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Low Mileage Deisels I am looking at the mo to buy a low mileage diesel ute or small truck. Question; there seems to be a few low low that do not look the part. Is switching the speedo to save road tax a thing or a story. If its a fact that people do . how would I tell or is ... |
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Trojan pushbike motor. What do you think this would fetch. Suppose dollar reserve would be the way to go but not brave enough. Should get A into G & rebuild it. Non runner although turns over tightly. |
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Braking problem. Unless I apply the brakes slowly and very gradually, they grab. They even lock up if the road is wet. This has come on slowly over the last couple of months. Before this, they were fine. Any ideas? Discs seem straight a |
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REVERSING CAMERAS (AFTERMARKET) I’ve just had an aftermarket reversing camera fitted to a new Suzuki Jimny. The image on the screen doesn’t show the normal grid (distance) indicators that I expected. The supplier says they don’t have them. Can anyone advise if that is correc |
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Where is the current Government Transport Projects Last Government gave us: Puhoi to Walkworth Transmission Gully Auckland Central Rail Link Waikato dual carriage way Motorways in Christchurch? After 3.5 years, current bunch of Wokesters can only talk about |
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2006 Toyota Ractis Help I have borrowed my parents 2006 Toyota Ractis as I have a torn calf muscle and can't bike and it is not so good driving manual so am avoid driving our Lancer. However it is a bit tappety when cold. It is due for a service so I was going to giv |
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Trucks could likely run these diesel engines https://www.carthrottle.com/post/a-new-106l-two-stroke-diesel-engine-has-3-cylinders-and-6-pis |
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The Trains who run on virtual tracks I woke up and did start watching The live stream. |
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Coolant Just curious. Needed to top up one of our Elantra Elites with some coolant fluid. I went to get some at SuperCheap and the young guy asked if the existing fluid was blue or green. Apparently they're NOT intercompatible. I couldn't tell him because In was ... |
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To good to be true deals from Uncle Ali 500$ free shipping for a 2 post car hoist when you click on it its 720$ I wonder what else will be maybe its only a toy lol well actually that could well be as it's mostly stating in small print sizes differ. |
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Honda, alternator csc29 Question. I have a alternator csc29 from my car, it was the factory one, until Wednesday just past, it stopped charging and was humming a new sound, it did the same thing around July 2019 and got rebuilt. On Tuesday, it blow again and made the same soun |
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Tyres onto Nissan wing road rims Friend has Nissan wing road on steel rims with worn 185/65/15 and I have 4 hardly used GT Radials of 205/60/15. I can’t see a size on the Nissan’s steel rims. Will they be okay on it? |
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EV rally car Hayden Paddon taking his EV rally car for a squirt. AP4 combustion car was 53.8sec, while the EV Kona clocked a 53.0sec. Wait until they get this beast fully developed! |
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BMW 3 & 5 series tow ratings Anyone have a BMW 3 or 5 series wagon? What is the max tow rating you get on the petrol models? I can see a lot of different things online so I'm not actually sure what they are. I'm looking at getting a wagon with a 1.8T to 2T tow rating and |
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Liability owner or driver When selling our car our insurance has advised us to change the policy from named drivers to drivers over 25 in case someone has an accident on the test drive. I always thought the driver is liable for the claim and not the insured vehicle but my insuranc... |
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Lol good news Intrade ? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/443046/new-car-availability-hits-low-point-due-t |
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Hope You Understand Nothings Durable And Inexpensi ve. Dear dear dear, one wonders whether this was a one off dud or a more widespread issue with modern paint durability? Ive heard of late VW's having the same issue. I think this upselling of additional paint protection systems also has to stop if it coul... |
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Rock Auto Thanks to all the posters on here that have mentioned Rock Auto I decided to do a purchase for my project car a Ford Laser TX3i, found the equivilant in USA and Canada is the 1991 Escort GT spent a grand total of NZ $96 landed at my door step, For the eas... |
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Honest price opinion.General Lee! About 200k for paint and bits, not really a good deal. https://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/vsr/1413/1969/Dodge/Charger |
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American built ex JDM orphan classics Toyota Cavalier, Ford Taurus wagons, Ford Explorer, Chev Blazer, Jeep Cherokee and any others you can think of that Bill Clinton inflicted on Japan and really shouldn't have ever been brought here. None of these cars have been discussed on here for a whil... |
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Nissan Sunny 2003 My old Sunny is starting to miss on one and sometimes two cylinders, only when under load. Do any of you knowledgeable ladies and gents have any suggestions about possible reasons for this? Thank you. |
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Injector bench test Is there more than 1 workshop in Tauranga capable of bench testing injectors. |
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Nissan Avenir brake release cable My old Avenir (2001) has a foot operated parking brake with a release cable below the dash, which has now broken. Spares are available at a cost ($126), but it looks not very easy to replace as the nipple on the end where it broke is on the other side of ... |
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Pre purchase inspection in Wellington. hey team. Im looking to trade in a car that is in Wellington.-Not sure of the suburb. I need to get a mechanical inspection carried out as its a make/model that has me a little nervous. Ie its a euro. Can someone recommend a company to carry out a |
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Getting fuel from rav4 tank We have a rav4 we are selling as is. It has 3/4 tank gas in it. Ideally we would like to syphine the fuel out. But we can’t get past something I’m assuming an anti theft ball. Is there any other “easy” way to get the fuel out? And no google isn’... |
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