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funny you should say that about the car interior, i washed my car yesterday and had full intention to clean the nside but..... i have left it.... its still got sanding dust inside from when it was in the panel beaters last month!!

i think that i have to get the seats shampooed too, the are looking pretty grotty!

how lucky are you?? my boss has just gone on a meeting... doens mean i will do any less tho, how can i do less than nothing??

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Originally posted by Nizmo

$5,000 & Morphine wow .... *niz looks around for airtight doors* ...... Doh! :)

haha i bet you spend it on ya car anyway :)

Guys with cars n houses never spend any money on their house unless its neccessary!

i dunno hey, i was even thinking of selling the 180 and not even bothering with modified cars any more... ha wonder how long that would last!

but.. on that note i want my house to look as good as possible too..

Morning Snyps

Richie why was your car at the panel beater - spill the story!!

Nah good vacumme and some TLC will sort mine out and more strawberry airfreshners hehe my other ones have run out of puff!! At one stage you would open my car and this big waft of strawberry come out hehe chicks car :)

Originally posted by snyper510

Wot y'all up to?

Richie - whining coming from back of car under acceleration usually means ur diff is on its way out

it doesnt whine below 120 tho... i dunno.. more money...

my car had the sopiler removed and then the holes welded up and painted... got to take it back tho cause the wanker didnt match the colour properly...

i like that air freshener that smells like new car!

nothing going on today, i think that my day is getting worse. i was thinking that it miht be the diff but i was hoping that it might just be a wheel bearing.

once you work in a caryard for 3 years - your over the new car smell haha.

hey Ross :)

My car still vibrates the wheel badly at 130km an hour!! (yes wheels have been balnced and aligned etc) its funny cos you'll let it drop back to 128 and it'll stop but as soon as it hits 130km the left front wheel starts vibrating first ..... then push it to 135km/hr and they all start joining in :)

Originally posted by Nizmo

once you work in a caryard for 3 years - your over the new car smell haha.  

hey Ross :)

My car still vibrates the wheel badly at 130km an hour!! (yes wheels have been balnced and aligned etc) its funny cos you'll let it drop back to 128 and it'll stop but as soon as it hits 130km the left front wheel starts vibrating first ..... then push it to 135km/hr and they all start joining in :)

thats no good!!

i wouldnt have a clue what that could be, maye your rotors are a little warped?

i know where i might have seen your car before, like before you had it... i am pretty sure that when i used to live in east freo the car used to visit next door to where i lived.

if my rotors were warped wouldnt they said something to me when they took them off and were machining them etc ?

possibly Richie .... but my cars a bit like a relationship - you like to live under the illusion that they havent had any lovers before you :)

yeah - thats what we thought mine were ..... my tyres had the worst eggs in them co si drove around for so long with phucked shockies .... so about a month ago i got new tyres :) .... so they are definately better!! But still cant get rid of the 130+ vibration .... which is no good .... i guess it keeps me on the good side of the law but still ruins fun cos my car steering wheel starts going crazy and you feel like you aint got as much control as you should over the car - so i usually back off once i hit that.

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