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I have A/T's on one of my trucks and road tyres on the other (for general road use) - both are outside the stated limits in the guidelines above. I would understand if they had objections about my mud tyres - 35s are a bit excessive for road use, even though they look cool as hell! (keep them on my river truck or use them on my road legal truck for club runs etc)

Thats a bit stupid then - the Isuzu Mu comes factory with 31/10.5s on 8 inch rims. Does it take into account the height of the sidewall as well? Because I could understand a smaller sidewall being a problem with over wide tyres but not so much with the big thick sidewalls on 4x4 tyres!

I believe that is what you call power. I thought it was pretty impressive for a diesel - especially one that is probably not even commonrail injection like the newer diesels...

Surely there would be a bit of room for discretion on the behalf of the wof inspector? You can easily tell if a tyre is overstreched to fit a rim or too big for the rim - going by the chart above, both my road going 4x4s are out, one is running 265/70 15s on a 9 inch rim (they if anything look stretched on rather than oversize) and 31x10.5 15s on 8 inch rims - wont even go there with my off road wheels/mud tyres - 35/12.5/16s (works out to be around 285 wide) on 9 inch rims! Hope its one rule for cars and another for 4x4s!

I have recently found myself in a position where I have had to leave my manual 4x4 at home and drive my auto 325. Just before it got delegated the status of "not as much fun as playing in the mud" I had noticed a couple of times that the dash lights would just die from time to time. This would always happen without any obvious cause and would only be brief periods of darkness before they came back on. The poor old girl has been waiting patiently for almost a year, and once I found myself needing an auto to get around I decided to take her in and see what it needed for a wof... To my surprise, it flew through! So I am now back to using it as my daily driver, and being auto, the only safe way I can drive myself around until my foot comes right. I took a mate for a drive up the Napier - Taupo road on Friday night, and shortly after I dropped him off, my dash lights died. I got out and checked the back end of the car - I still had tail lights (as every other vehicle I have owned, no dash lights usually = no tail lights!) so I carried on, they kept coming back on briefly then disappearing again. Fair to say, this is really beginning to annoy me - especially trying to obey the speed limit when you can't actually see how fast you are going... Has anyone else had this problem? I am yet to pinpoint what exactly triggers the lights to come or go, but if it keeps up I feel drastic measures may be called for (trusty old hammer?) I would appreciate any ideas as to the cause of this - having looked in under the dash etc, I can't see anything glaringly obvious so I am hoping this is a common problem that someone else has had to deal with before to give me a tip in the right direction Cheers Blair

I'm glad my truck has bull bars... wouldn't think twice about ramming it at speed to see how far it will fly!

Hey Brent, do you still have this conversion kit? What do you want for it? My 325 has been sitting around for a while because my truck is more fun... Considering doing various things to it as a bit of a project, manual conversion is definitely one of the options I would like to consider!

As the title suggests, I am in need of an alternator for my 325... Havent driven it for a while because the c**t wont start again if I turn it off anywhere... Anyone got one floating around as I dont have the time to troll through Trademe, a Diesel Pighorn one looks a bit too different to fit and I havent driven it in a good many months - mud has been more fun in my truck! Help me out - I want to go do some skids in it!

I just let the rain clean my truck, you can even tell its white at the moment so it cant do that much of a sh*t job. Theres no point in me washing my 4x4 it will just get dirty again, as for my bmw it has sat in the shed for a few months now, just waiting for me to take an interest in it again. But even when I drive it all the time I hardly ever feel the need to get out there with a tooth brush or anything that extreme. It's just lucky it wont get through the mud at the river!

That is fantastic! Think the Designated Drunk and Vajority take out the top awards in that lot

Having weapons in the car is fine, as long as the people you want to use them on dont manage to take them off you and use them against you! I have seen that a few times, pretty funny sh*t!

Haha my 4x4 wasn't a simple case of replace the door and she's jake, it was more a case of drop the engine in something else and start again... Mind you, I did mine properly, I had to drive home with my head bent down so I could see under the roof... Plus jump in dukes of hazard styles through the broken windows... LOL good times!

If pics were added this topic would be totally not work safe...

I remember back in the days of the original Need For Speed 2, this car was the most badass one you could get in the game! Even though they were sh*t grapics and the game is sh*t by todays standards, it started me loving them! I mean steering wheel in the middle! Thats so go-kart material!

I agree that there are a lot of idiots around the Hawkes Bay driving stupidly, illegally modified Hondas, but as has been highlighted above, the same goes for almost every brand of vehicle - I saw a non turbo Subaru Legacy station wagon recently that was obviously on bump stops, shoddy tint job that had bubbled up really badly and when he accelerated it became apparent that he didn’t have anything in the way of a muffler - it sounded terrible and had smoke coming out from under the rear bumper. Maybe after a long trip a coroner would be able to rule it an involuntary suicide due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I was at my mates shed the other day and this guy pulled up in a 1990 Mitsi Lancer - it was painted matt black with a spray can, had a WRX front bumper and a space saver on the front. It had a fart can exhaust and smoked more than my diesel 4x4 pulling a loaded car trailer up a hill. The driver had the same seating postion as has been described above and when he left informed us that he was going to do us a "sick skid bro" which actually seemed to be more clutch than anything, so he took off up the road, turned around and made a point of ripping the hand brake up as he went back past. The actions of this knob jockey have made him on of my personal heros. I am going to sell my E36, sell my truck and buy one of them Lancers so I can be the man too!

In the sex question, why wasn't "Yes please" an option?

Same thing happened a couple of years back with a mates cefiro - he brought it and a rolled, bowled and assholed R32 GTS-T. We spent about 3 weeks doing the conversion on it only to have the repo guys turn up one evening and take it away. Got in contact with the finance company involved and explained that apart from the shell, the entire vehicle had been changed - converted to 5 stud, manual, handbrake on floor etc so we were able to get it back to get what we had put into it back. We stripped the entire car in 1.5 hours - just gassed mounts that were in the way, cut fuel lines, brake lines and everything then rang the finance company to tell them to come pick the car up. The car was sitting on its sills in the shed with a pile of interior and standard engine/running gear beside it. They had a big stink about it and told us it had to be returned to the condition it was purchased in. We said that was the previous owners problem and they just left it there at that. It is currently still sitting in the shed, it has been roof chopped into a ute, but a project that has gone no further - basically we just wanted to use the angle grinder!!

looks like a sick cross between an 80s audi and a early Honda Accord. Looks even worse with that car bra on the front. I mean stone chips arent cool, but I think Id rather a few of those than having one of those ugly things on the front!

Thats very low! Not sure I would like mine that low but I really like the look of your car. Got any other specs on your car apart from being low and pinkied???

Oh that is not cool. Very sorry to hear of your loss - especially for something so stupid. My thoughts are with you and your family.

Thats brilliant! I got a similar letter after overtaking up the passing lanes beside Lake Karapiro in my 325 about a year ago - passed 2 stock trucks and a campervan then saw the police paddy wagon in front of the campervan. Was doing about 120 at the time and braked a little to bring the speed down to a more legit level.... Didnt get pulled over but I got the letter saying that my vehicle was seen driving "at speed" "overtaking on a corner" and "driving without due car of other road users" Maybe they had a point but my speed would not have been above 120 and I didnt endanger anyone by slowing down to 105 to pass the paddy wagon... They got the day of the week wrong as well, saying it was a Wednesday at about 2pm... WTF? I was working at my new job at that time. I think they should spend more time doing actual police work rather than writing letters to the public about driving "events" that they get told about in a very one sided manor - The response from the police even acknowledges this! ok, I've said my piece, shall carry on now. (O/T would that be the same car park on High Street I met you in on Saturday night Gus? Great to catch up again, even though I was a bit of a mess.... The big smoke had some very pretty lights! )

I beg to differ - My old Toyota wagon was up to 420KM and still going well. Then we made it fly over mounds of dirt. Motor is now powering a boat. Back on topic, Your car looks exceptionally nice Nick, if it had come up 3 - 4 months ago I would have been very interested. Good luck with your sale.

Hmmm Evo 3 rear wing on an E30. Well at least its original - usually they are on the back of a lancer... I maintain that no wing is required - especially on a 318 - its not going to go fast enough to need the down force! Not a big fan of the colour either but each to their own I guess....

For an ass dragger that is very cool!

I think that if the amount owed gets to such a rediculous amount that it becomes obvious they will never pay it back, they should be sentenced to community work, charged out at the appropriate minimum wage (youth or adult) If they are unemployed then there is no reason why they cant do it 6 days a week. They would soon think twice before letting the fines build up like that again. They would only need to make and example of a few of them!