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i'm surprised you're not getting this guy on as a consultant Glenn... he's clearly got it all figured out...

Why not ??

Though, not at all surprising.

Not to sound rude but maybe you need to think about it...... out of that $70k has to come rent ( jump on Trade Me to see how much a workshop costs a year to rent), Wages, GST, ACC Levies, Insurance, depreciation on equipment (or leasing of equipment if you can't afford the initail outlay).. the list carries on and on. Buying or renting specialist equipment is not cheap, especially all the latest diagnostic equipment. Now see how much you have left over. Ask Glenn, I bet he wouldn't open his doors for $35 an hour.

Tears make the best lube.

I've never opened one, but does NOT look normal - Looks like a previous repair to me! That's hand soldered connections, not factory done. I recently had the Christmas tree lights too (ABS/DSC/traction) a few times a week. Codes showed voltage issue with right rear, and left rear on different occasions. The indicators stopped working ONE time, and were fine ever since. This was about 3 weeks ago. I installed a brand new ignition switch (cos they're actually really crappy and cause a LOT of weird issues) and have had no problems for the last 3 weeks Hopefully it stays that way! I thought I was going to be up for a new module too. I have since fitted a heatsheild beside the module (before problems would be sensible ), but I don't know if it will help or not - the abs still gets REALLY hot, because when you're stopped, the whole engine bay stays hot. Anyway - keep us up to date with how it goes.

What irks me about all this is the story in the Otago Daily Times, Mr Cliff is quoted as saying: "Our research shows that when police combined high visibility tactics with a reduced speed threshold during Queen's Birthday Weekends in 2010 and 2011, the total number of fatality/injury crashes reduced by 25 per cent, compared with the previous two years. That's an average of 30 people whose lives were saved." So firstly I'm assuming that this 25% reduction was statistically significant, otherwise it's meaningless (although it seems to be a remarkable coincidence for it to be 25%/one quarter EXACTLY). Secondly, why are we not comparing 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 to the previous four years to get a more robust sample size? Probably for the same reason that Queens Birthday weekend was chosen over Easter, Waitangi, Christmas and New Years, or any other holiday weekend with lots of traffic. Because their stats wouldn't have worked out any other way… I see this all the time in biological sciences and it's wrong. They are clearly picking and choosing their data to support the bullshit story they want to feed to us. If they were scientist they would be found out and prosecuted for fraud! How did the weather differ in those weekends? How did the number of vehicles on the road differ in those weekends? There are so many confounding variables it's not even funny and because you can't control for these things you would need data from hundreds of weekends with weather conditions, road conditions, number of vehicles, etc recorded and controlled for to even start to provide evidence that police tactics caused a lower road toll.