Crackfox

Haha, theres always going to be little "what ifs", thats just a fact of life and no amount of insurance can guarantee anyone complete certainty. What if a meteor lands on and explodes your face while you are peacefully sleeping in your bed tonight, or you get killed in the accident where some idiot writes off your car and also cannot afford to pay for your car? Anywho, my point was that the chances of such "what ifs" like your car being destroyed or catching fire happening is fairly small if you drive with half a brain. Atleast alot smaller than 1 in every 5 years like P plater insurance would have you believe, costing about $2k per year for a p plater with a $10k skyline if not a little more (insurance companies have alot of overhead costs, profits to mae and executive bonuses to pay) so it makes sense to get the most basic insurance you can afford. PS: If some idiot writes off my dirty old 33 and they have no insurance I would hopefully take them to court and get a piece of their centrelink payments for the next 15 years, but if not, I can afford to pay and buy a new skyline of equal value (infact I could afford to write this next skyline off and still have just enough to buy a third one). I figure why spend all that money insuring for something that probably won't happen, but even if it does happen won't even be that bad? No one absolutely NEEDS to have a skyline, specially on their p plates, if we have/had them then it should be paid purely with your disposeable income, if it isn't then you=the real stupid one.

I paid for mine+my insurance. Go for the cheapest, most basic insurance you can afford to buy (by afford, I mean able to pay the excesses/consequences if shit happens). Full comp is a waste unless you plan on writing your car off IMO

I reckon they are great first cars. I bought a 1986 4age ae82 corolla with 287,000 on the clock for my first car, cost me $900. I did 20-30,000kms of typical p plater driving, redlining, offroading including doing a couple of jumps in it and nearly everyone one of my friends did a burnout in it atleast once. I changed the oil occasionally and not one thing ever broke on it. I ended up selling it for only $100 less than I bought it and I coulda got more for it if I tried I reckon, sold within 12 hours of putting it up for sale

Are there any actual cases of people being blinded by decats?? It sounds about as dangerous as the deadly pod filters that the media were spoofing on about a while back, unless your dumb enough to stick your eye to an exhaust pipe I can't see how it would ever happen. I seriously doubt you could be held accountable for another drivers stupidity if they should happen to swerve off the road. If your reactions are to swerve whenever you are surprised you should not be driving

I pretty much always carry jumper leads in my car, I have helped out a couple of people with them and get a desperate call from mum every 6 weeks or so asking for a jumpstart (next car she gets I'm making sure has headlights that automatically turn themselves off). Also, hopefully if my battery ever goes flat I'll be able to find someone to help quite easily as it won't matter whether they have leads or not.

What sort of context would make this behaviour acceptable then? Theres no way anyone with half a brain could wake up at double the legal alcohol limit and seriously believe they are fine to drive, let alone do 60-80kph over the speed limit and try to worm out of it with pathetic excuses. Short of him trying to rush someone in a life/death situation to hospital, theres not much he could do/say that would invoke any sympathy from me or hopefully the judge that takes his case.

WGMG Some new employee at BP Last night or early this morning to fill my car up with petrol like I have done countless times before in barefeet but when I went in to pay the guy starts raging at me for not having apporpriate footwear, I literally got a 5 minute lecture about it. Then when I tried swipe my card he wouldn't let me pay for it, and kept clicking his finger and asking stuff like "what would have happened if the whole ground caught fire huh!?!?!" "what if one of the bowsers exploded into flames?!". I'll tkae my chances thanks, and getting burnt feet would be the least of my worries if that happened.

They all sit at a table just the other side of a fence that seperates the 2 blocks of land and 95% of the time the wind blows it right over into my room. They all smoke there because they can't smoke inside being a rental property. It doesn't help that there is 8 of them living there all smoking atleast a pack per day, I would say they smoke 200+ cigarettes at that table on an average day. Obviously this is sortof a worst case scenario though and most people wouldn't really be affected by their neighbours smoking

I'm about to order some oil to do a gearbox oil change and I'm now facing this problem, which oil I should choose. MTL (which the redline website recommends me) or shockproof lightweight. The car is a 1993 R33 GTST. I do not drive it hard very often at all, and it has hardly any power enhancing modifications. I do use it for alot of short trips so it is often driven cold. The gearbox seems to be fine, though when cold it will sometimes crunch into 2nd if I don't shift slowly and smoothly. Lots of people seem to recommend shockproof lightweight but it seems to be more race car orientated which my car definately is not so I am hesitant to buy it. Would MTL provide me with better driveability/smoothness or less wear on the gearbox with gentle daily driving and sometimes driven when cold? These are the only things I want out of my gearbox oil, I don't need it to operate well at extreme temps or with harsh shifts at the track because my car won't ever face this.

I wish.. My neighbours are a pack of chain smoking bogans. Where they all smoke is around 10m from my bedroom and directly upwind from it. My room permenantly reeks of cigarettes and it has since I was like 6 years old, it can't have been too healthy for me and not too mention its quite annoying not being able to ever open my window up no matter how hot it is

Hope it all goes well for you, I have heard only bad things about RAC from people. Even my mum hates them, they took 2 and a half years to pay her out for a car that someone with RAC insurance wrote off in 1974 lol and it seems they havn't changed much since then

I dont get pulled over often at all during normal driving times but late nights/early mornings especially weekends is a different story, when I am either designated driver or coming home from work late at night. My record is getting pulled over 4 times in the space of 1 hour, generally at those times pretty much any police car that see's you will pull you over if they can. Mainly its just for an RBT though they havn't checked under my bonnet for a long time.

Seriously? You are going to judge the absolute safety of the millions of cars made in Germany/Japan on one accident involving a single vehicle from each country? And also the safety of all Italian cars as well, how this is even the slightest bit relevent I'm not sure though. The cabin of the LFA doesn't even look that bad, no visibly worse than the BMW cabin to me. I'd wager that the differing outcomes for the Lexus driver and the BMW drivers has more to do with bad luck, or maybe the fact that the lexus test driver was a frail 67 years old.

I pretty much agree with everything Skaife has said, though I would be hesitant to up the speed limit to 140kph for a few years atleast. As peter brocks wife said, there are still so many people who are incapable of safely driving at 100kph and better driver education is a far bigger issue than getting to your destination quicker, though I'm sure Skaife means the new limits would only be introduced when/if people improve their driving skills. Theres also the issue of fuel efficiency, do we really need to be burning more fuel to get there a bit quicker in this day and age as oil becomes scarcer? Maybe a compromise between the 2, such as a 120kph limit.

The most I have ever put in my car is 63L after pushing the trip odometer to 601.2kms and I could feel it was about to run out of fuel, so I'd say 65L sounds about right. If I refuel when the needle is on empty it will put in around 50L of fuel, and if I wait for the fuel light to start flashing consistantly it'll take around 55-56L

You know you drive a skyline when: -you have developed a highly sensitive "skyline sense" that tingles the back of your neck and makes you feel paranoid whenever you are within a few hundred meters of police presence and/or camera's, far before any of your mates even realise there are cops to their amazement -Your car has a strange power which effects the minds of a small portion of australias population. Causing them to momentarily slip into a rage of swearing and making obscene gestures at your car, whilst you drive at 5kph under the limit. Otherwise friendly looking old ladies seem to be the most susceptible to this mysterious power. -parking your car near a group of 30-40yr old blokes that are standing around chatting, has the uncanny effect of steering their conversation in the direction of bathurst in the early 90's.

When I start my car up and its been running recently, the hicas light stays on and the steering has a lovely solid feel to it, it is only providing the same level of power assistance it normally gives you when you are doing 110km/h (at this speed the steering feels no different than usual), other than that it is fine, not making any horrible noises or anything like that. Does this sound like I need to add power steering fluid to my car? Also is there any way I could keep this level of power steering assistance? I quite like it and would prefer it over the usual steering

So is the speed camera part active 100% of the time? Or only on red/amber lights?

Wonder if this will make insurance claims harder, will it mean you have to prove your car was locked otherwise your insurance is void seeing as its now illegal to leave it unlocked? Maybe when your car is stolen you'll get a $117 fine instead of the $15k your car is insured for

Agreed I honestly don't know why anyone would use public transport that doesn't absolutely need to. It costs me $8.50 to travel to and from uni with public transport, or ~$11 dollars of fuel to drive the skyline in, so it saves me $2 and then only costs me 2.25 hours of time in smelly, uncomfortable conditions. On my lowly pizza boy wage thats about $45 of time. Fuel must go up about 5-fold before public transport becomes something that I will ever consider using

Have you been searched before and caught with anything? I have had my car searched once but to get it fortnightly you must come up with some alert when they check your rego. I don't see the link between getting searched and radars which leads me to think it may be for a certain radar detector sized package instead of a radar detector. hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I know I have alot of family in Dorrigo, wonder if it was a relative/close family friend? I guess I will hear if it is in the next few days. Either way RIP

96 bucks is still cheaper than what I pay for my license in WA, and obviously its not the card that is the 50 dollar cost rise its just license costs going up. How long has it been since any previous license fee rise in QLD?

OK cheers Kaido RR that makes sense as it has definately got colder during the nights here in the past few weeks which would explain why it didnt happen before. Not surprisingly it happened again last night, and my engine would have been warm because I got home at 11:00ish, I'll have a look for some coyote urine to replace the cat urine that is on my car

There seems to be a neighbourhood cat that is attracted to my skyline. I have noticed catprints all over the roof/boot/bonnet 3 times in the past 3 weeks and today I see that the motherf$#%er has pissed down the crack between my windscreen and bonnet. How can I stop the cat from being attracted to my car? Could it be something like a faint smell in my interior that attracts him/her to my car or is it just another attack on skylines. I want to stop it from happening ASAP because its putting small scratches on my paint I think and I'm sure cats piss isn't great for paintwork either.