discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 16y 11m 24d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 20/01/15 04:58 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 04:58 AM (edited) Edit for wheel bearings aboveMine were replaced, then died again in a thousand k's or so, Ford found that my stub axle was cracked, had to get one from a wreckers as Ford didn't have one, and even if they did it was like $1400 or something stupid.I literally gasped when I scrolled down to Ralph's pic. Never done that before! Terrible luck dude.My gran handed her license in willingly a year ago or so, she said it hurt bad to do that and still does, but she didn't feel she was a safe driver any more.I like the suede suggestion Tab Edited 20/01/15 05:05 AM by -Stever- 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 8m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 20/01/15 05:00 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 05:00 AM That sucks Luke! Especially given you just sold the other car, now this one needs fixing :( if you can push for full respray then I'd be going for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 3m 17d Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 20/01/15 05:07 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 05:07 AM My gran is 87 and drives a skyline...It's the best f*ck you to society I've ever seen.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 1m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 20/01/15 05:12 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 05:12 AM That sucks Luke! Especially given you just sold the other car, now this one needs fixing :( if you can push for full respray then I'd be going for it!The previous owner had let some Sap or Bird poo dry on the car and it stuffed the clear in a couple of spots on the boot, The clear on the roof could also use a decent cut or possibly wet sand and reclear and it has the usual FPV underside bumper rubs.So Boot/roof/bumper/rhs to match the paint. Might as well get the whole f'n thing painted.My gran is 87 and drives a skyline...It's the best fuck you to society I've ever seen..Is she able to distinguish between the road and other cars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 8m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 20/01/15 05:18 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 05:18 AM Yeah fair enough man, I remember reading about the bird poo mark a while back.Speaking of paint and what's pissing me off, albeit nothing compared to Ralph, is the rather large amount of orange peel in the paint on my new car. Detailer is here today to do the paint protection and even tried wet sanding a section of the boot lid to see if that could get the peel out and nope...she's deep and fully hectic peel...so well done on that one Holden...needs more suede maybe... On the plus side the paint is fairly thick (for factory paint) and hard as fark apparently...Dale reckons it's almost like European style paint (which is good), orange peel aside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 7m 11d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 20/01/15 05:43 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 05:43 AM Expensive Daewoo are famous for 'Orange Peel'. My last 2 commys were bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennox Member 2,586 Member For: 11y 8m 22d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 20/01/15 05:51 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 05:51 AM f*ck ralph dislike.There should really be mandatory driving tests for people over about 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Wiggum Moar Powar Babeh Lifetime Members 19,323 Member For: 19y 1m 25d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 20/01/15 05:59 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 05:59 AM Detailer is here today to do the paint protection and even tried wet sanding a section of the boot lid to see if that could get the peel out and nope...she's deep and fully hectic peel..Simulated suede finish? Anybody else remember that blog of the detailer that bought a brand new xr5 (I think) in the uk and basicaly drove it home and went full OCD spec on the paint and buffewd all the orange peel out?The difference between it and stock pain was amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 8m 4d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 20/01/15 06:03 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 06:03 AM Haha. My detailer reckons he COULD have kept going deeper and got all the peel out, but it would take 2 days of wet sanding and at which point there wouldn't be enough clear left to protect against the sun etc...so it'd fade and deteriorate.No doubt the difference would be huge, factory paint on most cars is fairly average. Dale reckons even the euros and exotics have average paint compared to aftermarket. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genuine honest person Member 2,769 Member For: 10y 9m 20d Gender: Male Location: near brisbane Posted 20/01/15 06:25 AM Share Posted 20/01/15 06:25 AM orange peal on my ute is bad ,had it re painted two years ago for $5000 .it looks ok if I do not look to hard at it . when the panel beater showed me the car , my reply was did you use a roller to paint my car . his reply was that is what you get for $5000 .a ute is half a car thought that would be enough for a good job ,as there were no dints or body work to be done to it . I also removed the aluminium tray so they would not have to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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