Hanso

Do you still have this? Very keen.

Does anyone know where in the northern ACT I can get a 9kg gas bottle refilled? I cbf driving to BCF in Fyshwick unless I absolutely have to. Cheers, Hanso

Black S2 Stagea at DFO today in the undercover carpark.

Try Japanese Import Spares in SA, they have a S2 manual console and surround. They might split it, you never know.

On further investigation this morning, the pad was correctly installed. The caliper piston was not disengaging properly. So a caliper rebuild next week plus new pads for the left rear brake. The rotor has been machined, I'm glad I didn't have to order another set from Japan. I can't fault the workshop, their professionalism is fantastic. They opened up this morning so I could bring the Stag in. I was in a bit of a tanty last night with a few issues happening all at once, getting tear gassed at work didn't help either lol. I am definitely one happy customer and would recommend this workshop to anyone. Thanks everyone who has offered their ideas on what the fault could be, SAU once again helps me out big time. I'll post how things turn out when I get my car back next week.

I found out today that the workshop I got to install my rotors and pads only installed both the front and the rear right Project Mu pads. The left rear pad is some random pad, pretty easy to tell as it isn't aqua like the Project Mu pads. Now that I have got home to Canberra, it is down to metal. I rang the workshop, and they are doing their best to back pedal out of this. I am ot giving them the option. As far as I am concerned, they owe me a Project Mu rear left pad, and at least a machined rotor, if not a new one. The rotor is really f*&ked up.

I can't see the inner pad as I don't have tools with me to get the wheel off. Epic fail on my part.

Just had a better look at the left rear pads, the are very worn compared to the right rear pads from what I can see. My paranoid frame of mind is thinking that the brake caliper has crapped out. Can you get them repaired or is it easier to replace? Is the rear brake caliper the same for all model of Stagea's or do they differ between the series / models?

Cheers, being on a training cse I don't have lot of tools in the Stag. I think I'll try a brake place in Nowra Fri arvo before heading home. I know that the rotor will need machining at least. I just don't want to be up for too much coin hopefully.

I heard this awful scraping from my left rear brakes this morning when I got home from work. It sounded almost metal on metal. Which it shouldn't be as I put my rotors and pads on my RS Four S earlier in the year. The left rear rims is filthy with brake dust, the other three rims are very clean is comparison. I then though nothing too much of it, and drove from Canberra to Jervis Bay for a work course this week. My left rotor now has some terrible gouges taken out of the outer part of the rotor. While driving, it feels as if that rear left brake caliper is stuck on. My questions are: * Do I have a stuffed brake caliper? * Can it be fixed by bleeding the line or am I looking at a new caliper? * Is somethng stuck between the pad and rotor? I know I will need to machine the rotor. Just shits me when I haven't had them on the car for six months. The rotors are Dixcel SD slotted rotors, the pads are Project MU B Spec's. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. And if anyone can suggest a brake place in the Nowra area, that would be great too. I would like to at least hopefully stop the metal on metal sound enough to get home to Canberra Friday. Cheers, Hanso

RS Four S has forked rear's, so no they won't fit. I know from buying the wrong type for my RS Four S.

Coin transferred for the dump pipe.

I know. I technically came from interstate coming from the ACT however.

That is me in my Stagea jumper, nice!!! I'll look out for the other pics, the only pic of my car in the mag is of the SAU QLD sticker on my rear window.

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I should try to get out for this. At least it shouldn't be too cold at a workshop compared next to the lake.

You have met my wife. She would shoot me if I bought a front bar, especially now as we have a daughter. Dump pipe I can get away with as it isn't visible.

Anymore entries available Kat? I'd like to see what my Stagea can do.

If I was still in QLD, I'd grab the front bar Scott. Free bump mate. However, I am interested in the split dump pipe. That would be ok to freight compared to a front bar.

My German Shepherd, my work gear when I've been out field, a fridge, the entire contents of my room on base (when I lived on), 55 inch tv, lawn mower. My ex-gf and I too, but that is another story. Especially if my wife is reading this.

Awesome, I can't wait to grab a copy. It was a great day and better drive.

Do you have the rear window wiper arm?

Too bad the cops both here in the ACT or over the border in NSW don't crack down on all the tools on the Kings Highway or Macs Reef Road that I deal with whenever I go to work out at Bungendore. Tradies seem to be excused from obeying road rules. Defect those guys for the illegal mods they have.

I've gone back to Shell 98 octane and I am getting far better fuel economy now than when I was running Caltex Vortex 98. Last time I let the tank get down to near empty I had done 500km, and it took 61L to fill the tank. Now after a few tanks of the Shell fuel, I was on 275km at a half tank of fuel before I filled up this morning. I mostly drive country roads/highway going to and from work here in Canberra, all the while in the midst of the daily tradie grand prix.

I have Dixcel slotted rotors on my RS Four S. They are the SD rotors. Front rotors number is 321 2013, rears are 325 2016. I imported through RHD Japan.