Craig.

If you are going to free up the exhaust, make sure you get a custom tune from a reputable tuner, not just a generic tune. Otherwise she go bang!!

I would like a set of the hi/lo kits Pat but am a little bit confused about which heat range will give the best light out on the road, particularly out on dark country roads where the ute does a few miles. Sounds like that may be 4300K ( according to the research Adam has done) but I will go an do a bit of research and get back to you. I am also holding off on the order until I have seen yours fitted and you give an opinion. Cheers, Craig.

[quote name='senna_T' post='772209' date='Nov 21 2008, 10:07 AM']Yes, however the "low beam" will bsaically be better than your normal "high beam"! lol[/quote] Its the low beam that needs attention on these cars anyway. Low beam is crap on my ute, especially on a real dark night out in the sticks where there are no street lights and plenty of cows and skippies roaming the sides of the road. If these improve low beam half as good as you are claiming then I am in Pat!

You obviously didn't read my next post in this thread. Who's the blind Bint now? :o Try reading Post 13 I've packed up the rods, got the boat back on the trailer and yet somehow I'm still bagging a decent catch!

Another successful fishing expedition complete!

Dont bother. Simmons look crap on a BA mate!

I am having the same issues with my BFII ute, pretty bad wheelspin in first and second. Of course 900NM of torque running through a live axle has that effect. FWIW I am currently running yokie Advan V103s all round. I have been told the only way to stop/lessen is to go wider rims to take a 265 or 275 tyre, which I will do if I can find a rim I like. One tyre recommended to me by a pretty reputable guy was a Maxxis MA-Z1. Apparently they grip as well as any and are cheaper than the better known brands ( although still not really that cheap in that size), so worth a shot IMO.

Actually treemonkey, Hanra was taling about the 595RS. You have the SS595 data there mate. Different tyre. Try this one instead: http://www.federaltyres.com.au/specs/ss595rs.pdf

Well? What did you end up going for?

[quote name='senna_T' post='753994' date='Oct 22 2008, 08:38 PM']Due to the limted options i am getting from Federal at the moment i am consideing closing this buy...[/quote] Fair enough mate! I am starting to wonder if the 595RS is the right tyre for me anyway. None of the sizes in 18s have the correct tyre loading for the ute (93 or higher according to my sources). This could have legal implications if involved in an accident thats your fault. IE your insurance company could withdraw there insurance leaving you (me) exposed to having the arse sued to within an inch of its life!

Hey Pat. Pmed you a few days back about shipping up to Mackay. Any news? I was only after two tyres mate, just to jog your memory. Also, the 595EVO range seems to be part of the motorsports range. Are these available from you in this group buy? If so I would probably be more interestd in these in 245/40R18 rather than the 595RS in the 255/35R18. The EVO seem to be the right load rating, etc, and look to be a more road orientated tyre than a semi slick like the RS. I am thinking thts a good thing with the wet season only a few month off. I have heard mixed things about semi slicks in the wet.

If you dont want your insurance voided in the event of one day needing it, then tell them everything. Some companies will just list it and do nothing else. Others may insure you but bump up your premium or excess. Others may not wish to insure you at all. Shop around and good luck!

Hey Chris. Payment sent. Cant message you though because your mail box is full mate! Let me know when you have emptied it and I will send you my delivery details.

Only if you crash, at which point your insurance company will void your cover and you could leave yourself open to a very large, expensive legal battle. If you can, make sure you buy tyres with the correct load rating guys! The onus is on you, not the tyre fitters, although I suspect that's why your tyre fitter wouldn't fit them for you Hanra. Just covering his own arse?

You got these fitted yet Hanra. How about some pics mate?

Please add me to the list Chris. Oh, and can you PM me your account details for a direct deposit?

Scotty , plaeas let me further explain where I am coming from with that comment. As a guy who does 20,000klm a year on two wheels ( and has done for at least the last 8 years), I have had more than my fair share of very close calls. I used to commute while living in Sydney. It was unusual not to get cut off or almost run off the road on a daily basis. Mackay is almost as bad even though it has only a fraction of the traffic I agree with you regarding cage drivers and the lack of understanding and compassion for us and the fact that one silly move or just ignorance on the behalf of a driver that we are even there using the roads with them, can very easily cost a life. Whats more I have come across drivers who don't have any concept of this and actually think it is all a big game! What I meant by that comment ( victimless crime), was that if a rider was to get out of control, the likelyhood of taking someone with him is extremely small because obviously the weight of bike plus rider is well 300kg give or take. Hence the only guy to die from a bad decision ( to ride beyond their ability or the conditions) is the person responsible for that decision. Now consider the same scenario but replace the 300kg bike and rider a 40 ton truck or a coach. How many innocent victims have the potential to be killed! Yet we as riders get more than our fair share of unwanted attention despite the fact that we don't have the same impact ability as a larger vehicle. I hope you can now see where I was going with that comment. It was not in any way supposed to mean that a bike riders life is cheap! I have seen two guys die on the road after being involved in an accident on a bike, neither through any fault of there own. One accident was on a blind turn with a car ( young asian guy in a ricer) coming the other way ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD OVER DOUBLE LINES. Seeing bits of bike screwn for 50mtrs along the road and a body lying lifelessly still in the middle of a lonely stretch of bitumen is a haunting sight that reminds you of your own mortality and how quickly things can go wrong. And theres nothing victimless about it mate!

Great numbers! How many are badly unjured? Probably about the same amount as are badly hurt playing rugby league every year! In the 4 years that I was in Sydney and riding that road at least 3 times a week, I heard of probably 10 deaths. 10 deaths in 4 years isn't as high as the road carnage that I saw when living in Coffs Harbour, where the Pacific Hwy would claim on average 1 a week. Not from speed though, just stupid Sydney drivers 6 hours from home who were tired and fatigued would then run off the road at 80kph abd hit a big tree. Funny how fatigue isn't the issue though. Speed is apparently! Hitting the armco or a tree at 40,60 or 100kph with only a helmet and a leather jacket on is going to yeild the same result regardless of the speed limit! When did it become the governmnets job to wrap me and anyone else who rides a bike along that particular road in cotton wool? Is that why we vote them in? To control us! Seems that as the years pass many of our freedoms are being erroded away bit by bit. Only very gradually though. They don't want us to notice! Whats next. Banning anything considered slightly dangerous (sky diving, contact sport, motorsport, scuba diving, bike riding, playing golf in magpie nesting season) and then fining us for doing it anyway because we might die. Seriously, if a guy on a 200kg bike loses control at 80kph on what is now a back road, who is he likely to hurt other than himself and perhaps a couple of tree branches? Sounds like a victimless crime to me. that's Darwinism at its best so why do the the powers that be insist on protecting us from ourselves? Different circumstances if it were a 40 ton truck out of control, where the carnage could be huge. As I have stated else where suicide takes more lives per year than the roads. If this focus on speed isn't a grab for our money, why isn't more being done to stop the death toll due to suicide given the lives lost?

Great idea, although if you are going to retest those that have been detected breaking road rules, you are retestingthe majority of the population anyway if this poll is any indication. Personally I am not as worried about peoples theoretical knowledge as I am in their ability to control a car. After all, regardless of the laws, people will do what they want to a degree whether they know the road rules or not. How many times have you seen people cross double lines or speed or fail to stop at a stop sign? Everyone knows what the road laws are regarding these yet it's common to see these rules broken. I would like to see more focus on car control. Throw people into an advanced driving course to learn how to control a car on the limit before they get a licence. Then have the retest in that environment every 5 years. If this were implemented and we now had a population full of drivers ( rather than just commuters) the next step would be to use our taxes to build some awesome muli lane roads built to travel on at high speed while also preventing things like head ons, etc, and let us do 150+kph on the opened road. After all, modern cars are made to do these speeds comfortably and with the driver training and road system in place, getting to your destination quicker would lessen the fatigue factor, which is the real culprit in deaths on our Hwys. Yeah I know. I'm dreaming!

A lot of our traffic laws are an over reaction to the carnage on our roads. The high percentage of people who have lost their licences as a result of these laws ( as can be seen in this poll) are the collateral damage of these politicians bad decisions. Unfortunately it is easier to bring in silly laws and look to be trying to do something, rather than tackling the actual reasons that so many people die on our roads. The main probs being our substandard roads and no actual driver training other than how to parallel park and stop at a stop sign. Real driver training and a comprehensive overhaul of our road system so that it is in line with that found in many European countries would save a lot of lives. It is quicker, cheaper and easier to come up with silly laws. Often solutions that are quick, easy and painless are often wrong!

So you are talking about issues that have come around due to managemnet by John Howards government? Are you talking about housing affordability? Lack of planning for housing and infrastructure in line with the current immigration and growth rates? Lack of available land for cheap affordable housing? These issues are both co owned by federal and state. Some may be classed as state, some federal but they go hand in hand so need to be tackled in that way. I suppose that's the problem with being an overgoverned country though! FWIW I agree with you, I just can't see the point in blaming the current federal government ( they really have been there for bugger all time) for mistakes made by other governmnents ( as well as state governments) years ago. What we are seeing now has come about because of decisions made 20-30 years ago by both major parties in both federal and state cabinets as they have had there turn.

To a point. If we all spend less then that is the quickest way to send us into recession. Reducing debt right now is a good idea, but if you are in the market for a house, dont not buy one just because we might end up in a reccession. Just make sure that you are spending within your means, not over them. If you are borrowing more than 3 years worth of your household income to get into the market then I would suggest not getting in at the moment. If you can get in for around that, then do it while you can afford to. There is a real shortage of housing at the moment but it is going to get much worse, which will push up rents in the next few years. You have to live somewhere!

Do you really think that a coalition government would have us in any different place to where we are? The 2 major things effecting the world economy are rising fuel costs and the fall out of the sub prime mortgage market. How could we be in any different place than where we are if the Liberals were still in? There is absolutely nothing that our government could do about these world wide issues! While I can see where you are coming from, you need to remember that many western world countries are in a worse position that we are. This is a global problem, not something that the labour party has caused, and the world economy runs in a big cycle of ups and downs regardless of who is in power in our rather small and insignificant ( economically on a global scale) country. Now there are things that this government can do to keep the ecomony ticking over while we are in a downward turning world economy, such as incentives to buy houses. These are being offered at the moment with the elimination of stamp duty for first home buyers. Is that enough on its own? Probably not, but then they could also do things like cuts to income tax, etc,etc. Lets see how the government handles all of this before we tar them with the same brush as the Hawke/Keating governments of the 80s/90s. Rudd has only been in for 5 minutes. Setting up and making changes to policies and then seeing what the benefits are to the country takes years. Just for the recoerd I am a swing voter, not a labour party supporter. I didn't vote for labour at the last election either.

I reckon that Vic could have a localized recession. Many of the other states have a mining boom propping up their economies with plenty of $$ from mining royalties, as well as the bouyant industries that supply goods and services to mining, something that Vic doesn't have the luxury of. In the 80s under Cain and Joan Kearner, Vic was in a world of pain much worse than the rest of the country. It could happen again!

Thanks for the heads up Sherlock. You'll make detective yet! The reason that DUI was suggested as a seperate vote is because the thread from which this poll was derived was all about one member losing his licence due to speed and the resulting discussion about what the number of people who had lost there licence in a similar way might be. Many that participated in the original thread thought that loss of licence through speed related offences was quite low. When this poll was started, there was only one option for loss of licence option. I suggested the DUI option so that it didn't fudge the figures relating to how many people actually lost there licences through the savage and unneccesary targeting of motorists by the goverment, who see speed as nothing more than a cash cow which they milk unrelentlessly. You know all of this, as you were part of that thread, so I am suprised you couldn't see reason behind it.