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The Fly

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  1. Er, not if you are in a 50 zone. I haven't done any particularly scientific back-to back comparisons given that our highway driving sojourns are few and far between, but at 80kmh our fuel consumption decreases significantly. Try those speeds for a few minutes each in similar traffic and conditions and road topography, and keep an eye on the display in current consumption mode.
  2. And if you buy the Bitsash!tty, you will forever be the butt of those "w@nker in Spanish" jokes. :)
  3. I've not noticed any problem with the Kluger, but I also don't rest my hear on it. If you want a bad head restraint, drive a Holden Captiva. Diabolical. Felt like I had to lean through the steering wheel just to keep my hear away from the thing.
  4. LOL! Yes, I was indeeed talking about the panel beater that left the device on the battery.
  5. Absent-mindedness I suspect. Or a rush to get it ready for collection.
  6. The Fly

    De-badging

    Ours is also black. Looks awesome clean, but never again! I'm not a big fan of badges and less is more IMHO. I removed the SUBARU letters from my car years ago.
  7. Hm, not sure. The box is only small although both cables have the terminal clamps usually seen on jump cables and they are also red & black... And no I'm not giving it back to the panel beater. The car came back with crap all over it that needed to be clayed off and the residue on the clay was red. Has taken 7 hours and still counting to clean, clay, polish and wax the car back to a glassy smooth finish.
  8. The Fly

    De-badging

    They are a pain in the bum when polishing because they catch threads and I always end up taking a toothbrush and Quick Detailer to them to remove the polish residue from the edges so I'm thinking of getting rid of the badges on the rear hatch. Why Toyota feel the need to inform people that the car is a V6 with VVTi I don't know, and to have the name TOYOTA and the big logo is plain overkill to me. The KXS badge may get a reprieve, but I doubt it. Can anyone confirm that they are attached by double-sided tape only? Or do they also have the old style rivet moulded into the back of the badge?
  9. I can vouch for them. I have seen fantastic results on my car the the Mrs' last car with one. You just need to use plenty of lube or it sticks and then you have to clean the residue off and go again!
  10. The Fly

    Fuel consumption

    I am also one for trying to jusge the timing of lights to minimise beign stationary. We also live on a hill and are surrounded by quite undulating topo' which means we are goping up and down a fair bit to end up at the same altitude or lower! Having said that, I can still always manage to better my wife's fuel economy. She always seems to be on and off the throttle even when driving along a continuous stretch. Her excuse is high heels but she does it regardless of what she's wearing... And as most would know, when you offer advice you get your head shot off! She never drives when I'm in the car unless I'm, er, not capable.
  11. I'm not sure whether this is the right board to ask this question, but here goes: Last week we had a repair done by a local panel beater due to some ***** letting a trolley roll down into our car. When I opened the bonnet a few nights ago, there was something attached to the battery. At one end were clamps like you see on jump leads, and at the other was a little box of some kind in a rubber enclosure. It had S.A.T.O Australia embossed on it but other than that it had bno distuinguishing features. The panel beater had obviously inadvertently left it on there as it had their name engraved on it. Can anyone tell me what it is, what it does, and if there might be any implications from it being left on there by the panel beater? I took it off when I found it. Thanks in advance.
  12. Works for me too as I mentioned above. Pity the tube is small. It is designed for use by hand although I have also used it with my orbital polisher, and as Taka said, it won't necessarily do a better job but it does save on elbow grease. Haven't needed to try it with my rotary yet. I looked over our car the other night and the paint work is in terrible condition and in need of a attention. It feels really rough, lots of bonded contaminents, and there are clearly visable water marks on the bonnet. I'm a bit surprised that it feels so bad given that it's only 6 months old and is always garaged. I used a few products on the bonnet by hand: Paint cleaner - no good, then Scratch X - no good although it did get the washing scratches out, then Fine Cut #2 and it just started to do the job. It's definitely an orbital job or failing that, rotary, then clay bar for anything still stuck on, then polish and wax. There goes Saturday just to get that glassy-smooth finish back again....
  13. It happens on all colours, it's just more obvious on black and dark colours. Our is showing them too as well as scratches just from washing it. The joys of a black car. I have used Meguiar's Swirl Remover before to deal with swirls on my WRX (silver). Haven't tried it on the Kluger yet but I tried their Scratch-X on some light scratches caused by polishing out bird sh!t stains not long after we got it and it worked well so I'd be pretty confident about the Swirl Remover doing the job. Just take care using a rotary polisher if you have a crack yourself. When I need to do it I may try by hand and see how it goes before using my rotary.
  14. I have never sat in it since we bought ours. Ours lives permanently in its little hole below the centre console so the kids acan use tyhe console for their crap and drinks when they have them. The best way to assess it obviously is to sit in it while you are being driven. I tried it when we were evaluating the car but only when the car was in the showroom and not on the road. It doesn't look comfortable due to the narrow design and all reviews that I've read to date suggest that it isn't. But for an occasional seat we're not really worried, and lets face it I won't be sitting in it so I don't care! Ours operates as a 6-seater which suits our needs.
  15. Of course it is! Duh. I completely forgot about the bleeding auto-answer setting. Thanks guys!
  16. I used to pay $500-odd with AAMI and now pay $700 for unlimited mods with Shannons for my WRX. The quote operators used to tell me that it would be ~$2k in Sydney and also require a sat' tracker. We're now finding out how good NRMA with claims. Some lowlife abandoned their trolley in a local Kmart car park and it ran down the slope and into the side of the Kluger damaging the LHF and LHR doors. ****holes. I blame Kmart for not having a coin deposit on their trolleys so they get left strewn all over the place, and the car park has a sloping topo'. NRMA seemed to be pretty good. They are going to chase the property owner Centro (bwahaha) for the damage but don't know if that includes our excess or not. I have approached Kmart to make good and strangely enough they have asked for more details and the quote, but not holding my breath about getting any money out of them.
  17. If an incoming call comes up while there is a call in progress, the new call is automatically picked up and the original call placed on hold. Is this the car kit doing this or the phone setting? Can it be changed so you can either accept or reject the incoming call while another call is in progress?
  18. Ours is $463 with NRMA. $300 excess. Both >30, and apparently in a better suburb than you lot.
  19. I also told my wife to gratefully decline the offer of a free sanding wash with the 1,000k service. I don't trust anybody with washing it. Had a bad experience with the first service of my first WRX. Had to ask the dealer whether they washed it with steel wool!
  20. The Fly

    Road Tests

    I have driven a Terrotory and a Nitro. I don't know what all the fuss is about with the Territory. Probably because it's a Ford mag's like Motor, Wheels, et al fawn all over them. And the seats are built for your average fat-****d Ford driver: like lounge chairs. The one thing that I did like, which is quirky, was the adjustable foot pedals. Other than that, nothing struck me as fantastic. The Nitro would possibly have the worst driving position that I have ever seen. With a dash that comes down far too low, I found that I had to extend the seat a long way back in order for my knees to not be up against the lower dash, yet my wife had to almost have her face planted in the steering wheel so she could reach the pedals. neither situation would be particularly desireable in a crash. And the quality of interior finish was, well, American. It did go though, and I liked the slide-out cargo floor. That's a good idea.
  21. Remind me to never buy a car off you. ;P You guys seems to be able to get pretty good numbers. We continuously hover around the 16 mark. The wife does almost exclusively city driving, but I would like to be doing a bit better than this. It seems to go well on highway runs, but it's sucking like a Bankok bar wh*re around town. We do live in a hilly suburb, and Hobart topograpghy is undulating in general, bit it's not that hilly. Sometimes I wonder whether she's driving it in S-mode and leaving it in third or something stupid like that, but when I'm with her she certainly isn't so I presume not. The only thing I notice is that sometimes she seems to be on and off the throttle a lot rather than holding it steady, which I tell her not to do. And then get the inevitable gob-full back...
  22. The Fly

    2WD or AWD

    From my experience with our FWD I don' t think there is much torque steer on the Kluger. Wheelspin yes, until the TC comes in, if you try hard enough, but I think that this is sometimes is confused with torque steer. The thing certainly doesn't go anywhere near trying to change lanes if you take off in a hurry. :)
  23. Black is a mongrel to keep clean and shows every tiny little washing scratch. Great colour, but never again! My silver WRX hides a multitude of sins if I don't have a chance to wash it for a while.
  24. The Fly

    2WD or AWD

    For daily driving I think that AWD is now largely superfluous. We had an Outback prior to the Kluger and we really haven't noticed any differences, other than a bit of torque steer if giving it a real boot full on taking off, which is probably unneccessary anyway. I also had a need to tow a trailer & load of circa 1.5T a few months ago in the wet and I did get a lot of wheel spin going up some steep streets that I probably would not have with AWD. With the other active handling features these days, IMHO AWD is less of a handling benefit for non-off road use that it was prior to things like EDB, ESP, & TC becoming standard mainstream. Go for AWD if you either plan to use the car off road or tow large loads regularly. And AWD will definitely use more fuel to the equivalent FWD. It would be mechanically impossible for it to be any other way.
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