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  1. Bought a house, too many toys, all my friends require a garage so not ideal to have flat mates. Plus it was ridiculously cheaper then shitholes next to mosques in cannons creek. And I'm half way closer to Manfield then you lot now
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  3. Yeah that is why I suggested for this thread to stay away from politics haha. Oh well it was an entertaining read!
    4 points
  4. that's disgusting bro just ride your motorbikes everywhere lol. does the fuel prices have anything to do with emissions targets and all that? zero emissiosn by 2050? http://www.climatechangenews.com/2017/10/20/jacinda-ardern-commits-new-zealand-zero-carbon-2050/ ie. we have about 32 years left to YOLO the crap out of our car enthusiast lifestyles before we settle down in to electric wheel chairs?
    4 points
  5. Unfortunately the cars covered in all the dirt driving from Auckland to Queenstown will bring, but I think they're good photos none the less
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  6. Gotta keep them fresh for the zombie apocalypse/ deep impact style comet. I have a quad now too lol
    3 points
  7. Help a school kid out guys. Took me less than a minute to complete and I can confirm my computer still works
    3 points
  8. Lolwat? How do you figure the PM should be given all the criticism? It was equally stupid when people were blaming John Key for all of their misfortunes. In the sentence highlighted above it feels like you are definitely attributing the actions of the government directly to the PM. This could not be further from reality; the PM is basically the manager of the government/cabinet, at the end of the day she kinda carries the can for whatever the government does but to criticise her specifically for the actions of her cabinet/party is kinda stupid. Why should the PM be given the criticism? It's not like you can't work out who is directly responsible for these things... i.e. if you don't like transport decisions, there's a Minister of Transport (Phil Twyford) who is probably way more directly involved. EDIT: For transparency, I'm not a Labour supporter. I just think if you're going to criticise the government, do it intelligently, don't just generically hate on the PM. Double edit: If you swap the word "Jacinda" for "Labour+NZF+Green" then everything you have said is fine. But as I've said a whole lot of times already, if you think any of this is directly the PMs fault then you don't understand how the NZ government works.
    3 points
  9. This is a massive side discussion, but other than "fronting" for the government, what role do you think the PM has in any decision making that goes on? Do you genuinely think Jacinda just wakes up one morning and is like "Tax petrol more! Stop seabed oil exploration! Do the things!" and the government just goes and does it?
    3 points
  10. Bruh I don't think you fully understand how NZ's government works. But you're still pretty young (I think?) and I used to think pretty similarly to you so carry on, in a few years you'll start to look a bit more broadly and internets arguments aren't the place that will grow your political opinions in a good way IMO the only thing it has to do with the government is their inaction on regulating what is clearly a completely F***ed industry. I believe that the fuel companies know that the writing is on the wall, as part of Labour's ethos of "looking out for middle NZ" they are going to come down like a ton of bricks on the industry fairly soon and regulate the S*** out of them, so they are just making some extra money while they still can. If anyone believes the fuel companies aren't colluding on price, be it directly or through some wink-nudge-putthepriceup4c system, I have a bridge they may be interested in purchasing.
    3 points
  11. I figured I would start a thread on this since I am interested to hear what everyone's opinion on rising fuel price and disparity between regions. It seems to be a bit of a hot topic on all the 'news' websites at the moment as they love a bit of fearmongering. Also i'm sick of hearing people complain about this on facebook with wild claims and no supporting evidence for anything, I hold the members on here to a higher standard. Let's try not to play the political blame game in this thread "labour this, national that" the government as a whole plays a part in this but I can't be bothered reading why you think it is the fault of a specific party. For simplicity, everyone should use 91 as the baseline if mentioning fuel price as it gets confusing if some people are talking 95/98 and some 91. Also 98 isn't widely available in the South so it is harder to draw a direct comparison. As with many of you, i love driving my car and the rising cost of fuel just makes it a little harder to enjoy doing this. I'll be damned if ever let it stop me though! I'm sure everyone is aware that this also affects us on a much greater scale than just initial cost at the pump, fuel/transport cost is a component of everything we purchase on a daily basis. Rising fuel prices directly relates to rising 'cost of living,' which is another hot topic of the moment. To start here is the fuel price in my town (Wanaka) as of 22/05/18, the Caltex in town is priced identically. It is quite comical really. 244.9c Interestingly around a year ago there was an article in our local paper interviewing one of the smaller self service fuel stations in town, in which he stated that it cost him approximately 3c per litre of fuel to transport it to Wanaka from the North island. From what I can tell on Gaspy the approximate price in Wellington today is 226.9-229.9c; you don't need to be a maths wizz to realise that there is a whole lot more than 3c being added on to the fuel price after it leaves Wellington heading South. Food for thought. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/89383547/fuel-prices-what-costs-go-into-a-litre-of-petrol This is an interesting link from a while ago that lets you try and guess the distributing of cost in the price of fuel at the pump. I challenge you to try it before reading the next link. https://www.aa.co.nz/cars/owning-a-car/fuel-prices-and-types/petrol/ Here is a link that states that the fuel excise tax which is 66.484c then GST is taxed on top of this and the rest of the fuel price. Who doesn't love tax on tax. I'm not sure if this outdated or if things have changed if anyone has updated information I would love to see it. Another thing that i'm sure will annoy a few of you. I'm pretty tired of hearing Aucklanders complain about the new fuel tax being imposed on them. The money is to be put towards improving public transport in and around the city which is something that everyone living there has the chance to benefit from. If you have ever been overseas (especially to Europe) you will have probably had the privilege of using a well set up public transport system, they have the potential to be very convenient and save the passengers significant amounts of time and money! So sure it is a small extra cost on you now but it will (if spent well) lead to great improvements to your city's infrastructure. Also your roads may be congested but they are so good in comparison to the South island! I did a lot of driving around Auckland, the Coromandel and Tauranga earlier in the year and those roads are so smooth and well kept in comparison to what I am used to. To top that off, even with the extra fuel taxes, you will still be paying significantly less than those in the south. So quit grumbling about it. So post up your opinion/rant on the whole situation or tell me why i'm a d*ck for telling you to quit grumbling, i'm interested to hear anyone's thoughts. I didn't really proof read this... sorry if it doesn't make sense
    2 points
  12. Lol politics... Until we stop treating Political parties like sports teams we wont get very far. Bottom line is if you want to play you have too pay, neither the Govt (of any denomination) nor oil company's have any interest in lower fuel prices. Much like many home grown NZ company's the gouge is on so they take it with both hands. You dont have to look far in NZ to see local company's who charge a ridiculous mark up in NZ simply because they can while exporting far cheaper. They gouge locally to subsidize internationally because they work to the mentality that they would rather have 1% extra profit than 10% extra customers in a local setting. A little OT there, sorry... I must admit every time I fill up in the U.S. the petrol head in me gets a little tingle. Last Tuesday I took a Chevy Suburban from Quarter to full for about 60 USD... God bless America lol
    2 points
  13. Heres our fuel/refined/crude oil imports 2017 United Arab Emirates- 1.88B Singapore- 1.14B Malaysia - 625M Republic of Korea - 618M Russia - 294M Saudi Arabia - 154M Japan- 126M Australia- 119M Qatar- 114M Usa- 51M Source- statistics nz Most of our crude gets exported because its such a high quality it offsets our production of refining low quality crude. Australia buys most of it of our good stuff. As much as i hate the Gubment (all of em equally) they aren't the sole factor here. It will be interesting to see what happens when our review of Defense forces in the sandpitts come up in, november, i think? Almost willing to bet that we'll keep boots on the ground over there. Freedom, Oil and all that other fun stuff. Since i live in Levin now I have a Glorious Gull station locally, diesel and 91 are both 30C cheaper then welly and Gull 98 is about 30C i think. BP 91 currently 2.06, Diesel 1.35 Gull 91 1.99, 98 2.14 , diesel 1.28 BP in otaki, is 13 minutes down the road, 98 2.44, and the usual for 91. We're definitely in for an interesting ride.
    2 points
  14. Pointing fingers at Jacinda is like saying ftp to a cop. Why bad mouth the face that represents the decision making. I am sure as stated she has an input into the ideas provided but definitely does not have final decision. Question though for someone that doesn't know much about this whole thing, why is for example Australia still paying approx $1.67 for petrol when we are so close paying double! . is this purely just because of the NZ taxes that show as "other' do these not apply in other country's ?
    2 points
  15. I say we all chip in a grand each and buy all the e85 we can get. I haven’t done the maths on what profits/when. but don’t worry about the maths the point is we will have a lot of e85 P.s if you wanna save $ on your daily just get a cheap diesel. I get nearly 800kms per tank for around $60 if it goes up to $80 per tank It still beats the petrol mileage by around double innit oh yeah someone’s probably gonna day “diesel kms cost blah blah” And you know what I’m going to say to that riiiight ?
    2 points
  16. Below is the OP (Original Post) Submissions for or 2019 ClubSUB Clender are closed and yo ucan order yours here : http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php?/store/
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  17. Hmm photoshopped maybe. @boon so good... Tldr "it's all F***ed, enjoy it while you can" In Auckland 98 is the same as it was in 2005 when I filled up last week. have you thought about the price difference is based on yearly profit. Say each station owner want 1 million dollars profit. to get that in auckland you'll have more people paying so need less margin, in the middle of nowhere the price is way higher but less people both make the same overall. Now take prices from the post @Niran made on price breakdown, what are we missing the fuel cost is already contains a huge amount of profit to say BP since they own all the BP connects (go are privately owned) they then make the listed profit as well so they make about a $1 or 50% profit not the margin only. Yeah you got suckered and distracted So why the Blah blah blame government taxes? It all gets worse as the flow on effect is that if more people move to public transport (blah blah not here yet whining) the fuel price will start to go up even further to maintain profit levels.
    1 point
  18. Just did this too. Good deed for the day done.
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  19. If you can feel the heat from downpipe in the foot well then a possible scenario is that MAF is failing... causing your car to run lean... meaning more heat... and the extra heat is messing with the 02 sensor and the brake fluid sensor, which is pretty close to the turbo. Or maybe someone has removed the heat blanket from the firewall and removed all the heat shields from the downpipe and turbo???
    1 point
  20. I have an up pipe if you are looking for one.
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  21. No its not. Jacinda is the face of labour, greens and nzfirst coalition and if the coalition makes a bad decision, the PM/parties should be given all the criticism. Look at all the finger pointing and BS that the media told against John Key and its good, imagine if no one criticised government leaderships.. Saying ftp just means you're a dumbass.
    1 point
  22. Shitloads of factors, including cost of transportation and simple buying power. And that we get bent over a barrel by a cartel of fuel companies that are just taking the mick.
    1 point
  23. This! Would love to know as well.
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  24. Yes. Labour, NZF and the Greens to some extent. In other words, a little over half of New Zealand, as they put them there. Do you think if Jacinda secretly personally didn't like some of these decisions, she has ANY power whatsoever to prevent them going ahead? How on earth is she responsible for any of it? The Prime Minister is required to adhere to the decisions of cabinet. That is how a democracy works. Her job is to front these decisions and put the best spin on them that she can.
    1 point
  25. Okay, okay. Can u elaborate? I think i know enough to make valid arguments. I agree I should prolly stop the politics on cs forums tho lol.
    1 point
  26. You can use http://jp-carparts.com/subaru/carlist.php?maker=subaru to compare part numbers. Essential pre pickapart trip reference. Always check the price and availability on partsouq.com for new parts. Some new parts aren't actually that expensive. It's just that our local dealers have the screws turned up too tight.
    1 point
  27. Made me lol. I think it is pretty common globally for the tax component to be greater than the fuel component of the price. I don't think we are the only ones in that boat. Yeah I usually do the same, i'm not going to let the price stop me from doing what I want so i usually don't look. I pay monthly on a fuel card for a self service station so i don't even see the price I have paid until I get the bill at the end of the month anyway. I've only been paying attention to the main stations in town lately as I drive past them going to work each day and I have been finding it interesting watching it go up. Wasn't diesel under a dollar around middle of last year, or am I delusional?
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  28. Email sent... Look forward to what everyone else submits. I know there's some fantastic shots out there.
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  29. I just really need to rant for a second sorry lol. This is one thing that really pissed me off about labours decision. How can you just increase (tax) the cost of fuel without properly working out the flow on effects to the cost of living. Its always the hard working middle class that will get shafted with this kind of thing. Example: Usual family has at least 2 cars they run. Take a 50L tank on each, and take the 22 cent increase in petrol price. Most people fill up once a week. 52 weeks in a year so: 52 x 0.22 x 2 x 50 = $1144 per year per average 2 car family! That's not even considering the cost of living increases as a result. What pisses me off even more is that other industries will choose to use this as an excuse to increase prices further (just the way the world works), which makes it much worse and even more unregulated. I can't believe they haven't thought about or published this kind of stuff. The icing on the cake is that the latest report shows the government has so much surplus cash as well, inherited from a well setup previous government of course.. Oh and let's not start about the under $400 import tax as well... Let's just tax the living sh#% out of everything.. Rant over.. lol But in all honesty, it would be amazing if someone could work out and breakdown where and to whom each cent per L goes.
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  30. My pleasure. Honestly tho, there are very few tastefully modified cars out there that make me consider selling mine and buying it. Yours is one of them.
    1 point
  31. Yeahp! That’s exactly how you want to do it! Good thing @IZichard was online yesterday to direct you! Using sealant won’t be necessary as you should have a tight fit around your power cable.
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