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2nd half of the line up (thats monkey fiddling round with his camera stand) 3rd part of the line up (damn camera couldn't take it all in, line up was pretty long) damn forgot to whiteout the number plates if you guys dun want yer plates up ill take the pic down, jus tell me. Well yeah thats it forgot to take some pics at the drive ins, but sniffy and few other people should fill that in. was a good meet up guys hope there will be another one soon, and this time my car will be there hopefully! :burnout:

well it was a great get together guys got to match some faces to forum nicks even tho i prolli forgot most of them by now pretty good turn out. Vickii's Rice32 (lol sorry vicks had to say it) *runs* Sniffy's R33 Yueller's(spelling) R32 GTR? can't recognise who the guy is in the back tho..sorry! mmm gold rims I think this is JAGR33's GTR Maximus's R33 again Mmm i like those rims on the silver R33, thats BIGPSI's R33, the engine under the hood is hardcore. Thats narkeh in the orange cap and BIGPSI in the black top, dunno the guy in the white top tho Car line up at the Dandy stock yards

they'll pretty much pick on anything they like ive heard stories of people getting dicked for not having a H pattern on their gear knob bov that vents into the atmosphere is a no no air filter even bald tires steering wheel head lights being too blue (actually being white but they think it looks blue) no third brake light the list is endless and yes you can only have one air intake mod if you want to have both just chuck the original airbox over the pod

oh well its all over now its getting fixed should be getting it back wednesday or thursday hopefully (then i can fill her up! cheap fuel!) i'm just relieved now that it is at his workshop now and not in reservoir.

yeh thanks JAGR33 it was unfortunate i didn't have enough experience to know the sound was loose nuts other wise it wouldn't of happened. yeah but i dunno how it could of happened. did someone walk up to my car and start loosening the nuts trying to take the wheel or something or could it be railway tracks, cos i know i took went over some railway tracks at like 40-50, quite a bump. But i've never heard of wheels falling of because of that. he said should be able to get the car done by wednesday-thursday gotta replace the whole brake rotor, change to lock nuts, replace front bar(front lip is falling apart) and side skirt and fix all the lil electrical problems i told him about. well ill be rocking up tonight with vickii. and maximus and sniffy. anyone else want to meet up?

thanks Al for the advice ill think about it if anything still goes wrong ill take action they weren't standard rims, enkei 16" racing rims but they didn't look great enough to steal. but i know this guy, he gets most of the car work done by other companies. He doesn't really do the mechanical work. He said its happened before to him and to another client (supra RZ lost all 4 of its wheels when driving). Well hes willing to fix it and make it better by putting on lock nutz which i assume are impossible to get off by human hands

ok just came back from vickiis place again i took him there and showed him the car and he has arranged tow truck tomorrow morning at 8.30am and he also knows the jack tower guy, such a coincidence anyways he said it would be impossible for the nuts to go loose because he took it to a proper tyre shop and they put on the wheels with the stud gun so it would be super tight. i think someone must of tried to take my wheels or something. i dunno. he said hes gonna put in lock nuts for me and also change the body kit and change the whole left side brake rotor. so it should all be good. anyways im feeling alot better now thanks for the support guys i think i will come tomolo to drive ins can anyone pick me up and come with me to meet vickii at 5.30 at glenny? :burnout:

well im going over to the importer's house seeyah laters guys

ok called jack the tower he quoted $120 which is ok [thanks ice180] my mum is getting a hissy fit and doesn't want me to pay for the towing. she wants me to take the guy up there to look at it himself. *sigh* now shes all angry at me and taking it out on me. farking i don't need this.

yeah talked to one of them but didn't get much out of him, i think he expected me to get the car to them sniffy do you think i can drive it? did you take it for a lil drive?

they are smaller? did you go check it out today? well i'm not paying for towing cos if i do hes not gonna reimburse me i have to some how drive it slowly back

well the his mechanic rang me and he reckons someone tried to loosen the nuts and said to bring it down. thats ****in bullshit, i didn't touch the wheels at all, well **** he sounds unreluctant to fix it on warrantee, he said he personally did it himself and tightened them and he told me to tow it thats bullshit im not paying for towing all the way from reservoir. So i told him to speak to the boss (Van) about it and then ring me later. this is gh3y

yeah but i don't want to be harsh cos he is like a family friend i gave him my trust ill be happy if he just fixes everything and pay for towing and change some things like the ride height, bov etc

hrmz i dunno shouldn't my mechanic guy pay for the towing? i just want to make it easy it should hold with 4 studs right? haha or maybe someone can weld on another screw well im gonna try i need to find a good route slow route from reservoir to springvale.

yeah but im in deep water now i gotta figure out how to get the car from reservoir to springvale and thats feckin ages away and its gonna cost a bomb to rent a tow truck to tow that far i'm wondering if i can drive it on 4 studs slowly down to maybe glenny or something and leave my car there. Can someone escort me? thats my only problem now. i still haven't been able to contact the guy. Hes really hard to get a hold of.

yeah this shouldn't of happened vickiis over now ill talk to you guys later

yes at the start of the day it wasn't that noticable. it only happened when i turned the wheel left side at like 10 degree angle then the noise would come. it puzzled me so i kept driving like that the whole day and towards later in the day it got worse. i kept thinking it was the engine guard flapping against the wheels. If i knew it was loose nuts it would neba have happened!!!! I feel so stupid now. Couldn't figure out the knocking sound. I'm surprised i survived all day. Cos originally when i saw this car it had 18" chromies and i told him to change it normal 16" for me when i bought it. Guess he didn't do a very good job at it. How much does towing cost? My mechanic should pay for the towing right? phorj: yeah i reckon one of the nuts broke off therefore the other nuts started to become looser and looser. But the freakin wheel jus flew off my car, surprised it didn't hit another car or pedestrian. But yeah my car is completely unchanged from the day i got it cept for air freshner which i doubt they would use against me. feck i also had a bad dream last night. Dreamt the guy wouldn't do it under warrantee and wouldn't tow my car. Woke up feeling shit. Just called my manager and told him i won't be coming in today. Oh well this is an opportunity to iron out all the other bugs in the car.

**** i just came home with no skyline really bad stuff happened today remember how i told some of you guys i was getting these knocking sounds from the engine bay? well that sound turned into disaster tonight. was driving up to reservoir with my friend to vickii's place. the sound was getting worse and we just thought it was the black plastic guard under the front bar was loose and was getting knocked by the wind or brushing against the wheel making the knocking noise. So we think thats ok, shouldn't harm the car too much, its just plastic. we arrive at vickii's place and i'm startin to get paranoid of the knocking sound because it is becoming so obvious so i borrow some sticky tape from vickz and try and tape the plastic guard to the front bar to stop it from moving. Well after that Vickii decided we go to maccas at collingwood to meet up with her friends. i'm like ok, its sorta on the way home, why nots. So we are on our way, i'm driving normally along the road trying to bear with the noise and half way there bang! left side of car crunches into the ground, i didn't even need to brake cos the car just scrapped to a stop. I look across and see my wheel bouncing along the foot path on the other side of the road. I'm like ****!@!@! this can't be happening! no ****IN way! I get out dreading the worst. ****ing left front wheel is on the foot path and my skyline is sitting on its front bar and the axle. Some good blokes in another car stop and try and help me out but doubt the could but they fetched my wheel. I'm almost freaking out but i try and stay calm. Look at the axle (or whateva its called, the brake rotor) and there are 4 screws for the studs and one hole missing meaning it must of broke off. I quickly phone vickii (who drove off thinking where did i go) and told her bad shit has happened to get back now! I need help! She comes back and is in the same shock as me. I was thinking what the **** am i going to do? I'm like 50kms from home and my car is still on the road, how the **** am i gonna move it. I start to panic and tell vickii to call some friends out to help me do something, anything! She calls out her friend Alvin (sorry if thats wrong) who also drives an R33. Well we started getting the jack under the car and start to raise it. I go and search for the studs which are few metres down the road, manage to only find 4 of them(better than none i guess). Alvin comes and he gets his jack and we raise my poor skyline up. We manage to put the wheel back on with only 4 studs. I was too freaked to help out! (sorry vickii, alvin) Felt so helpless. well got the wheel on drove it into a street hoping it would stay on. All seems ok so we start to drive back but then after 20 metres the knocking sound starts again, we pull into the petrol station and the nuts have gone loose again. Tighten them back up. We drive off again and pull over again to tighten them again. So then we decide to go home slowly at a steady pace of 15km/h. Imagine 3 skylines in left lane with their hazard lights on going at 15km/h. Copped alot of horns from other drivers, hehe bastards! Anyways after about 3 ciggies and an hour of driving at constant speed of 15km/h we finally reach vickii's place. Then i parked the car at front of her neighbours house and took everything from car and locked it. Then Vickii drove me and my friend home (thanks vickii!) Now i'm finally home, still trying to take it all in. Still can't believe it happened. I'm gonna ring up the guy that sold me the car and get him to tow the car back and fix the damn thing under warranty! I hope he does it under warranty or else i would be pretty pissed off since i only had the car for not even a week. Front bar is gonna have to be replaced, its still looks solid but i reckon its gone, cracks all over the joints, left side skirt is also gone, chipped and ripped open by the bitumen. I reckon the brake rotor also has to go since that got eaten by the bitumen too. The 16" wheel looks ok, not too bad, jus hope its not bent. I'm pissed off and depressed. I was really looking forward to saturday drive ins. can't believe this happened. Was really lucky didn't cause any accidents, especially with the wheel which flew off across the road. Can anyone explain how this could of happened? And it should be covered by warranty right? Cos i'm screwed if it isn't. I would like to say thanks to Vickii and her friend Alvin for helping me out cos if it wasn't for them i would be sleeping in Reservoir tonight with the car stuck on the road. Well that is all. Really bad experience. moral: if you hear knocking sounds coming from engine bay, tighten those wheel nuts.... ;) :eek: P.S: sorry about all the swearing

feck the guy that inspected my car said my tint at the back is 5% i'm like ok crap

i go monash clayton too but man monash caulfield, now thats the shit

yeah it happens everytime i start the car now but it goes away after a while im also getting these knocking sounds in engine bay, sounds like a tennis ball is bouncing under my hood i definetely think something electrical is wrong with my car cos sometimes while im driving the battery warning light would come on for a sec and tuen turn off, its making me paranoid.

yeah i was thinking of just cosmetically fixing it make it look like its not cracked cos its gonna crack again anyway so jus cover it up and later when its gets real bad jus get another front bar

yeap how much is it normally?

haha thats sick meggala now take a pic of all three drifting same corner at the same time now i would pay to see that

yeah im getting it done about $150