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Aw man, I was expecting Mitsubishis

4 minutes ago, 87creepin said:

Ralliart Colt is the logical next best choice. 

????

I dunno, seem pricey

Here's the one we had, after I dragged it out of the paddock. Must have had a 1/2 million km on it by then. And given death around the paddock a fair bit.

Hard to go past a Sentra of this era, the one we had was very tough.

A32 Maxima / Cefiros are great!

Did you know QLD has no regular roadworthy inspections? How can it be that the fatality rate there is lower than in NZ?

Is that a baboons backside?

If you the time and inclination you can mine the data yourself

Waka Kotahi open data (arcgis.com)

Buyer beware.

Well, if I was called maxpeedingrods I wouldn't put my name on things either.

Geez, maybe we should weekly WOF checks?

22 minutes ago, ul9601 said:

I wonder if LTNZ (or whoever is in charge) did the numbers in terms of accidents caused by mechanical faults (or WOF inspection fail) vs vehicle age for vehicle less than 3 years old, vs 2000~, vs pre-2000 vs 40 year old + (as per rego  reduction)? also vs total mileage.

i assume the former would give roughly bell curve, the latter exponential.

 

From here

https://www.aa.co.nz/assets/about/Research-Foundation/Serious-Injuries-vs-Fatal-Crashes/Serious-Injuries-Final-Report-September-2017.pdf?m=1510009394" class="type:{pdf} size:{2.5 MB} file

Low Volume Vehicle Technical Association Inc. | Contact Us (lvvta.org.nz)

Pfft, did anyone die from that?

1 hour ago, BlownCorona said:

The main issue is that the law must cater to the lowest common denominator. We simply can't alow an unknown vehicle into the road with only a wof check even if OP had spent 20k on floor mats because some other winner in a clapped our skyline will wrap his car around a preschool because it's steering rack was tack welded to the subframe and all the stripped bolts were glued in place, undersealed and dirt rubbed into it. 

 

Thing is, this can still happen with the no wof no worries crowd.

A bit like the speed limit debate.

To me the question is, is the current level of rules appropriate? My reckons are...

For lvvta cert, yeah,

For repair cert, maybe that could be easier on older cars (might be already).

For WOF, should be 1 year after the first 3 years, then no WOF over 40.

1 hour ago, Early jap nuter said:

He’s written what happened to him in the introduce yourself thread. Moved over from England with 6 old cars.

Can't help thinking Ella Forrest probably isn't a bloke.

17 minutes ago, EpochNZ said:

That really is a superb Flickr account......

You would say that

In that case they should bring them in to reduce the pool of people who would buy an MG5.

13 minutes ago, MichaelJFox said:

A friend of mines old man pretty much told me to suck it up and pull the motor and he's got a guy that'll hone/plane/sort the block n head, so will get that under way if I don't find a like for like replacement soon.

How did I end up rebuilding this bloody motor

Good advice I reckon.

On call this week so won't make it.