Nightcrawler

I am willing to bet that the other guy changed a jumper on the back of the drive (or the drive has died). PM me where you live and ph number Dean and I will pop over in the next day or 2 and fix it for you (and bring a spare one with me).

Bleh - 18"s look ridiculously small on the V35 - I can't even imagine what 17"s would look like .... I would love to put 19"s on, but don't want to sacrifice the ride quality and am too cheap to pay for decent width 275 19" tyres Ah well it was worth a try.

What size Craig and where?

Yeah the toilet humour is definitely a big drawcard ..... and "time to kick ass and chew bubble-gum"

Well Scandy and I just went out after lunch at the BBC and bought Duke Nukem: Forever .... and after install it wants to do a massive Steam update - it has already been updating for 10 minutes at 500kb/s and is not even 10% updated .... FFS I WANT TO PLAY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are dead right Brezza. IMHO one of the biggest drivers of the Adelaide property boom (which began in 2002) was the emergence of savvy load brokers, who quickly realised that the more money you borrow from the bank as a house loan, the more commission they earnt (both up-front and a trailing commission each you you kept your loan with the institution). What we had was every man and his dog going to these home loan brokers and saying "I have found a $250k house and want to buy it - what sort of deal can you get me?" - to which the loan broker replies "nah mate based on your income and (very loose) lenders requirements we can lend you $500k - so go SHOPPING!" - which most people did. This caused the market to rise rapidly with both the first home buyers pushing up the cheap property values due to increased competition, and the people that SHOULD have been buying $250k houses buying $400k-$600k houses. Of course when the bubble burst and we had 7 x 25 point interest rises in under a year, suddenly all the stupid people who had gone out and purchased homes they could never really afford found out "at 5.5% interest things were just fine, but now they have reached 7.5% I can't afford this loan/house". So what we have seen for the last 3 years or so is an abundance of $400k-$600k homes come on the market and be sold under slight duress scenarios, and those people were then desperate to get back into $250k-$300k properties which they should have bought in the first place. Then the severe watering down of the first home buyers grant at the end of last year reduced demand for even the cheaper homes, so we have the market today - cheap house market is pretty soft, and the $400k-%600k range you get sensational value for money. Obviously the vast majority of people who have homes over $600k aren't hugely affected by the current interest rates, but if it gets much worse that sector of the market will collapse too. And yes, I have been told many times I should be an ecomomic/property commentator - and I have seriously thought about it. Just can't see how to make money out of it is the only problem.

Don't misread what I wrote - LIVING in a property is a completely different matter to investment. You are ALWAYS better off owning your own home, as long as you can service the debt should (when) interest rates rise. The long term picture is what you have to consider. However we are NEVER again going to see boom like we had a few years back - property values just can't double again until wages rise considerably, and given what wages (and affordability) has done in the past 10 years, it looks like being a VERY long time before we see any decent value appreciation. And you have to remember that whilst $420pw seems expensive, if you bought a $300,000 house with a 100% loan (or $330k house with 90% lend) then interest only payments would be $433pw (but you always have to pay more than that), and THEN you have to factor in property tax, rates and maintenance, which you don't have to pay for when renting. ALL of my thoughts in the above posts are my OPINION. If you speak to 100 people you will get 100 different opinions. So weigh up the empirical data and please use your own noggin as a filter for my 2c

Adam fyi they have a black V36 coupe in Synergy Main North Road (well did have the other day when I drove past) - you should go have a look to see if it is what you are after, and so you can say you have driven one

Sorry to tell you, but Adelaide property is NOT an investment at the present time. Rental yields are an an all time low in Adelaide, since the values of properties have tripled in the past 10 years, yet rental values have not even doubled (many have moved little at all). Every piece of evidence points to values remaining static for up to 5 years. There are lots of issues which are IMHO going to cause up to a 5 year pause if not retraction in the Adelaide/Australian market, including (but not limited to) : - our current Federal Government (which any second now is going to do a Paul Keating style "the recession we had to have" speech) - rising interest rates (and they WILL rise at least another 50 points by the end of the year) - instability (in general) in the world causing oil price increases/uncertainty - little confidence in the continued resource boom/stock market due to our high Aus dollar and subsequent falling exports - our in inept State Government (which is on its way out next election, but that is sadly still some years off) - rising electricity/cost of living - and worst of all the carbon tax (if God forbid it gets up, which it looks like it will), which will result in massive unemployment and massive rises in inflation (which will have to be battled by even further increases in interest rates). And hopefully I would know, since I am a mortgage security property valuer (with 12 years experience) for the biggest property group in the world. Sorry to be a ray of sunshine, but you asked for advice. But honestly if you STILL want to buy here, employ a "buying agent", which I strongly advise anyone, especially when buying interstate. They can advise, and find a property for you to buy within your specifications. An old mate (previous employer in Darwin in fact) of mine Chris Waterman from Waterman and Waterman 0419848544 - tell him Andrew Nuske sent you to him and he will help you out.

Even better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQIc-i4PXg

Check out how unattractive almost all of the chicks in the pics of this story are lol http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glanceview/171851/hundreds-out-for-sydney-broad minded personwalk.glance

OK, the people who have not showed me, this thread or SAU any respect are about to receive a 20% warning. These individuals will get a 1 week ban for the next offence. It will be at the mods discretion whether they receive a permaban or not after that. Tread carefully people. Let me qualify the reason for this thread: any variety of racial or religious vilification is stricly against SAU policy and will not be tolerated. There is a big difference between petty name calling, personal harrassment and racial/religious vilification. If an individual does not like what you are calling them asks you to stop, then you stop!! I shouldn't need to even post up this type of thread cause it's already in the rules, but it seems some individuals don't know when to stop.

That is truly insane! LOL'd my ass off at this one http://www.wimp.com/rabbitphysics/

OK, just a heads-up, warning and request all in one. Recently a few issues have come to light with the amount of nicknames a group of us (who know each other very well) call each other. Now I have not had a problem with any of it until now, but from both a personal respect and website/SAU:SA club policy, I feel we need to set a firm policy on this. So, as of NOW, I want everyone to completely stop any nickname which ANYONE could find offensive - whether it be regarding their skin colour, hair colour, previous behaviour or any other reason anyone might take offence. 1 warning will be given to offenders, then they get a ban from the forums. If someone PMs me and says they are offended by an individual, I will act on it. I know in the past it has all been in good fun, but as of now it is no longer ok.

Still a while off moving in - I think the hope is to be in by Xmas .... could be sooner though methinks.

So you're doing some stuff at Walkerville .... I haven't been down there to check it out for a few weeks, but last I heard from John it is coming along very nicely. And would you mean this new R35 (with my wife and child in it)? But have you seen the new Land Rover? :D Porn, I reckon!

Yeah no worries champ - we will hook up a time and get it done.

and yeah mate will catch up soon for an Ale. Hope you are going ok after last weeks events.

True, true Nick - but I am also trying to do you a favour and make your Focus less effeminite than it already is

No worries Matty, hope you like it! Nice to meet you too mate - happy to help out one of the SAU community.

I hate to be the grammar Nazi, but ffs Heslo you're is the shortening of "you are" .... despite you referring to the ownership of a possession (which would normally involve an apostrophe), "your" is appropriate here. Have you grown a pair and decided you are coming to Kadina next weekend? Nice cruise, booze, talking shit, good food and a good ol' country car show - what more can you ask for?

I use www.comgateway.com Much better rates it would seem than ShipItTo. No monthly fee, no fees at all if you ship the itme out within 15 days, small repacking/consolidation fee if you want to combine multiple parcels, low shipping fees.

My leather seats were structurally buggered at around 60,000km (but were fine when I bought the car with 48,000km on the clock). I am a big guy (95kg), and they now sag toward the centre of the car, so my ass sits on an angle left edge down. I am hoping to find someone in Adelaide who can rebuild the foam or something. Just something to look out for if you are 'large framed' like me

Yeah well said wizlb, I agree. T4NK I think you are wrong. Look at what other cars are out there in this price range with the V35 level of quality, power and looks, and there is not much. Every today as I drive around I get lots of looks, and even people coming up to me telling me how much they love my car (a young Middle-eastern girl came up to my house and told me how much she loves my car when I was working on it in the garage last week). I thnk for $30k they are great value. At $20k they are a steal IMHO.

I am REALLY looking forward to Kadina next weekend - it is going to be MASSIVE :) :D