button indicators on the steering wheel where they usually put the remote volume controls - anyone know if this has been done in a car that isn't a million dollar supercar?

Really liked that about the 34 auto; placement of the tiptronic buttons

oh alex, get this.

had a little problem on friday, but was under pressure, and had to head over to the storage warehouse to measure something up.

anyway, young bloke we had hired had gotten a bit comfortable.

sends me a msg saying "youre a shit talkerwhatre u going over there for"

i reply "excuse me?"

to which he continues being a smart arse.

did this flamin mongrel really say that to his boss?

put him in his place when i got back to the shop...

not sure if i should warn him or forget about it.

Well without context it's hard to say I'm going to assume that you talk like that to each other regularly so although he is out of place it's tricky to tell him off as you've created that environment.

Flip side it's a strictly professional environment and dialogue in which case official warning and move on hope he learns a lesson.

Kids these days...

Edited by alr33x

Dude it's not a 33...

So I'm down to 428 or 435 struggling to separate the two aside from price difference as the 428 by all reports is just as good and only .6 sec slower to the 100kms but 4 cylinder feels ghey.

Or should I just accept that's the way of the world now turbo whipper snipper motors?

Side note would prefer the Lexus but nobody seems to be buyin em so I'll dodge a future sc430 scenario

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