trailer???? bugger it ill go transporter

[tuff lux]

thinking about a trailer to trailer my ute then this mazda titan widecab poped up,,, cab is rooted soooo abit of a project bummer its dereged so got to get it revined sandblasted chassis repainted changing it from 24v to 12v picked up a ford trader cab which are identical to the mazda titan









final chassis paint and new cab


so far costed $2600 with everything

still abit to go yet

[Mattman]

Nice work!

[sig]

thats awesome

[mudlva]

Went the same way myself. By the time you have spent good coin buying a decent tow wagon and tandom trailor i bought a transporter as well. Actually it was a flat bed tipper but i pulled the tray off and replaced it with a beaver tail transport tray.
Now to get my toy going so i can use it.....
Ah thats a differant story all together

[wranglerbabe]

Awesome job! The expensive part will be getting it back on the road... Stupid people who can't put rego on hold!

[mudlva]

Awesome job! The expensive part will be getting it back on the road... Stupid people who can't put rego on hold!

Hay hay calm down there fella.
Its the system now as you can only hold for a max of 1 year. Then 1 letter from them and then the next is saying you owe them money if you want to continue keeping it on hold
How come you cannot buy rego with no warrant but if the vehicle comes off "hold" they can charge you rego when it still unwarranted!!
The system is where the problem is

[Marco Polo]

Heck! When did that happen? My Sunbeam and triumph have been on hold for 7 and 4 years respectively

[mudlva]

Heck! When did that happen? My Sunbeam and triumph have been on hold for 7 and 4 years respectively

I would advise to double check if they are still on hold.
ive had two different landcruisers in the last 4 to 5 yrs that have been placed on hold and after a year missed the rehold letter from them and then got a second letter for a years worth of diesel rego before I could rehold them.
on the current one I have let it go now but still had to pay before I could kill the plates..
beestards is all I could use at the time

[derk]

I would advise to double check if they are still on hold.
ive had two different landcruisers in the last 4 to 5 yrs that have been placed on hold and after a year missed the rehold letter from them and then got a second letter for a years worth of diesel rego before I could rehold them.
on the current one I have let it go now but still had to pay before I could kill the plates..
beestards is all I could use at the time

stick them onto farm reg (B class exempt) then hold them I've got a few plates that had been on hold for around 10 years with no probs, B exempt isn't continuous reg like std registration so there aren't aren't any unexpected bills arriving in the post

[mudlva]

I would advise to double check if they are still on hold.
ive had two different landcruisers in the last 4 to 5 yrs that have been placed on hold and after a year missed the rehold letter from them and then got a second letter for a years worth of diesel rego before I could rehold them.
on the current one I have let it go now but still had to pay before I could kill the plates..
beestards is all I could use at the time

stick them onto farm reg (B class exempt) then hold them I've got a few plates that had been on hold for around 10 years with no probs, B exempt isn't continuous reg like std registration so there aren't aren't any unexpected bills arriving in the post

can only do B class if its warranted first and the system is starting to get quite toey about B class as well
I tried doing the B class on my bj74 with sb350 and the system would not accept it until in had a wof but when I explained it had a blown motor I just got the blank death look and got hold to take it up with nzta.

[KROOZA]

It's easy as to keep something on hold/exempted, you stick it on hold for anywhere between 3 months and a year and when your yearly reminder letter turns up, you jump onto LTSA website and can exempt/hold it for another year in round 1 minute.
I've had a ke30 Corolla on hold for 10 years this way.
I do know they can be difficult if you forget that important letter though....

[tuff lux]

[quote="mudlva"]Went the same way myself. By the time you have spent good coin buying a decent tow wagon and tandom trailor i bought a transporter as well. Actually it was a flat bed tipper but i pulled the tray off and replaced it with a beaver tail transport tray.
Now to get my toy going so i can use it.....
Ah thats a differant story all together

yeap exactly right.. safer to I reacon... just fingers crossed on the re vining

[klompy]

Whats the cert on deck is it current.

[tuff lux]

yup deck cert and tie eyes current

[rotordogg]

I do know they can be difficult if you forget that important letter though....

...Or if you move house and can't take all your on hold reg's to new address!
Been hit with that before...

[Slideways]

I've had lots of different cars on hold, its easy to put it back on hold through the NZTA site:
https://transact.nzta.govt.nz/transacti ... entry.aspx

Then sign up to carjam.co.nz and you can tick a box on each of the vehicles under your name so it emails you as soon as the reg is due. If you still haven't done it a week later you get another email per vehicle.

Pretty handy.

[tuff lux]

went to start it today keeps draining a fully charged battery instantly... gonna clean up all the earths where i have painted any other ideas??

[diogenese]

How instant is instant? Are the batteries really flat or does it have a loose terminal on the batteries or starter? 12 or 24 volts?
I expect you wanted answers not more questions; )

[tuff lux]

managed to clean all the earths and that sorted the battery draining problem






made a tool box mount for a tool box...
took all wheels of gave them a paint up
made some mirrors
took exhaust off fixed the leaks

next week plan is to clean up cab surface rust buff back and get ready to paint and sandblast deck and paint.... getting closer to re vining

[tuff lux]

just waiting for auto sparky to change a few plugs then going to get bit of rust taken out then ill buff it back and paint it,,,,, then ready to go and see what the revining have to say.... anyone have any pointers on buffing the cab back to bare metal and what is the best tool


managed to get tray sandblasted and painted today

[ChurchurDan]

I use either a DA or a strip-ez disc on a grinder for removing paint.

[tuff lux]

all painted now finishing touches slowly getting there

[rokhound]

That's come up looking bloody good.

[tuff lux]

haha cheers fingers crossed that the vining people will say that next week

[coxsy]

does it have the two speed range gearbox ,useful when the lux is on the back

[tuff lux]

yeah got the 10 speed spliter gbox works well too

[tuff lux]

bit more fidly done today stuff today

[BGOSNZ]

Then sign up to carjam.co.nz and you can tick a box on each of the vehicles under your name so it emails you as soon as the reg is due. If you still haven't done it a week later you get another email per vehicle.

Pretty handy.

Hi,

Which type of acct did you sign up for to find that service?

[tuff lux]

all sorted fully road legal now flew though revin now to finish the 4x4 so it can serve its purpose

[mudlva]

all sorted fully road legal now flew though revin now to finish the 4x4 so it can serve its purpose

haha i know that feeling