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CAUTION LONG RANT FOLLOWS... Let me start by saying the STTF (State Traffic Task Force) are ghey... As ghey as they come actually... I got my first defect... Well Trina did actually... Story goes like this: Friday night, Trina is driving along the M1 at the speed limit minding her own business... A marked car on the side of the road doing LIDAR sees her go past, get in their car, speed along the highway to catch her, and pull her over... They approach the car and inform her that she has been pulled over for a "Random" Breath Test... Which she passes fine... They then ask her where she is going and where she has been... And then let her on her way... At no point do they ask to see her license, or ask if she is the owner of the vehicle (which she isn't)... Doesn't seem very random to me... Actually sounds like discrimination against Skyline owners... Sunday arvo, Trina is driving along the M1 at the speed limit minding her own business... She notices a late model Falcon station wagon pull in behind her... Falcon decides to tailgate her for a few k's.. She pays no attention to them assuming that they are tailgating because they want to overtake but cant because the RHL is full... After a few minutes of tailgating, said Falcon turns on the blues and directs Trina to pull over... They defected her for the following... In their words: - Ensure windscreen complies with ADRs ie replace windscreen. - Ensure rear wing complies ie shorten width so fits within boot line and has rounded edges on all surfaces. They didn't defect her for the following: EDIT: Many other possible defects... So they lose and I win They missed booking people for the following unsafe acts on the roads today: - A 4WD with a large trailer performing a 3 point U-Turn over double lines on a blind corner... - A 75yr old pop driving at 60kph on the freeway in the middle lane with his right indicator on - for many, many kilometres... - A VN Commodore swerving across 3 lanes of 110kph traffic and then over a traffic island to get to his exit... - Numerous drivers using mobile phones... But I did see a brand new Mercedes Benz with many airbags and a bucketload of active and passive safety features get flashed by a speed camera for doing 125 odd in a 110 zone... So they are "trying" to keep us safe Anyway, it's a self clearance defect so basically all I have to do is sign the form and send it away saying the defects have been cleared... Nobody has to look at it... Weird huh? I was already going to replace the windscreen due to the smallish crack that happened a few weeks ago... But it's on the passenger side, and not visible from the drivers seat (due to the rear view mirror) and all I can find on windscreens and ADR's says: If I can't see it when I'm driving how is it interfering with my vision :confused: But the wing is a different story... Radiused edges, fine... Stupid rule but whatever... But nowhere there does it say wings must fit within boot lines... WTF are boot lines anyway? The wing is well within the boundarys of the car (IE it doesn't hang out over the edge of the body) so I have NFI what they are on about... Sounds like a "quick make something up" rule to me... But that couldn't be right could it? The other thing I don't understand is that they told Trina that after I sign the form and send it away, if I get caught with the same defects again, it's a $275 fine... Which is dumb... Cause if I get a new windscreen, and then it gets cracked by some rock thrown up by an unregistered, rusted out, no brakes, sigma, driving through a massive pothole on an unmaintained, poorly signed, backroad... And then the cops see me immediately afterwards, I'm screwed... Same goes for the wing... I take it off, sign the form, send it away, and put on a "different" wing, how can they tell? So there you have it... My first defect, my first defect thread... Can a mod please move this to the VIC section? PS: STTF are teh ghey...

I liked em... The MSC one is crazy... They just keep on going, and going, and going... MELV's beast is unreal on the dyno too!! Good stuff champ!

Best Whoretown post ever... Changing thread title to "QLD Matchmakers" now...

Glad to see Thursdays are back in full swing... But can't make this one sorry...

Post your thoughts people... Interested to know what people think http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0...255E421,00.html

Yeah I'm out too Junky... Thanks for all your efforts though... Hope all goes to plan...

Cops are ghey... Further details as they come to hand...

Lets not turn this into a SubZero slagfest eh people... If you wish to badmouth a workshop, try and make it fictional sounding... (IE A fictional company called BelowZero are the worst workshop in QLD IMO) Keeps the legal eagles happy that way... Thanks people...

Hahaha that's funny... Cops not following the road rules? Well I never... All the best. Let us know how it all turns out...

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/me...mber.php?u=9040 ^^^ That be him...

Feedback left Shane... Thanks again...

OMG IMPORT DRIVER!!! GET HIM!!! What a waste of tax dollars... But also good that they are focusing on road safety

Yep Geoff's bang on the money there...

Your Mum will let you have an RB26DETT but not a manual?? That's, umm... weird. What have your Mum's driving habits got to do with you?

Thanks Adrian...

Welcome mate... All the best!

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=59878 http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/sh...ead.php?t=44379

2 secs mate... I'll find it...

You didn't try a search did you Col? Most likely your fuel level sender has fallen off it's bracket...

Hahah well I consider the front of my car to be umm.... the front... You know... the bit... that you sit... behind... :confused: Yeah I was asuming he was talking about a standard 33 auto box... If he's talking Powerglide, et al, disregard my electronic control comments... And add in bellhousing / crossmember comments...

Either one will chew money like nothing else... Either one will be way cool... Helpful aren't I?

The RB26DETT wont go behind the auto box... But it will go in front of it Your main problem would be the electronic control of the auto... I doubt the RB26DETT ECU sends the correct signals to the auto ECU

Yeah just replied... Password is right... You've got the username wrong... I'd put money on it... Damn n00bs... Put whatever you like there... Let me know if it runs out of space...

That's awfully kind of you Dave... But it's just not the same without the one wheelers You all know I'd be there if push came to shove, but it's just not something that really appeals to me... Only my opinion though...

Doesn't really appeal to me... I'd prefer to go to a T&T and waste all the Commodores...