Whats the deal with wharfies that thrash cars??

[eXc]

or even better today tonight, who could turn the story into "wharfies thrashing your next new family car" LOL

More likley something like "Hoons endangering lives on the wharf. Solution : ban imports"

[Guest]

These days I can just see the 'risk' involved in thrashing a car (of any make/model) around a very busy wharf being too high.

OH&S isn't taken lightly anymore these days..

My wifes Dad worked down the docks and I have known them to race new WRX's at night with no lights on so it isnt as blantant as to what they are up to.

Last time I was picking some cars up with my customs guy they had a new Cross Fire and were thrashing it across the dock (it was the lunch run vehicle that day).

Mate was down one time and they parked one of his Soarers to close to a pole and caved the front bar in, lucky for him he got photos or they would of pulled the "it arrived like that, nothing to do with us".

It isnt a myth it is a fact.

[pentae]

The thought of some smelly disgusting wharfy thrashing my GTR and redlining it just after it hasnt been started for months... makes me nervous.

[Remix-]

The thought of some smelly disgusting wharfy thrashing my GTR and redlining it just after it hasnt been started for months... makes me nervous.

My car is due next month. This is my biggest fear :cuss:

I shall be waiting patiently with my video camera.

[PTR33]

Whats stopping a person filiming the workers unloading the cars in an unsafe manner (speeding burnouts or whatever) and sending the footage to Worksafe?

My car is due next month. This is my biggest fear :cuss:

I shall be waiting patiently with my video camera.

Perhaps not a good idea guys.

I heard a story of someone who they caught poking a vidcam through the fence, they beat the snot out of him and threw him and his camera in the tide!!

[gts4diehard]

hi, just a quick thought if you're importing a gtr, just discconect the afms, it will default to limp home mode and shouldnt rev past 2500 rpm.... i cant see why this wouldnt be ok for a little while.

Stephen

[brett33]

hi, just a quick thought if you're importing a gtr, just discconect the afms, it will default to limp home mode and shouldnt rev past 2500 rpm.... i cant see why this wouldnt be ok for a little while.

Stephen

Sounds like a good idea but if it doesn't have enough power in limp mode to get up the internal ramps of the boat (which it wouldn't) then it'll be getting towed on and off the boat. Which is an added cost to you and more dangerous to the condition of the vehicle.

[pentae]

i doubt a gtr would have any trouble getting up said ramps in first at 2500rpm

but good point..

[brett33]

i doubt a gtr would have any trouble getting up said ramps in first at 2500rpm  

but good point..

its 2500rpm or 6% injector duty cycle. trust me it won,t make it up the ramps!

Try slipping ya clutch up a steep hill without going over 2500rpm. Na mate it gets towed!

[infected flow]

uummm where do i start okay for people that are getting there car shipped in a container u can get insurance for it as it cost around $300-$500. this is probably the best as you should get people from japan to take photo's before getting sent so you have reference and also note any damage if it was already there.

About the taper proof seals thats bullshit as soon as the container is pulled off the ship it will be opened as customs do check them and they have to be in quaratine so no foreign disease or insects or any of that stuff comes to australia.

this is a standard procedure..

about the wharfies well it doesnt happen all the time its not a common thing as they will get into a lot of sh1t if they do get caught best thing to do is get a cutoms broker for the container .This means customs will open the container with car in it and quartine car after this the container will be shut with new seals and can be delivered to where ever u like but this also comes at a price ! car will not be started! and car is still in container will seals not broken !

or when u get the b/L u can go to the wharfs and watch them unload and watch your car being handled by the wharfies straight to you!---easy way but involves a lot of time.

hope this helps ill try and answer anymore questions if you have any.....??????????????

[brett33]

This means customs will open the container with car in it and quartine car after this the container will be shut with new seals and can be delivered to where ever u like but this also comes at a price ! car will not be started! and car is still in container will seals not broken !

The trouble with this idea is when the car doesn,t pass quarantine (which it more than likely won't) it will be removed from the container and washed and restowed by a wharfy. Not much different i would say.

[brett33]

This means customs will open the container with car in it and quartine car after this the container will be shut with new seals and can be delivered to where ever u like but this also comes at a price ! car will not be started! and car is still in container will seals not broken !

The trouble with this idea is when the car doesn,t pass quarantine (which it more than likely won't) it will be removed from the container and washed and restowed by a wharfy. Not much different i would say.

[infected flow]

hangon ill explain a bit more- u can get the car quarratined before it leaves so when it does come to australia they just give a once over inspection and thats it its free to go but that still doesnt stop you from being there when they do take it out of the container and watch them wash the underside of the car (this is what australia calls quaratine)..lol all they do is drive it to a hoist where u can go with them and lift the car up and wash the underside then a inspector comes has a look to see if it done and then u can take the car ....thats if it does get quaratineed (shit my spelling is bad tonight)...lol...

hope this helps ..

[jonn]

I watched the Fremantle wharfies unload the cars of the Bravery Ace for a few hours. I'm glad to say that I didn't see one car being given a hard time. That's not to say it doesn't happen as I'm sure it does but when you see the amount of cars, buses, trucks, cranes, bulldozers, backhoes etc etc that these guys unload and the time they have to do it in, it's pretty amazing.

Definately not defending the pricks that play Colin McRae with our cars. I just didn't see it when I was down there.