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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.

What is contact cleaner, could I get a brand name/product name and where can I buy it please?

old thread but still interesting.. I found a 10,000 yen note neatly folded in half tucked in passenger side door pocket, it smelled like thick cigar smoke. But I put it in a wallet for safe keeping with a stack of US dollars and can't find it now. I also found a 24hour shop plastic bag folded very tightly into a four inch long strip in the passenger door pocket. Found a japanese casette tape in the boot, seems it was a tape made for a female spouse to listen to, sort of made a story on the themes (all the songs had both English and Japanese in the lyrics). Also a parking permit sticker on the back window, now removed. Had a sat nav that didn't work properly and a tv which only picked up one tv station here. The puretron filter works but I really want to know where I can buy replacement filters for it. I also found the flare, its a nice red tube thing with a lid.

I just had the flashing air bag light light due to flat battery and jump start. Fixed by opening drivers door putting key in switch to on position, and then pressing the door sensor pin repeatedly till it stopped blinking.

You shouldn't be saying that you get charged for that since speeding is not a criminal offence, it is a traffic offence. I'm sure you don't like to hear about runners killing themselves because they don't stop speeding because they think they will get a criminal record if they stop. The idea is to have them slow down not speed up when they see the police. Tell me you have never broken the law, eg. jaywalking, or gone swimming at the beach which as far as I know is still against the law in daytime. Picked up a dollar coin on the street and not handed it in. This fellow sounds like he was speeding on a freeway (high speed road) and stopped when he saw the police. He made a sensible choice, stop advocating stupidity in your ignorance. He considered the conditions safe, there are no pedestrians on a freeway; but in hindsight realised he made a mistake, and the police were there to remind him. More than 90% of people commit a crime in their lives. Never forget they are people and the fact that they are part of society; else you are being hippocritical.

Don't bother getting a bigger battery, the car will run fine on the smaller and LIGHTER ones. I saw the smaller terminal version batteries at either bigw or kmart.

4th June 2008 Grand Prix circuit private practice at Oran Park anyone want to go?

Don't worry about the wear on the leather boot, new custom leather boots sell for $45.

Seems like more work than making a good quality air box for less performance gain. Isn't that why you got a pod in the first place? The requirement is that there are pipes entering the air box, not just holes for vents because that would just be an open box. So there must be perpendicular surrounding tube connected to any vents. It is best to pipe to the outside of the engine bay to get the cold dense air in anyway. So you end up with more efficiency than standard.

Where did you get quoted $140? That would be fine for me - I got quoted $234 at Nissan.

What are tie rod boots? would you mind posting a pic for me please?