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Based on the fact that you point out you are always do something 'silly' after you get your points back... Obviously there should be community safety responsible driver training as a class at school which should require approval by parents for students at 14yo. Whereupon if a student demonstrates serious and safe attitude to driving upon watching safety videos showing what can go wrong and further in driving with peers in the car over a course run on Saturdays over serveral weeks of training, they will be issued with a full unrestricted license. Anyone who laughs or does not demonstrate serious safe attitude will be made to wait 2 more years before being elegible to apply again, and they will only be issued with a provisional licence upon graduation. Lifelong benefits of initial pass include being approved to drive in right special lanes designated high speed. If a student takes the course and fails on first attempt they will have to wait until they are 30 before they are allowed to use the high speed lanes. This is the only way to get the social responsibility message to be taken seriously with driving on public roads. We need a politician who will institute free driver education into the school system. Other than that I would like to complain about the way speed cameras are blatently used to make money out of law abiding citizens. Speed signs should be advisory and both the public and police should use speed advisory signs as a guide in conjunction with other driver behaviour to determine whether a breach of safe driving guidelines has occured. Ie there should be at least 2 observable offences not just speeding which is obviously acceptable to the majority of people since over 90% of people are speeding. At least set speed limits according to the speed at which 90% of people drive on a given stretch. To choose a speed limit - make the road speed advisory and then observe the majority of the public. Finally to answer your question I have all my points and have had them all for over a decade, and I drive every day. However I believe it is a right for a citizen to drive and would willingly go to jail to defend that right as an act of civil disobedience if anyone tries to tell me I am not allowed to drive if somehow I ceased to have a licence. A licence is merely a certification of safe driving ability, not a permit, and as such it just wrong that anyone can be prevented from driving just for loosing points! Just this year the courts have resulted in a few people having already been made to do jail time in protest!

Extra heavy Sydney wide all day patrols were announced and started last Saturday, ostensibly targeting drink driving. They will be doing this for 4 weeks. Note, not during Christmas itself. The intention is to make people feel they should not drink and drive this Christmas holidays by driving home the message of police presence in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

JAS-25T While you say any good tuner, the fact is that you need one who can confidently tell you a ltx12 will tune for better fuel economy than a powerfc, which it will if they tune it properly, which takes time spent tuning!

Hmmm in 6 months he will have removed your paint from his car. Did you tell them you wanted to take him to court now not in 6 months. Is the damage over $500? I like the advice that you should go down to your local court.

Tell the police you want to take him to court, that this hit and run stuff is wrong. If you reported it right away they should go to his house and check on the driver and take a statement for the visible damage on his car. If its under $500 damage, I suspect the police might not want to know about it. A dent would have to be over $500 though wouldn't it?

I rocked up at 12:00 noon and only saw the photographers driving skylines, must have missed you guys as I went onto the track. Still the super drift practice was worth watching. 24 cars on the track at a time. In 10 minutes drifting they shred a set of brand new tyres, approx 8 tyres in a day. evil_weevil - It wasn't hot enough to need air conditioning.

I'll be going too

Don't forget the cams approved fire extinguisher. btw, how important is the blue triangle for the battery location? I'm going to use some blue pressure tape. If anyone has a timer marker, tell me what brand to get so I can buy another of the same. I'm really looking forward to seeing you all there on the 19th.

RubyRS4. Its because the shops keep finding something else wrong after they start work on the quoted repairs. They then ask if you want it fixed? What are you going to say?

Lets do the 19th

NSW That is why 20 minutes down the road you are not allowed to have a hand controller in the cabin. and you just said it passed with the powerfc. It is not illegal to modify your car to meet epa test requirements, for example by reprogramming an ecu for better efficiency. Nothing is ever fixed tune, since you can fiddle with the engine timing sensors, change the tune chip in the ecu, change the fuel pump, put a better air filter panel in etc. etc. but these are fixed changes, meaning they are fixed for the next time you drive it. Regarding your insurance, the reason they say they will cover it if it is legal is that they are legal but don't set it up in an illegal way. The ecu will not cause an accident if it is not being fiddled with while you are driving, the best way to avoid being accused of fiddling is not to have it in the cabin. Most insurance companies recognise that provided the car is roadworthy - it is not the car, it is the driver. The roadworthy test doesn't care if your engine is out of tune, it cares about safety check ie. if your brakes, lights and visual systems are in working order, and even if a fault in these was the cause of an accident but you passed the roadworthy check the insurance company cannot refuse to pay you, eg. the brakes failed. The only way the insurance company can refuse to pay is to prove you knew the brakes or whatever safety component was not operating and still continued to drive. The in cabin controllers give them an opportunity to try to prove you knew the car was not running safely since you were fiddling with the engine in cabin while driving which is an unsafe practise, since you ought to know that doing this may cause you to accidently overpower the brakes that then caused the accident. It is by extension that the programming in cabin is thus illegal, just as it is illegal to have a radar detector in your car even if you are not using it: If it is in a location that you can use it while driving you will find it is illegal.

A power fc is legal so long as you do not have a hand controller attached to it in the cabin. It is an ecu just like any other that is fixed tune.

whoa fuel is sure expensive up your way! bumping around 1.62 for 98vortex at caltex in Sydney

that reflection on Titan's pic looks like SEXLINE

Justjap will sell you a tube of japanese plastic headlight cleaner that really works without scratching. Don't use cut and polish on plastic headlights. Get a proper plastic cleaner for removing the yellow.