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Sorry mate but there is no beauty there. I'm with pazzo, they look sh*t aftermarket on almost everything. The standard ones on euro cars generally look ok but even some of those are pretty crap. The first Porche examples looked crap, don't even have to mention the HSV. They just look like an afterthought and don't fit in with the rest of the design. Almost as bad as some of these failed attempts here. BTW who ever does light design for Audi must be in high demand in the industry, they just look awesome front and back. Especially the new LED tail lights.

That asking price can't be helping either, I know no one pays anything close to 38 000 for an XT but when your general clueless public looks for a car and checks out the prices online/broshures or what not and see 38 000 they will not even go near it if they are planing to spend around 30. And let's be honest your mazda3, corolla, camry buyers don't know you can get an XT for closer to 30 then the 38 that it's advertised at. Everyone expects to knock off a bit of the price but not that much.

Falken 328 or something (can't remember the exact number) will last you for ages, cheap too. Grip not the best though...

2nd vote for removing the rubber stri, not a HUGE difference but does let a fair bit of heat out...

F_kn bunch of whiners you lot are. We all know falcon is struggling (and that's an understatement). The biggest problem is in people's perception. But they had to try something, personally I think diesel would have been a better option but this is the next best thing. If I had to choose between this and the NA6 I would pick this. And as cobramad said, it's all about perception, sheep automatically think 4 cylinder is more economical than 6. 6 is slower than 8 etc... Has anyone driven the thing? How is the real world fuel consumption? We all know turbo engines get VERY thirsty when pushed...

And in NSW it's only legal to go one inch above the largest wheel size shown on the tyre sticked on the door seal.

Here you go, here you can see how your rolling diameter and speed will change with different tyre/wheel sizes... http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

Shoulders are not closed in like they are in some racing buckets, they seem prettu flat up on top just a bit curved with those vings lower on the backrest and the seat to hold you in. So unless you're a fat cu*t you should be fine.

Should be fine.

Can you imagine the avantador with a twin turbo?

Car porn!!! So how many times would I need to prostitute myself to afford this?

Please don't! Edit: Aimed at the cannon idea...

I'm with sex panda, check the flywheel and everything else in there. A friend had a smiliar issue on an RB25 but ONLY with the clutch in, turned out to be a missing berring of some sort some dumb f*ck performance shop owner left out when doing an engine swap. His shuddering started a lot earlier too...

He tried to make a deal with them, even told them to just return the car and froget about the claim (which would not have costed them anything) but they said the car was already proccessed as a write off, it was too late. He's applying for an RTA approval to fix it. Only thing he can do now by the looks of it. Thanks everyone for your help.

You said "It happens while driving and or stand still with the clutch in" When you say while driving is it with the clutch in or clutch out, or both?

Yeah something like that...

Thanks mate, that was helpfull. Looks like everything is a statuttory write off now but you can get an approval to repair some cars. He hasn't signed any papers or received the check yet but has verbally agreed to it as they said that was the only option. Might give them a call myself and see if anything can be negotiated. The worst thing was they wrote it off without consolting him first, he only had the option of buying the car back. Can they reverse a write off if they want to? There was no tow bar on the Rav4, I had a quick look couple of days ago and even the aircon condenser is fine.

Hi Guys, Figured there must be few of you here to know a thing or two about how insurance companies work so here goes the storry. Wife's brother had a minor accident in his 01 Type R, rear ended a rav4. Rav4 damage so small that the owner said not to worry about it. The Honda bonet, lights, bumper, radiator and radiator support need changing. Anyway had insurance (AAMI), so sent it off to them and they come back saying it's being written off. This generally wouldn't be a problem but the idiot insured the car for 12 when he paid 18000 for the car only few months earlier. When he heard this he told them not to do anything just to return him the car and he'll get it fixed but apparently it was too late as it was already written off and it could not be reverted. The best thing it's a statutory write off, and while he purchased the car back from them he can only use it for parts, can't register it again. Statutory write off on a car without ANY structural damage, not even guards are damaged? I can't understand it. Does this sound right to anyone? Does he have any options or just cop it and shut the F up? Thanks

Well you can't buy a good body and two good lenses for under $1000 I had both of those and I didn't mind the 55-250 but 18-55 felt sh*t. Does anyone know if the 18-135 is any better? Or 18-105 from nikon?

^^^ What he said

DUS12 I find it amusing you think a month is not enough time to have look at the engine.

OP Wasn't bitching, he just told us his side of the storry and asked about other peoples oppinions and experiences with atomic engines. Has actually been very mature about it all. They found few issues with the engine and decided to send it back, remember OP lives in the middle of nowhere so sending the engine back was his best option after finding few issues with it (unrelated if his actual probmem is engine related or not). If Engine has been with Atomic for 2 weeks now you're hope it would be looked at by now. turbotrana just because someone has a performance shop doens't mean they know what they are doing, I can't believe how many idiots are out there, there is probably more idiots than good ones.

lrmcdowell why do you think it's the ECU? I'm sure the ECU wouldn't care what gear the car is in.

Didn't think the box has sensors to tell which gear you're in, except reverse obviously. Could it be possible the reverse switch is stuffed and sendng wrong signas when the stick is in 5th or 6th? Few times I've popped it out of gear with cruise controll still active and it goesn't disengage instantly like it does when you touch the brake. It only turns it off after the wevs raise a fair bit but speed stays the same, it realises something is wrong and turns it off. That's why I think there is no sensors for each gear.