alarum

I'm glad I've warned someone of George's.

Just to add, after replacing my suspension recently, we found the strut they put on the left hand side had NO life in it, whatsoever.

And, I'm stiiiillll waiting for the rear-passenger side mould.

This is true.

Someone needed an anti-tilt-tray-truck gun to make sure that didn't happen.

*sigh* Where are the vigilantes when you need them?!

Sorry, couldn't help myself. Plus, I'd stolen so many tanks from GTA3 that I had a backlog and couldn't fit anymore into my garage.

Apologies for those who had crabby reception that weekend... :)

that goes to show the imobilizer doesn't do squat!

Is the Corolla immobilizer like the Camry's? i.e. it engages as soon as you take the key out of the ignition, and then the central locking + alarm when you hit the remote?

My grudge for today is stupid drivers who race on a fairly populated highway, and end up killing two elderly people:

racing bogan @ aussiemagna.com

And there's also:

Racing Occasioning in Death on Great Western Highway, St. Marys

and...

Racing Occasioning in Death on Great Western Highway, St. Marys #2

Stupid bogans. If you want to race, take it to a track, fools.

Hahahaha

I wonder where it's pulling its stats from... Uranus?

Hi all...

My main is now on Dath'Remar... toon name is Mheythroal, lvl 56 NE Hunter ;) ;)

Although I don't play much these days... Been capped for the last 2 weeks because I have an ***** of a housemate who used all my bandwidth... heh

Thanks, nice reference aussie_camry!

I'll be getting some new oil this week I think and doing an oil flush =)

erh ehr her her... pulll.... er her herher

Going really slowly ;) The next hour can't go quick enough :D

HELLOOOOOOO

as of yesterday, the Magistrate gave me a 3 month holiday from driving, so it will allow me enough time to do some more mods :)

Very sweet ride man.

Tell me, what kind of performance increase did you see after installing the brass battery terminals?

So much stuff! Can't believe it =)

Oh...I think it is scratching noise from some parts of rubber underneath, it could be temp. solved by lubricating. By the way, isnt Boge a German Brand certifed shock supplier by BMW? Pls correct me if it is wrong.

@jbjb,

I took her down to Wholesale Suspension after I got them installed and the guy checked things out, and he put a socket and a freakin'-long connector arm on the suspension mount, and tightened it somewhat -- the same noise that I'm hearing when I go over bumps. I might try giving it a lube, but other than that it looks like I'll have to replace it.

BOGE are German made, yea! And apparently I've got a life-time warranty as long as they're on my car :shrug:

Now I just gotta get my auto-choke fixed and I'll be right!

(Oh, and the back suspension done... but that can wait a little bit, I'm sure)

Sounds interesting! Potentially yes :)

Well, struts and springs were installed tonight, and I still have that bloody noise! (Sounds crunchy going over some bumps)

From research I had done it sounded like the springs were sagging and rubbing against itself, but now I don't know what else it could be... bushes have been ruled out, suspension has been ruled out.

We're going to jack it up tomorrow and check with a little bit finer detail. Will post any results we get!

So, I ended up getting BOGE (which is a re-badged / same production line as KYB) and Kings, and I can tell already I'll need to replace the rears, now... *sigh*

But the ride is a little bit more comfortable, so there's a plus

Seems that my dealer wasn't able to get the KYB struts... although I haven't had enough time to get out of work to get to the suspension place...

Work is kicking my ***** at the moment, *sigh*

Just going back to the parkers conversation; I got done by a cop on Dunheved Rd, Werrington for blue parkers in my TR Magna (hey, it was blue and it matched, ok??)

The ticket was written out for "non-white driving lights"... it's really bad I saw a Nissan Skyline (the earlier models, R??) this morning around 6:00am, still kinda darkish, he would rather drive around with his lights off than turn them on, and I suddenly knew why: when I did see him with his lights on his right bulb had blown and only his blue parker was showing -- looked kinda dorky...

My 2c (:

damn, the Veyron just pulls away like it wasn't even trying...

bloody amazing :cheer:

Nice man. I'm thinking of putting on a K&N soon... gotta take away some lag that I get when accelerating (it is an Auto, so I suppose it can't be helped much)

Thank you! She did have a bath JUST before I took those shots! :)

That was my spare that I got with the car when I bought it, and from the bingle the smash repairers gave me a tyre with a dodgy tred. So I swapped the dodgy one for my spare.

The out-of-place rim is the official Vienta Grande rim, however the smash repairers gave me a Vienta VXi rim... damn hippies...

So yeah. There's my story.

Well, I've been a part of this wonderful group for a considerable amount of time now and I haven't put up any pics of my baby...

So, here is a link to the ToCA gallery :)

Only mobile phone for now, but soon I'll take some better pics, and include the engine bay.

Enjoye! alarum on the Gallery

Why are we "smashing" things anyway? Aren't we supposed to respect our cars? Not "smash" them!!!

Oh ok, cool... I don't know about that, I'm thinking it's probably stock springs that are in there, and they feel very very soft...

Ahoy... My 1998 Camry (Vienta) gets about 500k / tank, which isn't too bad, really.

Average of 11L/100k's, that's about 60% highway / 40% stop and go...

Usually just BP 91, sometimes I'll lash out and go BP Ultimate / Vortex but only when I'm feeling rich...