gts-4 dreamer

With supplied parts and fluids: CRD (penrith) : $690 JLM (penrith) : $600 (St Marys) Guy who has been reliable and doesnt BS me : (never done this work before) $90 per hour.

I've rang around a few places to get quotes on the 'major' service with supplied parts and fluids. I've got to admit, most of the quotes have me convinced mechanics are too busy smoking crack with $100 bills and don't want the work. I don't give a stuff what your overheads and problems are. undoing a freaking cover and at worst moving the radiator and unplugable fan does not qualify a grand! what is it going to take a guy 3/4 hours to pull off the stuff, swap out the bearings (idler), water pump and put on the new timing belt? even at a whole day for one guy with all the parts supplied. Either way. If you know a guy who can do the work right and doesnt want to charge me a fortune, let me know.

Never more than 10k markup. wash your mouth out with soap you lying car salesman. Next your going to argue semantics with me.

if 100yen to the dollar, aus dollar is good return since the yen is really high. Its not 1 yen to the dollar, its 100yen to the dollar. If there is only one buyer for goods and lots of goods, then the power lies with the buyer, not the seller, which means that if toyota was alone it could command whatever price it wanted, with only a few players, ref they only assemble here, they don't manufacture anyway, they still command the price they want anyway.

Maybe they should charge the locals less then what they charge overseas for the same car rather than the other way around.

25k, your in 33r territory. It would be a rare person to buy a gtt for R money.

Detonation kills everything quickly.

zif not call the 07 cars the sexiest bitches of the modern era!

20 year old performance car or reliability. Pick one. You don't get both.

I was going to say, sounds like all of them were idiots, someone doing a uturn where they shouldn't (blind spot), someone hammering where they shouldnt (lots of people and blind spot), and someone driving a vehicle when they shouldn't (rego etc), then I thought, do I care if darwin eliminates the shitheads. Nup, good work old mate.

You would have been right. I didn't think about the price point.

The 10th iteration comes with an automated manual (sst) and a 55L tank? Op is talking about performance AWD so fuel consumption didn't cross my mind as a massive concern no? Seems like a decent daily driver with some excitment and allot of traction (safety) controls which would be awsome for a safe family car. It comes with fantastic braking capabilities, allot of airbags etc. Naturally being so heavily loaded with safety features, it needs a bit more stonk to get around so it has an more econmical turbo engine (when compared with a comparably powered V8), with a high compression ratio for easy of boost driving (lol).

thats all done, but if I turn right it leans on the left tyre and scrubs a bit, it doesnt take a great deal of weight transfer to get it to scrub either. Turning left and weighting up the right hand side, not a single problem, corners like its on rails, is so much fun its insane, but turning right requires me to go slow as. Anyone got any ideas where to start. If you say pedders in penrith, I'm liable to shoot you.

Lancer evo. Can stop pretty quickly. Had 4 doors, has auto for long drives, paddles for fun times, doesn't need snow chains, can be fun to drive or a family tug. Its what I'm going to buy as my family vehicle.

Definetly an upgrade from a toro. In a bit of a shadow though.

Which number one driver would join RBR to be Vetel's bitch? Its not the same situation as Webz who was in there first right? They would be joining a team with an established onlgoing WDC runner. You think Kimmi would be able to take that much spunk on the chin? Even Kimmi would throw it up an start laying into Seb.

In theory a new castor was fitted though which side I don't remember, I'll check the reciept when I get home, the problem was there before it was fitted and is still there after so I don't think that is it. The castor was fitted after the initial work when the problem started and was not resolved with the second service though it did stop for a short time, 2-3 days. I don't know where the wheel is rubbing, I think its actually rubbing on the top, it bottoms out on the left when i turn right, it needs some wieght transfer, note regular driving does it. The car has had all the bushes changed and new thicker whiteline sway bars. No height changes other than the replacement of the worn and cracked parts which is probably a bee's dick worth of extra hieght maybe? The problem only happens on the right hand side. Yes stuff got unbolted and moved around. Why did I go back? By far better price but mostly they didn't bullshit and tack on many hundreds of dollars on to the price of parts like every single other shop called did. LIterally. Every shop treated me like an idiot and tried to tack on rediculous parts prices. When I went and priced the parts, I got them for at times half the price, to me, they were saying they didn't want the work.

So I had a new problem aswell, the left side scrubs out when you turn right. Great! I'd done that initially at the time. The kid managing the shop was quite upset at my assertion there was a problem after the work was done, great so I argue with the guy acting like a dick on the phone organise a time to come down and show them. At this point, ok the problem wasnt there before the work was done but things can happen and it really could not be their fault, so I'm like just find the bloody problem and as long as it isnt the work you did I'll pay to get it fixed. Plenty of bullshit later I take it down. First they couldn't find anything wrong after saying they took it for a drive and tested it, After a a phone call telling the guy to get the bloody mechanic to drive it around the bloody round about next to the shop he came back with.. ahuh yeah theres a problem but its not us, scouts honour. I came back to the shop, the guy managing it is to busy of talking to a mechanic so I walk in the back and talk to the guy doing the work. He's like yeah, I tighten up the bolts on the guards i took off, (the noises were gone when I left), They tested the shock with some doo hicky that measures the shock in literally some ways, great. Mechanic, "look its not 100% perfect but its more than 99%, so I asked the suspension specialist, is it the bloody springs or any of the other geometry holding the wheel on, .. no.. its the tyres.... I literally said to the man, how the f**k can that be, same tyres on the car, wasn't scrubing out, he gave me a bit of a song and dance about my tyres are wrong for the car, too wide. Lots of bullshit. I asked him you tested it, he says yeah looks fine. He's like yeah it shouldnt be scrubing out, He says when he tested it around the round about, he sees the same problem... the left side scrubs out, (problem is that every time you turn right and the car leans to the left it scrubs out. The car has been running 265 on the back and 23 something, (9 i think I dont remember ) on the front since I'd got it without ever having this problem. Its got spacers and we arent talking about turning the steering to much and it scrubing which you cant do anyway. I'm now left with a problem and no recourse other than finding someone who knows enough about suspension to either tell me what to get fixed or fix it for me, then take my money and do the job. Suspension specialists my ass. They moved the exhaust over, not enough but it'll probably be fine. The guards came loose again, its not a new car so I guess thats just going to happen, turns left like a boss though if I want to turn right it scrubs out. Where should I look to get that fixed? Penrith pedders is obviously not the place.

So got the car back, on pickup the guy says a tie rod end is not looking right, moves a few mm, will do it "next time", didn't tell me about it before hand so I could of just had it done too..... so not sure about that one, he was telling me, its because they are specialists that they noticed it, 9/10 places wouldnt have seen it. Get it home, a mechanic guy I know wants to look it over, drops down the back and says, hey your exhaust is sitting on the diff, can't have that, says the new sway bars must be doing it.... ok, so now what, is that even much of a problem? dint my exhaust I guesS? Recons that will be a problem around rego time. Take it back to the shop and have them fix it properly?

Isnt what you'd call quick, have they gone to lunch or something.

$40 more than quoted, the hub / spindle was a goner so can't buy a hub alone, they all seem to be as one piece so I'm getting a second hand hub / bearing, not ideal for the money I'm paying but I couldn't come up with much while the guy has the thing sitting on the lift and is pointing at his watch. I kept him at bay for two days, no luck so I had to go with an expensive second hand replacement form a wreckers. Not really happy about it.

Called around literally more than 10 places around Sydney based on reputation, they all wanted more than pedders by half a grand or more, usually about half a grand and that was for less work and replacing less of the bushes. Pedders are replacing all of the bushes, top and bottom, got me the sway bars I wanted at pretty close to the price I wanted and didnt duck me around. Some other places didnt duck me around, but some places wanted to charge 200+ for a bloody wheel alignment, let alone some other miraculous additions for no reason. The hard part is that the work is being done, I haven't checked it out after that yet, so this may or may not be the start of some headache. Fingers crossed aye.

The thing is, it distinctly looked like mark didnt fight back at the end, he was in position to give vetel heaps and he backed off. You can see team favoritism to one driver over another all over the place. Look at when jb was racing hamo, even though he was leading hamo for a great many races, jb had a fair few pit lane problems that dropped him down the order until he was behind hamo, then they just stopped happening. Why does webber always have shit starts? Has he ever said anything about why, don't know? You have to wonder why he's so shit race in and race out except when vetel has already won a championship, then he is on par for the course. He could just be shit like everyone says but being an f1 driver with as much experience and oportunities to practice, it doesnt make much sense. I get it about the priority into the one box and maybe even pushing one driver over the other when its gone 3/4 season and there is a clear choice on champ points but the rest is just stupid. yeah yeah ill go put my tin hat back on or whatever.

I used their diagnostic service, you don't feel its particularly reliable in this regard?