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im 99% sure if you want 1/2 size, both are 1/2 size. standard/slimline are the only plates you can mix up i believe. that said, i could be totally wrong, and calling the DPI themselves is the best bet.

thats like saying my car had 90mm clearance for the first year i owned it.. never got pulled up for it... doesnt make it any more legal.

psi_gtsii - yes they can pick you for things not on your work order. sam - thats not a 3/4 plate, thats a 'fake' plate. the real 3/4 plates are literally that, a plate 3/4 the width of the normal ones.

heh.. probably.. i found the 'bigger' companies seem to be more expensive for better performance tyres.. i got mine quite a fair bit cheaper through a smaller tyre place in midvale.

2% on a $1000 set of tyres is a free lunch! (well 2 free lunches.. you can shout me too )

bending the plates is also illegal too i might add.

im in mandurah all this weekend.. haha im sure ill see it sometime!

do that.. then get me cheaper tyres.

trimming the plate is illegal.. the 'best' way would be to slice the bumper to slot it in. or even make a bracket that makes it sit on the outside of the bumper.. im lucky the 33 plate cutout is *perfect*

yeah, thats what i said. the '45' etc is the hieght of the tyre sidewall, expressed as a percentage of the tyre width. and yes, they can tag a letter and 2 numbers on at the end which will give you the tyre (speed) rating aswell. i didnt think that was really necessary as all of them will perform well above the 110km/h speed limit on wa's streets.

i sat there for a good 2-3 minutes re-reading your post.. then i realised it was the *other* sam... i was wondering why you were aksing what '235' meant, when you were telling us before.. the '235' etc, is the tyre width. normally a tyre will be given a code (im not entirely sure what to call it actually), but it will looks something like this.. 235/45R17 what that means, its a 235mm wide tyre, with a 45 profile rating, and it suits a 17" rim. now the width is obvious the width of tyre that touches the road, the wider the tyre, generally the more grip you will have, but it will cost more, and you need wider rims to get really fat tyres onto them. the 17" part is pretty easy aswell.. 17" rims uses 17" tyres.. got that? the profile part is a bit of a prick.. what the '45 profile' means the sidewall is 45% of the width of the tyre.. so the sidewall on this particular tyre is 235 * 0.45 == 105.75mm high. this by itself typically doesnt mean alot.. but it helps when you run different width tyres on the car (ie, you may have fatter on the rear.. like myself, and many others do) say i want to use a 255 on the rear.. i need to find a 255 tyre that will have the same sidewall height as a 235 tyre, so to do that, i get 105.75 / 255 == 0.414, so approx '40 profile' is needed, meaning you need to use a 255/40R17 to obtain the same rolling diamter as the 235... now that you are probably well and truely confused, i think my job is done.

thats reasonably 'cheap' for what you are having done. not having the door seals/engine bay/etc etc done? i was going to get mine done in calsonic/bionic blue, before i decided to sell it, was looking at about $7,000 for that, but i *know* that would have been a good job.

the good ol' alfoil-in-the-valve-cap was a good trick back in the day..

your old.. (my 20th is in the middle of october! )

my old HTPC used to have an onboard NIC with wake-on lan as a 'feature' and the early bios revisions it wasn't able to be turned off. i used to turn the HTPC at night, and get woken up about 3 hours later by the room shaking bass that the windows media centre program opening sound would make when the HTPC somehow got the wakeup signal from one of my other pc's?! also, bird's pooing on my skyline, and not my work car annoys the sheet out of me!

ive had 3 people 'definately' buying the car now dan..

it all depends on what model of each tyre they use aswell.. cheap falkens ive heard are shit, but then the more expensive ones ive heard to be quite good. i personally have hankook K104 Sports on my skyline, 255 rear, 235 front. id prefer maybe a 265/275 rear to maintain a bit more traction, but apart from that they are a decent tyre for the $1000 the set cost me. ps: do you use msn sammie? might make our multitude of conversations a bit easier (my address is [email protected])

tell me about it.. white can be hard to get looking good, but when you do get there, it looks fantastic. when i had my front bar fitted i had my whole car professionally buffed and polished and whatever else they do came out looking like it had just been resprayed tho, very happy with the job!

nexen's? i think they just recently changed their name to something else (mum had them on her VY commy, and one got a puncture and was replaced with the same tyre, but a different name) they are an average tyre from what i saw on mums car.. but yeah, you might struggle for traction with 235's in that brand. that said, you might be a bit more 'nice' to your tyres than other skyline (ab)users.

god damn.. i wanted to see that thing too.. my car was supposed to be sold the weekend just gone.. but he reckons next weekend now.. at this rate i might still own it by the next cruise!

apparently the winner did it in 35 minutes or something rediculous? i was supposed to enter, but my dodgy knee again prevented me..

good work son. what tyres are on it? you mind find 235's on the back arent sticky enough with cheaper tyres

gotta love it.. they win a few games and think they are the shit. atleast it stops connolly from whinging, for a little while. (no im not a eagles fan either...)

what colour did ya order?

cowley arent 'the cheapest' (they arent that expensive though), but the work you get for the price is unbeatable.