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I got 2 fronts and 2 rear W/Bearings from Ford $280 for fronts, $86 for rears, and also some Mu pads and DBA drilled and slotteds from Racebrakes who have great prices and superfast service even to the far reaches of the country. Now I just have to find someone in WA WA land who can fit all the stuff and not charge $180 and hour for an apprentice to stuff it up a la ford service style. I already had some some clown at a service centre quote me $600 to fit it all so I completely dumbfounded him by asking if I got a complimentary diamond with that ? Does anybody know what would be a fair (non ford workshop) price to get F & R wheel bearings done, rear discs machined, fronts replaced and pads fitted all parts supplied by me ?

Thanks for your help and suggestions gents. Took it back and they had a drive poked about underneath and found some aluminium cross member that bolts to the chassi needed torquing up, well that's their excuse anyway. All 100% now

It must be bloody frustrating for the coppers who joined the force under the illusion that they were going to be able to do some good. What a terrible job having to hang about getting people to blow in bags or take their cars for silly offences that at the end of the day are highly dramatised and backed up by boffin idiots like that professor Johnson dickhead who came up with the nonsense of cut 5. Its the real coppers I empathise with, what a demoralising job it must be making mountains out of molehills to justify stealing peoples money in the name of raod safety. The angry drunken red nosed coppers, who are usually the sargents have the PR skills of a block of wood and many need to be put out to pasture. I tell my kids now that the Policeman is your friend but only until you are 16 and never when you are driving a car. No wonder they can't recruit many any more and have to recruit South Africans and Kiwis to do the job. I don't speed very often at all. I don't hoon, I don't drive pissed, and I don't feel sorry for those who get busted. You can't blame all the coppers, they are just doing their job regardless of their attitude. It's the unseen individuals in the background making their jobs robotic with no or very little descretion left for the officer. I know 2 in WA WA land who left the force last year because of the changing rules for them. Another case in point, when I re registered my car last year WA WA land was busy telling everybody that they were taking away rego stickers to save a few million a year. However the bloke at the transport dept openly told me it was so that Police WERE NOW OBLIGATED do a plate check on you if they pulled you and also it justified putting cameras on every set of traffic lights and on a lamposts every 2 klm on high density traffic roads. All of this nonsense is being justified by thinly veiled lies about driver and road safety. The economics of it speak volumes and make no sense at all, and the police on the front line (or at the nazi checkpoints) have to cop the brunt of it. If it keeps up soon all the decent police will be gone and the force will be full of mongrels who take glee in persecuting all and sundry. Then again perhaps that's exactly what the powers that be want, there is a lot more behind this than just road safety.

Just got one. Theres only 3 left "APPARENTLY". Rather this than a ZF rebuild. I've only done 27000 klm and warranty ran out yesterday

Hi SennaT. Mate all is nice and tight re the steering, no play or slop at all. Just bloody weird how the crossbar goes out of. The amount of times its happened added togeather would probably add up to a 10cm, from straight, drop down to the left but the alignment is fine. MS 700 the alignment machines finally arrived here in January after a 45 year wait

I had a wheel alignment from a place known for quality suspension work in WA WA land and left with the crossbar of the steering wheel down to the left by about 2cm, took it back they re checked the alignment and all was OK then adjusted something underneath and it became straight again, now the crossbar is back to being about 2cm down on the left, as if the wheel alignment is fine but the wheel is somehow moving, did the same thing last time as well. Is there anything that can let the wheel go off centre without it being the alignment. The car has all new springs Bilsteins and all front end bushes done with Super Pro so all in in it's just bloody weird. Any help or observations would be appreciated.

Welcome to the 4th Reich R8 Eater. I don't think we have even begun to see it unfold yet. If you think you have any rights you are kidding yourself because you need a fortune to pay lawyers to get past the burocrats that put all thios crap in place. As for the greens, sure it is a good thing to look after the environment. But that doesn't justify their false GW science and the resulting grab for more taxes. The dirty unwashed tin rattlers from the WWF and the greens are akin to a new Hitler Youth Movement IMHO. I read a statement from one of their scum leaders the other day it was pretty close to this "It is more important to save an acre of rainforest then it is to save a 10 year old Phillipino child from prostitution" that's the irrational kind of idiots that have somehow ended up with some influence in the Govt. These filthy Eugenicists won't stop until we all live in caves and ride pushbikes. All of their ideals and policies are about eugenics and economic destruction. Queen Joolia is always on about "The Nation" The Stralian People" "For The Good of The Country". Look back in history at what other leaders, puppets, and dictators said similiar things and what became of their nations.

Below is todays take on the cloud seeding from the same site. It may clarify their opinion and intentions. This site cops some flack, but they suggested buying Silver two and a half years ago agter the GFC wiped the price. All the other so called expert financial boffins said it was madness to do that. I went to the Perth mint, bought many many many many kilos of real stuff I could walk away with for $5.70 an oz and was laughed at, now it's floating between $27 and $30 and Oz. It’s no surprise your editor copped some flak for yesterday’s Money Morning – The Cost of Meddling. But that’s OK. We’re a big lad. We can take it [sniffle]. The gist of the comments was that we don’t know what we’re talking about. And, besides, cloud seeding doesn’t work anyway. So it couldn’t have made the floods worse, right? What’s that? Scientists get something wrong… surely not. So, let’s see if we’ve got this right. Scientists are 100% right when they warn you about climate change. But they’re 100% wrong when they spruik the benefits of cloud seeding. OK. Got it. But where does that leave the scientists who believe in climate change and cloud seeding? Such as the one mentioned in this article from Physicsworld.com: “It should be possible to counteract the global warming associated with a doubling of carbon dioxide levels by enhancing the reflectivity of low-lying clouds above the oceans, according to researchers in the US and UK. John Latham of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, US, and colleagues say that this can be done using a worldwide fleet of autonomous ships spraying salt water into the air.” As we’ve said many times, we’ve no idea whether climate change is real or not. By the way, we usually cop it from the anti-climate changers too whenever we write that. But we do know not to take every statement from a supposed climate change expert at face value. Just like any other scientist, they’ve got vested interests. A scientist working for tobacco companies will play down the risks of smoking. Just as a scientist who works for a government agency will play up the risks of climate change. And a scientist who works for a food company will claim their foods are safe. And a scientist who works for a beverage company will say their drinks aren’t unhealthy. You shouldn’t think that just because someone has a Dr. or Prof. in front of their name that they can’t be influenced. So to think that climate change scientists are unique individuals, somehow immune to the kind of influence experienced by other scientists is very, very naïve. Make no mistake. There’s a lot of money to be made from the climate change industry. And if you can make money from it you’d be mad not to. Those are the facts, like it or not. And as for the Queensland government’s $7.6 million punt on cloud seeding technology… What we should have shown you yesterday is proof of the inefficient government. Even before it finished a four-year and $7.6 million study of cloud seeding, the rains arrive and the technology – even if it works, which we’re told it doesn’t – isn’t needed. Anyway, we could go on. But we won’t. Because it’s too boring. We’ve more important things to write about today…

So what do they do when they are dying, do they make a rumbling sound that gets worse when you turn left or right?

I didn't say I beleived it tab, altough no doubt many people will. I just said "Heres something interesting". I actually agree with the load of crap on the weather thing. I just found it amusing. The HAARP and all the other stuff gets very conspiratal. Thing is though the idiots wasted 7.5 million and it rained anyway.

The NBN will prove to be just another multi billion dollar cluster f@%k that will line the pockets of all the leaches involved in whole debacle. 43 Billion dollars that will be closer to 60 and all immune from any public scrutiny, anyone preprared to accept just on the secrecy facts alone is obviously not very clever or not very observant. As far as the Qld floods are concerned. This below is very interesting. Well, here’s an experiment on paranoia, delusion and conspiracy theories. What would you say if I wrote this: The Queensland government and Bureau of Meteorology may have caused the Queensland floods. Stick with me here… don’t hang up on this email yet… I know what you’d say. You’d probably say I’m a disgrace. That I’m a lowdown scumbag for trying to pin the floods on government… that I’ve reached an all-time low. Well, before you think too badly of me, read the article below. It was kindly sent to us by Money Morning reader Christine. It’s from the Sydney Morning Herald, dated 8th August 2010: “A rain-making method developed by Thai kind Bhumipol Adulyadej is set to aid Queensland in battles with drought after an agreement between the state government and the Thai royal household. “The Queensland government’s access to the rain-making technology, developed by King Bhumipol over the past 30 years, came a year after the state approached the royal household last year. “As a result, Queensland is set to be the first major region outside Thailand where the rain-making technology will be put into full effect.” After reading these quotes from the Sydney Morning Herald, our claim about the Queensland government’s involvement in the floods may not seem, well, so outlandish at all. Look, I’m not saying the state government has been fiddling about with nature. I am saying that forty seconds ago you may have called me a scumbag, but now, after reading the Sydney Morning Herald article, perhaps you don’t think I’m a scumbag. In other words you shouldn’t assume every whacky-sounding theory is the result of a “paranoid and deluded” mind. And a quick search of the Interweb uncovers more details of Queensland’s rain-making mania… It turns out the Queenslanders had already been cloud-seeding to try and create rain. A January 2008 Courier Mail article reports: “Showers have fallen after the first two flights of Queensland’s cloud seeding trial. “Paul Brady, managing director of MIPD, the company doing the seeding, said yesterday that the project would be a success. “’We believe it works but the scientific level of proof is different to ours,’ Mr Brady said.” According to our pals at Wikipedia (we still haven’t donated!): “Cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, is the attempt to change the amount or type of precipitation that falls from clouds, by dispersing substances into the air that serve as cloud condensation or ice nuclei, which alter the microphysical processes within the cloud. The usual intent is to increase precipitation (rain or snow), but hail and fog suppression are also widely practiced in airports.” Back to the Courier Mail… The article quotes Queensland Sustainability Minister Andrew McNamara who was planning to spend $7.6 million over four years to test cloud-seeding: “Successful cloud seeding won’t solve southeast Queensland’s water crisis on its own but would be part of an overall package, including recycling, more efficient water use, desalination and new storage facilities…” Then he said – in a pre-emptive kick in the teeth to the Queenslanders now suffering from the floods: “This project will focus on the Wivenhoe and Somerset dam catchments.” The article states, “Seeding would not end droughts but could boost inflows to dams.” We underlined that last bit. That would be the same Wivenhoe dam, that thanks to the inflow of rain reached nearly 200% of capacity. It required emergency measures to drain off the massive amounts of water. Drainage that may have increased the flood damage. Based on these reports and a document from the Victorian Government it seems cloud seeding has been taking place in Queensland since 2007. The four-year trial isn’t due to end until this year. The report states: “The Queensland Government is undertaking a four-year cloud-seeding project in South East Queensland which commenced in November 2007. “The aim of the project is to find out if cloud seeding is a viable way of enhancing the rainfall over South East Queensland’s dam catchments. The intention is to determine whether it is worthwhile investing in cloud seeding in the long term to increase water storage. It is recognised that cloud seeding is not a means for breaking the drought.” Strangely enough we haven’t heard much from the Queensland Government in recent days about how the cloud-seeding project is going. But what it comes down to is this. Wouldn’t it be a terrible irony if the science experts who have warned about the terrible impact of manmade global warming in a hundred years, were part responsible for helping nature make a bad flood even worse today? This is just more proof of what we’ve said all along. Even if – and we’re not convinced – global warming is real, who’s to say the pointy-headed science boffins can do anything about it? I mean, if their efforts involve trying to manipulate the climate in the opposite direction, who’s to say the results won’t be even worse? That they’ll end up creating more rain and lower temperatures just when nature was moving that way anyway. The fact is, humankind individually and collectively isn’t smart enough to figure everything out. That’s what markets are for. Individuals interacting, each in their own selfish interest will always create a better result than a committee of individuals deciding on a course of action. That’s the difference between freedom and central planning. One works, the other doesn’t. Attempts to manipulate markets, whether it’s financial markets, flea, fruit and veg, or climate markets will always yield the same outcome – unintended and usually bad consequences. Remember: the science and maths boffins who think they know everything about climate change are the cousins of the science and maths boffins who thought they knew it all about finance. The market proved that false in 2008 when the global economy crashed… because their failsafe computer models turned out to be as useful as a chocolate teapot. And soon enough the climate scientists who think they can manipulate the climate could get a taste of their own medicine too. And they ain’t gonna like it. As ‘andrew of qld’ wrote on the Courier Mail comments page almost a year ago, “stop trying to play god with the skys you clowns”.

Yes tried the Advans. They are a good tyre and very quiet, but seemed to go off after 10000 klm and they ar very pricey. At half tread I replaced them with Marangonis which were OK. After 5000 klm in a fit of boredom one day I got rid of the Marangonis and fitted Sumitomo HZR111s. The Sumitimos are quiet enough they have much better take off traction and grip better wet and dry. For the cost per wheel I think the Sumitomos are much better value than the Advans.

Unless you want to go to the races, apart from looking good a Plenum won't do much except give you an extra 2 or 3 klm per litre. That's the only thing I noticed when I fitted mine so it will save your hip pocket every week. At 110kph on cruise I can average 6.9 to 7.1 litres per 100 klm, before I stuck it on I was getting 8.9 to 9.3.

I had the under guard one for about a week and then went for the airox, no comparison. The under guard one is OK, but you need the 4" airbox option to get something really worthwhile.

More money for the state Govt and more of a reason for lots of people to despise the coppers who choose to do this as their job. There will never ever never be any common sense come home to roost on this as long as there is money involved. We all know the confiscation laws won't work or make any difference and they are only used to nplay up the speed kills nonsense they have jammed down everybodies throats to justify stealing money. And no I don't dislike police, but I do dislike the way they are being used to enforce this farce. Always has been hoons and always will be. I've got 360 rwkw and haven't been booked for years. A kid can but a high power car for nicks these days and drive like a looney. I did the same in my youth except the things we could buy took 5 minutes to make it 100kph.

Hey XtRmn8. Mine was just a constant annoying thing and would tick away at regular intervals. I even had roads where I knew exactly at what spot it would happen, but it wouldn't do it driving over bumps. The metal plate I was talking about was only about a ciggi paper thickness away from the pipe and it was more flex and subtle chassi movement. Sounds like you need to have your car put on one of those chassi bouncing machines that some Pedders places have. It's bloody annoying hey?

Ever since I got the my it has had an annoying knock, more like a clicking sound, or lightly tapping a front guard with a 5 cent piece. Ford had the dash out twice and tried everything to no avail. Today I got an oil change and when it was up in the air I had a nosey underneath and on the passenger side there a four or 5 little metal lines that must be for the brakes, anyway they are covered with a thin metal protector plate, upon close inspection was of the lines was right on the plate and the slightest touch or movement would produce the same clicking sound. For the first time in three years I finally got to drive without hearing it. Having said that I opened the glove box the other day and a 12mm gold plated tophat shape nut fell on the front floor so I can only imagine what else wasn't done up properly last time ford had the dash out.

Thanks gents I might follow your advice and try the QFM- A1RM Troughlolly. Had an oil change today and checked out the pads 29500 klm and only half worn so I won't need them for a while Obviously driving much to slow

The Phoon has finally made it to 29000klm and I guess the pads are ready for replacement as the front Discs look like they have worn down about 1mm. Does anybody know of any sensible priced pads and supplers for BF R Spec Brembo factory setup 4 spot on front and non Brembos on back, do you get away with a disc skim from going through 1 set?

Don't kid yourself Bunna. I rent Mustangs etc all the time in the states and the build quality is crap, the brakes are crap, and they are gutless, the Taurus and the 500 are a joke and seen as such in the US buy most people you ask. The Falcon died as soon as some dickhead decided to put a 4 cyl in it, that car should have all the features and popularity as the first Camiras got.

Greens. Mis-informed, tin rattling eugenisists. Green between the ears twits . Having said that I hope all and sundry in Qld are safe and OK, my daughter just called and she can't get home from Jimboomba to Munruben, she got somwhere to stay but sounded a bit freaked out.

They(the diffs)have been doing this since the BA days, it amazes me that they haven't rectified it after 8 years along with the ever present driveline shunt.

The rattle thing is more a matter of "When" than "If"

Hey Tim, it was the free one from iTunes.