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You can take cool photos of dirty cars too Can you beat the Southern Alps as a background

Have you popped the faceplate off and on again and checked the faceplate connection pluggy thingee? I had issues with my brand new chineese dvd headunit as the female side of the plug (headunitside) was loose and wasnt connecting properly.

I believe our system is a joke. we need a minimum driving practice standard including extreme conditions training to prepare our young people for all the conditions they will face on our roads. My ideas that I submitted during the public consultation phase of the last driver liciencing reform bill was: to have a minimum of 250hrs practice before being fully licienced preferably delivered through a school based program. to include skid training for all varations of condition and vehicle (FWD, RWD, AWD & 4WD) minimum of 50 hrs manual vehicle experience. I've seen a woman die because the driver of the car she was in didn't know how to pull his front wheel drive car out of a skid on a freshly re-paved road. I don't blame the driver for having the skid, i blame the roading contractor for not putting up temporary speed restriction signs, or realistically how we repave our highways now (dump shingle on to tar and get general traffic to pack it down, not roll it like they did in the early 80's) I cant say I have a great driving history or the best driver training but i did benefit from my own drive to be good enough to pass the test before i took it. I learnt to drive first in a friends go-cart (3 pedal jobbie) then those carts on the figure 8 tracks (tahuna beach nelson and QE2 park Chch) those experiences taught me the basics of vehicle control, the importance of proper throttle control and how to corner. I am a firm believer that everyone should learn to drive in a underpowered RWD car on gravel. (ke30 or similar)

Ruapuna Grand Prix Curcuit - 1min 54.106sec in the WRX as seen here 2min 06 sec in 1.8l GDI Legnum 2min 46 sec in Outback (rental car)

I'm not old but do enjoy loosing balls into shurbury on an ocasional basis. I'm on holiday in Qld for the next 3 weeks but would be keen for a round when i get back

Yea thats the real audio. It was on the wrap up of WRC tv and the TV coverage. Mark did say he wanted to meet up with the guy for a beer and it was not the mooners fault he crashed he shouldn't have been that easily distracted.

They Run 14lb (or at least mine does when its behaving (19lb when tis not) Should be the vf23 if it hasnt died and been replaced, they are nearly bulletproof in my experience (75,000k with a chip out of the exhaust wheel) Watch the gearbox if you're anything like every other Wrx driver out there 2nd and 4th have a habit of exploading (IME)

Awesome photos, I wish I could have been up there for it. Thanks for giving us poor south islanders a taste of the action.

I'll let you know the next time i break something as important as a clutch or gearbox

I've been looking for a mechanic equivilent since the infamous slowpai departed for Dorkland.

Name: Simon Car: '97 V3 SPD STi (Hopai's been messing with it edition) Fone: I have many Email: [email protected] AND.... I'm back