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    Man Dons Mask for Speed-Camera Photos

    Absolutely - if he claims he wasn't driving his car he should be able to say who was or else wear the penalty himself.
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    Thumbs Up for P Platers

    We are used to seeing a lot of P plater bashing - and sometimes some of the statistics used may bear a semblance of truth, but then I can (just barely) remember what it was to be young with a fresh license and a car of my own, and think that a lot of those issues are a factor of youth...
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    Cigar anyone??

    As a relative novice to the cigar scene myself I have found that there is a lot of merit in finding a quality local cigar supplier - not someone who sells cigars as well as lighters, cigarettes, bongs et cetera...and have a chat with them about how to choose a cigar and the relative merits of...
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    RANT: Restaurant Etiquette

    Hospitality means being hospitable, not being someone's whipping boy/slave...and some of the cr@p that customers try and lay on staff is amazing. Service staff are there to serve you, not lick your arsch. I did 12 years in "hospitality" in cafe's, bars, restaurants and nightclubs until I...
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    Who is the Stig? The answer

    It's all a hoax - The Stig is actually my wife...but don't tell anyone...
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    Working Holiday

    I read somewhere recently about the global financial slowdown being a reason for many Australian backpackers to be leaving London, can't find the original article but here: Australian workers 'leaving the UK amid recession' But if you can't get enough money pulling beers there might be...
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    It's just getting worse...

    Thanks kopper69, We have checked all of the internal fuses - cigarette lighter circuit was gone...but all of the others looked o.k....replaced the cabin bulb although the old one was still o.k., and it now works, go figure. Went under the bonnet again and pulled and checked all of the...
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    It's just getting worse...

    O.k. thanks for that, sounds doable - will give the TB a clean and give the IAC a going over while I am at it. Could something like this be responsible for a 15% decrease in economy? Given that it mainly drives in Brisbane traffic it does spend a fair amount of time idling, but this is still...
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    It's just getting worse...

    Thanks Pub24/7...we'll try and work through that list...about the only thing I am sure it isn't (the noise) is the sway bar link pins. Hako, just checked the vacuum hose to the fuel pressure regulator and it seemed o.k. but it is a bit hard getting right in back there when trying to balance...
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    It's just getting worse...

    It's a V6 exec...makes the noise (clunking/creaking) all the time now, slow, fast, parking, pushing the front of the car down when stationary...I sort of think it might be the radius rod bushes, but they looked o.k from my restricted viewpoint last time I tried to squeeze under the front (it has...
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    It's just getting worse...

    Many thanks for the tip Batty_123, I know Pickering Street pretty well and will definitely look up Peter when we next have enough cash to send the car to the shop. Kopper69 - which would be the obvious fuses to check for this issue? We were under the bonnet just the other day to remove the...
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    Your dog, your ride.

    Minux, those Blues are awesome - your pup isn't from the Thunderfire stud by any chance? Here is our baby, 1 year old a few days ago - 83.6cm approx 56kg... Yes they are extremely protective of owner and property (vocally) but are the biggest sooks when it comes down to it; I don't think...
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    It's just getting worse...

    Yep - did that; removed and replaced the engine fuse, took it for a nice drive, and tested getting 12's and nothing else. The reduction in fuel economy was immediately obvious after its last visit to the mechanic as was the noticable vibration when idling. Going back and talking to the...
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    It's just getting worse...

    I have been having problems getting my mechanic to fix the issues that are cropping up with the old ute, and everytime it comes back from the workshop something else seems to be wrong with it... I am happy for anyone on Brisbane Northside to recommend an alternative spanner man to me - but...
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    Ways to keep cats off your car

    Well despite popular opinion cats can be trained...like most animals you just have to find out what motivates them. I saw a pretty cool device in a pet shop a while ago - it was basically an infra red movement sensor connected to a garden sprinkler head (solenoid and batteries in between et...
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    VS Calais Front Suspension Noise

    Thanks for the tip - sorry about the delay getting back about this one...mongreal car just got back from the workshop AGAIN...3rd time in 6 weeks...first the radiator, then the heater tap and now the harmonic balancer. I took every opportunity to hassle the mechanic about the noises (even...
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    VS Calais Front Suspension Noise

    I was about to post with a similar issue. My VS Ute has started making a very loud creaking/clunking/knocking ratchetting sound that really feels like somthing in the steering/suspension. It won't make the noise when it is cold but as soon as it has driven a bit (warm days are worse) the...
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    My new favourite program

    Even better when the original story turns out to be a complete fabrication/joke/heresay. I've been watching this since I was sixteen...which was more than sixteen years ago...
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    Rental Bond Question

    Not quite on topic, but having been a renter for far too many years now I have one recommendation for anyone about to sign a lease: Read your condition report thoroughly - go over it room by room. Make as many ammendments to this condition report as you think are viable - this includes the...
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    bloke should be newted

    Some people just shouldn't even be allowed in the shallow end of the gene pool... Like so many other activities in which the outcome of your actions can seriously effect other people (like driving a car for example) the ability to procreate should be licensed and controlled. People who...
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    What pets have you got?

    This is the newest addition to our family (3 cats, now a pup). Loki is a 9 week old, 10.5kg Pure Breed Great Dane (Merle coloured). Super cute and a dog more full of dumb I have never met.
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    Being an Aussie

    I shtand corrected...well, since it is Friday afternoon, I recline in the shade with a cold few corrected.
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    Being an Aussie

    Too troo maaayt...but I don't get number 11...leave the I out of Australia and you get Austral-a...never heard anyone say it that way...Austrayleya is more like it... Or am I just missing something here? (probbly...)
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    Youtube.com and the like videos. - KEEP IT LEGAL PLEASE!

    Redneck Power Windows YouTube - Redneck Power Windows LOL Power windows make me feel middle class...
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    some more chuck norris jokes

    Chuck Norris - Google Search
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    Wheelchair hoon gets wheels confiscated

    Ananova - Man stopped for speeding in wheelchair
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    Panel van project car

    I can't believe some of you guys - the three on the tree is an Australian Automotive Icon. I learnt to drive in a manual column shift H.Q. and never thought twice about it...I ended up owning the car a few years later and it was still fine...I even taught several female partners how to use...
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    Help needed with Tax Invoice numbering

    I have only a rudimentary understanding of bookkeeping (my wife does our businesses books...) but it has been impressed on me most forcefully that I am only allowed to write ONE invoice per job. So if I write a $500 invoice it is structured with the job total - $500, amount received...
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    Stupid things people do!

    Don't know if I posted this one before... When I had just met my ex she rang me to say that her car (83 KB Laser) was low on oil the other day so she had been putting oil in, checking the stick, no change, more oil, no change, and now she was a bit worried because she had put 4 litres in and...
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    opinion wanted

    Oh, and another thing... as Stealthy suggested, bikers really appreciate knowing that car drivers know that they are there...it can be really hard to tell if someone has seen you, in, for example, a roundabout, especially if they are wearing sunglasses - so do the bikers a favour and turn your...
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    opinion wanted

    I'm a biker and a car driver, and I live in Brisbane, so anyone who lives here knows what the traffic is like. Given that I only ride with a leather jacket, long pants and lace free biker boots (anyone who turns up at a hospital after binning it while only wearing shorts and thongs should be...
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    Driving habits that piss you off

    You guys have pretty much got all of my pet hates - but here's my particular bad use of indicator infuriator...pulling up behind someone at a set of red lights, in the right hand lane, then watching the dumb alimentary orifice in front of me turn on their indicator - this seems to happen to me...
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    looking for vet to answer a question...

    Our youngest cat was given a fluffly blanket when he was a kitten and almost straight away started suckling on it, as well as kneading it with his paws to try and get (some more) milk out of it. I have seen poddy calves doing the same thing, except they suck each others ears! He did this...
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    smooth vs

    How many k's? It should be as smooth a ride as a VS sedan at least...ours felt like a taxi when we first got it. But being a ute it's probably had a pretty rugged working life - it didn't take us long to completely rebush it while at the same time replacing the shocks and springs with...
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    Tappets???

    Tappets Tappet = Valve Lifter Old School...
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    VS s2 slowly losing coolant

    Overflowing at radiator cap Mine does the same thing - forget about filling it at the overflow, as all that happens is it blows out from under the cap - all over the engine bay. But when I check the level under the cap the radiator is (almost) always full. Then as soon as I try to lift the...
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    dropping my vs ute

    Low Rear Ute An intention to never use the vehicle for it's designed purpose - i.e. putting anything heavier than a dog in the back. As said before, the Bull Ant works for a living and I really hate having to swerve around every dip and bump in Brisbanes incredible roads. I am really...
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    should i buy a 5sd vs ute

    What's it worth? It's worth getting a mechanic to look at it. Utes can get worked hard and still look good, so watch out for hidden suprises. Did I mention getting a mechanic to look at it? I said no to the first one I wanted after my spanner man gave it the thumbs down. Bought an...
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    Indicator Stalk

    Flickering Headlights Mine have just started doing the same thing - but I didn't think it might have anything to do with the actual indicator switch, given that the headlights run through a different switch (don't they?)...but you could be on to something, as the highbeam is controlled by this...
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    My Car Whistles.....

    Whistling in the dark My ute has a whistle as well - at least I think it is an air flow noise, it begins to kick in around 40 - 50 kmh. I can't localise mine either - was thinking it might be coming from one of the door/window mouldings. I also think it is more on the drivers side, but then...
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