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Hello all, or should that be goodbye? Today I traded my 2003 xr6 turbo in for my new car, a black Mazda CX7 Luxury ( yes it has a turbo ) I tried to sell my XR privately for over 3 months, had a few tyre kickers, all said what great condition it was, but no one wanted to pay the price I wanted. I started with high hopes of $23,000 and over the 3 months dropped the price to various stages, and finally $18,000. Still the trade in price offered was $15,000 - $16,000 depending on dealership. ( it had done 110,000 kms as of today) So im hanging up my fordxr6turbo hat, and wanted to say thanks to all the people here that have been helpful with their psts and suggestions over the years everything from installing footwell lights to XBOXs and chair leg blow off valves. Its been great, its been expensive and now... it over. Happy Boosting people!

started with sob story, ended getting sh*tty , and the guy I got sh*tty with fixed it in 15 mins...... I think you attract more bees with honey personally... but then again you can get a lot of flies with bullsh*t too! hope you get a good result

OK, So here is the final outcome. After a lot of delay for no real reason I have a result. Now keep in mind.. My T is a 2003 June build that has seen 108,000km. Ford came back saying that they do not have any liability to assist in the repair of the vehicle, BUT have said as a token of "good will" they will share 50% of the repair bill. FYI the official $$ amount quoted for the repair by Ballarat Ford is about $500. so getting it for $250 isn't as bad as it could be.. hope my experience helps!

The update that's isn't an update hadn't heard anything so decided to call 13FORD again, turns out the guy looking after my "claim" is away today. Asked for any updates on my claim, was told the last contact was when I called on Monday to tell them that Ballarat Ford was going to raise the required work order and that the warranty clerk from Ballarat would be contacting them ( or available for contact) So I got off the call, and phoned Ballarat Ford to find out why they hadn't called yet. Turns out their warranty clerk is away sick and has been all week. And my request is sitting on his desk. He doesn't have a replacement, so just have to wait for him to go back to work. Im not upset yet, people get sick, fair enough. But starting to sound a little amature-ish. Im going to conitue to play happy customer however till they tell me to f*ck off and fix my own damn heater!

OK, So called 13FORD this morning and spoke to a pretty helpful guy. turns out my local Ford dealer has to start a "work ticket"( or something like that) before Ford corporate can look at approving it etc. Something about having the diagnosis on record. Lucky they remember me from the other week, and are just going to create the ticket without seeing me again. Now its with Ford corp to see if they will fix it out of warranty... FINGERS CROSSED!

well I might try the 1300ford option on Monday. Seems dodgy to me that a new car has no heater. fingers crossed they are having a good day when I call

I have the same problem. Having just seen that pic and being out of warranty. Has made me feel very Ill I heard that the replacement part is a different model number? is that therefore a design fault that I could argue should be fixed at no cost to me.......please? quote was around $1200 to fix

OK, well my wife borrowed the car tonight and walks in tonight complaining the heater is not working. So after going out to have a fiddle with the car I have found that the Air con is nice and cold, but flicking across to the heat (all the noise occurs as usual) I get luke warm(just) air out of the foot well, and cold air out of all other vents. oh and im out of warranty, and wife says if the heaters doesnt work, we are taking her astra on our xmas holidays! I understand that it might be the stalk etc, but is there any way to manually set it to heat till I go to the dealership? merry xmas to all ..

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Woo Woo Im not the only one!!!!! ← Sorry mate but that is like saying. I am not the only inbred in here, not much to rejoice about. Still Collingwood supporters are traditionally easily pleased by mediocrity. Scotty ← Scotty you trying to stir me with one of Carlton's many wooden spoons?

Yeah, will be an interesting year... I like Rudd, but the rest of his party sucks, I also like John Howard as he has done a good job all up I think compared to what he started with... Bracks needs to go... Bring back Jeff!!!

Woo Woo Im not the only one!!!!!

And PM me if your a MCC member and with the team you support as I will be putting together a list..

Im currently running an XBOX to the Prem Sound Screen, its great, but fairly limted, I have a script that runs radom video clips at start up, but thinking of the possibilites of a car based pc, more so the bluetooth GPS, and Tom Tom kind of set up .. or The use of wifi in telstra hot spots, with some kind of RF keyboard with bilt in mouse... I have the xbox ICC lead, do I need to get another that exits out to a VGA plug? And where do I get those cable from? and where do I get a good car pc from? Or build my own?

At the end of the video, it jumps the red and white bar??? What a party trick!!

Thanks auMatt!! As you can tell I was bit tired and emotional this afternoon... thanks for the step by step, will try to do this on sat. ( looks fairly involved,hope that is what the problem is!!! )

Any one know hoew to get to the water bottle filter thing your talking about, just spent f***n ages taking the air filter out ( dropped spanner down side ) and now its out looks like im going the wrong way?

Can we see the pic in question?

Cro dont "want" anything, just trying to figure out what to get, to me tyres are black, and that's about my knowledge Guessing the tyres I had on it are too "family car" focused.. will make mental note to slap guy from tyre shop and have him point me towards the "race car" tyres just kidding !!! honestly I appreciate your help!!

Wondering if anyone has had this or could point me in the right direction. When I pull on the the window washer stalk, my widers go, and only after a while does some water spray out of the left hand side jet. It seems the right hand side ( drivers) is blocked? I have taken off the pipe from the resovoir to check the output ( into a coke bottle) and it seems fine.. And tips on whats happening and how to fix it?

Thanks for everybodys suggestions so far. I went down to a Bridgestone Tyre store today and he said the current type of tyres I have are quite good and he can do a new set for $770 with a wheel alignment. They are Firestone - Wide Oval - 235/45. ( thoughts??, I have been happy, but maybe I dont know what happy is? ) Interestingly he looked at the right hand side of the car said I had a few months left, but upon walkin got the left hand side of the car both those tyres are worn on the outside edge fairly bably, so getting them done on sat morning.

Yeah had a quick look think I might look at upping the budget a bit too $250 a tyre, that will get me Maxxis MAZ -1 245/35 I think they may be ok?

I have $600 bucks to spend on tyres, Now I realise that I could spend more and that I am a tight arse But I was hoping that you guys ( and girls!!) maybe able to point me in the right direction, I currently have the standard 17" mag, with no plans on changing them. If I could get some feed back on the best tyres to get for that price range I will call around and see how much I can get them for.. Thanks for your help!

My two cents... Its pretty, and maybe a little bit of wank ( wow factor ) but it runs slow on anything other than the newest hardware ( dual core + 2gig boxes). I ran the beta's ( and yes I know they are slower due to the debugging code) and then I ran RC1. I agree with the comment to wait till the first major service Pack comes out.. in the mean time if you like the look go and install window blinds here and install the aero skin, looks like you have vista when you dont...