DangerousPerson

Yeah so don't let your wife/mum/sister/nana drive your car.

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiinally got some new tyres. Went for 185/60 in the end and I'm pretty pleased with them. Handles like a dream and fit under the guards nicely. Pics to come.

My bro has one of these and I'm trying to convince him he needs to lower it. How do you do it with hydrolastic?

All sorted now thanks to Valiant, now time to see if WOF man notices the temp fix. Will defo be getting some proper springs in 'ere. edit:LOLZ he didn't notice it. Good shit.

Aaah, excellent. That's what I was looking for.

The old thread is gone so can't remember exactly but someone may come in with the answer. I believe it involved putting a wee bit of steel pipe in the shocks to shorten them a bit to make it hold the springs in.

Coming up to WOF time and I don't think myWOF guy will let the uncaptive cutties in my wagon go through this time. Had a couple of OSers offer help last WOF time but have had a fucked up, full on 6 months so never took them up. Is there anyone in CHCH that can help me fit shims in as Seedy Al explained to me in a now deleted thread. Would be so grateful and eternally in your debt.

Just did an oil change about 1000ks ago so pretty clean. Nothing abnormal about it.

Pretty much the only driving I do is 15km at mostly 80km to and from work. Is it important for the oil breather to be going back in to the carb for the car to run well or can it go to it's own wee filter to avoid the shit going in the carb?

Yeah oil cap looks the same. It's not much at the moment so I'm hopeful that it's not the head gasket. I'll try the coke bottle trick and see how much stuff accumulates over a couple of weeks. Car is my daily so it hasn't been sitting at all.

It's a standard as 4k. Have to top up coolant maybe a cup every two or three months.

I replaced the air filter on my car the other day and noticed this shit coming up through the oil breather hole in to my air cleaner which in turn gets sucked in to my carb and makes the car stall and go mental. What is causing it and how can I stop it? I have temporarily removed the hose that connects it and stuffed it with a rag but I'm wanting to know why it's happening. Chur

LOLZ at Roadcops next week.

I know a guy who bought that boat about 5 years ago for $1 but couldn't get consent from NZTA (whatever name they went by 5 years ago) to shift it. It was too big to go through the tunnel to Lyttelton and no one was willing to risk floating it in Redcliffs in case it.... well, didn't float. He did live in it for a while and it was actually quite big inside. Pretty toasty with the coal range he somehow installed in it too. Eventually the insane guy who owned the house said he couldn't have it anymore so I'd like to know what actually happened with it.

Geez that's pretty extreme. I did ring around to get some Toyo's and Mag n Turbo had access to four only and that was about 4 months ago. Wonder if Kumho will up their price accordingly...

Yeah it's got 215's on at the mo but I'm trying to find 175/50 or failing that maybe 185/60. I'm not fixed on the size so if I can't findwhat I'm looking for I'll look at different sizes. Just liked the look of the 175 on these.

Shit it's a hassle calling around for tyres. Everyone wants to know what car it's being fitted to "blah blah blah you can't do that,we don't have that size". What would typically be fitted to 13x7 wheels?

What brand are those tyres and how much?

Put up pic when you fit them. What width are your rims? Are they 155/50/13 fitted to them?

Because it looks good. One thing I've wondered is if you have rims that stick out from your guards but tyres that fit under your guards is that legal or does it count as the wheel being too wide?

Anyone ever used the HiFly HF201 tyres you can buy off trademe? They're insanely cheap ($137 for two) so could be a good option if they're any good.

I was just wondering if you'd need to run tubes if you go for mad stretch. Keen to see what yours look like. What brands do you fullaz go for? I'm pretty keen on the tread pattern of the proxes but haven't looked in to others. At this stage I'm thinking the 175/50 but may change my mind..

Also pretty sweet. 175/50/13

Choice site. This is the bizznizz 165/65/13

Definitely one to hold on to that. Might have to get to a meet some day too...