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Project Car / Motorbike thread. Let's see 'em.
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oldcorollas
Levin the moment
Not so bad in NSW yet
Drink and drug driving penalties
Drink and drug driving puts you and others in serious danger. These offences carry severe penalties and you could get a criminal record.
www.nsw.gov.au
Flow-Rider
Burner
How much of it is revenue raising? I always see speed cameras here where there have been no incidents and barely a cop to be seen where people run red lights and stop signs with crashes.
Anyway, we have the new updates coming, as if the cost of living isn't enough.
Queensland to increase speeding fines and traffic infringements by four per cent
Flow-Rider
Burner
Every time I go to buy a bottle of oil it seems to cost more than the last.Too expensive to be a hoon these days. I can't afford the cars or the fines/impound fees.
But otherwise fuck yeah.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Buy cheaper tyres instead of tipping oil all over the road then!
binner
Hath shat hymself
good job bloke, a lot of hours in that prep n paint......sweet work
The qld revenue website says only in black spots. Yeah, no.
Are the fronts Rotoform centrelocks?
Grrilla
Likes Bikes
Rotiform Aerodiscs - they are normal 5 stud wheels but use the billet centre hex nut to hold the disc on.
Minlak
custom titis
Its all revenue raising - your fines literally come from the office of revenue - and all camera fines you are guilty until you prove your innocence - and showing their photograph with obvious errors in it does not actually meet your burden of proof as they have already judged you to be guilty from the photograph / video.
I was all for the "don"t break the law and you wont get fined brigade" - But my stance has changed - last trip to Brisbane and back a trip of 750 ish kms had 33 opportunities to be fined by cameras - if you didnt not pay attention and see them (some where however well hidden in trees etc) you would not modify your behaviour at all - they call out casual speeding yet they are not seen in their policing to get you to pay attention.
Having said that however if you get caught at excessive speed on a major road you are a complete fuckwit and deserve all you get - the term to learn people is "Judicious Speeding' - live by it
Flow-Rider
Burner
Touch wood I haven't had a speeding ticket for over 8 years, with all the traffic and trucks around it's not hard to miss a speed sign and be unwilling speeding offender. The Bruce Highway is full of undercover police and speed traps, they always sit in and around the underpasses, and roadworks, and then you see them in and around the small towns where the speed limit changes.Its all revenue raising - your fines literally come from the office of revenue - and all camera fines you are guilty until you prove your innocence - and showing their photograph with obvious errors in it does not actually meet your burden of proof as they have already judged you to be guilty from the photograph / video.
I was all for the "don"t break the law and you wont get fined brigade" - But my stance has changed - last trip to Brisbane and back a trip of 750 ish kms had 33 opportunities to be fined by cameras - if you didnt not pay attention and see them (some where however well hidden in trees etc) you would not modify your behaviour at all - they call out casual speeding yet they are not seen in their policing to get you to pay attention.
Having said that however if you get caught at excessive speed on a major road you are a complete fuckwit and deserve all you get - the term to learn people is "Judicious Speeding' - live by it
Stredda
Runs naked through virgin scrub
I totally agree with the hidden speed camera thing. The whole point is to stop people from speeding not to catch people speeding. You could put up a whole heap of dummy cameras or even a "speed camera ahead" sing with only one or two that are real, and as long as they are highly visible, that would deter most from speeding.Its all revenue raising - your fines literally come from the office of revenue - and all camera fines you are guilty until you prove your innocence - and showing their photograph with obvious errors in it does not actually meet your burden of proof as they have already judged you to be guilty from the photograph / video.
I was all for the "don"t break the law and you wont get fined brigade" - But my stance has changed - last trip to Brisbane and back a trip of 750 ish kms had 33 opportunities to be fined by cameras - if you didnt not pay attention and see them (some where however well hidden in trees etc) you would not modify your behaviour at all - they call out casual speeding yet they are not seen in their policing to get you to pay attention.
Having said that however if you get caught at excessive speed on a major road you are a complete fuckwit and deserve all you get - the term to learn people is "Judicious Speeding' - live by it
Flow-Rider
Burner
We have the slow for Sam speed detectors here where you don't get fined. I had one out the front of my house and it seemed to slow a few cars down. Since we have a police watch house up the road and the cops don't want to be caught on camera speeding for no reason, they used to turn their lights and sirens on just to pass it until they removed it altogether.
If you go fast enough the sad face becomes an angry face.
Flow-Rider
Burner
That was a fuckup and a half, clipped the back of the slasher late last night. Tyres were fairly old so I'm going to replace all four even though they still had a bit of tread left.
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We've been trailer sitting a year or three for some friends after they moved back to suburbia. They would occasionally grab it for a day and drop it back and we were free to use it as well. Just a basic Chinese built 8x5 but fully galvanised and looks reasonable. I replaced the jockey wheel which had seen better minutes and put some grease and a new bearing in along the way. They decided they were going to deregister it because it wasn't used so we bought it off them a month ago on the same they can use it when they want... It has done a few trips up the coast and out to Kinkyroy with another couple planned. No spare so I went up to check what it was and read the tyre manufacture date. 4400 and 4800. What? Trailer is about 12 or 13 years old. Wheels and tyres were obviously fitted in bulk and left lying around to be used when needed. Holy crap. So it is getting nice new Kumhos this afternoon. Very very lucky given Chinese tyres from last century were not know for their greatness.
Flow-Rider
Burner
I put some Kumhos AT 52s on today, Mycar are having a sale, it was just under 700 fitted for all 4, 31 x 10s.
Can't complain about the old Bridgestone desert duellers, about 13 years old and done 130K, and still had a bit of tread left too. I don't plan on keeping the car for another 10 years so just opted for the cheaper set of tyres. I think the newer Bridgestones are made in China or somewhere in the Asian region these days.
Mechanics, the filthy buggers left their hand marks everywhere.
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I have spent over 6 hours on the highway driving in the rain these last two days. It has made me realise I am doing the car thing all wrong. The fastest class of vehicle in the hissing down rain is dual cab utes. Preferably unladen but if you need to cart anything attach a dual axle pig trailer. No need to worry about standing water, driving rain, indicators, acting like a human. Etc. And the pick of the crop? The Ranger Raptor. Bespoke Fox suspension, obviously hand grooved wets, the driving skills of Hannu Mikkola. And some magic to keep the driving rain off the windscreen.
wesdadude
ウェスド アドゥーデ
Good thing the Ford Motor Corporation stole it from the wizard Robert Kearns.