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GEoMaNTiK

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  1. Happy Birthday GEoMaNTiK!

  2. Running Vista Ultimate and it's sweet. Only drivers not available are for my UPS (no big deal - it still kicks in when a power out) and a Wireless card for my other computer. No crashes, looks good and has lots of features.
  3. It's not a colour/look that I'd normally go for but I think your machine looks HOT!!! Very different from the usual and stands out nicely, gold strips for some reason look A1. Well done on successfully changing up what every one else does.
  4. My god... both of you GET OUT OF THE WAY, that phoon looks the goods and your messing up my view.
  5. fair point... and our prime minister, little johnny lives right in his back pocket, not to mention the other sidekick tony blair. 3000 us soldiers dead in iraq, how sorry I feel for their kids and families!!!
  6. Yeah I agree, they should have given him a daily routine of torture for the rest of his life... maybe then he would begin to realise his inhumane treatment of others after suffering some himself. This is really the easy way out for Saddam and just leaves the door wide open for his matyr status to thrive and hatred to grow.
  7. Err... these water restrictions are killing the fun of my weekly car wash ritual, before Stage 2 came into play, I loved my time getting close to the T... I've forgotten what it's like. Been using a new car wash in Mill Park which is completely brushless, it's the robot style but nothing touches the car aside from high pressure water. On top wash $13, driving in you get an undercar spray, then wash, conditionier, wax style. You do have the option to give the car a quick wipe over with a very soapy brush which I had ignored for approx 3 visits. It does a good job for a 100% touch free wash, though my last visit I had no choice due to dirt buildup but to use the brush prior to the wash and the car looked great afterwards (nothing like a Meguiars or Autoglym shampoo of course). Soap from these places smells a bit dodgy, I guess we don't have many options really.
  8. Yeah that's what I thought at first, it was almost a proud explanation... But losing your car like this for a number of days and a $470 buck fine, not nice at all. It was either headsex or me sending this message, I'm gonna have to start taking it easy from here on, I don't want the same.
  9. Ahh add me to this list, mine has been doing it for a couple of months now. I've got the ZF auto too, but then I've started to notice a few funny things lately... Vibrations coming from drivers front side, a sound of broken sticks on take off or changing down gears using the manual mode and a rear undercar clunk when taking corners. Might have something to do with the way I now drive the T, driving it hard and possibly too hard.
  10. GEoMaNTiK

    Xbox 360

    Where can you buy a 360 for $500 with a hard drive? I'll buy one if I find it that cheap.
  11. Hey Guys, Have checked out this great new flick from Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear). He heads to the states to do a roundup of the best cars (or is that worst) the states have to offer when compared to Europe. Now I got the sense of a very biased opinion and the fact that he has never liked america, anyway this was one enjoyable film. This is a quick brief of some of the tested cars... He takes out various muscle cars from the Corvette Z06 (awesome power), Cadillac XLRV (surprising amount of power), basic Ford Mustang (ok), a '68 Stang (simply draw dropping muscle), then a great coverage of the Ford Mustang Cobra - one tuned by Shelby and the other by Roush. The Roush Cobra is an amazing machine, one car that Jeremy loved driving on the track, it's balance of handling and power would have me importing one if I had the $$$'s. And the supercharger on that thing sounds like a Jet as it keeps spooling. Then he moves through various crap american beasts, until he comes across my favourite - the Dodge Viper SRT/10. OHHH MAN, that thing with it's HUGE 8.3 Litre V10 is a MONSTER for power, absolutely unforgiving if you lose it, but who cares, it would be a laugh to have that much power rumbling under you. He also gets a hold of a Ford GT with all it's 500bhp, which he loves... but then the surprise package was left until last, ohh this was a sweet surprise that had me as horny as 16year old watching their first porn movie. Wait for it... Ford GTX1 - no less than 700bhp of pure excitement, rips the sh*t out of everything else he drove and he even decided to buy one after his test drive, I guess a very good idea for Ford to let him test it. You will be pissing yourself when you hear and see this thing rip through gears and just leaves you wondering how you can get your hands on one... The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - a great flick but suffers from the constant comparison to euro cars but has the right amount of cars & power to leave you in awe of the USA's love for muscle.
  12. BUGGER!!! I need to make friends with a Ford service tech and work through this, I ain't happy... and I don't really want to wait till around 100,000K's and then edit, I'll be asking for trouble.
  13. I wonder if this funky new device will allow us BF owners to hide an edit from the Ford Service Police. I'm a year & 33,000K's into my T ownership with a stocky that I'd love to edit, money is ok for a flasher & custom tune, that's about it for now, though everytime I get excited and decide to do it... that voice of reason comes in and to be honest I don't want my warranty canceled by Ford. So with this new Xcalibrator2 and the option to clear error codes, I'm interested if anyone might know if this tool can help in this area. BA's don't seem to be an issue, as long as you flash back to standard prior to warranty/service, however the BF has always had a question mark with detectability from the Ford Boys.
  14. Awesome price man for a HD-DVD player to move into HD Heaven, caught a look at a Samsung Blu-Ray DVD Player at JB Hifi tonight, damn it looked so sweet, talk about realism, even on a smallish LCD screen. I'm not really up for the format battle, I'll go either way and eventually their will be players that will play both, so it won't really be too much of an issue. Hmm you might be right, but call me a tight arse - I ain't paying over $500 for a games machine, so I might be waiting a while... considering I want the premium version and not the core. This might just make me eat my words and go buy a 360... I love Forza on the box, still play it and can't get enough.
  15. And the RRP for Australia mid next year blew me away at just on $1K for the deluxe system and approx $850 for the core. Can't wait for the PS3 to be launched here and then hopefully the 360's price will plummet and then I can buy a HD-DVD drive for it when available, all coming in well below the price those knob ends on ebay paid.
  16. and it sold for... wait for it... $3,700 OHHH YOU BLOODY IDIOT!!! WELL NOW HE/SHE CAN TELL THEIR FRIENDS THEY HAVE A PS3 WITH A BLU-RAY DRIVE AND CAN PLAY THE AVERAGE AT BEST GENERATION 1 GAMES... Hey it was nice of the seller to throw in postage, might have hit the $4K mark if not for that.
  17. Guys, you can't miss this auction, you'll kick yourself. Just check out how cheap this PS3 is going for... http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...ADME:B:EF:US:11 and this could only happen on ebay, a $1000 console to be delivered on the launch day in the states to the winner... At the time of this post, it's current bid price is $2,248 (US) which is $2,940 Aussie bucks, what a bloody joke!!! I would have my edit sorted along with a bigger cooler... ahhh and there is about 3hrs to go, scray stuff.
  18. This one line will give you your answer to why you feel like you're being shot down. You asked the question and these are the opinions you have received. Personally I think your mod cheapens the look of the T and I wouldn't do it, however like others have said - it's your car and whatever you do to it and like it, well who gives a rats what anyone thinks. But if you ask what other people think, this can happen. Just like my choice of a HGAG, now that in itself kicks up dust with most, do I care?? NOPE, it's my choice and I'm happy with it.
  19. Phew... just finished watching this nutter of a movie (if you can call it that) This series has got a huge cult following for it's nasty & absolutely crazy high speeds in the best supercars around the streets of Stockholm. Series 7 features at first a BMW M3 E46 and then followed by a M5 E39, this guy is followed by no less than 7 cop cars which just can't match the super speeds of these machines. He blows past cop cars and through red lights like the madman he must be, the website claims he is a professional with years of experience - I trust this is true but it's only a matter of time before some serious accident happens - even in the dead of night in Sweden. Mr. X allows the cops to get close and then just punches the pedal and pulls away in seconds, the lights flash into the distance until he comes across another Welcoming committee who are also left for dead. Gotta say I just couldn't stop watching, speeds hit well past the 250K/Hr mark and both sounded AMAZING!!! The M3 has the real Turbo whistle while the M5 has the awesome meaty growl powering through the night and you'll just have to check it out for yourself to see if any of the Swedish cops with their planned welcomes work on Mr. X btw I've also seen Series 6 which features a Dodge Viper GTS & Porsche 911 GT3 out to play on the streets, crazy sh*t.
  20. now that's what I would love to see up against a VE and the BF launches with the new ZF are generally a little bit quicker...
  21. Maybe the very confident owners are the ones that read Motors specs, raided the bank and ran to their local Expensive Daewoo dealer in pursuit of low 13's. Now if Motor isn't blowing smoke up everyones arses and are correct - F6 owners BEWARE!!! If Wheels holds the truth, then it will be pretty equal for the VE SS & BF T and the F6 will destroy the newbie on the block. Can't wait to hear the results...
  22. The new SS specs are 13.8 1/4 which is only .2-3 quicker than a T. So this is an opportunity for someone with a stock T to get their machine down to WSID and show how quick a T is... would be nice for a BF 6spd auto and good launch, who knows what will happen???
  23. The F6 should beat a VE SS, heat and all... and if it doesn't, the SS boys will be grinning all the home. It's not really the ideal showdown, after all we are talking about an FPV up against a mass produced SS, would be better for a HSV vs FPV run.
  24. Exactly!!! So whats the price Motor??? Feel a bit sorry for those influenced by those figures and expecting to achieve them. If confronted, either Expensive Daewoo or Motor could just explain that all cars out of the factory are not the same and you can't pin the same figure to all cars off the assembly line. Which is true, but not by this big amount. Boycotting Motor from here on - not that one person will make any diff.
  25. Whats the prob with Fog Lights in the day, I see other cars with them and I've never been startled or zoned out and crashed the car due to this. On the highways or freeways, I would tell everyone to switch em on as overtaking in the distance would make it easier to judge the distance of other cars. I always leave my fogs on during the day... maybe the people complaining can't afford to add fog lights to their Daihatsu Charades, who knows.
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