Slightly deformed upper coolant hose, dodgy GM/Holden part?

[Skylarking]

It used to be police wouldn’t fine you for speeding on a long downhill run. Sadly many jurisdictions have become addicted to the revenue stream and changed their interpretation of the law so its all fair game these days

Hope Murphy pulls his head in and leaves you alone from now on

 

[VS 5.0]

It used to be police wouldn’t fine you for speeding on a long downhill run.

That must have been a long time ago.

In my yoof, the police used to set up their black strips speed device at the bottom of a very steep hill in suburban Melbourne and park their candy VK in the driveway of a house obscured by a fence.

Ping, ping, ping.

 

[Immortality]

Hopefully you have your problem fixed.

That must have been a long time ago.

In my yoof, the police used to set up their black strips speed device at the bottom of a very steep hill in suburban Melbourne and park their candy VK in the driveway of a house obscured by a fence.

Ping, ping, ping.

Yup, I see this regularly and it's not uncommon to see fixed speed camera sites along hilly sections of road.

A real nice one was a mobile unit about 300 meters further along the road from a fixed speed camera!

 

[VS 5.0]

A real nice one was a mobile unit about 300 meters further along the road from a fixed speed camera!

I'm sure there is/was a law in WA that required a minimum distance (numbered in kms) between speed enforcement devices.

 

[Skylarking]

That must have been a long time ago.

Yes it was a long time ago...

I’m almost old enough to have seen ammonites lay down in sediment leaving their fossilised remains for modern stone masons to admire

We also had cops issue tickets they weren’t supposed to issue. In such cases, if one appealed such a ticket with appropriate arguments, they usually got off.... usually... so much so tha the cops reassessed their policies and stopped being such arses... for a while...

Then some years later the government pushed a different philosophy... more of a fiscal balancing act at yen expense of otherwise honest road users; cha-ching cha-ching cha-ching

 

[Skylarking]

Worst rule infraction (=corruption) I’ve seen was in a new suburb being built in Perth 1/2 a lifetime ago. Just over a small crest there was a side road that only went into the scrub about 25m on either side of what was the main road we were on. It seems the cops turned the stop signs 90 degrees and claimed my dad didn’t stop... He suggested to the police that they may be mistaken and the road layout didn’t make sense. Unsurprisingly the cops insisted he must follow road signs and issued a ticket. What a way to impress a whole family from out of state As we were leaving in a couple of weeks after the ticket was issued , my dad didn’t bother to fight it. Such is life....

I wonder how many people were booked at that intersection...

Why is it that such arsehats of cops never have a heater hose blow up near them when they inspect someone’s car for faults... that would be karma at play

 

[vywgn]

Will do, Murphy's law strikes again now my other low beam blew out in the rural region & i have no tools on me to change the dam thing & just got a speeding fine from some country HWP in a downhill section of a 90 zone (104)

Hopefully that's the end of this lol

Funny enough you do have tools with you to change it and you probably haven't realised. Holden actually supply a torx bit so you can change it and you'll find it with jack kit in the lock down cover

 

[Skylarking]

Funny enough you do have tools with you to change it and you probably haven't realised. Holden actually supply a torx bit so you can change it and you'll find it with jack kit in the lock down cover

Hahah, forgot about that torn torx bit... maybe cause I’m old and headlight globes were always changed by popping the bonnet, removing the plug and flicking a lever all while lighting up a cigarett.. My how cars have changed

 

[Mayuri Krab]

Funny enough you do have tools with you to change it and you probably haven't realised. Holden actually supply a torx bit so you can change it and you'll find it with jack kit in the lock down cover

Now you mentioned it, I might have a crack at it when I get back to the motel/carvan park...

Although random dude with a single torch crawling underneath a "stereotyped by ACA hoon car" at midnight might looks sus to all the grey normads with their carvans & SUVs

Lol

Hahah, forgot about that torn bit... maybe cause I’m old and headlight globes were always changed by popping the bonnet, removing the plug and flicking a lever all while lighting up a cigarett.. My how cars have changed

Yeah I miss my old R33, pop bonnet, wiggle hand down the head light area, change globe & all done in around 5 minutes.

I mean who designed this current thread of having to remove a bunch of **** with tools to change a main bulb...

 

[HotdogNo1]

Just wondering if this radiator hose is on correctly?