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  1. Hand on heart, I kid you not. Woman comes into the dealership and tells me there is something wrong with the turbo on her brand spankers new Great Wall diesel, it's making a whistling sound. I took this complaint seriously for something to do, took the car out back and had one of the techs check it over. Usual, pipes, hoses & ducting. Just make sure there's no leaks anywhere. Nope. Asked the customer to demonstrate and sure enough she's concerned about the noise of the turbo itself, it's whistling. So I explaned the magic of a turbo and why it makes the noise it does. This woman then tried to tell myself, the workshop manager and a tech that we were all wrong and the sound is not normal. We got called all the names under the sun, we've ripped her off, the car's a lemon. Me thinks someone has buyers remorse. Not bad for my second week on the job...
  2. Go and have a chat to Widscreens O'Brian. They'll tell you if it can be fixed or not. It takes less than an hour, and they might be able to do it straight away. I put a 2inch crack in my windscreen and they were able to fix it. Cost was $140.
  3. Haha! that's a very good idea. Although, I don't start until the 11th June, so.......... If Great Wall made vacuum cleaners, it's the ONLY thing they'd make that wouldn't SUCK!.
  4. Wooohooo!, new job. FINALLY I can stop working two jobs and have a normal 8 to 5er like a sane person. Going to be working in a local dealership that sells VW, Skoda, Kia and :doh: Great Wall. So showing a little decorum and professionalism I can't slag off at Great Wall anymore. :'(
  5. My Aunt got a few scratch tickets on Thursday from her employer for her birthday. And she scratched off $100grand!... Money will be in her account on Monday. Ha. Thats brilliant. Couldn't of happened to a nicer person.
  6. Another random fact: They don't use Inox in hospital operating theaters.
  7. Congratulations to you and your growing family.
  8. Here's a tip how to save a few $, works for me. I HATE change in my wallet. Everyday when I get home I empty my wallet of coins and put it in moneyboxes. Everyday on my way to work, I stop for my morning coffee and the paper. I hand over $10 and get $4.80 in coins back, everyday. Thats only $24 a week, but it is $1158 a year. Can't buy much with $4.80 these days but you can have some fun with $1158. It's only small amounts, you wont miss it and you wont have a pocket full of crap change. Those big tin moneyboxes you get from the cheapshops are great, cause their a bastard to break into (hide the can openers). I have one for gold coins and one for silver. Last Christmas after putting all my change into these things for the year I had $1700. Was a good christmas... Or, a simple coke can. A coke can hold almost $700 in $2 coins. The temptation is to not break into them.
  9. Agree, I've been doing permanent nights for around 15 years. I've left the job and done different things for a day job, but manage to always come back to nights. Much easier on the mind and body than shift work. I've been working 2 jobs for the last 4 years now, job 1, 2200hrs to 0700hrs, job 2, 0730hrs to 1330hrs. Besides, night shift has it's benifits. When I go to a pub and everyones ready to go home by 1 or 2 am, I'm just starting...
  10. Rust in AE82's can be just about anywhere. But the main areas are rear wheel arches, around fuel cap, top of hatch (peel the rubber back around the hatch and have a look around the top), A pillars, all around the front screen, bottom of doors, basicly EVERYWHERE. It's a 25yo car, it's going to have some rust somewhere. As for a service history well, I'd be looking for any receipts for recent work. It's an old car and at some point it's going to need attention to brakes and suspension. If you don't know what your looking for, get a mechanic to go over it. There not hard cars to fix and their not expensive to fix if you can do some of the work yourself. Certainly a good place to learn.
  11. A cat back exhaust is a few hundred dollars, so I'd be taking that off the asking price. Water pumps, timing belt, service, if not done are going to cost, you. Is there any rust?, what's the overall condition like?, what maintenance has been done to the engine?.
  12. I agree Spencer it is borderline hypocrisy regarding "free range" chooks. But there is still a fundamental difference here. The free range chooks, while overcrowded, CAN stand up and move around. A luxury caged chooks don't have. Particularly when the shove 2, 3 or even 4 chooks in a cage.
  13. My sister has an obsesive compulsive disorder, and HAS to do the same with pegs. Can not have two pegs of a different colour on the one item. Like your brother Jon, I gave my sister grief over this. I got bored of it and hopefully your brother will too. What shits me is when I do my washing. I don't give a shit what peg I use, so long as my washing isn't on the ground. Sis comes along and re-organises the pegs so the colours match. I cracked it. Chucked ALL the pegs out and bought new ones of the same colour.
  14. Hi Lachlan, I did what you originally suggested and cleaned the contacts and switches. There was about 25 years of dust in there and it was a bit messy. I used a cleaner they use to clean computers with. From what I could see it was compressed air in a can but, it seems to have done the trick. I havn't had any blackouts since. I'll just keep an eye on it for the moment, see how it goes. Thanks for your help
  15. Having a small issue with the immobiliser of the Clubby, so no, this does not make me happy. A flat bed was sent to pick up the Clubby for fixing. The driver of the tow truck took a look at the Clubby and said "jezus mate, you've looked after this, it looks new". Thanks mate, I say proudly. He then looks at the Corolla sitting next to Clubby. "Shit, look at the Corolla, bloody hell it looks new too". This bloke made me feel 10ft tall. Ring the dealer in the arvo to see whats going on with the Clubby. "Jeez mate, this Clubby is a credit to ya". "I've never seen one this vintage in such good nic". Ow shucks, thanks mate I appreciate the kind words. "Yeah, apparently you've got a bloody sweet Corolla I need to see as well?". If I ever see that silver tounge, sweet talking muther f***er tow truck driver again I'd probably hump his leg. I still got a grin from ear to ear. Great day.
  16. Nissan wipped the floor with the GTR, and the response was a dummy spit that led to banning everything except Falcon and Commodore. Pisses me off too, that was the day motorsport in OZ started to get boring. But what if Holden and Ford showed some courage and made a car that was competitive?. Would be a hell of a lot more interesting than it is now.
  17. Ouch!, conga line supertaxis. When did they start racing Toyota Prius and Hybrid Camry's ?. :harhar: Kind of agree though. Use to loooove the V8's but these days, meh. I go when they come to town and I watch Bathurst, the rest I can take it or leave it. Really looking forward to Nissan joining the party (and maybe Chrysler). Spark some interest in it again (still going for Holden though!). Bit the same with F1. It just became too much of a hassle to watch. Parity rules have killed motorsport. There's no incentive for teams to come up with new and innovative ideas to beat the other guy.
  18. Tis a bit. Not sure whats funnier, the late coverage or people still watch F1.
  19. Talking of being ripped off on tyres. The hotel I work at has tyre spikes in the car park. A guest drove into the carpark and spun his wheels going over the spikes (not on purpose, the tyres were wet as it was raining). Don't spin your wheels over tyre spikes!. Both fronts on the Hyundai rental were punchured. I rang rental company, told them what happened, wasn't the customers fault and the hotel would pay to fix it. Rental company gave a flat out NO. The customer has taken responsibility for the car, he can pay. Rental company charged the guest $190 per tyre!. For a 15inch Kumo!. I found the exact same tyre, same brand, advertised at Kmart for $86. If I hadn't rung the rental company I could have saved time and money for both the customer and the hotel by doing it myself. I know a rental can do/go places other cars can't but, if you use rental cars, be careful. They are the biggest pack of theiving arseholes.
  20. I know there's a couple of you here that have back problems, some cronic from what I've read. I feel your pain. I have somehow managed to slip a disc between my C6 & C7 and the pain from my back and down the right side of my body is driving me up the bloody wall. Easter weekend I coudn't see my Dr for days so I went to the ED at Royal Darwin Hospital. All I wanted was pain relief. OK they were busy, I can understand. Three hour wait I got to see a DR. After CT scans Dr agrees I'm in a lot of pain. She returns with Nurofen. I went crook. I've waited 3 hours to get something I can get over the counter at the local servo. Try again!. Dr returns with Nurofen +. If Dr looked at my file she'd see I'm allergic to codine so, try again!. Dr returns with something she assures me has no codine, so I take it. I spend the next 3 hours in a bed on an drip being pumped with antihistamines to fight the allergic reaction and the migrane I now have due to being given Panadine Forte (loaded with codine). The up shot to this was, I was so stoned on antihistimines I could no longer feel my back, or any other part of my body. As I couldn't even walk, let alone drive, they were good enough to call my next of kin (my Dad) at 2am to come get me. Parents tend to panic when they get a call at 2am to say your kid is in hospital (even when your kid is 40!). There's a saying in Darwin. "When in pain, get on a plane".
  21. What do they say "never meet your hero" ?. I always had a wet spot for Ferrari's F430 Spider, until I drove one. I was so dissapointed. Yes it was nice and oh my lordy the noise when you give the treatment. But still, it just didn't meet the expectations I had of it. I've driven a Ferrari 599 and a Lamborghini Gallardo (painted the colour of a Brisbane yellow cab, TAXI!). Again, stunning motor cars and once dream cars but, not any more. Porsche 911 Turbo convertable. Phwor!, I still have that feeling inprinted in my memory of full blast acceleration up Alice street in Brisbane. And I still giggle like a school girl with a crush about that car. Moror Magazine recently posted a 10.9sec 400m time in a standard Turbo S and promply got kicked out for not having a roll cage. In a FACTORY car off the showroom floor. That's going to have to be the one.
  22. I saw 4ac extractors on ebay only about 2 to 3 weeks ago, they were from a company in Victoria called Hurricane. They can be contacted at: performancexhaust.com.au or 03)98704977 The ones they advertised were for FWD, but you never know your luck, they may have RWD ones as well. They were about $300 + postage
  23. Speaking of horrible crashes. Something to consider. Never previously crossed my mind. A friend of mine bought a new Toyota Rukus and had it modified for her wheelchair bound disabled son. The tailgate was fitted with a chair lift so the boy could be wheeled straight into the back (where the rear seat used to be). She was in a nose to tail accident. She stopped, fool in the Camry behind didn't, slammed into her and pushed her into the car infront. I'll say now, lucky the young fella wasn't in the car. Because of the fabrication, chair lift and a shed load of checker plate bolted to the back of the Rukus. It had turned the Rukus into a little tank, with no crumple zones. My friend face planted the steering wheel so hard she knocked her teeth out. Funny side of the story, when you get out of a car plastered with disabled stickers, spitting out teeth and blood, people FREAK OUT. No sign of an airbag and the seatbelt pretensioners didn't fire either. They checked over the car and found that because of the mods it prevented the safety systems from acting. The back of the Rukus looks completely undamaged, the Camry that hit her was Faaaaaaarrrrrked, with the grill about 1 foot from the windscreen. But because of the mods the damage was transfered else where on the car. Sadly it's been written off.
  24. Friend of mine recently bought one of these. I begged her not to. But she was seduced by all the toys (TV, sat nav etc etc). 3 months later buyers remorse has set in and she now drivers her partners Corolla. I feel sorry for her partner...
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