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[angelbel]

What sort of car is it? Age? Turbo? I doubt its the fuel. My car pretty much HAS to have high octane or it pings.. but when I have had to put in normal unleaded (country trips) it's still ran ok but I only do this if I HAVE to

Try putting some injector cleaner in the next time you fill up (if its a newish car). That might help just give it a flush. Also give your car a flogging. Really accelerate hard etc Can help clear the cobwebs too.

2000 Holden Astra.
Up until about a year or two ago, it had been a good, reliable little car. But the last 18+ months have been a bit of a nightmare.

Anyway... I'll put some cleaner in the next time I fill up. I've been trying not to flog it just worried it might do some damage but I''ll give that a try too.
And I'll get someone to check the spark plugs. How often do spark plugs have to be replaced?

[Dogma]

usually ~10k. even though it seems wrong, giving it a good thrash can burn off all the crap that might be covering the plugs. (once it's warmed up properly of course)

sneeza - i reckon just have a chat first. if they're older/seem ok then let them, if they're young/can't give you a reason why they're buying the car then ask for a deposit "because you've had a couple of joyriders already"

ps cars like astras are designed to last about 5 years.

[Capt'n Goff]

ask them to give you the keys to their car and their drivers licence while they're driving your car, that should sort out the serious from the joyriders. and if they baulk at that then use dogma's excuse of having had a few already

[alba]

and that post also begs the question - if spark plugs are the first thing to check when misfiring, why didn't you just do that instead of taking it to holden?

i'd say:
a) its a work car
b) its under warranty
i wouldnt bother even lifting the hood on it

[aleks]

Take a look at this, noticed it heavily advertised in the last couple weeks, neat concept

www.supercarclub.com.au


pay an annual fee and have a vast array of luxury cars that u can thrash around

[s u b u r b a n]

ok .. so the car is officially up for sale now. I have never sold a car where I have had to worry about people taking it for a test drive as my previous cars were little 4 cylinders that miss p plater came with Dad to look at. I have heard about time wasters coming out to look at performance cars just to drive them and they have no intention of buying it.

So obviously I go with them... but do I drive the car first then let them drive? Do I ask for a deposit?

Advice guys??

no test drives. If they want to buy it then they will show you that they are serious.

when i sold my silvia i had some wigger cunt come round who wanted a drive. I let him and he gave it a hiding - i cracked the shits at him. When i sold the S14 i said your not driving until i see the green. He came back the next day with a deposit on the condition it drove fine. Dude bought car

[aleks]

ok .. so the car is officially up for sale now. I have never sold a car where I have had to worry about people taking it for a test drive as my previous cars were little 4 cylinders that miss p plater came with Dad to look at. I have heard about time wasters coming out to look at performance cars just to drive them and they have no intention of buying it.

So obviously I go with them... but do I drive the car first then let them drive? Do I ask for a deposit?

Advice guys??

something that I wont be looking forward to in the coming months

[alba]

some bogan that thinks he is tommi makinen

[mc68]

2000 Holden Astra.
Up until about a year or two ago, it had been a good, reliable little car. But the last 18+ months have been a bit of a nightmare.

Anyway... I'll put some cleaner in the next time I fill up. I've been trying not to flog it just worried it might do some damage but I''ll give that a try too.
And I'll get someone to check the spark plugs. How often do spark plugs have to be replaced?

should have said it was an astra before they are known for fouling up and basically ruining plugs..

they should be replaced every 50,000km (although i do it every 10), but ive seen some normally driven astras need them after 30..that and brakes, i have never seen a car that small chew through pads and rotors so fast!

[Birt]

no test drives. If they want to buy it then they will show you that they are serious.

when i sold my silvia i had some wigger cunt come round who wanted a drive. I let him and he gave it a hiding - i cracked the shits at him. When i sold the S14 i said your not driving until i see the green. He came back the next day with a deposit on the condition it drove fine. Dude bought car

I know someone that had a yellow MR2 for sale, he had an Asian couple come around to have a look at it both post grad students. He felt the guy didn't look to genuine so he took them for a drive in it.

The pair liked it so much he drove them to the bank where they got enough money out for a deposit.

The next day the bought the rest of the money and the car was theirs, bought it without taking it for a drive.

Nice

[angelbel]

should have said it was an astra before they are known for fouling up and basically ruining plugs..

they should be replaced every 50,000km (although i do it every 10), but ive seen some normally driven astras need them after 30..that and brakes, i have never seen a car that small chew through pads and rotors so fast!

Yeah I've been reading about all the things that go wrong with Astra's.
I know of one problem with my car that is going to cost about $800 to fix.

Plugs were replaced with the last service about 3 or 4 months ago but maybe they do need to be replaced again.

[Tension]

just got in the car to drive to a customers house, no bakes! thats a scary feeling.

limped over to brakes west who recently rebuilt the calipers, now the master cyliner is shot, which is an after market bit to suit the after market brakes...

66 000 kms on a $8grand brake kit and this brings the total to $1500 worth of repairs this year



i've had enough of modified cars. anyone want to buy a ute?

[aleks]

anyone wana buy a 180?

[Suloh]

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[Capt'n Goff]

sadly an era has come to an end...

i got this beauty for a carton of booze. basically kept it as a backup second car for year and a half, thrashed the shit out of it and fixed anything when it broke (except the drivers window hahaha). twin throat weber carby, extractors, impossible to break traction, so much fun to drive! fuckin weapon for an old car.

anyway on the weekend i sold it (had to get rid of it cos landlord was getting shitty about there being 6 cars for 4 residents, 3 of them were mine lol) for 500 bucks to a young punk from city beach way. couldn't sign transfer papers cos the post office was already shut and we didn't have a printer to get them off the net, he paid me anyway and we were gonna do it on monday. off we went. long story short got a big yellow sticker just afterwards, while we were both in the car, serious list of shit to fix, and we both knew it would be pretty much impossible to get over the pits without sinking thousands of $$$ into it. got the "lift and tow" class of yellow which means it had to stay on the side of the road instead of driving it home. even worse.

being a gentleman i gave him his money back, cos he was really after a licensed car. mr plod gave us both a lift to his place, gf comes and picks me up, off i go. told him if he wanted to buy it cheap and sell it for parts he was welcome, he declined. start looking into other avenues to get rid of it - in a hurry mind you cos it was stuck on the side of the road in city beach with no drivers window, no immobiliser, etc. and i didn't want to fork out for a car trailer to bring it back to my house where i wasn't allowed to have it anyway. he calls me up and says he changed his mind and he'll take it off my hands, i ask how much, he sounds surprised and says for free of course. i tell him he's gotta be joking, make an offer of money or no deal. he offers 50 bucks and i tell him not enough, i can get 80 bucks from a wrecker and they'll pick it up for me. then the cheeky fuck gets his brother to call up acting all anonymous as if he just saw the quokka ad, asks about the car a bit, i tell him everything straight about the yellow sticker, HE offers 50 bucks, i tell him no way, conversation ends.

so i book a wrecker to come and pick it up. unfortunately he only wants it for scrap metal (such a shame given it was a shit hot engine etc), but he says that he doesn't mind if i pull some parts off it, as long as the body and engine is there that's all the metal he needs. so i trundle down there in my hilux, to find the dude and his brother have first tried to hotwire it, and are now pulling parts off it - his brother was in the act of carrying the carby to their car. lots of "fuck"s "cunt"s and "fucking cunt"s were exchanged, i got the carby back, and sent them packing, noting their numberplate of course (i also already knew their address from that morning). FUCKING CHEEKY MOTHERFUCKERS. i did everything right by him and gave him an awesome offer and he spat it back in my face and tried to thieve stuff from what was still my property. fuck i was angry.

anyway in about an hour i stripped the radiator, carby, throttle body, horn (its fuckin LOUD) and alternator off, couldn't get the master cylinder cos some bolts were too hard to access, and couldn't get the extractors unfortunately cos the nuts were seized and i didn't have an oxy torch lying around... so now i guess i'll sell those parts, while the wrecker commits grand high car treason by crushing and melting a sweet ford escort mkII which went like the clappers!

check out the pics to see how awesome she was... that's house paint by the way, no expense made hahaha

[s u b u r b a n]

RIP esky

[alba]

my first car was a mk1 esky, fucking beasts of cars
paid $250 for it, thrashed the shit out of it, thru the pines, got it stuck on a median strip in the middle of morley, got it bogged on the school oval.... sold it for $350

good times

[s u b u r b a n]

if only shit was that easy thesedays

things we used to do back in the day was great, but wouldnt go down well with todays coppers

[Sneeza]

my first car was a mk1 esky, fucking beasts of cars
paid $250 for it, thrashed the shit out of it, thru the pines, got it stuck on a median strip in the middle of morley, got it bogged on the school oval.... sold it for $350

good times

My first car was a red faded to orange 1978 mazda 323... we called it the jaffa. Thrashed the shit out of that on the bush tracks in karragullen driving to school. Those good ol metal bumpers can hit anything and not dent.

My mate and I want to get an old bunky volvo... preferably yellow.... and trash it until it dies

[alba]

if only shit was that easy thesedays
things we used to do back in the day was great, but wouldnt go down well with todays coppers

after i got it bogged on the school oval i got a call from the sergeant of morley police
some old geezer that lived across the road took my number plate down and reported me
the sarg told me off old styles but nothing else ever came of it, these days they impound your car and you'd probably lose your licence and get fined

back then you were scared of coppers though, well i was

Sneeza, shitters are the best fun. i'd love to have a little project shitter to keep me occupied on weekends but i know it would consume my little bit of social life, trying to scour wreckers for some nut/part that they stopped making 20 years ago

[Sneeza]

We should have a TS bunky. Hire it out to take people to belvoir etc

Decorate it like the car in that movie 'Go'. With xmas decorations and fairy lights.

Every passenger can add their piece of 'flair' to the car. Vomit is not flair by the way. Vomit gets you kicked out on west swan road... the dark bit.

[alba]

heres a start

man, my paint skills are outstanding, i deserve a gold star

edit: true to tradition, its not a proper bunky unless its in a colour that no-one would dare producing a new car in these days

[Suloh]

just buy this rusty piece of shit

it will only cost us 850k
oh and fuck resizing

[Suloh]

or even

[mc68]

We should have a TS bunky. Hire it out to take people to belvoir etc

Decorate it like the car in that movie 'Go'. With xmas decorations and fairy lights.

Every passenger can add their piece of 'flair' to the car. Vomit is not flair by the way. Vomit gets you kicked out on west swan road... the dark bit.

id happily donate some money and time to that venture...im a gun at driving cars when they really shouldnt...

my suggestion,

we cut the roof off it.



(me driving)
wasnt my car, but it was so much fun in that 7 cylinder piece of engineering excellence

[Suloh]

haha ive actually seen a VN convertable before, it was like a buisness car for some kind of adult entertainment

[mc68]

in the city? its white and the biggest peice of shit ever! not even a v8!

[Capt'n Goff]

shitters are the best fun. i'd love to have a little project shitter to keep me occupied on weekends but i know it would consume my little bit of social life, trying to scour wreckers for some nut/part that they stopped making 20 years ago

it was so much fun driving it around, and i knew it had so much potential as a project car, but they are getting very very hard to find parts for now, and very expensive, so i decided against it... such a shame. all the wreckers i called didn't even want it cos it was so old, no demand for them cos they're so rare. such a contradiction of logic! demand should go up with rarity!

[Sneeza]

HAHA nice work alba.

Love the volvo.. the station wagon means we can fit more people in at maximum safety and maximum abuse from other drivers. Can we cut the roof off a station wagon? I am willing to try it for the cause of the TS bunky. lol

[aleks]

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:drool:

correct me if i am wrong, BUT my understanding is if u want to import and comply a car, it must be stock standard?

[Dogma]

My first car was a red faded to orange 1978 mazda 323... we called it the jaffa. Thrashed the shit out of that on the bush tracks in karragullen driving to school. Those good ol metal bumpers can hit anything and not dent.

My mate and I want to get an old bunky volvo... preferably yellow.... and trash it until it dies

my first car was a cracking old 144 volvo:



it was british racing green but i thought the car was a bit granny so i painted two big GT stripes down the front of it. i threw it around so much the freo police would pull me over every time they saw it out of habit.

then a truck hit it at 70kmh, did some minor panel damage and sold it to a farmers son in toodyay for 500 bucks.

best car ever.

[Sneeza]

:drool:

correct me if i am wrong, BUT my understanding is if u want to import and comply a car, it must be stock standard?

Yeah but there are ways around that. It only has to be stock standard to pass the engineers inspection and pits. You are MEANT to show proof that mods it landed with were destroyed. I don't know much this rule is enforced..

Those cars don't look modded anyway?

[aleks]

Yeah but there are ways around that. It only has to be stock standard to pass the engineers inspection and pits. You are MEANT to show proof that mods it landed with were destroyed. I don't know much this rule is enforced..

Those cars don't look modded anyway?

vented bonnet, aftermarket rims/mirrors, large spoiler

[Sneeza]

vented bonnet, aftermarket rims/mirrors, large spoiler

I think they are more concerned with engine mods. That was the whole thing.. people bringing in these highly modified performance cars for cheap.

[alba]

HAHA nice work alba.

Love the volvo.. the station wagon means we can fit more people in at maximum safety and maximum abuse from other drivers. Can we cut the roof off a station wagon? I am willing to try it for the cause of the TS bunky. lol

the top gear guys made a convertible van, so a station wagon should be possible for sure

more first car stories please people... so funny

[Sneeza]

the top gear guys made a convertible van, so a station wagon should be possible for sure

more first car stories please people... so funny

The TS bunky is funny!!

Nah.. my first car I could unlock with a 5 cent piece as well. We used to always go snorkeling around penguin island. So it was handy to just hide a 5 cent piece on top of the tyre or something and not have to take my keys. The way I found this out was I locked my keys in my car one time and these aboriginals saw me trying to get in so they came over and tried that and it worked HAHA I had to pay them each a ciggerette for it.

[basic]

haha poor MKII esky, funny enough i drove past my mate's house on the way to work and he has one sitting on his kerb waiting for the wreckers after he stripped the parts for his panel van he just finished building. Such a funny car to drive. He has always had a soft spot for eskys had a MK1 that was bullshit quick few years back and had a MKII bunky with a welded diff that died when we sheered the axle from hitting a kerb doing a donut. My first car was nicknamed the drone because it had a 3.5" full system on a 1800 turbo corona, used to wreck havoc with it through floreat to karrinyup, god knows how I'm still alive after some of the dumb shit i did in it.

[alba]

haha poor MKII esky, funny enough i drove past my mate's house on the way to work and he has one sitting on his kerb waiting for the wreckers after he stripped the parts for his panel van he just finished building. Such a funny car to drive. He has always had a soft spot for eskys had a MK1 that was bullshit quick few years back and had a MKII bunky with a welded diff that died when we sheered the axle from hitting a kerb doing a donut. My first car was nicknamed the drone because it had a 3.5" full system on a 1800 turbo corona, used to wreck havoc with it through floreat to karrinyup, god knows how I'm still alive after some of the dumb shit i did in it.

a mate of mine had a T18 hatch as her first car
her nickname was "stuntdriver" after negotiating the speed humps at beechboro shopping centre at 60kmh, causing all 7 occupants of the car to bang their heads on the roof. they werent normal speedhumps, they were those really big island types, spaced about 15 metres apart with dips inbetween.

somehow, the car survived with all 4 wheels still on and the suspension intact

this links into the TS bunky, it should be built with the secondary purpose of stunting in mind. if it can jump buses, it could be handy on the way otu of belvoir events.

[Moe]

i had a mkII escort as my first car, got air through the speedbumps on richardson in mossie park quite a number of times

used to play trolley hockey in floreat forum car park against my mate in his cortina - how we didn't do more damage i have no idea.

[mc68]

i know people who would have paid decent money for that esky if it were rust free

and T18's are quite collectable now!

my first car was an 86 tx3 laser...changed the oil when i got it...35,000km later i thought it would have been a good idea to change it again...really nothing came out...I spent a 3 week period delivering for dominoes, one night i parked it city beach in gear (as somehow i wore out the handbrake...dont know how ) i got to the front door and the person got the pizza still in the 'hotbox' when i noticed my car rolling down the hill still in gear... i dropped everything including all the change to run after it. Got it just before it lunched into a tree...

that car had almost no compression left...but god damn did i drive it hard....

also, the ts bunky must drive on two wheels

a week later it got T-boned on hay st in subi by a focus... i actually cried

[Suloh]

lol just started fitting the hsd coilovers i got
you can totally tell they are mass produced and cheap and nasty
the fuckers dont even have a bracket for the brakeline, so i had to make something up

[Sneeza]

How do we feel about vinyl seats for the TS bunky.... except the drivers seat of course, which will have a beaded taxi driver cover. Think of the see through clothing after the ride on a hot boxing day out to belvoir A true bunky has seats you stick to in summer and burn the backs of your legs on when you get in after a swim at the beach.

[Capt'n Goff]

maybe we can get the TS pub to sponsor us and put their decals on the side of it, like club bay view used to do for a few cars around the place

[Suloh]

haha i vote myself to paint it haha

[mc68]

i vote myself to put a tank full of tolulene in it then wind the dizzy to max advance

[alba]

haha i vote myself to paint it haha

has to be house paint applied by roller or brush though


hmmm, lets start nominations for make & model.

my nominations are VB-VK Commodore Stationwagon (VH pictured) or a Reliant Van if anyone can find one because it will actually be a sound investment

[aleks]

lol just started fitting the hsd coilovers i got
you can totally tell they are mass produced and cheap and nasty
the fuckers dont even have a bracket for the brakeline, so i had to make something up

u get HR's?

mine had the bracket

[Sneeza]

my friend had a datto that he painted with red concrete paint. It had all that sand grit stuff in it. So budget.

[aleks]

Any other reputable import companies other then:

• Prestige
• Imports101 (im not a fan)
• Iron Chef

I have decided I want an FD instead of an S15.....decent 2002 FD's go for about 35k locally, im hoping to pick one up in J land for 24k'ish

[mc68]

fabcar in vic park, should be able to help you out. steve only gets the good stuff (ie check out his r35 gtr )