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that second photo has the unit is placed such that if you look thru that part of the glass, the vision is already obstructed with the bonnet, the right guard and the A pillar.

but then i had a wof guy telling me A pillar gauges are interior impact fair as well.

a bit off topic but i keep getting these wof guys telling me the sticker needs to be upper right of the screen (unless there is no screen or whatever), whereas i like it lower right, where it doesn't get in the way of my vision (especially at the lights)

these days i dont bother arguing and just reposition when i get home.

anything dedicated to kei car? that would be quite interesting as it's a very japan thing.

google not much help.

mazda and nissan need booking, mazda is super easy to make a booking, nissan, not so but managed to get thru. although it's sort of out of way. no big deal though.

1 hour ago, 0fnsiv said:

Didn’t check out Nicolas Cages mausoleum by chance? We couldn’t find the House of the Rising Sun when we were there  seems it got torn down…

I didn't know about that. I just googled it and my visit was well before his purchase of mausoleum. Anyway they have a lot of fake stuff like that in the states. That thing is tiny, by the way, I'm sure he could easily afford life size pyramid though.

usually it's the drivers that are the problems

yeah thanks for the suggestions everyone.

I think I'll be going to Toyota in Aichi, Yamaha in Shizuoka, Nissan in Kanagawa and Mazda in Hiroshima.

Maybe more if I have spare time but that'll probably be ok without over doing JDM thing. 

anyway that s near where panmure roundabout used to be and currently they made a mess of an intersection. 

7 hours ago, SOHC said:

...the word museum for crappy display...

That reminds me of the time when I went to New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum...

6 hours ago, cubastreet said:

And if you're in Yokohama the Nissan hq is worth a look, as is the cup noodle museum.

cup noodle museum sounds great!

3 hours ago, sigmaturbo said:

Mt Eden Citroen XM.

I really should have a drive in a 2L turbo one, my old 2L carburetted ex-UK was so gutless. Who does that to their flagship model - Citroen, that's who.

pft

Hey

Will be travelling in Japan next month, any recommendations would be appreciated.

Nissan and Yamaha stuff I'm into but also interested in anything else good.

Cheers

2 hours ago, cletus said:

The reason you can't modify bump stops without cert, is there are many situations where if you trim the bumpstop, something bad could happen. Shocks bottoming out, ball joints binding, etc etc 

The manufacturer sets the bump stop length to prevent these bad things happening 

It is a big problem with coilovers, people do not understand how important bumpstops are

Yes I get that but isn't it also bad having too long bump stops, which would be called into action far often than necessary, creating situations where the spring rate would go higher than necessary (but not as high as infinite in case the suspension bottoms out)? A genuine question, 'cos I don't know.

In any case, I'm assuming WOF inspector would pass any bump stop that looks OE, e.g. factory bump stop for lowered version of the same car, because they don't know any better what length bump stop is meant to be there in the first place, right?

1 hour ago, Beaver said:

Just get new bump stops that are more appropriately sized. Problem solved.

ok so there are generic ones with various length available? i thought i d just trim OE bump stop when lowered but i dont understand why modification s not allowed thats all.

for what they do, that seemed like the logical thing to do.

The daily failed WOF on rear bump stop. Had a look at it and most of it is there (ok the bottom bit is a bit worse for wear)

It's not missing much when compared to the online parts catalogue (parts ordered so will be able to see the actual difference on Monday)

Is it fail?

Also, I'm gonna get the car lowered by around 2 - 3 inches, what do I do about the bump stops - VIRM says they cannot be modified but if a car is lowered then bump stops should be shorter to suit the new ride height, else it'll ride on bump stop when it isn't intended to?

1 hour ago, V8Pete said:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/ford/mondeo/listing/4042427220

This is an interesting thing I had no idea existed until very recently 

gotta love the ad, it says hardly anything about the car, and all about the dealer themselves.

I wonder it's NZ new. bad enough for run of the mill mk3 mondeo parts price from ford, i wonder how much they would charge for the hybrid specific parts for this "rare" beast

27 minutes ago, cubastreet said:

I quiet like the look of the Mitsubishi miev minicab  - basically a Kei van or pickup with 16kwh battery and 150km range.

There must be a million different cheap evs in China now that would be really practical for a lot of people.

Interesting minicab is still in production (supposedly) but passenger equivalent i-miev had been discontinued.

i wonder how much it is in japan fr a new one. 

i'm not sure 150km range is the real world number though.

i-miev is a slug but i think it's the right type of EV for city for what it can do. i don't know why all the EVs are huge.

I looked up kilmat on the web and they seem all out of stock? Is it gonna be a permanent thing, if so what is the alternative go-to sound deadening?

As usual with AliEx, they are potluck.

There are huge varieties of AliEx LEDs in terms of reflectors and individual LED placement etc - just have a look thru and see what might work best but they may not necessarily be the cheapest. I got all my rear bulbs swapped out and they are great (especially reversing light)