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Man, that sucks. I hope you get it back. You must feel violated having this happen at home. What was the situation? Was it an open car park or in a cage? Any security on the car? Immobiliser, GPS tracker or so? Apartment living can be a bit f**ked like that. A colleague of mine had his bikes stolen. Camera footage showed people coming in with a van at 2am or so in the morning. Not wasting any time. Going through with a bolt cutter opening cages and taking whatever is easy to grab. Apparently covering the cage to hide the contents would have been enough to make these guys skip it. I presume with a car it's a bit more targeted though unfortunately.

That is pretty cool indeed! I like it when things like that integrate cleanly. Had a discussion around warnings and engine triggers around oil pressure with my mechanic. I was asking for cutting power when it gets risky but they argued for doing warnings only. Because cutting power can be dangerous in some situations, such as in the middle of an overtake on the road or in the middle of a corner on the track. And the readings aren't necessarily always reliable so could cut even if there is no issue. Apparently they are dealing with false warnings on track cars quite a lot. Overall sounded convincing to me.

Haha, fair enough. Yeah ceramic is meant to be better with keeping off heat. Or so I learned doing all of five minutes of research. But for some reason the extra photos you included in your post that show the new tint don't load.

As much as you like to complain about it, your car is a looker! Is this photo with new tints? Which ones did you end up going with? It's on my list of things to do, though not at the top. Being able to see nothing at all out of the windows when it's dark and wet outside gets old very quickly.

Computer nerds to the rescue! The internet archive can help here. See for example this old capture of that specific blog that has the pictures still: https://web.archive.org/web/20190612140453/https://www.gtrusablog.com/2018/06/how-to-bleed-nissan-skyline-gt-r-attesa.html Looks like there was only one capture of this thread though and at least on my end the pictures don't seem to load either. https://web.archive.org/web/20160314153851/https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/102731-r32-gtr-attessa-fluid/

Haha, @Kinkstaah's recent post on this comes to my mind:

Haha, it's not all great in Australia either. But Japanese imports are much more common which is nice. What I like about Europe is that everything is somewhat close. So in theory can drive to events in France, Germany, Italy etc. But it takes coming to Australia to learn that lesson. Drive ten hours here and it doesn't get you very far

Man, I dream about taking my car to Europe to drive there. Thanks for that! How do you feel about driving a rare and clean GTR in France? My impression was that the French tend to not give a shit about cars. And if you park on the street expect it to dinged and bumped around a lot. PS: That link points to this thread instead of youtube which is a bit odd.

Yep, cars for hope was the intended charity. See https://carsforhope.com.au/donate/

Yep! It was good fun! The sound of RBs shouting up the twisties brought joy to my cold twisted bitter heart It was missing some angry supercharged V8 boat in the mix though.

This is coming up this Sunday. Looking forward to it. @The Bogan are you going to make it?

Oof, sounds like a big job. Looking forward to see how it goes though. I think it may be one of those things that'll hurt but will feel much better about the car afterwards. It also makes me want to not look too closely under my car. I presume living in the UK is not helping here. You'd get a solid two days of driving out of the car if you only took it out on nice days

I'd be interested to hear about some solutions for this as well. Similar situation as I'd like to keep the triple analog gauges. That's a good point. Looks like on the Pioneer the default can be changed on whether it is open or not. And it has the usual radio control buttons even when it is folded. Sounds a bit annoying regardless. I think it's possible to half move the screen, but looks like it's via touch screen controls only so not great whilst driving. There are some videos about the controls on youtube. Doesn't look like it's possible to move it by hand to just quickly reach the controls that are hidden when it's up. Personally at $1300 AUD I'd want something that is pretty much perfect so not sure about this one. Hah, I hear you. The speakers in mine are stuffed so haven't listened to music in the car at all. Weird how after a while it just becomes normal. Even considered blanking out the stereo slot out to make it look a bit cleaner. Would be nice though to have a proper display with carplay/android auto integration.

Not going to lie, I have already been looking at getting some sound deadener as well... @Duncan Which speakers did you end getting?

Oh wow, these actually look quite nice. Might be a bit too subtle and still look mum spec though in my opinion. What about wheels? I saw a Golf wagon the other day with some fancy rotiforms on it. Very unexpected and it looked great as they transformed the look of the whole car. Though depending on how the car is driven it may result in anguish having them murdered on curbs.

Yeah no pivot ball for the pull type. I went through the same process last year: In the end I just ended up getting the spigot bush and clutch fork. The fork not really being needed as it's solid but thought what the heck and did it anyway. Flywheel came with the clutch. There's also the little rubber dust cover that goes on outside. Which in the end also came with the clutch. I hope you are getting a good clutch. It makes all the difference for actually enjoying to drive the car

OMFG! This has been bugging me for almost two and a half years now. Especially when taking the dogs because of having to walk back onto the street to lock the car. Opened up the key, swiped a cotton bud over all the contact points, bent the battery pins a bit more and put it back together. Didn't even end up using the isopropyl. It didn't look too bad but got a bit of gunk off. Guess what? It's working now. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm so stoked right now, I owe you one. Though I'm still not quite sure where it went wrong. Because the actual mechanism for the buttons is internal and can't get to it I would think. See SW1 and SW2 on the photo. Woot, that's very exciting! Re the fob hopefully a bit of a clean is all it needs.

Right, so it's the Japanese smoking coffee in their bongs. That'd do it

Ooo, that sounds quite reasonable actually. You may be on to something there. I think I can live with that explanation

Haha, that's pretty rank! We actually picked up one of those just the other day. Waiting for some warmer days now so that the seats get a chance to dry whilst still in the car. Kind of related: do you have any idea what the brown stains are on the carpets in Japanese cars? I have seen it on quite a few imports. Never noticed it on other cars or maybe just didn't pay attention. But, what the hell are people doing? I was thinking maybe it's chewing tobacco or something like that. Boggles my mind.

So what was it?

There's no light on the key. I don't think there's a way to tell whether it's working or not just by looking at it. Personally, I'd try to rule easy things out. Starting with - Does the central locking work with the key in the door? - Does the central locking work with the button in the driver's door? If yes to both then I would think it's less likely to be an issue in the doors themselves. I'd agree with Duncan and try and find out whether the key is actually working or try a different one. I spent some time with a sort of similar issue on my Stagea where remote unlocking works but locking doesn't. It's the same style key and it looks like it's transmitting at 315MHz. Checked it on a Flipper Zero and it picks up something at 315MHz and FM476 modulation when I press the button. In my case the key isn't transmitting anything on the lock button. So the key not working even though it looks fine and has a fresh battery seems to be a thing. Might be worth looking into the service manual if you want to dig deeper. See as an example the section of the Stagea manual where it shows how the key signal is picked and how it's passed on to the doors. And the different ways to program or reset it. Not sure if it'll help much for the R34 though as even between the two Stagea series they changed some of the logic. But surely there's an equivalent R34 manual. stagea_service_manual_central_locking.pdf

Holy shit, this is the first time I see you post a photo of your car @GTSBoy. It's looking great! You should do that more often.

Thank you Duncan! That explains a lot. There are lots of comments on setups being good or bad to drive, but never what it is about it specifically. I noticed the change in bite with the clutch but didn't know it was a thing. Say with a stock clutch there's about 10cm of clutch pedal travel between the clutch starting to bite and fully clamped. With the twin plate it's down to what feels like 4cm of pedal travel for the same. It does make it a lot less forgiving to drive. But after getting used to it I find it's really not an issue. I haven't driven a stock Nissan, but I don't find it any worse than driving a stock BMW or VW for example. It's possible to drive smoothly with it. Can take the in-laws or the dogs in the back and basically go full chauffeur mode and no one is the wiser. Though it's not in a GTR and it's not running 400kw either. This is very much in contrast to some cars I have seen at events where people struggle parking their Skylines on an open parking lot on a level surface. Lots of revving, jerky clutch engagement and stalling. Probably running much more racy setups. My main issue with that specific single plate clutch was actually that the clutch pedal was super heavy. I also have skinny nerd legs so that may add to that. The clutch pedal feel for the twin plate is so light it doesn't feel much different from any OEM clutch. This may be one of those things where everyone's experiences and what people consider nice or not may differ quite a lot

In what way is it different from a single for pulling away from a start?