/dat/ - daily ausfag thread unobtainable edition
>>28862435>autotragicShame.
who is buying these cars? are boomers actually that rich they can drop a quarter mil on a falcon?
>>28862435>race mech injectionfucking useless
>>28862457Nobody is buying them, boomers just set an insane price tag and hold it until they either keel over or accept defeat and trade it at a dealer.
>>28862457Its not that the car is expensive it is that the dollar is that devalued, In 1973 6000aud could buy you 140 ounces of gold, worth about 1 million today.So the car is worth about 1/5th the price it was new if we go by gold value which you should.
>>28862632220000 dollars is still alot of money lol
>>28862633Its 5 times less than the car cost brand new and that car is basically new with 4000km
>>28862635>XB coupes were equivalent to 1.2 million dollars new
>>28862635You're retarded.
im winning the XY from lmct
>>28862635they were 7000 new, about 40k in todays money
>>28862642go see how much gold 7k would buy you in 1973 because it is a lot more than 40k worth, you are dumb if you think our money is that valuable, 40k will buy you like 5 ounces of gold in 2026. Gold has never gone up in value, dolla4 has gone down.
>>28862648>cars are the same as gold
>>28862635Low k's doesn't mean much, parts age from both time and disuse.
>>28862662>>28862637Not sure if trolling or actually retarded and doesn't understand what inflation is
>>28862665They think inflation is far far less than it actually is, gold is and always will be the true measure of inflation as it is actually money.
>>28862665>Average wage in 1973: $4100/year>Average house price in 1973: $18,000>Price of that Falcon in 1973: $4000
>>28862675yeah but the average wage currently is 1.2m so for 220k its 1/5 the cost when new
>>28862676Not exactly how it works, no. Average wage now is about 100k and a car like that built today would cost around 110k. Other ones on CarSales are also around the 150k mark as well and that is a more accurate price than what the boomer OP wants.
>>28862677Its not 100% original which is what boomers want so 80k is more realistic
>>28862675Ackshually the base model GT was over 5k at the time.
>>28862683Hole cut in the hood, it'll never sell.
>>28862688I remember my uncle being told his car wasnt original because 4 bolts on the engine were supposed to have a rounded head but the bolts had flat heads.
>>28862683>>28862726MATCHING NUMBERS
>>28862683It also has those really gay and cheap LED headlights with those halo DRLs
>>28862662when You Know What You Got, they sure are
>>28863596A painting worth 1 billion dollars is worthless if nobody is even willing to buy it for 1 million dollars. Boomers always take a realistic price and tack on an extra 60% just because.
>>28863601I know. But I also Know What I Got, son.
>>28862435Is it even a genuine GT? Probably not. It was a redpill discovering that half the "genuine" GTs are just fairmonts with a stolen VIN and running gear and the boomer owners have no idea lmao.
>>28862729lul those kind of people are gonna have an aneurysm when they look under the hood of my car>>28863590i put selective yellow halogens in mine and i get a surprising number of people asking where they can get them as well. i think not many people know they're legal to use.
>>28863657>selective yellow halogensThat's fine to do, I'm talking about them being LED headlights, not the original halogens that came with the car. LED headlights and DRLs on a 70s car looks retarded, especially on a muscle car.
>>28863683i like to think people were interested in the yellows because they're also sick of cheaply done led retrofits that blind them. but it's probably just because it's something different.
>>28863758My bright green headlights get a lot of attention.
>>28863780Comfy. Wish I could find some empty roads like this with trees around for car pics but it seems like every rural road has at least one other person going on it.
>>28863780i wish more people used them, even if only for clout chasing because as a side effect night driving would be much comfier.
>>28863788I feel much safer since running the green lights and I think they should be mandatory for motorcycles.>>28863758I don't think it's a good idea to have your headlights the same colour as your indicators but you do you, mate.
>>28863783Just go at 4am when everyone is asleep.
>>28863798Are green lights legal though? The yellow are allowed for historical reasons but I'm not sure green has that same pass.
>>28863801I've been pulled over (for speeding) a few times and I've seen other cops on the road who just look at me and keep going. I think they'll only bust your arse if your running blue or red on the front. My argument will be that hi-vis lights are more visible than plain white lights so I'm safer with hi-vis lights.
>>28863804>blue or red on the front.Yeah that's a big no kek. I remember there was some fag in my city that had a Holden Caprice (the WN) and changed the parker lights to have a red bulb on one side and blue on the other. I can only imagine how big the ticket was.I think they probably figured the lights on your bike were OEM since bikes do some strange shit sometimes and it fits in with yours. That and most people really don't care about bikes or their oddities.
>>28863808imagine being penalised (in a penal colony) for having incorrect lights on your car.has law and order gone too far?
>>28863798ironically the front blinkers are white. even if they were orange, there's no way in hell they could ever be mistaken for them. look up selective yellow. it's a VERY distinct shade of yellow. the closest photo i could find from a quick search is probably this one, it's very similar to the right side in pic related, but photos really don't do it justice, when you see it in person you'll know there's no way to get the two mixed up.
>>28863812So fake police cars are fine in your country then?
>>28863813in the blink of an eye those two yellows look the same to me
>>28863814Apparently so.
>>28863815for real or you just screwing with me?
>>28863818i could ask you the same question. yellow is yellow and i don't see the difference between your yellows you funny fellow. be mellow.
>>28863798>I don't think it's a good idea to have your headlights the same colour as your indicators but you do youOrange marker lights on cars isn't that unusual either, a lot of Euro cars from the 90s and 2000s had small amber markers before the standard white DRLs replaced markers. They also remained common on US cars from the 60s will into the 2010s.
>>28863821>way back in the day..science has evolved since then mate
>>28863824>way back in the day>only 10 years ago or less depending on the carsKek okay zoom zoom.
>>28863819does pic related look the same as the colours in >>28863813?
>>28863826close enough
>>28863824they're also still a thing on a lot of new cars too btw. the reason? it grabs more attention than just white.if you genuinely struggle with the difference between a static and flashing color, you might be retarded.
>>28863831is that car sold in australia? does it comply with current australian safety standards?didn't think so.
>>28863828whew. i thought you were actually colour blind
>>28863833NTA but I have seen a few new cars with orange front lights, it's always a little jarring since I only used to see it in American movies. And yes it is legal, I looked it up once since I was curious.
>>28863831Sighting lights are different to your headlights because your headlights are right next to your indicators on the corner of the car.
>>28863836>I looked it up once since I was curious.I looked up your mums dress once because I was curious.
>>28863840No need to be mad about getting it wrong bro, it's just some lights and nobody cares that much.
>>28863841What makes you think that I'm wrong? I said it's not a good idea to have headlights and indicators the same colour and you posted sighting lights which aren't headlights.
>>28863844My bad, I thought you were the anon saying they're not road legal and no cars have them (which is literally wrong since you can see cars on the road with them).
>>28863846In a penal colony everything is illegal.
>>28863847We have things pretty alright compared to some other countries, a lot of faggots just don't realize it since they've never lived abroad before. Try it and you'll realize just how good it really is here.
>>28863844i think big round yellow headlights are the least of your problems; been seeing more and more rangers and other nu-pickups with orange marker lights dotted across the grille.
>>28863851I don't think that any other country on earth delivers the death penalty for driving 5 km/h over a speed limit that's 30 km/h too slow. and uses hidden compliance cameras to detect crime and profit from ""crime"".
>>28863855>hidden compliance camerasnsw least pozzed in that aspect. people actually bitched enough that the govt put them back.
>>28863855You really haven't lived abroad and it really shows with this post.
>>28863855victoria is a communist dystopian shithole howeverthoughbeit
>>28863862I'm probably more cultured than you but I'm not going to get into a pissing contest with a bogan.
>>28863851can't look at a car without getting a defect.
>>28863863SA is worse. People think it's Vic and meme, but SA has it so much worse it's unreal. I think SA is the only state that has average speed zones where you're cucked into going slower for 10-20km stretches of road and everyone on the road will slow down by 20km out of fear of tickets.
>>28863862>I migrated from India in 2024
>>28863866Victoria fines F1 drivers for "deliberate loss of traction.
>>28863867USA, but you do you I guess. I was also in the UK for just a little bit prior to COVID.
>>28863862>>28863864don't need to be a pretentious and/or foreign faggot to know that things could be better in my own cuntry.
>>28863869I've spent considerable time in Germany, Italy, Malta, Singapore, and Tasmania. I'm cultured.
>>28863868Kek so does SA, not exactly unique bro. SA also goes hard at riceboxes and turbos for some reason.
>>28863870Exactly!This is the information age after all. We have things like the internet now.
>>28863871>I've spent considerable time in Germany, Italy, Malta, Singapore, and TasmaniaBased world enjoyer. I liked the food of Malaysia more than Singapore though, but the downside was Malaysia had more slums and shit.
>>28863872SA will lose the MotoGP because your road course will be deemed unsafe.
>>28863874I wanna go to Thailand to fuck a ladyboy next. Then maybe Adelaide to beat up this cunt >>28863872.
>>28863876Like we get it SA's a dump too, are you happy now? Shut up cunt. It's not a competition to see how low we can go, strive to be better.
>>28863879How can I strive to be better when I'm already the best?
>>28863875I was stunned it got approved in the first place, in my mind it'll be just this year and it won't come back. If it's using some of the same areas as the old races, they better get to work on fixing those roads soon since some of them are pretty fucked.>>28863879How? It just keeps getting worse.
>>28863880complacency gets them in the end
>>28863881>it'll be just this year and it won't come back.I think the riders will collectively refuse to ride it and the race will be moved back to Phillip Island where it belongs.
>>28863883You assume too much and that will be your down fall, because you believe your own assumptions and act on them. Strive to be smarter and never relax.
>>28863880Thankfully the SA ego is still fully intact, all the shitty road rules and cameras can't take that away from us.
>>28863886Doubtful, they'll do it and everyone will praise it but then it won't happen again.
>>28863892I hope you like baking at 45°C for six months a year whenever the sun rises
>>28863893>they'll do it and everyone will praise it but then it won't happen againlike sex with ur mum
>>28863895nuh uh more like sex with your mum
>>28863900>be ur mum and dad>have sex>that was great, my love, but we got a retarded kid now so i guess we're never doing that again
>>28863895Sounds more like visiting North Adelaide.
>>28863903I've never been to Adelaide. Is it really the city of chruches?
>>28863902nuh uh actually my parents love me very much
>>28863904Okay amount of churches I guess but I don't pay them much mind to be honest, there aren't any that are super impressive or look like massive cathedrals though. Adelaide city itself is boring and lifeless as shit but the beaches are nice like Glenelg and Brighton.
>>28863906If they really loved you they'd move you to a free country like Iran. Australia is rulecucked penal colony.
>>28863910We have churches in Cucktoria too.
>>28863912We even have beaches!
>>28863912>>28863913Nice! Still never going there
>>28863912Pretty nice. The best one in Vic is that big one in Melb, dunno it's name but it looks pretty massive. The ones here in SA are more of the basic old British style that are more for small towns than big cities. I think the biggest church we have is on the corner near the uni in the CBD and it's pretty dull.
>>28863913And pedophiles.>>28863914Come to Victoria and get raped by our police.
>>28863915You speak of St Paul's Cathedral in Melbourne. It's a beautiful piece of architecture but I don't think that I've ever been inside it.
>>28863918mods!
>>28863919Yeah that's the one. I visited Vic a long time ago and liked all the old buildings, SA seems to demolish all the old stuff and replace it with pretty dull glass boxes now or replaced stuff a long time ago in the 80s and 90s with contemporary stuff.
>>28863921SA is gayVictoria is euphoriaNew South Wales is full of failsQueensland is blandWA is double gayand Tasmanians fuck their siblings.Ozzy. Ozzy. Ozzy.
>>28863950Queensland is bland cause you got nuffin 2 sayQUEENSLANDAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
>>28863952Queensfolk are a simple people who live in houses on stilts.When I was visiting family in Bundaberg I saw a million lizards every day, and every time i tried to pick on up it would drop it's tail and run away. Shame because they looked pretty tasty to ten year old me.
>>28863954and I wouldn't have it any other way. queen slander houses are lovely when they're actually finished houses and not something that just fell off a truck.
>>28863964so how many victims are you storing in your rape dungeon?
>>28863950what about the northern territory?while we're at it, have there ever been any NTfags that posted here?
>>28863971NT folk are busy huffing petrol
>>28863971I don't think so, a lot of car companies don't even operate in NT actually which is pretty funny. I used to work for a pretty big luxury car brand for a while and they didn't sell cars in NT at all, every owner in NT would buy their car from Queensland and take it back to NT. The big issue also became that to get warranty work done at the dealer, they'd have to drive it back to QLD themselves as we had no official support in NT.There's also a lot of regular shopping brands that don't operate in NT either, a lot of businesses just don't consider the investment to be worthwhile.
>>28863989because NT is nothing but a rock in the desert
XB coupes are worth a fortune now because those fucking yanks stole them all to convert into mad max interceptors
the majority of GTHO's are actually just standard GT's or falcon "tributes" that had the tags and stamp numbers faked. mechanics and organised criminals stole a lot of them in the 70s and re-birthed them.my dad knew a guy who did them
>>28863875good, i hate the gay festivals and races they put on it fucks up traffic so bad just so some boomer cunt can make a fagbook post about Adelaide's culture or some other nebulous bullshitdo that shit at an oval or track away from the CBD
>>28864178Same with gtr xu-1 toranas and the slr5000
>>28863912Trafalgar Church.
>>28864209Oh I was wrong
>>28862435If those retarded boomers knew how to spend their money they'd buy one of these
>>28864235Oi that's my car
Jannie how many images of my car do you have in your reaction folder?
>>28864178>>28864207i just want an xy to daily ;-; it's such a good looking car, especially the front end
>>28862632Retard
Wheres the cheapest place to buy tyres and brake pads?
>>28864200>it fucks up traffic so bad just so some boomer cunt can make a fagbook post about Adelaide's culture or some other nebulous bullshitKek, I went to the Adelaide reddit page just a week ago and they were fucking cooming over the MotoGP coming here and going nuts about how big it is for Adelaide. I doubt any of them even watch racing at all but just want something to stroke their egos about.
>>28864918in syd i think tempe is still the cheapest
>>28864918Bridgestone is good if you get that buy 3 and get one free deal, it makes a big difference if you're paying $250 per tyre.
>>28863630Probably not, they didn't make many XB GT coupes and its had an engine swap. So at that point its more or less just any other XB coupe in terms of being special, I mean they are cool cars but they're not 200k special. They have always been fairly expensive though, like the last XB coupe I had was a 74 Landau with all the nice power-everything, 4-bucket seats, 351 and that was in 'ok', 2nd owner original condition. Unreg that sold for 25k back in 2001 fairly easily
>>28864918>>28864985tempe is cheapish but dont let them install them on your car. if they fit them check the weights are stuck on properly had 2 stripped studs from them uggaduggaing too much and 2 wheels had the weights fall off almost immediately and go out of balance they were also 2 hours late and the stupid paki bitch couldnt comprehend the concept of over torqing wheels when i went back to whinge fuck em
>>28866614lol thats why i throw a breaker bar and torque wrench in my car at any tyre shop. i'll crack them loose and retighten them back up right in front of them. the time they "saved" using the ugga dugga is cancelled out when they have to wait for me to torque it all up properly before rolling out.
>>28864235I only ever see jeets driving mustangs these days
>>28864918Search marketplace there will be some tire shop selling individual chinga tires at bulk prices. Brake pads cheapest is always online.
>>28866649jeets or butch lesbainsthough i did see a jeet driving an FG with 'HINDU' number plates and i wanted to run him off the road i was so angry kek
throwing a k&n oil filter on the falcon today. been knocking a bit on cold starts and suspect its the drain back valves in the rycos are shit now theyve moved to overseas production. will report results
>>28866663I saw one in a brand new Mercedes coupe with his name as the plate, something like SUKDEP or some other shit. It also had some fake gold trinkets glued to the dashboard.
>>28866667welp first thing is the k&n one didnt come with the clear plastic seal on the bottom that every other filter ive bought has, rang supercheap and none of them come with it apparently. not off to a great start
>>28866706Impossible to buy a good filter these days unless go with one of the aus-made brands that are only stocked at places like bursons/motorspares etc
>>28862457I'm in a 4wd club that is mostly over 60s, and yes, by and large they can just drop that much money on frivolous toys. Not all of them but a large portion of them think nothing of dropping $120k on a caravan because they feel like it. >meanwhile millenials and younger gens will never even own a house in their lifetime
>>28863866What benefit is there to going 10 or even 20ks over the limit? You're not going to get to your destination that much quicker unless you're driving for over 3 hours straight which most people arent. Say you're doing 120 for 3 hours and you have to stop to piss or to get fuel, well there goes the time you saved from doing 120. The speed limit is just an arbitrary number.
>>28866706maybe buy an oe toyota filter if it fits lul. they have the plastic seal and the gasket comes pre-lubed too
>>28866715By that logic, why have 110 limits when you can just go at 100? It's arbitrary after all.
>>28866710yep seems like it. even the k&n is made in mexico what brands are those bursons ones? i looked at what i thought were all of them but might of missed some. even the 'oem' motorcraft ones are rebranded chinese rycos now>>28866718might have to look into that. it could be a lifter leaking down or whatever but ive heard such bad stuff about ryco recently that im thinking its the valves. the k&n ones have bad reviews for leaking from where the removal nut is welded to the housing but id say thats from retards putting it on with a spanner too
is it just me or has the car scene from 10 years ago completely gone now? i used to go to meets and most of the cars were shit like 90s accords with nice wheels and a canon exhaust but now its all 1 gorrilion horsepower skylines and new i30s with crackle tunes. what happened to all the cunts that were just fucking around with simple stuff?
>>28866715setting the limit really high would also make it really easy and quick to overtake slower traffic. no more 10 minute australian overtakes. but you'd need to make "keep left unless overtaking" a religion like it borderline is in germoney.
>>28866715sitting at 80 on the highway is fucking agonizing
>>28866756compounded by the fact that many stretches of our highways one could easily do 150 with no real problem.
>>28866759meanwhile nsw police/rms are running the 'towards 0' campaign aiming for 0 road deaths per year which is impossible, yet they still refuse to fix the completely fucked roads in sydney. alot of whihc have ruts in them that are 10m longer or more and wide and deep enough to trap the front wheel of a motorbike and throw you off it into traffic in the middle of the freeway but its le speed limits apparently
hows fuel prices today for yous? 2.80 for 98 here shits fucked
>>28866722Gotta pick a number some time even if it is arbitrary. Freeway and outback highways are all 110 here in SA but cross the border into vic and it goes to 100. >>28866753Don't think I've ever overtaken anything without breaking the speed limit lel. >>28866779suburban roads here are going the same way, they're gradually going down from 60 to 50 one by one. More and more 50s are going down to 40. They probably wont be happy until there's a blanket speed limit of 25 on all roads everywhere except the freeway. God knows there's enough nervous drivers out there that would still do 10-15 under the limit (Mazda drivers)
>>28866829>2.80 for 98 here Man if that shit goes nationwide I probably won't even leave my house for anything but work.
>>28866831>nervous drivers out there that would still do 10-15 under the limit (Mazda drivers)literally my mum kek. if youre too scared to drive 100kmh in a car made after 1995 you should be allowed to drive at all >>28866833i dont as it is kek but still have to drive up 1000kms a week for work. hopefully it doesnt last long
>>28866831>Freeway and outback highways are all 110 here in SA but cross the border into vic and it goes to 100. NTA but that's not true, I drive the Adelaide-Melbourne highway a lot and it's pretty much 110 almost the entire way into Melbourne and on other surrounding highways like Geelong, Bendigo, random shit on the East side etc.>suburban roads here are going the same way, they're gradually going down from 60 to 50 one by one. More and more 50s are going down to 40Assuming you're Adelaide based like me, truth. It's fucking insane how many familiar roads I've been driving for a decade are suddenly getting limit drops. A few 100 roads are also dropping down to 80 in the hills.We're also the only state in the country with a 25kph limit, everywhere else does 40kph for construction and schoolzones.
>>28866839theres a 600m stretch of highway near me (nsw) that has been dropped from 80 to 70 because theres a turn off there, mobile speed cams always sitting there now too
>>28866839>cars get safer>limits get lowerI remember watching shit like i,Robot where all the safety cuckery of modern cars had speed limits end up being higher in the future.
>>2886682991 2.1798 2.45Dear lord what prison do you in?
>>28866861My guess would be Brisbane, fuel prices here have been fucked for a long time.
>>28866779Did a trip from Adelaide to Sydney via Bathurst and I swear to god the roads between Nerrandera and Bathurst, they are so rough. Seems like local councils given up on fixing anything they just put up a sign saying "uneven surface" and call it good. And if it gets too bad, they just rip up the black top back to dirt and leave it like that in sections.
tfw no first gen chevy tahoe
>>28866863Surprisingly not fucked.
>>28866853oh yeah now that you mention it the bit where dr calvin is acting like spooner went full retard when he activated manual controls while they're at 125 mph or something like that
>>28866873same prices as melb and adelaide, even sydney is the same. anon must be living in some part of the country where it takes a weeks for a fuel truck or some shit then.
>>28866873>>28866880yeah ours seem to be similar
>>28866880nah im in west syd. swear it was 2.80 but maybe i read it wrong and the 8 was a 3 kek
>>28866880I checked every butt fuck no where town and most have cheaper fuel than the city, but I couldn't find any at 2.80
It cost me over fifteen dollars to fill my bike's tank this morning. It usually costs around ten. So I was tempted to steal a red bull from the fridge but then I remembered that I'm not a nigger.
>cadillac finally starts selling cars in australia again>3 shitty electric SUV'swhy? the CT5 would sell so well here since it's basically a commodore
>>28866925>two of them look exactly the sameMy disappointment is immeasurable.
>>28866925I still find myself tempted by one, American SUVs come with a lot of decent kit as standard and the imports here are the up trim models as I recall.
>>28866925holden were testing the ct5 here to see if it would be a good basis for a new commodore before they were shut down
>>28866961I got to see it without the camouflage too, it was parked at Ikea and then I saw it driving around again a week later. No idea why they bothered with camouflage if they just took it off not long after anyway.And then yeah, COVID touched down and that was the end of petrol Cadillac's coming to our market.
>>28866930are you supposed to say these as optic or opteek
>>28866980Optic and Lyric, the Q is just some futurism bullshit.
>>28866981looks gay either way
>>28866864I had to laugh the other day when I was on the mid north coast headed out on a secondary road set at 100km/h to go see some people, the road was so fucking rough that I did actually have to slow down to 90 and I wasn't the only one. Everyone else nearby has gone, this shits a bit much and dropped speedMeanwhile there's some optimistic faggot in his speed camera setup watching all this probably wondering why everyone is being slow>It wasn't because we wanted to go slower
>>28867190Sounds like that road needs to be an 80 road Anon>that isn't what I mea-60
another day i have woken up in which i do not own first gen chevy tahoe
so why don't they bring the chinese mondeo to australia?
>>28867526australians dont want sedans any more (allegedly)
>>28867521would you care for a holden suburban?one or two on carsales right now too
>>28867210That's the other half of the problem innitIts been left in the hands of retards in local areas making up the speed limits of anywhere between 40 to 100km/h wherever the fuck they 'think' a speed limit should be instead of addressing a problem they can't enforce or repair, they create more processes and policing which is aimed to compound the retardation over time into an unmanageable pile of shit.We're long overdue for someone to represent 'people on the roads' without any of the hand wringing mums, cyclists, pedestrians and other fuckwits that want some kind of say
Filled up with 98 for 175c/l the other week, down to 1/4 tank now and dreading having to fill up again. Grim.
>>28867979I haven't driven anywhere since last Tuesday, trying to make that half a tank of 98 last kek
>>28867528So they say, and yet I see brand new sedans everywhere. >>28867521I want a mid 2000s one, I had an early 10s model when I was in the US but I like the look of the early 00s one the most. Also the 90s one.
>>28867979I have to fill up with 98 3 times a week.
>>28867979>98 is now $2.40 in most placesIt's so fucking over.
regular unleaded will be $3 next thursday.
>>28866663I seen one in a gt falcon the other day with a picture of himself wearing a turbin and holding an ak on the door
>>28868053I paid $1.89 in country vic this arvo for 98.Only city servos price gouge
BTW cost of fuel to buy for servos has only actually gone up 2-3 cents since the start of the war in Iran, they are all just price gouging cunts
>>28868056For 98? You must've found the last station that had it under $2
>>28866749>is it just me or has the car scene from 10 years ago completely gone now? i used to go to meets and most of the cars were shit like 90s accords with nice wheels and a canon exhaust but now its all 1 gorrilion horsepower skylines and new i30s with crackle tunes. what happened to all the cunts that were just fucking around with simple stuff?Yeah 100%. So depressing, I just wanna go out and yarn about cars but its just young people doing it for tiktok with boring nonsense
>>28868057How people are taking it without pushback is beyond me. I've worked with major shipping companies for goods before and you sure as fuck aren't getting tanks from that side of the world to processing and then onto another ship towards here in less than one week, the real timeline is more like a month at the bare minimum.
>>28868063Its about that all through gippsland. Closer you get to Melbourne the more expensive it gets weird huh? The ports get closer fuel gets more expensive hmm.Country towns just dont tolerate it everyone knows where the servo owner lives.Servo I filled up at was Trafalgar bp
>>28868072>Closer you get to Melbourne the more expensive it getsYou sure about that mate?
>>28868073They must be racing the fuel out to all these towns for these prices, right? They surely aren't just price gouging.(I also looked at Alice Springs and it's fucking $2.30 on average for 98)
>>28868073>>28868075All the servos price gouging are run by Indians.
>>28868056I paid about that on Tues in country NSW for 98 as I knew it was going to go upIts since blown up to 2.20ishThere's really no reason for the gouging either, they bought the oil cheap, they made it into fuel at that price and its simply sitting there to be distributed, the fact the fucking is happening this close is complete rubbish, they probably haven't even bought more oil since to crack and make more fuel out of.
>>28868083Faggy as it sounds, it makes me reconsider electric for just a runabout work car. I've had to drive some EVs around and it'd be alright as just a work car, just plug that electric bussy into your house overnight and you're ready for the next work day. It previously only cost me about $6 a day when I had an EV for work but my work was also less than 40km from my house so it didn't need much charging.
Would rather get another old Datsun that ran all week on $10 of petty, too bad they're another victim of the boomer tax.
>>28868084I think if I'd stayed in the city, I would have found a way to keep my thirsty retarded car for long trips and just hunted around for a cheap EV or hybrid for shittycity jobs. That way no one would steal an EV and fat cunts in shopping centres could crash doors and trolleys into it without giving too much of a shit.Most of the city commuting I used to do was maybe 20km tops a day and often just me in the car, maybe some bags and stuff
>>28868101I sometimes think about one of those small and old EVs, or maybe a hybrid. Something like a BMW i3 maybe, they had pretty nice interiors and were a good city size car. They also still look pretty sharp despite being over 13 years old now.
Who should I insure with in NSW?Just had a fucking obnoxious experience with aami where they kept my car for 3 months, did 0 work to it, ended up just paying me out and every step of the process was like pulling teeth with me constantly having to harass them to get anything done. Having to repair the car myself. And it goes on.I gotta insure my dd + a 32 year old car.
>>28866864I literally built a lot of those roads lel.They resurface a lot of stuff in bathurst itself but surrounding roads never get too much attention.If they've got foundations built up that's good. Spray sealers will eventually get to it.
>>28868099Lot of Dattos like t he 120Y, 180, 200's etc all tended to expire of rust in some way as well, plus they just were never treated well by anyone. Sort of the same with stuff like the E30 to 70 series of Corollas just all seemed to be owned by people who never loved them and died of much the same reasons.>>28868109I'd considered something like a Nissan Leaf, they were at the time a bit expensive new but now they're not too much on the 2nd hand market. Or an old 1st-ed Prius seem to just keep going forever and ever, They're all uglier than a hat full of arseholes but no one's going to ever pinch one either!
>>28866925No one wanted commodores tho
>>28868115Enthusiast are good for weird stuff, they did my AW11 for crazy value and really cheap premiums. I'm with Shannons now for my E30 as Enthusiast website wouldn't do the value i wanted and I couldn't be fucked to call them
Should i get a g81 m3 once LCT is abolished in a few weeks or is it too fast for da streets
>>28868125>once LCT is abolished in a few weekswow, ofc i hear it first here...seems like there's talks about getting rid of it...frigging finally.
>>28868099I had a 1977 toyota ke30 corolla about 10 years ago which is pretty much the exact same car as the 120y. At the time I drove from Adelaide to Port Broughton and back on $20. Noisey from the lack of deadening and for the size of the car uncomfortable but it was hanging out at 100kmph with the AM radio blaring. At the time I was interested in 1970s fuel efficient cars and i was looking at 120y's too but they were expensive even then for what they were. My second option was a Gemini diesel but none came up. The cheapest was a ke30 with a cracked head that i learnt alot about car repairs with while sorting it out. These days i'd be interested in a 1980 3cyl Suzuki Alto/800/Hatch but those have been boomer taxed too, yet i feel theyre not on anyones radar necessarily so one might come up accidentally for $300 and i can have a muck around with it because they dont have the coke bottle styling or chrome bumpers to key someone into thinking theyre worth more than they are.This is all to say that their impressive fuel economy is real at the tradeoff of only really having bad road noise and only really comfortable if you have an asians frame and height. But also they were always sortof expensive. Even ke70's were expensive back then because they were the number one car to be skidded into the wall or become a 4age project (99 percent of those projects stalled and the car scrapped or defected or otherwise written off) because they were the last of the common rwd corollas
>>28868142Sometimes people also got a bit nuts with other things in them toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OtSq62J610
>>28868121Enthusiast wont insure my dd though. How much of a discount do you get for insuring multiple cars with a single insurer?
>>28868148ive seen pretty much every swap under the sun for a ke70 at this point. It helps that they have a relatively large engine bay and trans tunnel for what they are and for a long time they were legitimately cheap cars with cheap parts, it was a great platform but like with any cheap hobbyist car that enters the racing scene they evaporated quickly. I dont go out of my way to look them up anymore but the last time ive come across a ke70 for sale it was a skid pig at the wreckers that already had a 3.8 v6/4spd auto from a VN commodore that supposedly ran and drive for $1500 and that wasn't even the first time ive seen that swap done on one of them. The trick with converting a 4cyl shitbox and covertly driving it on the road was to always use v6 motors because they dont have the same v8 rumble that would tip someone off that something was different + the lighter weight didn't compress the front suspension so much.I was more of a ke30 guy purely for the styling but ke70's were the fan favourite. I think it was because they might've had a coil sprung rear end rather than leafs from memory? or they had more space to work with or maybe the boxy styling is more popular im not sure but the ke1x, 2x, 3x, 5x were abused but not nearly to the extent of 7x's
>>28868117Yeah maybe a Prius, the Leaf has pretty terrible range in comparison to everything else. I also just think it would be fun to have some shitty Prius that I can park wherever and not give a fuck about. Shit, I might even rebadge it as the Karen Dilettante like in GTA IV kek.
>>28867657yeah thats about as close as i could get here. basically the same car just a bit bigger but the prices here are ridiculous for them. tahoes came with some nicer trim options too where as the suburban was focused on being a soccer mum car
>>28868052do you drive a turbo v8 or something kek
>>28868151No idea I've only had one at a time. You get way better deals calling them up
>>28866653Fuck no>>28866614That's my other concern. I got expensive wheels and I'm worried that these cunts are gonna scratch them while mounting tyres.>>28864987They kinda seem to make up for it by overpricing their tyres in the first place.
>>28868623if you get RE003s you're retarded
>>28868623Bridgestone have been pretty good on prices imo. I suppose there's also Tyrepower or Bobjanes, the latter being where I've gone for a similar deal.
>>28868626The only other option they have is semi slicks.
>>28868623Buy some Michelin Pilot Sports.
>>28868630Michelin pilot sport 5 on tyroola, 245ea
>>28868626why? ive found them to be good. i had p zeros before and the bridgestones are much better in the wet than the pirellis were
>>28868639Shit in wet, noisy, bad life, not that grippy, and expensive.If you want to go fast go a Hangook RS4 (they aren't a semi slick, phenomenal tyre) and if you want to drive every day then a ichelin PS4 or 5
>>28868642>Shit in wet, noisy, bad life, not that grippy, and expensivemaybe im just comparing them to the pirellis because thats the only other tyre ive had on that car but i found the exact opposite to be true
>>28868637But who do I get to mount them on the wheels? I've never had expensive wheels before and I'm shit scared.
>>28868658You can pick a fitter off tyroola, find one that isn't a bob jane type operator. Though with that said if you just express to them how new and nice and expensive the wheels are, they should be able to figure it out. Buddy runs a chain-owned tyre shop and when they get something nice in, he doesn't let the mouth breathers do the job
>>28868658they should be fine to mount the tyres just dont let them put the wheels back on the car
>>28868663>>28868658either that or go to a independent owned shop with white people working there and ask them politely to take extra care
If you need AT tyres get pirelli scorpion at plus, they are goated
>>28868118Top selling sports car in australia is the 5.0 so clearly there is still an appetite for v8 cars. New chally would sell well
>>28869038I want a Dodge Charger so fucking badly.
>>28869042I bought a mustang seen as boomers want absurd prices for a commonwhore or falcon.
>>28869103Too tail happy for my liking, just a little bit of throttle and those things get really slick really fast. It's probably why you can find hour long compilations of those things crashing at car meets.
>>28869104That's an auto problem. They automatically change into 2nd even if you are in manual shift in the auto and that makes people lose it. Mines manual handles like a fucking go kartBut then I also put wider rears on with lower/stiffer suspension, goes on 3 wheels pulling into anywhere.
>>28869109I am also probably biased on the tail happy thing because I drove a vy ss ute for more than a decade before the mustang
>>28868593Size would come into a lot of it, they're not very big cars and there's really not a lot in them either so if you're going for some kind of project its all really simple. Not a lot of chassis rigidity but that caan change with some reinforcements. From memory the 30's all the way to the 60's were all leaf springs and interchangeable so the 70's with the coils probably helped a lot. Plus it can give you more options I guess when it comes to cutting down another type of axle and diff from a later model car to size to support whatever power and ratios you want to throw through them.>>28868596You could make the whole badge kit on a 3D printer, some sealant and paintThey also seem to come in some real nightmare colours as well which is easy enough with spray cans, mags shouldn't be hard to find either. Looks kinda like some kind of Honda-ish, budget alloys or hubcaps
>>28869162I know a guy that does 3D printing so I might actually do it kek, and for the lettering I can just get those loose individual letters from SCA. Just a shame there's no way I can change the badge on the steering wheel for the full experience.
>>28869166Its perfect condition, hideous colour, very clean inside, no dings and only 100,000km which is practically just broken in and good for another 400,000!I dunno if its worth 10k but that might be neg, few later ones for cheaper but they had higher clicks on the clockVinyl cutter could do the font perfect as well
>>28869173I'm looking for a lot lower than 10k, this thing is going to be the shitheap I drive around the city and park in extremely questionable spots. I want this Prius to be the car I can park right up the front at Coles and not car if some bogan parks near it.
>>28869175There was a few for 7500 with twice the mileage, but thats still about 3k more than they really should be.Probably some former taxi-spec ones around at auctions but they probably had much harder lives and I reckon they're probably keeping value for parts alone like the battery pack and motors. Not that I think they had much in the way of trouble with those
>>28869177I think some of the battery packs are giving up if some YouTubers are anything to go by. So maybe this is a riskier choice than I'd hoped. I've also seen some Chevy Volts going around but I think those are even riskier since GM seemed openly hostile to support parts on them.Honestly I could grab a BMW i3 or maybe a recent model Leaf for under 10k, I'd do it. I'd still prefer the Prius for the meme but not for 7 or 10k.
>>2886917810+ years for any kind of rechargeable battery is bound to be getting sketchy and some would be getting close to 20. That's just for regular static packs so rattling around on the road, hot, cold cycles and general thumps once in a while would be bound to kill some cells. That and the chemistry just gets tired.The i3 is probably the better bet, sort of Smart-car sized and easy around parking lots, from what I remember about the Chevy's they were very poorly regarded by a lot of people and GM are cunts so its probably something of a money pit and death trap all in one
>>28869181Yeah seems like the i3 and Leaf are the lone options for a small EV/hybrid. I'm a bit surprised there isn't a market for this anymore, you'd think the Chinese would release some ultra cheap little EV city car.
>>28869103Is that Latrobe valley in the background? Deadly
>>28869182The smallest was the BYD Atto but they're slightly smaller than a Leaf and very cheap, much better range though and all the fun of a Chinese Liveleak video I think they where going to be lowballing them in around mid 20's for new, which is pretty murderousThere was also the MG4 which was a lot more upscale than any of the others, course I just couldn't really say if China-MG is any good to their customers or complete cocks
>>28869203I see a lot of MG3s being used as work cars with logos and other shit on them, so I have to assume they're treated alright if businesses are dealing with them.
>>28869205They certainly sold enough of them, especially during the coof when about all you could get were Mazda-3's and BYD's, everything else had a waiting period of about 2 yearsA few neighbours of mine were trading in their full sized SUV's and 4wds for small BYD's during that period a few years back, which considering the overpriced shitboxes they used to drive, scaling down to a cheap shitbox probably saved them quite a lot
>>28869203I found the communist spy Byd will kill you in a controlled explosion of stored energy many such cases
>>28869228godspeed beautiful antipodean patriot
doing upper engine clean, maf sensor clean, spark plugs and fuel filter today woohoo...
>>28869205i know a bloke that bought an mg suv whatever it is. it was surprisingly decent when new but hes had it for about 4 years and the interior is already starting to age and his strut tops or something have gone already too
I've been repairing my car after a crash, had to weld in a new radiator support and replace the radiator and condenser.Got a brand new bumper, bonnet and lights. Just hoping to save my fenders, they're curled up on the corner from where the lights got shoved into them. Do smash repairers still actually repair panels or do they just replace them? I know they do dent repair but this is not a dent.
>>28869770It depends entirely on the severity but crumpling is usually a lot more difficult than a simple dent. You can also just request them to do their best with no guarantees on it being perfect.If you're able, it would probably be best to just find new fenders and get them repainted.
def needed the maf clean, one side was filthy. throttle plate was pretty bad too. ran half a can of nulon upper engine cleaner through it now and the idle is much smoother already. its good when simple stuff makes a difference kek
k&n filter didnt fix the knocking issue on the falcon on start up so think it might have a dead lifter or something. any other ideas?
>>28869863If it's truly a lifter, it could be freed up with some high rev driving. But if that knock is anything else, get it towed to a shop ASAP.
>>28869865its had plenty of high rev driving so maybe not then. it only lasts about a second of cranking before oil pressure builds up. if i give it a pump on the throttle and hold it 1/4 itll fire immediately, knocking only lasts about a quarter of a second then. how much of a dry start is acceptable idk
>>28869867Probably worth just getting a shop to look at it and find out what's going on.
>>28869874fair call. sick of spending money on the cunt tho
>>28869877Yeah but with a proper diagnosis you can make some decisions on what to do or how to get it fixed. It could be something simple or it could be something where driving it for another day would've destroyed the engine, it's hard to know with knocks unless a pro takes a look.
>>28869882yeah ive found a place that specialises in motors like that so ill contact them tomorrow. ive been driving it for a while and it hasnt had oil pressure issues or knocks once its going but ill lay off it for now. finally fixed a bunch of shit on it from previous owner so i was looking forward to being able to drive it again but nope. He had the pcv set up wrong so it might have had too much pressure in the case and fucked something
>>28869888Yeah a look is a good idea. Hell, maybe it's worth having a full inspection so you can have a list of shit to fix instead of just finding it as you go along.
>>28869895im sure i havent found everything yet. some of the stuff old mates done on it is ridiculous
Got me an aliexpress head unit, breddy good for $110
>>28869908Based E30 enjoyer. Does that little tape looking slot hide the USB port and aux port? Very cool if so.
>>28869911Yeah it's all behind there. The real thing is like $750 so I'm happy to make some concessions in audio quality for that
>>28869902Some people do some full retard fixes. I saw a lot of weird shit on my old car, lots of electric tape and other strange shit was everywhere. I also found some weird tube with a sensor inside covered in tape and eventually figured out it was the washer bottle level sensor, but for some reason he removed it from the bottle, taped it to display as full and then tapped it to the inside of the fender.
>>28869918Yeah aftermarket is fine imo, especially when you get a really minimalist unit with lights that fairly closely match the interior lights. That unit you have looks really nice.
>>28869919kek yep thats basically the same shit ive been fixing too. he'd taken the pcv hose off the valve and blocked the end of it with a bullet casing to stop the vacuum leak, but left the vacuum lines for the egr valve completely open when he put a new 700$ manifold on it to fit his 150$ ali express carbyfixed all that shit over the last few months as ive been finding it and now it knocks...>>28869922non original or atleast non period correct radios really trigger my autism. put an original one in mine and moved the bluetooth headunit into the centre console box so its hidden
>>28869927>non original or atleast non period correct radios really trigger my autism. put an original one in mine and moved the bluetooth headunit into the centre console box so its hiddenDepends on the car. Some of those 00s and 10s cars that have screens but no CarPlay or Bluetooth Audio are annoying, so I can understand having hidden media units that plug into the original system, but aftermarket units can be fine if done right. My old E32 came with the fucking ugliest aftermarket unit that had bright blue lights and I ripped that shit out as soon as I could and replaced it with a Blaupunkt similar to pic related.
>>28869933those dont bother me becuase they look period correct so it looks like its meant to be there but yeah an 80s car with a JVC thing flashing in rgb especially in some single din adapter really suck. its a shame those blaupunkt ones are so expensive
>>28869936They're expensive now? That's a shame. I got mine for the E32 about 10 or so years ago so I guess shit has changed a lot since then. You could find them on eBay for $150 or $200 for a good while.
>>28869938big time
>>28869939What the fuck man, that is insane. They're good units but not $1000 good.
>>28869942I can get ten Thai massages for a grand.
>>28869951Full happy ending though?
>>28869956ofc. All Thai massage parlours are illegal brothels. No holes barred.
>>28869830I just feel like repainting 2 fenders is gonna cost more than bending a corner back and feathering the edges.
>>28870014theyll probably need to be repainted anyway if they have to be bent back into shape. can you post a pic of them?
>>28870014If they're crumpled and messed up like you say, they are likely going to need repainting. The paint can crack when molding it back into shape.
chevy tahoe on my mind
>>28870030I want a Tahoe or Suburban again so fucking badly. They're selling Silverados here and supposedly we love SUVs more than sedans now, so why can't we get the Tahoe?
>>28870034were getting the new tahoe this year m8
>>28870036You serious? Any source? I only knew about the Cadillac SUV EV and some other truck from GM.
>>28870038https://american.com.au/blog-post/launching-the-right-hand-drive-2026-chevrolet-tahoe-in-australia/i had only read the headline my bad. its from a RHD conversion company not gm directly. still avaliable but probably wont see heaps of them like silverados
>>28869939oof. continental head units aren't too far off though, brand new looking at 350-450 bucks for one. makes me glad i got mine off zuckbook for 100, kid just wanted to swap to a double din unit.
>>28870045Fucking shame, I want one so damn badly. I had an early 10s when I was briefly in the US and I loved that thing. I did see the Yukon Denali is going to be sold through GM here but is going to be $160k which is fucked.
>>28870051yukon is the same car as tahoe. or at least used to be. its nice theyre here but theyre new shitters and gonna cost way too much anyway. i nearly got a really nice dentside f100 single cab long bed with a cammed 351 cleveland in it a few years ago. showed my dad the listing and he said he would go halves with me on it, then spent 2 weeks thinking about it and not commiting before finally saying no, then it sold the next day. i had the money myself should have just bought it that was a few months before post malone released the f-one trillion album and the prices sky rocketed FUCK YOU DAD
>>28870051idk how much money u wanna spend or work u want to do but theres 2 blazers for sale rn. same chassis as the first gen 2 door tahoe and only has a different dash i think
>>28870056>yukon is the same car as tahoe. or at least used to be. It's a more luxury trim version, so that's where the extra is going. Regular Tahoe would've been more like 100 or less.Someone also said the LCT is going away so maybe that will start to help with the prices of imports and I can finally have some American shitheap SUV in a few years.>>28870070I'd prefer one of the early 2000s Blazers, they look sort of like a Tahoe but smaller. I've seen some around but prices vary and some people put really gay wheels on them.
>>28870076>LCT is going awaylol i doubt the gov will get rid of any taxes. we'd be lucky if they dont bring more in
>>28870082I did a quick news read and apparently it will go away as long as we secure an agricultural deal with the EU. So I guess it's a big maybe.
>Piastri crashes out before the race even begujnfuck this gay earth. i blame jews again.
>watching boremula one
>>28870160Seen all the news about Aston Martin? Those things are so shit that they will permanently injure drivers just from touching the steering wheel and are too unreliable to finish the race.
>>28870161it's the pinnacle of sex
>>28870162all i know is that whenever there are technical rule changes there's a new team to beat. it's almost like F1 races are won in a boardroom meeting instead of on a race track.
Finally had some time to try repair the fucked block insert on the project E30s motor. Tapped out to M18x1.5, now just waiting for the thread insert to put the head on and see if it actually works. I'm stressed out ngl
>>28870255you tapped it out but are still putting in a thread insert? cant just use a larger bolt for that hole only?dont mean to sound like a dickhead thats an actual question lol
>>28870258You ever seen a M18 head stud?
>>28870261righto. good answer.
>>28870023>>28870026They're not really crumpled, I *think* they're in good shape other than these corners, they just need bolts loosened and some repositioning. Because the left side has been shunted back there isn't enough of a panel gap between it and the door.
>>28870268if its not lining up with the doors the frame rails might be fucked. thats alot less worse than i war imagining a panel beater could def fix that and touch up the paint but if the frame rail is pushed in it could be a big fix. what car even is that
>>28870282Frame rails weren't even touched. the bolt holes have a lot of play in them by design so you can adjust panels.
>>28870163https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ1EZOvLJcI
>>28863954Cool how you can just pull the ladder up.I'd have the underneath full of old cars.
>>28870505fuck that have the reverse let the couch and telly get soaked keep the monaro up the top
>>28869203>this Homo-mobile is only 26k driveaway and has 430km rangeActually tempting. I could get a loan out for this turd and have it fully paid off in a year.
>>28863970summer bay slaughter 2: electric boogaloo
