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mudlva wrote:Imho i think he works there

Ok Mudluva Lets put it like this, you have made the statement I am prepared to put up $2000 if you can back up your statement that I work there. Plenty of people on the forum know me outside of the Forum so lets see your money, put it where your mouth is

Fourbyfour

I wanted four new tyres for the surf and settle on the Bridgestone Desert Dueler 694, telephoned Firestone and they quoted $285 a tyre so booked it in and got the work done aweek later but then they now wanted $315 a tyre. Verbal quote means nothing to them. Thanks a lot Firestone I won't be back. ...

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Looks like other people have had similar experiences, I might try it on line next time, but for people who can't go online and there are lots of them, it makes you think that if AA can't process rego's in a timely fashion (Shouldn't have to be in there more than ten to fifteen minutes) perhaps other...

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Just went in to my local AA to do rego, will definitely be the last time frequenting an AA establishment. 45 minutes before I got to the counter, will do it at NZ Post next time. Perhaps some more competition is required, With only two counters available, they seemed to waste time with trying to coe...

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This was from you in 2009 :oops: The Destinations are apparently made by Firestone here in NewZealand so you would think they could come up with a tyre that would go the distance on New Zealand roads. Due to the fact that Firestone's customer service were arrogant and quick to point the finger at t...

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Well in light of all these anti B/F posts here, I definitely won't be going that way again. My feeling is that I would sacrifice both road noise and mileage for better grip on seal and gravel. When you sacrifice both and are stuck with a product that still doesn't grip as well as the tyres you had j...

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I dread to think what would have happened if I had to change to the spare on the roadside, you can bet there wouldn't have been a convenient sized metal tube handy.

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Crash , have you had problems with their tyres too?

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Yep, I phoned them up but the response I got was the usual indifference that I have come to expect from them, no apologies but just excuses. These tyres are on their last rotation so will need replacing in the next 6 months. Guess where I won't be going for new tyres. My opinion of the B/S D/D 694 h...

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Thanks for doing my wheelnuts up so bloody tight I had to use a one metre long length of two inch tube on the handle of the wheel brace two get the nuts to move. The first wheel brace was a sidchrome so of reasonable quality and that got the first wheel off before I managed to twist the head off it....

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At the moment no compulsory change over date has been selected for changing from wide band to narrowband but the feeling is natural attrition will probably account for most wideband radio's in the next 5-10 years, probably most people will make the change to newer rigs just to acceess the additional...

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[/quote] Hi Jerry, you wouldn't know if the uh015sx is upgradable would you..? cheers[/quote] Unfortunately the UH 015sx is not upgradeable to 80 channels on a recent trip to Sydney I noticed some people had added the extra channels to existing wide band radio which caused adjacent channel interfere...

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[/quote] I think you'll find that your 90/130's actually aren't legal. You can have too much light for a wof too.[/quote] I got told my lights were too bright at a VTNZ testing station when I had forgotten to remove the 90/130 bulbs out of the Terrano. Lucky for me the examiner gave me the opportuni...

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Even between VTNZtesting stations there appears to be many inconsistancies regarding the way they interperet the rules regarding vehicle lighting and when you factor private workshops into the equation this just compounds the problem. Most Private garages will only check that the lights are going ra...

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In Aucks there does seem to be a reduction in the number of repeaters available, Bombay channel 8 is no longer on site and Whitford Ch 7 also seems to be no longer on air this just leaves Klondyke and Awhitu and sometimes Waitakere and less than mediocre performance of Glenfield Ch 1. Anouncement of...

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Same happened to one of my workmates driving at 65kph over the harbour bridge. Pulled over and fined for obstructing traffic. According to some other guys the traffic was doing close to 80kph or just over at the time and he was just backing traffic up behind him.
Good job cops!

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As far as I knew if you had additional lights mounted to a vehicle they have to be functional. . Yep I can vouch for that one driving light bulb had blown and the guy was going to fail me for a warrant, he offered me a halogen bulb at a grossly inflated price but in one minute I had both lights off...

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Just arrived back from Aus with A 100 watt HID kit to use on the IPF Super Rally driving lights Should be plenty or light there, maybe enough to melt holes in other peoples plastic bumpers. Just have to fit relays and rest of the wiring is pretty straight forward. These lights have no problem taking...

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Hi Snork, Sorry for the late reply. The xenon bulbs were purchased in the UK online, just google Autobulbsdirect and they were about 30 pounds for a set of two bulbs so not cheap but excellent quality. They are also marketing bulbs by another company called Ring who have just released a +120 bulb. T...

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I just fitted some Philips Extreme Vision +100 bulbs to my Surf. These are Xenon bulbs but not to be confused with HID which in my case would have been illegal. The bulbs are standard 60/55 wattage but produce 100% more light than a standard wattage halogen bulb. These bulbs only produce the same he...

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Anyone know if this situation is resolved now or is the track still closed to 4wd vehicles?

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yikes, an easy job for them got hard so they cheated. :evil: next time they fail (20 years hopefully) best to just tickle the bearing surfaces to a common metric size. My thoughts are that if going through the process again I would change to an all metric system, new hubs and stubs but I now plan o...

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Just over 12 months ago went to my local East Auckland garage to get a warrant for the trailer. It got failed on wheel bearings and as the garage who I had been dealing with for over twenty years was short of work and I was short of time got them to replace inner and outer bearings on both wheels. T...

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As a further udate to the above post MED Spectrum mangement has officially announced that the following changes will take place to the CB Bands. 26mhz will continue to be used but we will also be allowed to use the 27mhz cb band bringing us into line with Australia and the USA. PRS will make the cha...

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I went through the tyre selection process about this time last year for my 99 Surf and narrowed my AT tyre selection down to three tyres Bridgestone Desert Dueler 694, Dunlop Grandtrek AT3 and Yokohama Geolandar AT-S. The yoko's were not available at the time so being promised a good discount that t...

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I guess most people who take there car to a private garage for their WOF will get away with an illegal HID conversion, but there is always a danger of being randomly pulled over by constable plod because he found your lights were dazzling him. Most garages only check lights to see they are working a...

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Getting back onto the subject, there are alternatives to fitting hid dual beam bulbs to existing lights that were designed for Quartz Halogen. One is just to fit higher wattage Halogen bulbs but this could also involve doing some wiring work with relays. The voltage drop on my 99 Surf was just over ...

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[quote="lincooln"]If you fit dedicated HID lenses its legal, you just cant modify the original lenses to run HID's, not sure about spotlights though, cant see why that would be different, With spotlights there is no restrictions and the same goes with high beam in a dual lamp configuration...

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that sucks.. i was going to try and get "sealed beam" type replacement HID's for my landrover, the old lucas lamps leave much to be desired.... It may pay to do some more research on sealed beams as the reflector is part of the light it is not like you are modifying an existing light but ...

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The guy who usually does my warrants explained to me that with HID conversion it is illegal to retrofit to a car with a single light dual beam set up and that seems to be about 80% of cars on the road. If your car has a dual headlight system, ie separate light for high beam and low beam operation yo...

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