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Details for Import Monster meet http://forum.jdmstyl...nebays.-DEC-2nd The JDMST EOYM is also one for the calendar - Dec 16th http://forum.jdmstyletuning.com/showthread.php?49326-VIC-JDMST-End-Of-Year-Meet-December-16th

Hey guys I'm looking at this headunit from Pioneer. In Australia the model designation is AVH-P8450BT and in the USA it is referred to as AVH-P8400BH. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Car/DVD-Receivers/AVH-P8400BH http://www.pioneer.com.au/au/products/25/109/281/AVH-P8450BT/page.html From all I can tell, they're the same unit. But the USA version can be had delivered for around $200 less, based on the online stores I've visited. The GPS component is enabled by downloading an App of your choice from iTunes (eg Navgat Drive) - which would be localised - so I can't see that being a problem. Aside from warranty issues - is there any other difference I'm not recognising?? Cheers Mat

Hey Keith might do so. Just a thought though - Import Monster is having a meet/swap meet at their premises in Bayswater on Sunday 2nd. We could cruise to that as a group?

I was going to post the for sale thread - but it must have gone already. Mods are pretty straight forward, but from memory - and Yun can correct me if i'm wrong: - Tein S-tech springs - Whiteline sway bars F&R - SPC rear camber kit - Brembos F&R - RDA Slotted rotors - VOLK LE37 - 5/16 Plenum spacer - Carbon Fibre Z tube - JWT pop charger - grounding kit - Berk Hi flow cats - Exotic speed Y-Pipe - Apexi WS2 exhaust - Works Bell paddle shifters - Nismo front bar thats about it I think.

Thanks mate. I'm pretty happy with it. Missus hate's the gold rims - and i'm tempted to get them painted a colour that will accentuate the Brembos more so might do that when the next set of tyres are due. Planning some upgrades for the headlights, and then just some creature comfort stuff like GPS headunit and upgrade the front speakers - but other than that, it's pretty much the want it. I bought one of these for it - it's an in-car camera that records crash events/GPS location/motion activated recording when car is parked. I commute in heavy traffic every day and have had a lot of near misses due to bad drivers - great tool if push comes to shove in an insurance claim. I have also had a previous car keyed in a hotel car park - so this will hopefully help me relax a bit more. http://www.blackvuehd.co.uk/BlackVue_DR400G_HD_v2.php

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Thanks Yun, she drove home like a champion, and I love how it turns heads. Got a few small plans, but don't think it needs much to be close to just the way I want it - you've done all the hard work!

Lol. Once I have it ill get some. I think it's in the for sale section of the forum so you can find it there.

Maybe? It is white. No, not that one.

Picking up my V today - bit excited! Bought off a forum member, so you might recognise the car but don't think he posts much.

You've got the real answer. Cheapest way out is replacement door skin and respray - if you do the removal and refit of the door skin, locks, glass, loom - you will save a chunk of money. People talking about lack of real panel beaters is partially true - but that's because it's cheaper to replace and respray a panel than to charge hours of labour knocking out bent metal with a dolly and hammer - and not doing another job in the meantime. The customer won't pay for that, and neither will an insurance company. The quotes become uncompetitive. Keep your eyes peeled on eBay - a door will come up. Remember you only need the skin, not a full door - should cost 250. Paint - 600 to 800 assuming you do the labour. These are estimates - im not in the industry - but have had to do a full side respray before: for much less damage. Besides - you don't want a door full of bog - especially in that location. It will hit on stuff and chip - looking like ass. Do the right thing for your car, be a man (Russell Peters lol)

I think the most interesting fact on the F10 M5 is how the engine note plays thought the stereo system when you're driving 'enthusiastically'.

Yeh that can't be panel beaten. New door required - if you can get a good colour match door - it will need a full side respray to blend the front and rear quarter panels. Might be best off going through insurance if you have full comp and a reasonable excess - cos unless you have panel beater mates (in which case you would have already asked them) you're going to be up for minimum $1500 based on my experience.

Maserati's are getting pretty cheap now. Can pick one up with <60.000km's for about 40k.

also agree - but it's also much harder as a seller to convince someone to take the responsiblity to obtain a RWC. Even more so because of how damn hard it is to get one these days! I sold a car three weeks ago - first place i took it to RWC they said it was 5mm too low (!!), needed 4 new tyres (camber worn, fair enough) , needed the indicator globes changed from chrome 'stealth' globes back to orange glass, needed the rear wiper reinstalled (had a glass delete plug in) - and that the windscreen was sandblasted (a 3 yrd old car - the window didn't have a single chip in it). The amount of stuffing around involved in getting those things rectified before taking it to a second mechanic who would pass the windscreen was insane. It took me a week, cost around $600 that I had not factored into the agreed price that I sold it for, 400km's of driving and a lot of missed time from work. So replacement car, I made it 1000% clear the seller would organise RWC.

hah - nah but you know what i mean - people see them and just see a girly Mazda 3. I even had a guy in a B-Spec Liberty Wagon pull up to me at the lights and tell me to give my car back to my girlfriend! Nek minut.....

I've just come from a 2008 MPS. I'll say first up that they're a much better car than the XR5 in every way other than engine note. But then I'll follow that up by saying they're a fairly confusing car, and I sold mine after 6 months. PROS: - amazingly torquey motor - 380NM from factory - pulls like a V8, 3rd gear is phenomenal (tests have recorded quicker 80-120km than Porsche 911) - fair amount of potential to extract more power easily and cheaply (200 at the wheels only requires an off the shelf flash tune and a fuel pump) - good equipment levels (Bose, Xenons, partial leather, climate control, cruise etc) - good aftermarket availability and online community in the US - not bad on fuel, I avg'd 10L/100km city and spirited driving - nobody knows what they are, surprises a lot of people on the street, smokes Golf GTi's. CONS - nobody knows what they are - so you get zero street cred - they're an economy car, and you don't have to look much beneath the surface to see they're a cheap car with a stinkin' big motor and some flashy factory add ons - torque steer - hence the detuned motor, but apply power in anything other than a straight line and it will put you into the nearest fence/bush/tree/car in next lane. - don't even think about it in the wet - anything over half throttle is wheelspin and manic flashing lights of traction control. - short ratio gear box is atrocious in traffic, and dual mass fly wheel impossible to balance and so inconsistent - i never mastered a launch. always a lucky dip of wheelspin, clutch slip or bunny hop - sometimes all three. not trying to put you off - some guys love them to bits - but it just wasnt the right car for me. -

think you had better forward that memo to literally every car manufacturer in the world then......if installed in a correctly designed housing and aimed properly they are simply the best lighting solution hands down. After you've had a car with OEM projectors and HID's - anything else will feel like you're driving around with two torches strapped to your gaurds. The only time they are defectable is if the car a) wasn't fitted with them from factory, b) isn't fitted with a self cleaning and self levelling system, or in this case c) was not ADR tested for compliance with HID fitted. Most jap grey imports of this early era of HID had reflector housings (which don't aim the light in a very controlled manner), no washers and no self levlling - R34, C34, JZS161 to name few....so the compliance process required them to be converted back to a halogen globe. OP - to clear it you'll have to cut the wiring before the ignitor/ballast - and wire on an H1 globe holder - throw some cheap globes in there and be done. If you're not confident doing this, don't attempt it and get an auto elec to do it - HID ballasts pump out voltage in the thousands and are not child's play. If you want to revert back to the HID's after you clear it - get the sparky to put connectors in on both sides of the loom where he cuts it - that way you can clear the defect, remove H1 globe holders, reinstall D2R globes and holders, and plug your HID ballast back in. If you get defected again, repeat ad nauseum

thats a neat looking bay, sunkist. I'm a big fan of the 'modified to look OEM' theme. Black wrinkle paint, black joiners, clamps and hoses, hidden wiring etc makes things, at first glance, seem very inoffensive to Mr Plod. If you get asked to lift the bonnet, and there is nothing to catch the eye - there is a good chance they won't look any harder. The same goes for RWC. These days, because the tester has to take photos of the bay - so long as it 'looks' relatively stock (even if it is far from it) - they will be likely to pass it. All their worried about is anything that would flag further investigation if Vic Roads/Vic Pol ever pulls up the images. This is something a lot of people don't think about when they go nuts modifying, polishing, chroming, putting in braided hose and anodized fittings..... This was my RB30ET - I got this through RWC (with catch can removed). By no means a wild motor - but it was in a car that didn't come turbo. I changed that throttle body joiner to black silicon, had a black FMIC cooler, GTR BOV's plumbed back and hidden down low in the front bar, boxed up filter, and a few mufflers to keep it quiet......

Unfortunately thats illegal. Come in DD, you're from SA - the only state more strict than VIC on mods - you would know that! 120 to 114 would require 4 new holes to be drilled - unless the centre was hidden by a cap it would look like ass. And I dunno if I'd want to be leaning on a wheel with a hub that looked like Swiss cheese :-p You can wobble bolt/nut 112 to 114 - but if you HAD to go 114 to 120 - I'd only do it with bolt on adapters. Has been done - I have seen an s14 on 7 series rims. I'm guessing based on your sig you have a spare set of rims, MFC05, and trying to make em fit? There are plenty of CSL reps in correct patter thon .....

BMW 135i Coupe - for a pure fun/performance oriented car135i is pretty basic when it comes to luxuries though. E92 BMW 335i Coupe - if you care about aesthetically pleasing people - status - girlfriend approval. both got a cracking engine that respond very well to tuning mods.

There is a difference between a transmission flush and a dropping/filling the fluid. Trans flush gets all the old fluid out of the torque converter - needs to be done with the right equipment.

I bought s headlight, fog light and bonnet kit for my last car. They're easy to apply, and looked great.