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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do you need to change the filter when you change the oil? |
| jaybkay |
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Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 09:10
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| "follow the owners manual" Not a helpful suggestion - much better would be follow the advice of people in the trade who have tried various things rather than listening to scare stories. I dealt with Triumph engines and transmissions for many years - sometimes the owners manuals were useful... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do you need to change the filter when you change the oil? |
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Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 09:50
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| Some years ago I was in a position to "test"synthetic (mobil 1 in this case). I ran a Rover 213 for 150,000 miles (until the body fell apart) with 30,000 mile oil changes (from memory the filter was probably changed as well). At the final stages the engine ran exactly he same as it had alw... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Advice prior to a court date... |
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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 09:31
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insanity looming, 12000 miles away. |
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Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 02:50
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| Just to let you know that insanity with regards to speeding is not confined to the UK........this is from a local paper. (http://www.stuff.co.nz/4349063a28.html) Big Brother speed control may hit Aust, NZ The Victorian and Queensland governments are evaluating a device that can automatically slow a ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do LHD cars have to have their lights adjusted for the UK? |
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Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 03:26
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Replies: 12
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| Yes they should, I doubt very few actually do. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Keeping to the speed limit is what really matters !!! |
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 05:55
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| Please miguel - come to New Zealand and drive around. You will notice two things within a few days, how slow everyone drives - and how often they hit each other. During the last seven years I have come across some sort of crash about once a month - although I can't be certain, either very few or non... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Constructive criticism please of energy saving device |
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 09:14
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Replies: 10
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| Bugger, duplicated thread. Paul, if you are moderating get rid of one of these.......I have slight problem with (NZ) Telecom and broadband |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Constructive criticism please of energy saving device |
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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 09:09
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| After many years in the classic car industry in the UK, I escaped to NZ in 2000......... Fast forward seven years.........I'm now involved with an energy saving device which is, well, brilliant. If someone came up to you and said, I can sell you a device you can bolt onto your car that would triple ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: I think I may have encountered the ultimate jobsworth |
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 00:02
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| Our local supermarket doesn't provide baskets or bags and insists you take a trolley round. Call me awkward but I refuse to take a trolley because they want you to. Naturally at the checkouts after shopping they give you as many bags as you need, so the trick is to go to a checkout first - grab a ba... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Police cite slowpoke motorists" down under. |
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 21:28
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| "Police cite slowpoke motorists" say a headline in our local paper in NZ. The article goes on "The biggest problem we've had is slow drivers not pulling over and we've ticketed a number of people for that. People driving below the speed limit who would not pull over to clear mounting ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: driving license queery |
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 04:30
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| As far as I know the address requirement is a place through which you can be contacted, it doesn't have to be your house. Personally I would never send a paper licence back to Swansea, much better to get a duplicate first - I've read too many stories about things going wrong. Interesting the paper o... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: When is a car an automatic? |
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Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 22:00
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| There is another way to upgrade to a full UK driving licence, even if it is somewhat expensive. Whilst holidaying in New Zealand obtain a driving licence by sitting the theory part of the test (scratch and win), a manual or auto licence from the UK means you don't have to do the practical. Your full... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: "Driver fury unleashed on cameras" |
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Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 10:11
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| I have had the dubious privelage of driving around Christchurch and Canterbury for the past seven years after doing something like 400,000 miles in forty different countries - and I can safely say the locals are some of the slowest and dangerous drivers in the world - and the general behaviour is no... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: A Browser puzzle! |
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:48
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Replies: 11
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| Give Opera a try, www.opera.com - I've not use anything else for a few years. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Misplaced courtesy |
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Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 22:34
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| I would make a very good guess that the offending driver held a New Zealand driving licence - why? because her actions are the law here. When turning left you have to give way to traffic coming from the opposite direction that is turning right into the same road. I've been here over six years puttin... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Insurance |
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 04:40
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| I'm 49 and moved to NZ from the UK six years ago - to find that insurance here is not compulsory, and for reasons I can't understand insurance here is very low particularly when the crash rate is taken into account. (I see some sort of coming together every couple of weeks in a town with a populatio... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Turning right - the use of hatched turning areas |
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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 23:09
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| Here in the antipodes they are referred to as a flush median, and they are designed for exactly the purpose you describe, so remember if you do find yourself braving the roads of New Zealand drive into and over the hatched areas as necessary. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Even fixed cameras can be wrong! |
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 01:43
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| But what is the $629 fine for? refusing to answer questions? You will have to find out if Australia has a Bill of Rights Act. As pepipoo points out fight the first ticket not the last - read EVERYTHING printed on any official documents sent to you. Just think about it - you are 100% sure you weren't... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Even fixed cameras can be wrong! |
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Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 23:49
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| Hi M3RBMW from across theTasman, the one thing I haven't come across personally in NZ is innacurate readings from cameras (most tolerances here are +10k), but there is a huge hole in the enforcement law. Invariably the picture from a camera doesn't identify the driver, and the only evidence of the i... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New Camera Partnership rules |
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 23:27
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Replies: 493
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| Basingwerk, what do you do personally when you find a defective bulb on your own car? As you must have driven with the defect that is against the law, presumably you go and report yourself to the police. Or if you fail an MOT for ANY reason, you must have driven a defective vehicle on the road......... |
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