Been down there a couple of times. DOC has now blocked all access north of the diversion. So the three sand roads between Blue Gum corner and the Diversion are blocked. Uncertain wither they have also blocked the residents from driving on the beach from their sections? This road serves little point ...

I agree the residents are probably the biggest culprits, but I suspect DOC would do little about them. Also they rarely go on the Sand Road south of the diversion. The residents have started a little lobby group called "Rarangi Landcare Group" which has the aim to help restore the foreshore ...

I do not believe its a public road, just a sand track through the dunes which was being used before even the idea of DOC was invented.

It is a shame that DOC decided to block this track without consulting the public to any significant degrees. Their attempts to justify the closure so far have been weak and it seems to be along the line that they closed it more due to ideological reasons (hating 4wds ect) then environmental concerns ...

Have looked at ProRacks and Thules catalogs and their online Roofrack selectors and none seem to offer mounts to fit the factory tracks. A local ProRack dealer also could not find anything from their range which look like fitting but I suspect he might have simply used the online roofrack selector ...

My new toyota surf (1996, 3rd generation) has the factory fitted roof channes which cover approximatly half the length of the roof. Was wondering if anyone have been able to source roofracks which fit the channels? I been able to find a likely candiate made by thule and for sale via RoguhTrax in the ...

Also considering getting a Surf, was wondering is it wortwhile to pay extra to get one with the intercooled Turbo Diesel? Looking on trademe they seem to be a few thousand dollars more then the normal ones.

Just been wondering if anyone has any fuel economy figures for the Terrano's with the 3.2TD engine.

I am about half a inch shorter then you and I had no issue fitting in my Surf. The electric back window gave quite a bit of problems for me, first the switch stopped working forceing me to use the Key. Then one day the entire thing stopped working... Mucked around trying to fix it for a while but it ...

Do terrano's sit higher above the ground then Surfs, it seemed so while giving it a test drive today. The lack of power compared with my old surf 1KZ was noticeable but it would keep me from speeding which is not exactly a bad thing. Was playing around beneath the terrano and noticed that the frame ...

Sounds like the one I am looking at is new enough to avoid the worst of the rust issues. Would still check it out just in case.

I do not know if this is covered elsewhere, but whenever I try to login using my previous account I get a error message. Have tried several times over the past few months with no luck. The basic error I get is "Fatal error: Cannot access empty property in /var/www/orep/includes/bootstrap.inc on line ...

Thinking about buying a 1997 Terrano with a 2700cc turbo diesel engine, has done around 110,000km. Would predominately be my fishing vehicle and the hardest it would work would be traveling down back country road which have occasional rough fords and a little driving on river bed gravels. I try my ...