Mr Eps

your a team.

your face is awkward.

wow. this was the first post i actually read. and it broke my brain... samantha you're a total spaz hey! =P

please tell me you're joking saying cash is safer than banks... ...you do know they have security measures and insurance in place for these things, right? ...you do know you're safe... i was affected first hand by this swindle yet i'm the most nonchalant one here... why is that?

you disgust me. ...yet i think i love you.

ahha your mum got you to cut up your cards LOL and Tony - ID questions like what exactly??? there's no harm in a bank confirming your name and or date of birth or address, it would be suspect if the bank asked you to disclose your bank details however. but the OP didn't say they did that. he just said they called to confirm card cancellation also, the scam traces back to eastern europe and stems to what is basically the russian mafia. the chances of them allowing an australian telephonist in on their gig would be dumb on their part... the way the scam works is... they withdraw a small amount, then another small amount, then take everything they can get in one hit.. as i said, that's what happened to my bestie.. this instance i think is same that happpened to me - card was comprimised and replaced - no big deal - can sleep well tonight =)

...he didn't get "skimmed" his account was used at a risky area, the scam doesn't take money out of everyone's account, it's randomised... as i said - my cards were comprimised also, that doesn't mean i got robbed - just means my cards were used at risky areas and the bank replaced them as a preventative precaution ps -HEY MEL!

oh and in part of reference to what dan said - it could have been a legit call... the security departments in banks are going through a tough time at the moment cancelling cards and re-issuing new numbers to keep up with the amount of stuff ups they're having to deal with there was a good chance the call WAS legit, and they didn't make note of it my cards got cancelled with zero warning or phonecall (that must be how westpac works) they sent the cards out immediately then like two days later i got the notice that my card had been comprimised adn that they planned to send out cards in the future basically the security department would be in damage control and not taking any chances, so... "act now think about paperwork later" perhaps the bank made no official note of contacting you... you also never mentioned that they didn't actually ask for your bank details - somethign which a bank would not do anyway. but yes, no doubt your card may have been comprimised but that's not to say your account got "done" my friend actually had her funding wiped out.

hahahah i bought the coilovers off you when you parted out "P1mpin"

yeah my card got replaced too because i'd used it in fraudulent locations, i received no phonecalls from any phoney banks though... my account wasn't compromised they just cancelled and replaced my card cos i'd used it at one fot eh flagged locations. i know i shouldn't disclose this information due to forum rules etc. but this is in public interest PEAK fuel bayswater. i received no phonecalls though but good idea to call back and enquire about the card, especially suss that they told you to destroy your card... that's obviously a safety comforter for the victim... you don't NEED the card to use it... they've GOT your details... but yeah sucks cos i was like 4 days with no cash and couldn't get money out ...i had to borrow money off my mummy

Samantha - if you're still wondering why guys look into your car... perhaps this write up i made today will help shed some light... click here and read me

in short - my advice is... if you - like so many of us here... own a japanese car... give it a wash. as soon as you can, ...don't forget to clean the wheels! vaccum the interior. degrease your engine bay. if it is making a funny noise. FIX IT. and polish your FUCKING HEADLIGHTS (r33 owners) - do SOMETHING that will make your car say thankyou. because you drive something that nobody else understands. you're lucky to have it. we should all take a lot of pride in what we've worked - and DO WORK - so hard to keep. the laws may pigeon hole us, the governments want to criminalise us. communities want to ban us. and bogans want to destroy our reputation. let's retain our pride, let's continue to make those who don't "get it" scratch their heads and wonder why we do our inexplicably thankless actions. don't give up on your cars guys!

*golf claps for the dryness* but seriously, that's exactly right, we here all have a different mindset, not all import owners feel the same, to some, it's about how much power the car makes, or how much they can get it sideways. certain people are simply cut from a different cloth.. we are just happy to have that car.. it's not a feeling that can be bought or sold, nor can it be owned. there is no "mutual respect" among people face to face. i was just out walking on lunch, and i saw a really nice black R34 GTT in east perth.. naturally i was admiring the car, the driver looked at me through his sunglasses as if to say "oh look another pedestrian city dwelling office clerk... admiring my car" meaning, without thinking "maybe "this guy" is a fellow japanese car owner"... and as the light went green and he accelerated away... the driver wasn't thrashing his car, or booting it or anything.. he just drove away nonchilauntly... he did nothing to "impress me" or "show me who's boss"... and that's when i knew, he too... understood... what it's like to own a japanese car... he was just proud to be the owner of a black R34 Gt-T. it's love cut from a different cloth. we keep it under wraps. we tell ourselves that there are things mroe important in life, travel, kids, work, all sorts of things.but the truth is... if you are proud to own your japanese car. then you'll also understand that nobody else "Gets it" unless they own one themselves. you can buy XR6T, you can buy a monaro, you can buy anything in the world. it may be worth more. may be safer. may be faster. may get more "chicks" but nothing can sum up to that feeling of pride we all get when we get into our japanese cars. they may not be brand new. they may not be as safe as later model cars. they may attract the worst kind of attention from the law. they may flag immaturity to theopposite sex. none of us care. we're just happy to be here with something nobody else understands other than us.

We need to speak to a therapist don't we.

Terry you're a perfect example. You have so many qualifications and so much nkowledge - you're more advanced than any health professional i've ever come across.. you *should* be in a mercedes benz. or a maserati. or soemthing euro ...yet you're in an R34 GTR. and i bet none of your colleagues will understand why i once bumped into a guy at my old work, who had a cefiro - total shitter example. and he had a cefiro when he was younger. sold it.. and bought it back for 3 thousand more than he paid for it.. a few people on here have done similar, bought the cefiro, grown tired of it. sold it.. only to re-purchase it a few months after at a higher price because they miss it. then i saw This Thread - telling all the stories of users who departed ownership of a japanese car - only to return afterwards. it's simply a bug. and we can't shake it

I'm writing a story here because i simply have nowhere else to vessel my thoughts.. What is it, about "us" and the Japanese car... This is not a Fast and Furious inspired piece, but rather the thoughts of a man who has - nay - will refuse to grow up... When i first got my license, I was 17. i had a HSV astra 1800 (google it - the car on google images was the one i had... like *that* one) anyway ever since i was 14/15 years old, i was always the promoter in my school of Japanese cars.. everyone else wanted the commodore, or the falcon, or the torana, or which ever they wanted, and i was always BLASTED for wanting a japanese car.. ostricised even, but i didn't care, i wanted one, and loved them all.. not *just* the GT-R.. but the Cefiro, the Stagea, the Legnum, the Cima, i was literally "JDM" obsessed.. When i was 19, i spoke to a broker in Japan. "Seto-San" it was the beginning of the year 2004. and i was cashed up and ready to import. i decided on the Cefiro. i wanted something TRULY unique.. i purchased, imported, nearly lost my car due to (back then) there being so many things that could go wrong - i was literally inches away from having my car deported at one stage. very scary times. but i didn't care - i was getting a japanese car! i got my cefiro stock. 47xxx kms on the clock. since then, i've modified it with different parts and knowledge and very unique items such as the wheels.. formerly from a malaysian D1 competitor. i'm sorry i'm getting way ahead of myself. you must be asking 'what's the point of this" well. nearly six years have passed in my journey. i've had defects issued. troubles with police. lost my license due to discrimination. threatened to have my car confiscated under hoon laws for unwarranted reasoning. had it spat on. egged out of jealousy. but i didn't care. i had a japanese car. everyone loved it. and that was more than enough to keep me happily driving it. but over the last year or so, naturally ... the love for my car has faded. i didn't look at it every day and think how proud i am to OWN such a car. to have a car 20 years old that still turned more heads on the street than ANY new car. a car with so much character, history, sentimental value... all of that had faded... all i saw was just an old piece of machinery.. i was starting to lose my rose coloured glasses and was starting to see it for what it was... a time bomb waiting to fall apart.. it wasn't starting the way it used to.. the interior has no cup holders. there's not much space in the cabin... the paint looks like rubbish.. things like that.. i was considering selling... because i was sick of it all.. over the weekend, i realised that the battery is well overdue - a painfull reminder of this was it would not start at all.. so i replaced the battery. and gave it a thourough wash.. especially the wheels, which i had forgotten how beautiful they really are from the caked on brake carbon.. the battery being replaced, it now starts like a brand new car again... and the body washed, and the wheels cleaned, and the tyre with "tyre black" on it... ...looking again.. i ask myself.. is it possible to love this car again? is it possible to re-ignite that passion i once had for it? i think it could be... i would need the paint to be cut back to remove the stains from the road, and the bodykit could do with some repair. ocne this is done.. it could be retained to it's former showcar glory days. (not that it was ever entered in shows. i only ever did this for self fulfillment and love) Fellow WA User NIC_A31 (who i think i'm still yet to meet) referred me to a thread i started years ago. Click This is my car - before the D1 wheels were added. before the mercedes style chrome exterior trim was added. and this thread too, seeing what people had to say about it years ago... reminded me of what strangers say about it to this day... in part. Nic_A31 and this thread has restored the love i felt for my Cefiro. Other Cefiro owners have sold and bought and moved on, but i haven't been able to. ...it's a sick love we feel for out japanese cars. they're old. they're unreliable. they're a headache. they're difficult to insure. difficult to repair. difficult to maintain. and in the end... it's pointless. we gain nothing from it. yet... there are no police, no authority, no money, no opinion, no laws... nothing will change the way we feel about our japanese cars. Nobody will understand why a father or two will purchase a Stagea over a Commodore Wagon. Nobody will understand why a Company Director i once worked with. makes in excess of a hundred thousand dollars a year... and drives an extremely modified highly powerful S14 Silvia to work - and doesn't like the S14a. Nobody will understand why a grown man can't let go of his 20 year old Cefiro and keeps hold of it and doesn't know why himself. and nobody will understand exactly what this love feels like - until they get bitten by the bug themselves. I love my Japanese car - and i love that I've taken this path that my life has lead. even after all these years.

hahaha - on the weekend i gave it a wash and breif detail... replaced the battery and it's starting INSTANTLY again i was looking at it all starry eyed with it's tyre black and thinking "man i still DO love this car" then i went out to northbridge and grabbed a japanese mandarin & lemon water... got in the car again ...there's no bottle or cup holder!!! haha.. but yeah realised on the weekend i *do* still love the car... everybody turns their head and looks at it no matter what... japanese cars... it's a strange love affair.

....Bam?? is that you!?

wow good idea - do what he said =P

blink 182 fan thread is <<<<<< that way homeboy haha no seriously lip piercings are cool i'd like one but working in an office makes you look like a bit of a doucher and the girls it attracts are.... ... 16

my advice is.... if you want a turbo car - get a turbo car.. this is a major headache.. the only way i can justify turning an NA skyline turbo is if the skyline is ridiculously well mainained low kilometres holds sentimental value / irreplaceable if one or all of these factors are not met, you would save a lot of money, greycovering hairdye, cut hands, and general years of your life will be added due to less stress if you.. sell your NA to a Pplater and re-purchase a turbo skyline R34 skylines aren't uncommon - that's why i did it to my cefiro, is because my car is a rare import and rare to find in the condition it was at the time.

bahahahah - how u found that thread i have NO IDEA that's epically old - well - aesthetics update it now has 18x9 / 10 rear Stich evolution wheels it's not quite as low has a VIP chrome stripping around the outside suspension has been raised to legal height

cos i simply want something new - i'm 24 now my time for this car has passed it would be better appreciated by someone younger who wants this style of car it's going extremely cheap so if you know anyone let me know =)

no such luck i was too beat from my hard days work. and no it hasn't changed from since you last saw it i don't think... needs a polish / wax now. (which will be done prior to sale) and there' a few spider crack in the front bar (this breaks my heart)