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Hey man,

i got the same deal on my S2 RS4S :/ 5 year + 12 months roadside. (doesnt help tho as i already have Racv)

the 5 year covers mainly parts only (including the turbo though), but no clutch!

i've had it for ~4 months now and hasnt missed a beat.

it was complied AFTER i put the deposit on it. which included BOV, 3" exh, FMIC, POD, Carbon Fibre Hood, and Xenons :cool:

also had my timing belt done when i got an engine cover changed, and they supplied the parts and some of labour costs.

quite happy with the deal so far :down:

hope you enjoy it, cos i know i have enjoyed every moment of mine!

Tomas.

hey Tomas

according to the website, the 5 year covers parts and labour? i wouldn't really trust it though

as for clutches, i guess they could argue user abuse

did your ad specify any of the extras (i.e. BOV, exhaust etc.)?

cos the ad for mine didn't have anything listed really, so i'm assuming it's stock?

cheers

hmmm . . . looks like i need to make some phonecalls to save the xenons

should i find out who is doing the compliance and ring that workshop?

or should i be talking to the importer?

...

I would talk to all of the above; I don't know how the system works in your particular case but it's eventually up to the workshop doing the compliance whether to remove the xenons or not. So I would talk to them and make sure that you have a good understanding that the xenons are

- your property (you paid for them) and

- not to be damaged or taken

I guess that in an extreme case they may refuse to comply the car with the xenons on (like mine did), in which case it may be up to you to do the (temporary) halogen conversion. Just see if you can borrow a halogen bulb adapter plate or do like my compliance workshop did and cut one out of a milo tin lid with a pair of tin-snips (no I'm *not* kidding). It only has to see you through compliance...

I got my xenons butchered and I'm now stuck with crap looking lights which are focused all wrong and too high, are yellow and frosting up badly (and I can't take the lights apart to clean them because apparently the b*stards glued them together) and the sh*tty milo-tin-lid bulb adapter is hopeless - it doesn't locate the bulb properly at all - and as a result I am blowing a H1 globe about once every 1-2 weeks (sometimes they last a few weeks, depends on whether I replace them with a $5 globe or a $15 one). </end rant>

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