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That with Shannons? I'm about $800 for 20k...wonder if it's much different vehicle to vehicle?

How much are people paying for their laid up cover and what value?

This surcharge garbage came up on Saturday night. I've been reading things about the drivers banding together to trick the system and go off the grid to activate the surge. Not sure of the truth to it, but when I first ordered an uber it quoted me $55, then as it was on its way, for no reason on my part the request was cancelled. I tried to request another and it tells me there's a 2-2.5x surge charge now. Keeps fluctuating between that and 1.5. I fk that off for 10 minutes and try again, then it finally gives me a $55 estimate again and I got my driver. In short, f**k taxis.

Uber guy, also Indian, rocks up in a clean Civic Type R...very personable and smart dude...talk our heads off about cars. Used to have a 34R (no security guard), now has a 35R and huge property in Bentleigh. Rajab knows why he's driving Uber at 4am...? Haven't had a bad one yet. So are taxis getting pushed out of the transport market by Uber peeps who don't really need the cash that badly, or are their services and standards obsolete and too low? Mix of both?

Heading home from night out in city See a taxi and ask him if he'll take me home for $60 straight up...pretty reasonable fare as only half an hour drive *Indian accent* mate I think you better call an Uber or something we can't work for that Fine man, seeya Wait 10 mins for Uber and it's a $52 fare Enjoy your rapidly depreciating taxi licence, dick

Tune the fire out of it Haltech boy

Sad you missed the Kadir reference

Too dark

Prove it

I may be talking shit but I think there is actually a parking fine defense for situations where you were working and got held up for reasons outside your control etc. if you can get a letter from the client. Falls in the same category as car broken down and unable to move it. I remember reading something about that long ago when I was contesting. I always contest if there's the slightest loophole available. Stonnington of all councils let me off one because I looked like I had tried to do the right thing and pay for my parking (was a 15 minute max shopping zone and I thought it was the paid parking per hour zone). Glen Waverley's council, Monash or whatever it is, absolute dream boats...a truck was blocking the only sign that said the whole 100 space carpark had a time limit to it, so I never saw it and they didn't accept this as an appeal to the fine. No other signage in the whole lot Anyway, the point is, 88e prolly cost you more money than the parking fine.

@HEKT1K

Down for LANs with dat dere micro ATX But the way gaming is these days, queuing up is pretty much a LAN minus the high fives when you win a game, and the pizzas

Am aware of the trap, but long term relationship + professional job and social demographic where you face incessant questions of "why haven't you bought a house yet" make the fate seem somewhat unavoidable. Trying my best to acquire as many tangible hobby assets as I can, that can be traded while I'm trapped... That and I really need space for four cars which most modern rentals can't offer. And I want to install a hoist, and a gun safe.

I saw the crisitunity and acted accordingly

I tried my hardest not to play this card during the argument; it seemed all too easy and I don't go for that fruit

Already have rarish wheels sorted, a mate is holding onto them for me...no point buying until car is done. 88E profits have gone into house savings. Bout time I grew up and bought one lol

Yeah I've seen that rank distribution. It's garbage tho, proved that last night top fragging deathmatch even if you weren't trying. Will create a smurf account either for you to level up or for you to play in my rank and help boost lol

Yeah saw him towing his race car from Ringwood once actually

More misinformation man... I can change my RacePace tune myself and have done so...while driving out on the road. You can mess with the fuel cells if you really want to. You say a laptop is better...great...I have that with the PFC, I can data log and tune with it why are you saying you can't? Besides that, no, I haven't actually had a strange miss...my tune is awesome cause I paid a professional to set it up for me. My car feels like a factory tune, perfectly so. It's what I paid Chris to do for me. You're going OCD on ECUs and blaming the PFC for having shortcomings it doesn't actually have.

Didn't work out so well for Hillary Clinton

There's a bit of misinformation here dude! For starters, you pay a tuner to sort out a tune for you. If you're not confident in a tune that you can leave it static / set and forget until you've changed something significant about the vehicle, then you need a new tuner who doesn't work on a knife edge and can allow for some variance. That extra 5rwkw is not worth it. Hand controllers can actually do a lot considering what most use them for (sensor display/diagnostics). Having one is a luxury and not a necessity; no one is claiming it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but it's very occasionally handy to adjust settings like idle without carrying around out a laptop. Meanwhile you're pretty much slating the modern luxuries of modern ECUs as necessities and bare minimums when they aren't. What really shuts this down is that you can interact directly with the ECU and tune a PFC yourself, easily. I have an FC Hako USB cable, which cost about $100 from memory, and sits in my glovebox. At any time I can plug it into a laptop and tune to my hearts content or log data. Minus flex fuel, which I don't actually need, there is nothing a Haltech or Nistune will give me over and above the PFC. The proof of this is that I've run one flawlessly for the last 5 years and "upgrading" the ECU would give me nothing but headaches and minus $1000-2000. It's dinosaur tech, but they got it right the first time.

Pretty much. If 4th takes you to 220-230 and you're not going to see above that on the street (I hope lol) then the 5th will only be used on highways for fuel economy. You'll more likely be off boost when accelerating in 5th too, in which case no worries. If it doesn't cost much more for a replacement 5th gear then may as well do it while you're doing the rest, but if it's like $500+ then fk it I say.

Hurr durr what should I advertise my car for...errr I'll add up all my receipts and then add 20 grand appreciation and 30 for the time I put into it, yer that's prolly a good price

Yes 4th gear or whatever is 1:1 ratio in a gearbox is the strongest because 1. There is no differential in the ratio (a small gear turning a big gear or vice versa) and 2. No layshaft involved because it's bypassing it and going straight from input shaft to output shaft. You'll snap the input shaft before you lose 4th gear. When you blow another gear 4th is usually all you're left with to limp home in. It's therefore the best gear to tow a car in (unless going up a hill and struggling in 4th). A lot of kits only bother with the first three gears because you can't replace the 1:1 and 5th/6th are rarely used or don't see much stress in racing (only on straights). The number of 5th and 6th gears that get smashed from towing trailers/cars in them, however...

Where you putting it in storage? Anywhere I can slot in a car? Will pay monies