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what a little read i just had first thing nice bathroom.. no1 tiling the walls is pretty easy for anyone thinking about tiling and putting in a toilet is super easy just use fuller s40 silicon and wa lah!, paysomeone to do the floor tiles and stuff and do the walls yourself fit a toilet is like two bolts a tape measure and some silicon, then get a professional install of the shower screens 500-1000 or so its really not that bad guys give it a go.(reading up and asking some pro's some questions helps remember if you pay someone for floors you can pick their brains, offer them a beer it helps)

second. that wood grain is the weirdest thing ive seen, someone should convert that bad boy into a funeral car for dead jap car enthusiasts now thats a better idea then importing it in the first place.

third thing is im guna upgrade the deck and ill let everyone know what it sounds like, just waiting on brad to win the lotto and offer a free english conversion and im set :):worship: chuckles. Im not really sure about wheather i beleive that the amp in the deck of a standard car is better then what is in a bought item, i feel as a music enthusiast with a 10k home stereo its more that 10k can sound great or average it depends on what knowledge/time is spent on tuning it (in laymans terms) and unless you get an ultra high end deck the settings you can play around with are usually very basic, but i will see how i go with a under 700 $ stereo off ebay, i only have limited knowledge but very experienced ears. i know what i want to hear, achieving it is another story.. wish me luck..

Oh and brad luck.. cmon no 7!

If you're that into your audio, you should know that no built in amp is ever going to be as good as a good standalone/specialised amp. So do it! You won't regret it.

As for the deck, if you've got the screen and want that to hook up with DVD, TV etc like mine, there are a few options. My Clarion is great, and it has a 7" pop up screen to boot. I went that way because I wanted absolutely everything in the deck, and I got it: DVD, AV IN, iPod, Bluetooth, and even an extra front AV IN. If you're willing to go without bluetooth, there are a heap more options. Iain also has a Clarion which doesn't have DVD, runs entirely off digital media.

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what a little read i just had first thing nice bathroom.. no1 tiling the walls is pretty easy for anyone thinking about tiling and putting in a toilet is super easy just use fuller s40 silicon and wa lah!, paysomeone to do the floor tiles and stuff and do the walls yourself fit a toilet is like two bolts a tape measure and some silicon, then get a professional install of the shower screens 500-1000 or so its really not that bad guys give it a go.(reading up and asking some pro's some questions helps remember if you pay someone for floors you can pick their brains, offer them a beer it helps)

second. that wood grain is the weirdest thing ive seen, someone should convert that bad boy into a funeral car for dead jap car enthusiasts now thats a better idea then importing it in the first place.

third thing is im guna upgrade the deck and ill let everyone know what it sounds like, just waiting on brad to win the lotto and offer a free english conversion and im set :):worship: chuckles. Im not really sure about wheather i beleive that the amp in the deck of a standard car is better then what is in a bought item, i feel as a music enthusiast with a 10k home stereo its more that 10k can sound great or average it depends on what knowledge/time is spent on tuning it (in laymans terms) and unless you get an ultra high end deck the settings you can play around with are usually very basic, but i will see how i go with a under 700 $ stereo off ebay, i only have limited knowledge but very experienced ears. i know what i want to hear, achieving it is another story.. wish me luck..

Oh and brad luck.. cmon no 7!

nice!

ill be doing mine soon, but theres a few things i need to tackle first.

i reckon ill pour most of my life savings into the audio system. lol

what head unit is it??

Wonder if I should spam this thread till we get to a new page, to avoid the fact that Ryan killed it with a weird youtube redirect :nyaanyaa:

Is that what caused it? Yeah, let's just fill this one up. It's almost impossible to do anything here.

I'll add some white space - that might help.

:spam:

Thanks Ryan :spank:

:rolleyes:

Yep, its somethign to do with the youtube plugin for PHPBB.. it didnt embed the link he posted properly, instead it mashed up an iframe that causes a full redirect :rolleyes:

White space is awesome, but wont help the new page come any sooner

:blush:

I pasted a bloody link, and the whole thing gets broken! How the hell are we supposed to talk crap all day at work with the recipe chat thread broken!

Cheers Nick for fixing it. And thanks Dunc for making sure I got the blame... bastard...

:cheers:

i hit escape just before the page loaded, didnt get the redirect. took me about 5 goes at it tho haha

I just timed hitting the stop button real carefully, 70% of the time it worked every time

same thing. its easier to find the escape key than stop. dpending on the browser i guess............

on a side note, has anyone who has a telstra t-hub managed to get a generic 'orange tabbee' firmware onto it? after mine upgraded it cant SSH into it :(

might have to do some tricky DNS redirects and force the firmware upgrade to come from my own machine

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