martyyn

Why do the guys who drive them in for the photo's always look like they are about to nick the car !

Oh my lord

Indeed they do NZ testing has come along way in the last couple of years but IMO its still far to easy to get a WOF on a dodgy car. You only have to look out your car window to see the crap that some people get away with driving. Seeing as it costs about 1300 quid the car shouldve been scrapped. We sold our 97 Peugeot 406 sri for 2k pounds. Peanuts really, the equivalent car in NZ was at the time selling for close to 20k ! Id be very surprised if the place who did had any idea on what would be done at a compliance check. Even my local BMW dealer had no idea what I was talking about when I asked them about exporting something to NZ.I had all the paperwork they needed to do to save me the compliance check but they still didnt know what was going on. When I got here I had to get my ski-hatch covered as the previous owner had simply cut it out. Cost me money but I knew what the car was worth over here, compared to what I paid for it. Sounds like some old biddy who had had the car from new and just couldnt be parted with it.Unfortunately it also sounds so stereotypical of English people who simply think that NZ is just a like England was in the 60's and that whatever passes there will pass here.

I imported mine from the UK two years ago and worked for the LTSA when I got here Any car that doesnt have twin airbags (as it left the showroom - no retro-fitment allowed either) cant come in....its as simple as that. Check out the LTNZ website, its all there in black and white, they even have a nice little flow chart (for those who struggle with reading) to explain it all Pretty much anything (BMW-wise) previous to 96 wont get in until it can be classed as a classic, and even then its not so straight forward.

Oh and another thing.....rust....stop talking bollocks. Cars in the UK dont have a life span of 9 years because they fall apart, they have a life span of 9 years because seeing as the older ones are so cheap its easier to replace your car and consign the old one to the wreckers. MOT standards (UK WOF) are so much more stringent than they are here which also helps keeps the older cars off the roads. Its got fcuk all to do with rust. The climate in Wellington is more like to cause rust than salted roads in the UK. In fact, after two years in Wellington I now have the odd spot on mine that was certainly not around when I bought it two years ago. *sic is right, you guys are just spouting any bullsh!t a panelbeater will tell you to reem you of your money. Ill get off my soap box now.

No you cant.If it doesnt meet the frontal impact standards you cant import it at all. Ask me how I know....go on ask me.

Right on the money Grant.If its not 20 years old, your wasting your time.

I can understand your frustration Sparkle but I personally I think Andrew is between a rock and a hard place and the decision to pull the vote was a good one.Whilst I agree that a vote is probably the 'fairest' way of doing this, we have all seen nationally with FPP and now MMP there are several ways to run a vote several of which are totally inappropriate for what we want to achieve here. There are/were too many questions about how to run it because we would be voting for 8 people and not 1 person, we only had one vote each with the forum software and there were existing mods who should stay. All valid reasons to pull it if you ask me. Conrod is right, it is Andrew's baby and ultimately he can do as he sees fit. If we dont like it then we know to either accept it or bugger off.

I just had a Mongoose M60 installed for 425 in Wellington in the Scooby the other week. Doesnt help you in Auckland but might help with a price indication.The thing is rather annoying though, thirty seconds of inactivity and it re-immoblises.....30 seconds is not a lot of time when you have to load/unload two kids and having to un-immobilise the car again to drive it is starting to get on my tits.

Are you serious?I hope not.! Id love to know the reasons why Grant.Id just like to know all sides to the argument, maybe youve seen something in Damian that I havent.

I couldnt agree more.On this situation as it stands Ive added my suggestion elsewhere but it may well have already been lost. If Damian is to stay a mod then he needs to act like one. If he wants to stay acting the fool then he should not be a mod and should be censured just like anyone else would be.

No Im not saying that at all. Funny and off topic is one thing, offensive obuse is another.I would hate BS to be a purely techincal forum because that would just be dull, but the snipping at each other, the abuse and the 'keep it on-topic' rule breaches became tedious a long time ago. I wouldnt want you to babysit the site either, but as it stands Damian can do what he likes, to who he likes, with no recrimination. I dont hold him solely responsible for the current state, but I expect more from a mod. People were given the chance to discuss this last time and the thread disintegrated into a farce. If people arent willing to stand up for themselves this time then they only have themselves to blame and IMO BS will be all the poorer for it. I am more than willing to discuss this, as should others, but ultimately Andrew, it is your site and you can do as you wish and I will abide by it. But whilst Im here and feel that I have an interest in the site, Im going to voice my opinion. As always with email/posts though, we need to ensure we know what the other is saying before we jump to conclusions. Im more aware than anyone that my posts may not explain what Im trying to say

Im never shy to discuss this issue The thing for me is that if Damian followed his 'own' rules Im sure he would be a half decent mod. But often he jumps on someone for whatever rule they've breached and then a couple of days later he's doing it himself. It wouldnt surprise me if 95 percent of his posts were just worthless drivel but there are always one or two that show he knows his way around cars and audio installs. Editing other peoples posts when he gets into a scrap is just childish and I doubt it does him any favours in peoples opinions. If he wants to keep getting into those scraps then become a pleb like the rest of us a. without the post editing abilities of a mod and b. under the sensure of the mods. Perhaps Im getting old but after all its only my opinion.

Pfffft Cruising with one arm out the window at 200kph

Well thats the result I got this afternoon when I went in Mind you I was drooling over the M6 at the time !

Mmmmmmm peppermints

Such as ?

One of them is yes

Just tell me what you want for them mate.Do you have the brackets aswell ? Do they have brackets ? Its not like they are missing from mine, they just werent there in the first place.

Come on mate first link on trademe..... TradeMe Finders fee obviously.

Excellent.....interesting ad they had there !

Do the honourable thing Sparkle and put the fcuking thing on. Put us out of our misery.......please.

Is this Ruby from trademe ?

Rank

Have you seen the guy wanting 8k for his 320 ? Just because its a manual and has only done 125k.