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Here's the prob, my front left tyre is pretty much flush with the outside of the guard, but my front right is noticably within the guard...I just had a wheel alignment done, and even though it's all within tolerances, it's pulling the left quite a bit...The guy that did it said the K Frame might...

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!! Some W@NKER caved in my rear right door on my SS in the car park and didn;t leave a note or anything!!! I can't stand that kind of bastardry. Anyway, being 20, my insurance premium is $1000, and I think it'll have to cost less than that to get it done without The Man getting...

Today got 9.2L/100km on a 320km trip home from Perth...When I left Perth was just under 40degC, and here now (got home about an hour ago) is 35degC...I was happy with that! It's about a 50/50 mix of reasonably flat roads and hilly areas too. Around the city I've been averaging 13-14, however I...

Sorry can't help with the question, but make sure the blobes are 55W, I got a $100 fine and lost a demerit point for mine being 100W. I'd bought the car 3days earlier, so how the hell was I supposed to know they were 100W. I'm still in the process of disputing it...

I dunno which ramp it was sorry...I'm goin from what I was told over the phone when I rang up last time, no one seemed to know any details, I think he was trying to keep it quiet hahaha!

No photos I'm affraid, but the company that does our propellors has an SS-V as a company car, and a few weeks ago the owner crashed it. Here's what apparently happened - He was boasting to someone about the ESP and how it's so good he can go around a freeway on ramp at 120km/h (the 270deg on...

Check out http://www.drive.com.au for the details! Very good news for Holden!!!

They both connect the two sides of the exhaust system together, so they balance out any differences in pressure etc...A balance tube is a simple bit of tube joining the two pipes, and an x-merger is when the two pipes are actually joined together, creating an 'X' shape...A lot of R&D has been...

Good point, I've only ever ordered non-metallic, so I really dont know either...

If you can take something to match the colour to, big places like Mitre 10 etc can order pressure pack cans to that colour :thumbsup:

I don't think I did...Hopefully all will work out anyway though :)

Yeah cool...I just needed some oustide opinions on the situation lol

That's where I think I'll get stuck. I told them about the Manta system and the quote for the other custom exhaust, and they said they'll do a far better job than them, however the that's all the quote was for. Fair enough if this isn't enough to get it fixed, although if they said they'd do a...

Na haven't really noticed a performance increase, although it does still have the standard front section...The fuel economy got me worried though...I thought if anything, it should've gotten slightly better... Yeah I'm not an angry kind of person lol, so I wouldn't be yelling down the phone...

Firstly, I'd like to thank the guys at APC Myaree for getting my car in on such short notice - I rang thursday afternoon, and they got me in on saturday, being from the country, and not going up to Perth again for a fewe weeks, I greatly appreciate this. However, I can't help but feel ripped...

Heya, just bought me a VY SS S1, and other than mags, it's stock, including the turtle shell. Just wondering if anyone has any split covers they're not wanting, VZ LS1 covers would be prefered, but I'm easy. Thanks everyone.

The warranties are pretty standard. If it's a fault with the tint, the manufacturer takes the cost, if it's with the installation, the installer takes the cost.

No info on the flywheel weight, but let us know how it all goes. Mind if i ask how much ya paid, and how much the install is going to set ya back?

That's really random...

Then why wouldn't they say, "depending on the quality of the tint, I can do it for between $190 and $400"? Where's the difference in quality if they all offer lifetime waranties on fading, peeling and everything else that can go wrong? Wouldn't they just go the cheapest one, because in the end...

I got quoted $320 to do my SS at instant wndscreens, then $250 from a smaller business, both with lifetime warranties lol

I'd just like to add, even though it's an old thread, I spent a day with round felt pads, and a tube of sikaflex goin around my car findin rattles. It's a 1990 VN, 320,000km on it, and now not a single rattle/vibration. It's worth the effort too, because if you do bog laps, it sounds cr@p having...

Ya really can't go by a "red light drag race", because for all you know he might have only been half throttle. Having said that, ya shouldn't really go a "red light drag race" full stop. If there's a drag strip within 500km of you, use that instead, otherwise stop risking making young drivers/V8...

Is the sub really in the dash?? thats a new one haha

They've got a while to go before they make the setups look neat lol

It happens with everything. I got $500 off a sub and amp, and free install just by sayin, "well, I've got $900 in my pocket, will that do?" Haha, I think the original quote was somewhere around the $1400 mark lol haha. I'd already been around to other places and got quotes, and then undercut the...

I very seriously doubt it'll happen. Ford was thinking of moving production offshore and got a juicy grant from the government. Could you imagine the job losses there'd be if Holden and/or Ford moved procuction overseas? Yeah it might be expensive, but the cost of losing credit like that, plus...

How much are you guys gettin charged to get ya car detailed? I've never had a car worth getting it done to, but will in a few weeks :dance: (not a VE unfortunatly lol, but a VY SS hehehe). Is the job they do really that good?

Is that really the torque figure from the bolt on package??? That's massive!

As far as I know the ecotech V6 isn't compatible with the 6spd manual, which makes that choise easy lol...you should get around $1500 for the auto, which could help with the funding...That's all I can help with lol...Good luck with it

Aparently Holden has designed 12 different centre stacks, but I imagine they'll only come out with new models...having said that, a different stack would be a great idea for limited run models...

Where Holden sells a few hundred thousand cars a year, companies like BMW sell millions globally. Factor in the fact that the average BMW price tag would buy a top of the line Holden, and you can see why the Euro's can move forward so easily. In conjunction with this, because profits are so...

I'm a bit of an old-schooler, I always see turbo-diesels as rattly, rough pieces of cr@p, that ya have to get up to 3000RPM to get anywhere, but redline at 5000RPM anyway. I haven't driven any of the new-ages diesels, but looking at those power figures,a nd where the power/torque is, why aren't...

Again, it's a fault from a supplier, not Holden themselves...Having said that it doesn't really take the blame away from Holden, but I'm sure the suppliers aren't gonna get off very easily from such a potentially deadly fault...

It's also extremelly important they're mounted on a flat surface. Any twisting of the amp and *pop*...no more noise...

the best way I've seen is under the parcel shelf, on a roll-out shelf using runners like the ones used in drawers. That way it's way out of the way, right side up, and easy to access. A bit of work, but it looks great.

The LWB models look absolutelly sick. Everything about them is just right. Holden has made the point that the LWB models are only really goin to be high sellers overseas, so I think any they sell here is just bonus. The Wheels magazine also says that the Commodore will be going to the US. I...

Yeah seriously have a good look into the Manta system. Bolt onto a standard engine it sounds old school, and being a twin 3" it's very capable of worked engines too

Umm...I dunno haha...I think it's just a dealer type thing, where an exhaust shop might choose to sell Manta systems...A bit of ringing around your local exhaust centres might just be the go if you're interested.

Nope, the Monaro only had pacemakers and a Manta exhaust. The Manta system is a twin 3". I've heard it with and without the rear muffler, and both times it sounds meaty as, just that with the muffler obviously it was quieter. Different exhaust setups make a big difference in sound. Having a bend...