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I'm sure you were thinking that when you got fined in Kinglake for having your foglights on lol

Starting full-time work next week, so my car is becoming a weekend warrior. Might be time for that ethanol conversion

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wtf do you guys just take your cars up and down your street once a month or something?

I do over 400ks a week and it's also a "weekender"

Use it...

damn right. I do over 20,000km a year, 5yrs running.

car is not growing in value and with skylines being in the range of $5000 - $15,000 already no need to treat them like a Ferrari ~_~

I'm sure you were thinking that when you got fined in Kinglake for having your foglights on lol

Starting full-time work next week, so my car is becoming a weekend warrior. Might be time for that ethanol conversion

haha, i Still havent received any fine for the foglights... I wonder if the cop has let it slide or is on holidays or something? lol

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damn right. I do over 20,000km a year, 5yrs running.

car is not growing in value and with skylines being in the range of $5000 - $15,000 already no need to treat them like a Ferrari ~_~

I drive my car everywhere, but I'm not going to drive it for the sake of driving :P

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Work is 10 mins drive and usually too lazy to go for a drive cos I work evenings which usually limits how far I can drive, also usually hate weekend drives cos its full of idiots thinking its ok to not allow you to pass on decent roads...

fair enough also driving a defectable car might put you off driving it but that didn't stop me clocking over 60,000Ks in my 3 years ownership of the old r34. 85% of which was pointless weekend cruising...

damn right. I do over 20,000km a year, 5yrs running.

car is not growing in value and with skylines being in the range of $5000 - $15,000 already no need to treat them like a Ferrari ~_~

to be honest even if i had a fezza i'd still put decent K's on it probably cut down a bit on the cruising but meh it's a car that's what it's for

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Rimon, didn't really worry about getting defected its just simple driving on freeway can be really frustrating when there's idiots doing 100 or less on right lane, idiots not following speed limits (I.e. less than posted) and pull over and let faster cars pass.

Just need to find a place and time for driving, which I've always putting off unless I'm being egged into going cruises.

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I'd do minimum 500 a week just to and from work. So easily 6-700km a week on the ol EA.

put about 60,000 on the 33 when I had it to, and that's with something like 6 months in the workshop

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lol Grant it doesn't have to be a thrash session every time you take it out :rolleyes:

put almost 20,000Ks on the awdi since i got it ~6 months ago

just think it's a waste might aswell sell it and get people to drop you off places if you're hardly doing any K's

unless it's an investment then just put it in storage and forget about it

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lol Grant it doesn't have to be a thrash session every time you take it out :rolleyes:

Of course not, I mean, simply pottering about can even be frustrating when you see a idiot doing this, even worse when you see L platers doing that and is being encouraged by their parents/instructors.

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