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There's a professional radio. That's front wheel drive.
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They see us in. There OK, and because it's not a

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super duck, it's not automatic. Perfection comes in the form of
2 letters A&U. Long away of my Ltd.
Welcome to Car Talk. It's Tuesday night here at 98.9
Northwest FM. It's me, Maddie J in the studio
with Mr Alan Deep Singh online with Mr Edward, Tom Bunting.

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There you go. There's, there's, there's a bit
of trivia for you. Scotty Doe Johnson, David
Prince. How are we, gentlemen?
Very good. Hello.
Very well. Thank you.
Thank you very much. Good to see you guys, good to
have Alan back. I'm happy to be back.
It's been a while. He's.
A working man. I am.

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I am. I think it wasn't this but
brightest. I'd spent half the last six
weeks in Mackay and 1/2 in Melbourne, so almost became a
Queensland man. Queenslander.
Yeah, but I don't like that place.
It's really a. Shame to be in Queensland during
winter in Melbourne I. Know, you know, again, that was,
that was pleasant, but you know,I'm a Melbourne man.
It is what it is, all right. Answer the question shorts and T

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shirt when you were there or were you in full?
Pants. Or pants.
Geez, you are a working girl, did you?
Enjoy a beer while you were there, Alan.
Yeah. Yeah, you do.
It'll be an Australian, not. To I have a beer in Melbourne
even though it's 2° I don't care.
Oh, that's awesome. No, well, it's good to have you
back. Good to see you guys.
Let's get on with some car updates.

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Alan Deep, we haven't seen you in a while.
We'll start with. You all righty now I've got to
work with what I remember. So I received a Toyota Corolla
this time as my most recent rental car.
OK, so I went from an Outlander,which is Sportage, which is
pretty all right. And then when we had a

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guarantee, two people, they gaveme the smallest car.
So yeah, that was interesting. It was a nice little thing
overall, kind of nickel, yeah. Hybrido or is it petrol?
Petrol. No, not a hybrid.
Do they have CVTS? They do.

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Yeah, because when I put into sport mode, because it had sport
mode, so I was using sport mode,that that's my rule.
It seemed a bit more like it wasjust, yeah, adjusting, I guess
the transmission ratio rather than actually, you know, being
more sporty with the. Rubber band was being tweaked.
Yes, yes. So that was that was an
interesting experience out of the the three cars I think

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they've given me as rentals, probably the zippiest, but I
don't know, the interior felt a little a little cheaper overall.
Yeah, maybe due to the spec of the the Corolla I got, but I
don't know the complaints. It was a pretty good car.
I had enough boot space as the sedan.
Oh. You got a Sedan 1.
Yes, I've got a sedan, but whileI was there I also received the

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company car which was a Toyota Hilux manual.
Oh. Manual.
Yeah, pretty not like very new. I think it was AI.
Don't know the exact model, but I'd say it's at least 2
generations old. So, you know, it had some add
insurance like somebody had obviously added a reversing
camera in the unit, done the double, that sort of stuff.

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It belonged to the gentleman wholeft the company and so it was
just kind of parked there. So if I was doing parts runs, I
was, I was taking the Hilux. And I'm not saying I did this,
but there may or may not have been a 3rd to 4th shift a couple
of times without a clutch which went fine.
Absolutely fine the 4th to 5th. I'm not saying there was a

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grind, but I didn't try that oneagain.
Question, did they assume you couldn't drive a manual?
No, they just they were called off just to throw the keys.
They. Just threw the keys.
Yeah, they, I think they assumedI just could.
And I was like, hey, that's, that's bold of you, you know,
considering. Millennials can't drive manual.
Yeah, that's that's the rule, isn't?
It Are you a Millennial alum? I am, I am sorry, why we're on.

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Except, sorry, I won't. I won't bring your generations
into. It yeah, no, we won't go up the
chain, but the yeah, manual you.Don't drive a manual on.
Sorry. Sorry.
Can, yes, you can. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But just with just with the assumption most, most
millennials can't drop, Yeah. Yeah.
I guess if you're working in thekind.
Of some. Fact heavy heavy machinery side.

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They'll assume that you you can't very least do it.
But you know, for all they knew,I could have just said, I don't
know, do the gears, it's not gone.
And D which one's D you? Know put in an H.
Yeah, put in an H But yeah, the the Hilux was nice, a bit bit
bulky, but it was nice to just drive a manual that, you know, I

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didn't really, I'm not saying I didn't care about the car, but
you know, it was nice to just have a a manual that especially
on the wetter days, it did get alittle unruly.
Not that I would ever do anything funny in a in a company
car. I had five Hiluxes for work over
the years. Like for my my third work you
was a Hilux. That was my first one and I buy

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the mix council, you know, with about 30,000 K's on the clock
and they just got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
The last one I got was a was thethe V6 extra cab which hammered
absolutely we felt. A ripped.
Brain, great thing, drank like afish, but it was a Ripper Ute

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but it was enormous trying to park it anywhere.
Yeah. And that was the last one I had.
They just, they just got too bigfor, for what I need and for for
where I work, you know, trying to park them in chaos and stuff
like that. Was that a Manuel as well?
No, all my highlights is what auto?
Actually. OK.

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Yeah, I think about it. So you can tell David was the
Melbourne man, you know. He's the Melbourne man.
Yeah, we do automatic again. Yeah, the manual in Mackay is
like, well, there's there's nowhere to stop.
You just kind of throw in gear in your own way, pop it in.
Hey, there's not much traffic, so it was all right.
Took the D Max finally for its service, about a month overdue

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but I didn't reach the K so it'ssigned and they try to slug me
hard this time. Really.
What do they think they do? So they the usual things are do
you fuel Philtre your cabin, Philtre your cabin air
conditioning, sanitation, which we, as I discussed with David,
we suspect it's just that they're equivalent of the mobile

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ice can that you just run and recirculate the air
conditioning? Yeah, and charged me.
I think they wanted 120 bucks for that.
Yeah, Yeah, it's about 100. Bucks or something?
Yeah. And I thought OK.
You could say no to that. Yeah, I said no to all of it.
Not. Doing any of it.
The only thing I said yes to wasthe wheel alignment check,
purely because that'll be my trump card to Isuzu once.

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Yeah, there's uneven tyre wear. The the other thing they wanted
this time was they advised me that my break shoes, because the
rears are drums, the shoes and drums need a replacing.
I'll get out at 43 or 40. Yeah, 42 in a bit thousand
don't. Do anything.

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That's a bit. Ridiculous I said what they're
like it won't make it to the next service.
I'm like, okay, cool story, you know, like don't change it.
No, I said no because the, the the service was cap price at
$687.00 or something, she said. And then they're like you.
Get a gold. Yeah, and and then they're like,
Oh yeah, by the way, these brakes aren't going to make to
the next service. That'll be another $1300,

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please. I said 28. 100 for shoes.
Yeah, right. I said oh they take a photo and
show me They they. They didn't allegedly send me a
photo with like the little 3 milthing saying it's at 3 mils it's
not going to make it to the nextservice.
I'm like, are you exclusively running me on my rear brakes or
something that like, you know, well, is my handbrake constantly
on this like, you know, keeping the shoes rubbing.

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I've. Never seen that before.
Like drums last forever, really,but not forever.
But like a long time. Yeah, so they said yeah, shoes
and drums recommended you have 1300 bucks and I was like yeah,
no, deny because they said you that little thing that you just
signed and authorised on the just deny everything.
Deny, deny, deny. No, I authorise you to do the

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alignment and the service, whichis, you know, obviously great.
That's it. Leave my car alone and you take
it to. Somewhere else just to say, can
you just check my brakes? No, Well, I, I have faith that
again, I I know how I drive because I'm the only person that
drives the car. Even though again, technically
it's my dad's. I don't think there'd be
anything wrong. I'm just going to wait till the
next service and then take it toan independent mechanic.

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Just get them to the log book service and we'll go from there.
Yeah. Because yeah, I've had enough
like. That's a joke.
Yeah, just every single time they're like, oh, you know, last
time they wanted me to do tyres and you know, they didn't
weren't concerned about the uneven wear on the tyres, but
they were like your tyres are worn enough to change them.
Yeah, I've kind of had enough. And they didn't even give them

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my bloody paperwork for the actual service.
Like they they had little pictures everywhere saying we've
gone paperless now for the environment.
We'll send you your your paperwork digitally.
Oh God, shit all. Yeah, they sent me a little
review thing to hey, rate our service and I'm like, I'm going
to start putting A0IN, but I'm going to call them tomorrow and
say can I have my actual one, I want the alignment sheet that's

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important. And two, I just want the rest of
the documentation that says, yes, you did the service, you
took my money real fast. But surprisingly, like last time
I did the service, they took allday.
This time they gave me the car in about 3 and a bit hours.
OK. And I wonder why it was because
maybe it was because they gave me a courtesy car.

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I was in a brand new D Max. It wasn't, it wasn't top of the
range. I think it was like an LSU or
something, but it was it was clearly the 2025 model had you
know, and kind of upgraded infotainment screen.
The the CarPlay hooked up a lot quicker than my one does.
I think the speedometer and stuff is now digital.

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So the whole cluster's more digital than the previous one.
Not enough to warrant an upgradein my opinion.
You would have at this point with 680 bucks whatever was cap.
Pricing, Yeah, yeah. So it was nice to just it's.
That quality just oil and philtre.
Yeah, basically. Jesus.
Christ. Oh, actually no, no, something
about something about rocket cover gaskets, which I think is

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dumb. Wait, rocket cover gaskets now?
Yeah, it's, it was listed on theactual service thing and I'm
like really, I guess. To change or to.
I said I'm pretty sure it said change, but then again like a
standard. Give me the actual work.
You could tell us, probably. Yeah, if I had the paperwork, I
would. Yeah, I would.
So maybe stay tuned for next week's programme before I would
just get this bloody paperwork, see what they actually did.

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But it's just the the standard service as far as I can tell.
And 600 bucks for that. Yeah, like you would think.
All right, at 45,000, if you're supposed to change the fuel
philtre, that should be part of your bloody, you know, 45,000 K
service, not part of the extras.Luckily for me, I've got a field
sitting at home and I'll do that.

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They wash the car poorly, which is fine, pretty standard.
Yeah. So that was my my couple of
weeks of cars. Like I said, the new DMX.
If you're in for a DMX, maybe don't get a service by then.
It's fine. But overall, I didn't again,
it's not warranting an upgrade for me at least it was nice to
be like, Oh yeah, this is the new one.

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It feels about the same. You heard it here first.
Yeah. I wonder if it's got tie wear
issues? That's that's the real question,
isn't it? Absolutely.
I should have swapped the tyres there.
We're also joined by Rob. Well, thank you.
How are we all? Very well, mate, very well.
Good. Thank you.
Updates. Updates with me.
I've got a phone call from Ford Australia today.

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Oh, OK. They're telling me that the
steering rack's been replaced, it's all fixed and Bayford's are
telling them that, telling Ford Australia that I'm refusing to
pick up the car. Is that true?
Rob? Are you refusing?
I haven't refused it. I just want the car fixed, yeah.
And so in your eyes, that isn't fixed.

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In my eyes they yeah they say the diff noise is normal and you
need to put the barrier up so you don't hear the noise.
So why were they replacing the steering rack?
Oh, that was noisy as well. Wow.
That's. Ridiculous.
No, this is a fun. Project So what?
So what happens now? Is it just a standoff like a
Mexican standoff? A bit of a Mexican standoff from

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Turkey, but what they're saying is I need to deal with the
service manager and, and work itout with them in what we're
going to resolve because Ford Australia is saying I need to
deal with them. Ford won't send an engineer out
there to check check it or oversee it.
They they said no. It's up to the the dealership to

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sort it out, so I'm going to work with the dealership to
either get it fixed, get it replaced, or get my money back.
How many KS on that van? About 12,000 kilometres and spin
back 4 * 1 foot is the the engine sensor and engine warning

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light coming on that was in a ina shop for about almost two
months. Wow.
Until that was the first two weeks I had the car and then
within that 12 month period of diff started getting noisy.
So the diff was replaced once. Then I drove it for a little
about four weeks and then I tookit back because I still wasn't

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happy with the diff was still noisy.
They reckon they replaced it thesecond time.
So it's 3 diffs. Geez, right.
And they, I complained about thesteering rack being noisy when
you, when you turn it, it's all squeaking.
I don't reckon it was a steeringrack.
But anyway, it was something, a Bush or something somewhere that

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wasn't lubricated. Happy anyway, so that they, they
said they replaced the steering rack and they're not going to
replace the diff because they'vereplaced it twice and, and it's
still noisy. But I said it's noisy at
different speeds. So what, what's changed?
And why is it any noisy between 90 kilometres and 70 kilometres

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an hour when you decelerate? And I said, well, now you need
to put the barrier back up, that's normal.
So I can put ear plugs in too. But that's where the Ford's at.
So I'll see. I'll have to ring up the the
dealership tomorrow and have a discussion with him to see what

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we do now just. On the on the steering one,
there's a little side note. My model Pajero, a very
renowned, in fact, all all of that shape, a very renowned for
where the steering column goes into the firewall.
There's a rubber grommet and therack, you know, moves around
inside that grommet and it sounds like it's coming right

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from the steering wheel where you're holding it.
You know this. Or.
As you, as you think. Around corners, exactly the
same. And all the patch guys on the
front are like you just keep that the tube of that rubber
compliant. Grease, Grease.
In your console and when it doesthat you just stick your finger
up under the dash and roll a bitaround it.
I've done to my dad's one which is a lot newer than mine.

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I've done to mine a couple of times and it and it shuts it up
for a time, you know? I think it's the same thing.
They all, they all. Do it.
Yeah, it's a simple simple. Fix.
It's a simple fix, but they're bullshitting now.
Yeah, just to say that they've done it.
Yeah. Yeah, I know that.
You know, like there's no way they're going to go changing a
steering rack. No, no.
And that's doesn't sound like a rack noise.

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No, yeah, but they're saying they change the they've actually
changed the steering rack anyway, so we'll see what
happens. That's that car went for a drive
in the 300 SC on the weekend, driving nicely.
The coop. Yeah.
So that's peeling along or pairing along.
Because that's a proper car built by proper craftspeople.

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Yes, and the diff's over 50 years old and it's still OK.
Yeah, despite being yeah, 1960 something, it's remarkably still
good. Wow.
Actually, it reminds me of the diffs in the E 30s that had a
lot of problems, very noisy likemy Ford does.
But anyway. But yeah, so drove the 300 just,

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yeah, just cleaned that, sort ofshined up the Chrome on it.
Yeah, just yeah. It's a lovely car that I really
like that car. It's it's a different car to the
Mustang. The Mustang was rough, bouncy,
smelt like fuel when you got outof it, no power steering, no air
conditioning. This is a bit more you got the
power steering, you got the air conditioning.

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It's you can cruiser. It's a cruiser.
It's a nice cruiser luxury. Yeah.
So no, that was pretty much it with the cars.
I don't think I've done much else.
I would just have to play musical cars to get all the cars
out. They have to move six cars to
get to 1. But that's OK, that's.
OK, that. That's just normal.
Let's. Hash hash tag everyone on this

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call. Yeah, it becomes annoying
because you just want to start them and drive them without
having to move three cars to getto 1.
Yes, it's the dream to have themall in line.
Yes, yeah, that'd be good. The SCC still not that the pain
hasn't started on it yet, so I'll have to give him push along

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again on the weekend because he said he was going to start 2
weekends ago. So I don't know what's going on
there. He just keeps on pushing it
further and further away. So I don't know when Chad's
car's going to ever be done, but.
I think he's after meeting him the other day, I think he's
pretty. He's taking on more than he can
chew, to be fair. He's.

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Look, he he does a good job now.He's yeah, that's good.
He does some real nice work. Yeah.
He does a lot of JDM cars, a lotof Hondas.
And he, he resprayed the entire Jazz.
It was black. I think it's Pearl white now.
Yeah, he's done a real nice job on it.
And he does up a lot of yeah, BRZS and stuff like that.

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Yeah. Body kits.
He loves his body kits and bumper bar repairs and all that
sort of stuff. Yeah, you're cool.
Yeah, there you go. Lovely Edward Bunting.
Hello, few things. So the Wasp has mechanically
pretty much everything is done on that car.
Did I talk about the rocket gaskets last time we how did the

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rocket gaskets? So I have sent that to panel.
It's currently getting the rear bar done and the mirror caps
because they were just a little bit faded compared to the rest.
And the rear bars had a bit of he's, he's stuffing around with
it longer than normal because it's had a had a repair before
and he said it was just a bit WAVY.
So he's trying to get that as good as he can.
I was like, that's fine, have itas long as you need, as long as

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you've got space for it, that's fine.
Unless it's into October and then we're in trouble.
So yeah. We're in trouble.
Yeah, just sort that out. So he'll have that for a week.
So that's where the Wasp is. What else?
Everything else I've sold exceptthe the the million mile of CRV,
I'm just driving around in that no one can believe the mileage

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of that car. You know, everyone I come across
who sees it is just like what? It's funny.
I was with Maddie J on Sunday morning.
We went out for a little wreckerrun and as we pulled into the
car park at Jolly's Dandenong, there were two Gen 2 CRVS right
next to each other. So I parked next to the so
there's three CRVS and I got outand I'm like, Maddie, what the
Hell's going on this CRV day? And I'm taking a taking a photo

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of the three. And then the guys came out who
owned those two and we were chatting to them and, and they
said, oh, Gen one, wow, that's really clean.
Oh, that's nice. And I was like, it is, it is.
And have. A look at the Speedo and they
couldn't believe the Speedo and.I believe, I believe his words
were what the then I said. To him, I said, oh, it's going

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to be for sale soon. You know what?
What do you reckon it's worth? And he's like 05 grand.
And I was like really 5 grand. Yeah.
And he he was really he goes, Ohyeah.
People don't care about the mileage.
That's really nice condition, you know, and I'm thinking, I
mean, they might not care about 300,000 K, but 556, you know,
despite how well drives anyway. So that was it was heartening to
hear these Honda guys speaking highly of it and sort of pumping

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the value. Coming out, Yeah.
To what I maybe thought. So there you go.
That's your CRV, you know. Is it completely the CRV or
we're going to wait for wait fora oh?
No, no, I'm talking about the next one.
Now you know. Yeah, use the the bins I bought
about a month and a half ago. 380 SEL one of my favourite all

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time models. 1984 W 126 The big banger from the 1980's The
managing directors car, the drugLords car, the mark your boss's
car. This is.
This is it. Long the.
Rob the Rob's a die car. You've had one of that, Rob?
Yeah. I gave it away.
I shouldn't have given. I've had a couple of those over
the years. And so I, yeah, I've spent a lot

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of time poring over the details of W126's.
My dad had one for 10 years. I've owned two or three since
then. And they are a car that I keep
coming back to and, and have always liked.
Anyway, this one didn't move when I got it, as I've mentioned
before. And so it went in to have
transmission works done. The box did have to come out to
it. The mechanic replaced a band or

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two, some Pistons. The valve body was OK, you know,
resealed the whole box, you know, adjusted it all, put it
all back together. And Friday lunchtime was the
first time I'd driven that car. And it was, I thought I'll give
this car a bit of a shakedown over the the last weekend.
You know, I drive it home in Punt Rd traffic.
You can't really tell whether it's good, bad or otherwise in,

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in that sort of driving. So I took it down to the beach
Friday night and drove it aroundall the peninsula all day
Saturday. And pretty much by the end of
Saturday, I was like, yeah, you're staying with me.
It's a. It is a very, very clean car.
It's. A beautiful.

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I was saying to Matt, Maddie's seen it now on the weekend and
he drove it. Yeah.
And I was saying like, you know,you know, as Rob, you would know
the details of where those cars where and all the things that go
wrong with the common spots. And this car just has none of
them, you know, almost none of them.
So like woodwork perfect dash not cracked in the corners near

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the speed original Becker stereo.
Of course we like that original Herschmann aerial that goes up
and down It works. You know the steering wheel has
a tiny bit of you know, we're tothe top that commensurate with
the 214,000 KS on it. The boot you open it up the boot
carpet is literally new. The spare wheel is the original

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Michelin with the cardboard tag still on it.
You know, like just everywhere you look, it's like that's
factory, that's factory, that's factory, that's factory, that's
factory. That's correct, that's correct,
that's correct. And it drives beautifully.
Like the box now was the only weak point, but the on my dad's
old one, you know, which was always serviced and well looked

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after with similar caves when wegot it, whenever I'd get in and
I'd give it a boot, you know, when it was when it was hot,
just to give it a good clear outbecause dad puttered around in
it, even though it did a fair bit of highway.
And you'd always get this sort of, you know, unburned fuel out
the back. Not not blue grey oil smoke, but
just unburned fuel from the muffler and just bad could clean
it. You do that on this car.
You don't see a thing. It's it's whisper cleaner at the

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back. It's, it's unbelievable.
It is. It is that good.
It's got the original Cocoa mat and, and the paint on it, you
know, I, it was a bit dusty whenI got it back from the mechanic.
I washed it for the first time on the weekend.
And when you look down the side that that line down the side of
it, this thing is so straight and I can't see that it's had

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paint anywhere. The paint is remarkable.
It's just, you know, a 41 year old car is gonna have some bird
poo stains and some this that car is just phenomenally clean
and straight. So it's for all these reasons
and I just thought, oh God, I don't think, I don't think I
could sell this. What's?
The colour combination. What's the colour combination?

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Thistle. Green.
On. Palomino, which is the sort of
tanny brown colour so. Green on the brown one was the
same colour. Wow.
The great colour scheme yeah andthis car has some nice options
it's got the headlight wipers and washers, it's got the
factory early style alloy wheels.

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It's got the electric seats front and rear and the electric
sliding rear seat and it's got the town and country horn
option, which is. A funny.
Little button on the dash that means the the town horn is like
bop bop bop and then you flick it to the country was like like
a like a truck. Yeah so it's it's all of these

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things combined. As I said to another friend on
the weekend, if that was a white, no sunroof, short
wheelbase 280 SE in that condition, it'd still be a
lovely car, but I wouldn't be going wow you.
You, you wouldn't be in love with it.
It's a 380, it's a long wheelbase, it's a great colour
scheme, it's great options. I bought it off the original
family that bought it new and itdrives superbly.

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I'm just like, oh bugger it, I'll I'll find space.
I'll sell a kidney. I'll do it.
And it is covered, isn't it? It's undercover.
It's in my garage right now. Yeah, Correct.
Nice. None of my cars live on the
street, Rob, except Sydney at the moment.
OK, good. So that's the 380.
But yeah, Maddie had to drive and it's it's, it's a nice

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machine. Yeah, it's, it's a lovely old
bus. I I really liked it.
Yeah. Because they can feel, as, you
know, Rob, pretty gloppy and pretty tired, and it's kind of a
cruiser car anyway. But but this just, yeah, it
doesn't feel that. So.
I like it. I like it.
What else? Car wise, I think that's about

(26:42):
it, I think. I don't think MX5, I've driven
that a few times recently. Yeah, no, nothing else.
You're crazy. Scooby.
Me, I've actually got nothing totalk about, nothing car wise.
I've just been working all weekend, earning some little

(27:04):
extra Monet, yeah. Very good commands.
Yeah, doing the old plastering I.
Was going to say, what are you doing Scott?
Like house plastering. Yep.
Yeah, he was. He was at the hospital
plastering people's arms up. He could be creating the
Michelangelo's David, you know, recreation.
I don't know. Brothers of Plaster is just, he

(27:27):
just does some side work here and there through connections
that he's made with builders andstuff and it's extension on
someone's home. So normally it's a fairly old
house that I assumes like a three bedroom, but they've done
this massive extension and addedan extra 2 bedrooms and each

(27:48):
one's got a en suite and anotherbig area with the really high
rate ceiling. Like really high rate ceiling.
We have to get a scaffold in andthat to get to the top of that
one gabled roof. Yeah, they'll be.
So they'll be spewing now because they're going to bring

(28:09):
in a tax for extra rooms if they're not being used.
Skillion roof. Skillion is on a like that.
Don't you sand it and all that sort of stuff, Hung.
It and then I went through on Sunday and helped kind of clean
up all the all the off cuts and everything.
And my brother went through and did the the other bits where he

(28:33):
through the joins and everythingand stuff.
And he's got a team that will come through and put up the
cornice, OK. And then he just comes through
with the electric Sander and just.
So it's not square stopped anywhere.
It's square. It's only corners in the
bedrooms. OK in the bedrooms and some

(28:55):
other little living area thing, but the rest of it's all square
set. Nice.
Welcome to better homes and gardens.
You're. Here.
I'm going up a bedroom at the moment so you can come over to
my place and finish off the plant.
Square set looks really good it.Does.

(29:16):
I just think reckon you look hilarious.
If you did the sanding, you'd end up looking like Santa.
Santa Claus. Yeah, you would.
You met your beard would match my beard.
It. Would be matching.
I have, I have, I have before. I can imagine.
He's got me up there doing like just around the corners of a
different place we did once and I'm there that's sanding away by
hand all the way through and it's just all here and all here

(29:40):
and it feels so dry. Yeah.
Well, at least you'll know what you'll look like in about 50
years time. And yeah, I look handsome.
Yeah, yeah, handsome devil silver fox over here.
Wow. Anyway, David Prince, I've left

(30:01):
with you. What do I have?
I picked up the 85 Accord that sailed through its roadie last
week. Haven't got the roadie written
up yet because there's some conjecture of what's going to
happen to it. And no, it's not going to appear
in my garage or remain in my garage.
Just before anyone asks A. Smart.

(30:22):
Move, David. So thought, well I've got to go
down and pick it up. Do I get an Uber down or no?
I took the N1 down, dropped thatoff at the service centre, got a
oil and philtre done on that. And tomorrow that's going to get
picked up from the service centre and dropped around the
corner at a company that I do work for, and they're going to

(30:43):
put a head unit in, a new head unit in it.
Oh nice. So that I actually have Apple
CarPlay and can see. Evidently Maddie will tell you,
but. Not in Japanese writing.
Now, well, someone borrowed. It a few weeks ago and it came
back and I it thinks it's whenever you turn the car on
now, it thinks it's it's still at the docks of Nagoya and it

(31:06):
tries to find its way out and itkeeps saying turn right, turn
right. So every time that's now their
default situation, the the default thing that it just goes
to that. So that's only one, one thing.
I mean, you never know with those because yours has been
done Scotty in displayed, hasn'tit?

(31:27):
It's not an aftermarket. It's a local head unit in that.
Mine's still all original. Oh, OK.
Because the other thing is if you get, I mean the Bluetooth
works fine, all that, but if youget a call in, you can't tell
who, it just brings the number up.
It doesn't bring the contact up.So you know, and it would be
not. You can't sort of what's the

(31:49):
name, you know, like not pick upwhen I ring or something.
No, no, it won't give you if if if in your phone book with your
contacts in, you know, Yeah, butI mean if.
You want to sort of ignore me and let it go to voicemail?
You can't do that. No, True.
That's right. That's right.
Yeah. Let everybody go to voicemail.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
So I, yeah, I, I, I had access to 1 very good price.

(32:12):
So we'll just bunk that in and see how we go.
And we've got all that sort of stuff.
So I'm trying to move over to CarPlay for everything.
The box you'll be next I think if I keep it.
You'll be you'll be able to see David.
I'm happy to help you. See.
Finally I'll be able to see. With any of those, I'm happy to
help as you know. Thank you, Margaret.
I think you've got enough on your plate and I've got contacts

(32:34):
and people who owe me favours, so all good.
We'll get in that route for now.The Did I tell you the Caddy's
booked in for October before thewarranty expires for the Yeah.
What done? David Gearbox again.
Again. Again.
Yes, Well, yeah, they replace the clutches at 30,000.

(32:55):
It's now down 75 and it's with chirping like a cricket in.
That's doing the same. Australian son doing different
things now. The other thing that it's doing
differently is the delay in in it actually selecting its gear.
Yeah, it's a characteristic of DSGS, but it never was of this
one. It's developed this thing.
So if I'm on a slope and I turn to start it and and then Chuck

(33:20):
it straight into gear it, it's agood 4 seconds, you know, before
it actually. That's a long time.
It's a long time and and the carwill roll.
You know, you've got to be rolling back on the slope and
you've got a car in front of your car behind you.
You really need to, you know, basically be on the brake as
well as the accelerator. Handbrake start.
Basically in actually I've done that a couple of times because

(33:43):
yeah, that's that's the only one.
So that's crazy I. Just want that sorted out before
the warranty fee expires in De Sombre.
I've said it once, I've said it again, DSGS like dual clutch
centres should not be in everyday cars.
Like they just don't like, no matter how good they're getting,
they just don't work like the. Creep of an auto is the benefit

(34:03):
of the auto auto. Correct.
Yeah, correct. And when it's when it when that
that isn't part of the gearbox, it's like being in neutral
literally until it goes kunk anddrops into drive or reverse.
So interestingly I was reading areview of another box seed the
other day, the Tea Rock, which is like the Golf based.

(34:24):
It's a little. Little one.
Yeah, they use a conventional romantic.
They don't use TSG. GSG, Yeah.
They've come to their senses. Someone has yeah gone enough
with this DSG. Enough, we only bought 15,100
million of them and, and we still can't get them right.
But when it's, when it's not making noises and stuff, it's

(34:45):
great. You know, it's really good.
It's a, it's crisp changes and all that sort of thing.
But there's just too many squeaks and bings and bongs and
Dings. Well, that little Kia Rio that I
sold recently was a 17 model right?
35,000 K Look. I had 17 speeds.
No, no, no. 17 model like littlewhite simple Rio that was a four
speed automatic. My friend was telling me or

(35:08):
Rowan who's been on the show. He was like, oh, they actually
had more gears like 5 or 6 over many and they ended up going
back to this 4 speed. I don't know either to cut costs
or because the other one was bador where I don't know, probably
didn't cut costs, but I was likeit's fine.
It drove really well and I just it's a four speed auto.
Like sometimes it's just it's not trying to over complicate

(35:29):
the world. Correct, correct and for a
cheap. Car like that, no one gives a
rats like it, it goes fine, it stops, it turns, you know, just
just keep it simple and don't don't try and take on the world
of race car to the DSG or whatever you're doing in a cheap
car. Correct.
But in a In a performance car, Yep, no worries.
In a hyper car, Yep, no worries.But in a I mean, Ford fan that

(35:54):
that the hardware didn't they guys with the power shit
transmission that's yeah, they like on the on the on the
facelift. They went back to a conventional
automatic on the on the focus inthat generation.
So yeah. That's the thing.
It's. Still like yeah this this is not
working. That would have been a great,
great meeting to have been in, wouldn't it?
Yeah, not be all right. Good call going back.

(36:15):
Hey, here's one more little interesting tidbit.
Sorry, David, are you done with your car?
I'm. Done with my car please.
It's just just a little interesting one that I'll
remember. A friend rang me last week and
said, Ed, he works in a factory,they manufacture sort of
metallic things and for industryand whatever.
He said the owner of the factory's cousin had a Merc in
the 70s and he bought a spare engine for it brand new from
Mercedes. It's in the box sitting up on

(36:37):
the shelf. We need to.
Get rid of. I was like, well, what engine is
it? He goes, not sure, but it's not
that big. I think it's a 4 cylinder.
I'm like, OK, well, they did do fours back then, but not as
many. It's more likely to be 6, but
right. Anyway, they opened the box up
and this is a polystyrene box with Mercedes stickers from
Germany on the side of the box. So I said I'm gonna, I'm gonna

(36:58):
see this thing. So I went went out there and you
know, it lifts the lid off this polystyrene box.
There is a straight 6 Mercedes motor brand new wrapped in
plastic from Germany in the 70s and he said we think it's out of
a convertible because he had a convertible and this was the
spare motor that he bought in case the the one he had blew up,
you know so checking the tag on it, it's a it's a 127 motor,

(37:22):
which is a pagoda motor. So it's a brand new 232.3, the
smallest pagoda motor yeah that's what it is.
So complete block with Pistons inserted and everything like
that. So no head, no injection car,
you know, in the ancillaries, but a complete bottom end brand
new in plastic. And I'm like that I think is a

(37:44):
rare thing. And then he's like, what's it
worth? And I'm like, it's kind of, it's
kind of a hard one to value because I said, and I discussed
it with a couple of people and said, you know, you're not going
to get someone with a 250 or a 280 putting a brand new 230
motor in their car. I want the motor that's right
for their car. Anyone that has one of these
that has the original motor in it, they would rather rebuild

(38:06):
the original motor to keep the matching numbers because the
cars are so valuable now, ratherthan plug some other random
motor in it even though it is brand new for Mercedes.
So I said your market is really someone with a 230 who's got a
completely cooked motor that's unusable, like the block is
stuffed, or someone who's got one and just wants this cool
nostalgic spare wrapped in plastic.

(38:27):
That's a bit of a cool garage factor.
That's your buyer of this. You can rebuild a motor.
A mate of mine who works in the trade was saying, you know, sort
of, you know, 20 grand or not much change out of 20 would get
you a fully rebuilt 2825230 motor sort of thing.
So it's kind of a hard one. It's not a full motor, but it's

(38:49):
still pretty cool and it's brandspanking.
And where do you? Pick it up.
Well, I did, I did, I did say, look, I'm happy to buy it at a
price, but look, I think they really ideally want to want to
get, get their top dollar for it.
So I, I suggested of course justput it in the Benz magazine and
see how you go. But that was just an interesting

(39:11):
left of centre phone call and a viewing that I did not expect to
see. No, that's, that's pretty wild,
to be fair. If I had it to go to 2:30, of
course I would be making furtherenquiries on that, but and then
I did think I could buy the motor and then just gradually
accumulate the bits, but yeah. You can make your own.

(39:31):
Yeah, yeah, it's. Great for me in the past.
Yeah. Buying the bits that you wanted
I I bought the the factory. Luggage.
For my Volkswagen EOS before I bought the EOS.
What did you buy the matching luggage?
The the, the EOS luggage that was wow, yeah.
Yeah. On on Facebook Marketplace.
And did that go with the car? It did went with the car, yeah.

(39:54):
Did they appreciate the luggage?They did.
I made sure they did. Yeah, good.
It was like 100 bucks, you know,because they were quite odd
shape. They were two odd shape
suitcases that fitted in the back of the car with the roof
down. Yes.
So, and they had that sort of like a like a silhouette of an
EOS sort of crafted into the. That is very I love that

(40:14):
they're. Like what's with this guy?
He's just trying to give us these suitcases.
Yeah, just just say yes. Thank you.
These people. Appreciate what they have and
the rarity of that because that is incredibly.
I, I think maybe they're, they're a bit more worried that
is he trying to ship Al, Kobe, Arsene, you know, he just just
wouldn't be, this is his way. You know they're in prison for

(40:34):
20 years. Now, Matthew, what about your
updates? Updates with me.
Interesting week the Camry got, as you guys know, roadworthy
last Monday. Mm hmm.
And then I got registered on Friday or club plated on a
permit. Did you get a goofy club plate

(40:55):
this time? Well, this time I don't think
I'll ever get a good as plate asI did on the on the 260.
That was a great plate. That was 8 double O 8 wasn't it
8? 0008 Boob.
Yeah, Boob. Yeah, that was nice.
That was a great plate. Everyone was like nice, they saw
they saw that plate. Yeah.
So everyone really enjoyed that plate.

(41:16):
So we, yeah, it was, it was a good, but I didn't get one like
that. But they charge you a plate fee
now. They didn't use to charge you a
plate fee back in. Yeah.
They charge you a plate, a club for club plates, Yeah.
What's that? No, I've this the first time
I've I've paid for a clot for a how much?
Is the plate fee it's? Like 40 bucks.
Yeah, same as a standard set. Yeah, so I was like, oh,

(41:37):
Victoria roads are going to maketheir money somehow.
Like, yeah, because I was like, because thanks to my mom, she
went into the show. She had a day in Lou.
So she's like, oh, go to a firm like, oh, you're a legend.
She's like, you told me to be cheaper than this.
I'm like, yeah, it normally is. And then she's like, and I read
it, read the receipt. I said, oh, plate fee.
Oh my God, they haven't charged me that before.
So. But anyway, so really happy was
driving. That's or it was very happy

(41:59):
days. Put fuel in it, fill it, fill it
to the brim. And then I went tried to change
the rotor button and I couldn't do that.
So then it wasn't running great and it started missing really
badly yesterday. So on on Sunday, Sunday evening,
when I was trying to get it going again, I was like, what's
going on? So turns out that because I

(42:21):
filled the tank, when they've cleaned the tank, they mustn't
have done it properly because the injectors have picked up
stuff and it's blocked two of the injectors.
Oh. Yeah, so he's like, look, we can
take him out, send him off to get cleaned or looked at, but
he's like it'll cost you 3 and others just to look at them.
But if and if they're broken or they need bits and pieces, you
know, it's going to cost you Expo a lot more, you know, as a

(42:44):
possibility. Or I could just tell you they
completely stopped. So you've wasted the money, you
know, try to find a, try to findanother set.
So I was like, yeah, I was, I soI called work and, and I, I
asked for a set. And, and the guy, he's a, he's a
great guy champ. He's like you sitting down.
I'm like, yeah, you're like, well, what's up?
He's like your price two and a half, $1000.
And I, and I'm just like, I'm sorry, that's a, that's a joke,

(43:05):
right? He's like, no, he's saying he's
taking a screenshot 2 1/2 grand.That's, that's a, that's my
price. Like you know, originally almost
4 grand or just over 4 I think, and I'm like that is insane.
I'm not. So I went on to our good friends
rock auto, which are which are getting plugs left right and
centre on this show got the whole set will be delivered.

(43:25):
I ordered them last night and they'll be delivered by
Thursday. This is how quick they are from
from the States $250. Thank you.
So I think that's, yeah, I said,oh, that's your end.
So, and that, that should you know, they're going to go
through the tank again, make sure everything else is fine.
But, but the, the reason I brought that up was because when

(43:46):
I filled the tank, as I filled the tank, it, it got some dirt
and rubbish that was at the top of the tank.
They said even though the, the, the bottom of the tank was
really spotless, the top of the tank must have had some residue
when I filled it up and it's sloshed around and it's caused
it to, to get sucked up. So I'm just worried that I
haven't damaged the pump. But he reckons the pump's OK.
So rotor one's done, rotor cap'sdone.

(44:08):
The injector will be on on a Friday and then should should
be, should be keywords, should. Be.
Driving fine when I took a person.
It was driving totally fine until I, you know, put fuel in
it and then started to try and change the capital.
But it but I said to myself likeit couldn't have been me because
I didn't take anything off like I couldn't access the bottom
screw. So I just didn't bother like I,

(44:29):
you know, and then it just started running really, really,
really badly because I drove it all day Saturday and it drove
really, really well. So I.
Don't know, just. Imagine our nice little drive on
Friday. New injector.
New injectors, fresh set, and yeah, should be.
She should be all ready. To on that topic of fuel, just

(44:49):
another little relevant thing maybe the listers might like is
my 300 coupe was, was the jammedat 3/4 full so the gauge
wouldn't move. And obviously they're still
pumping fuel and driving fine and everything.
So I thought, oh, the float's obviously jammed.
You know, it hasn't gone up and down enough with use and and
it's gotten sticky. So I looked on YouTube.

(45:11):
Of course, there's great resource on YouTube.
You can get in through the boot,pull a little bit of trim off,
undo the giant nut on the top ofthe tank, undo the seal, pull
out the float, pull out the innards of the float and it's
got the two wires down other side.
You can be careful of in the central sort of rod.
You get a bit little bit of Emery paper on the central rod.
You can see the corrosion, whichis what was making it stick.

(45:32):
So I gave it a very light sand and then just you get acetone on
a hot and bud and you run it up and down the wires and the
central line just to sort of really clean it, put that all
back together. Perfect gauge.
So. You notice those old benders and
Rob would know this they and youwould have seen it Maddie they
the gauge is often flick around.They do, yeah.

(45:53):
They're on, they go dying and then it'll suddenly go dying and
you know, and it's doing it's the float sort of jamming on
that on that shaft and not moving really smoothly up and
down. So it's almost like if if you
buy one of those old benders, you know, you you do that and
you've got this beautiful, accurate sort of smooth gauge
all of a sudden, really easy fix.
Yeah, it's, it's really rewarding when it's like it's

(46:15):
not hard to do. No, not hard at all.
Just you, you got to be, you know, good with your hands.
You don't want to be snapping wires and be ham fitted.
But but yeah, worth worth doing.Can you put an extra?
Philtre on the the the fuel lineor something like that, Maddie.
Oh yeah, to stop the. Well, yeah, so again, it's had a
new pump in it and but my worry is that it's going to clog the

(46:39):
pump before I get to the to the to the if I put a second philtre
in it. So I don't know, I want to get
them. Well, they said they're going to
like, you know, empty out the philtre and see if it's bad or
not. I'll.
Be putting a philtre if you can up near the the front end in the
engine Bay somewhere close to the fuel supply.
Yeah, no, people have said that to me before.
Yeah, just just to be, just to be extra safe.

(47:02):
So don't think that's a, don't think that's a bad idea, Rob.
Yeah, I might. Deep and and yeah it saves you
put doing injectors again. Absolutely.
Yeah, so so. It's had a few tank pulls and
then you could you could remove it eventually.
Yeah, how to say yeah, just justto give it a give it a good
clean. But the funny part about that
was so I, I was like, well, it'srunning like crap.

(47:25):
As as nice as I can say I was missing off its head.
And so I, I got it towed on Monday morning before I went to
work. Tow truck comes and picks it up.
And again, we had to see a camera on a tow truck because it
just doesn't happen. So then, so then he drives off
and I get a message from the mechanic and he's like, well,
the car was here. I'm like, what do you mean it

(47:47):
was here? He, he then he calls me and he's
like, yeah, the, the tow truck drivers, the mechanism on the,
on his tow tray stopped working so, so we couldn't get your car
off. And I'm like, you've got to be
kidding me. So he's like, he's like we was
his, he's like was the funniest thing ever.
We just wanted this guy. We're trying to help him, but
just not moving. And it was up a little bit, I
think he said. So it was kind of like a bit bit

(48:08):
off so that he had to drive backto the depot, reverse it onto
another tilt tray because. Like like put one up against
the. Jelly.
Yeah, correct. Because it, because the
mechanism was was mounted. Yeah.
Then then then took him back. So it got there yesterday
afternoon after all that shenanigans.
So they're going to have to calla tow truck for the tow.

(48:29):
Truck. Tow truck.
Yeah, Who calls the RAC for the RAC?
Who do they call? So, yeah.
So that was, that was pretty funny.
Yeah. I had a bit of a, had a bit of a
giggle about it, but, you know, it's I, I feel like sometimes my
luck gets pushed onto other people.
And for example, my luck for that day was pushed onto him.
We've just you know, but anyway,in other news, when we did a

(48:51):
record run, as we said, as Edward said earlier, they had an
SR2 at the, at the Dandenong records, which is, you know,
getting, they're getting, you know, bits hard to get, hard to
get, hard to get bits for. Took the factory stereo out of
it, the factory 6 stack stereo. Took the factory dash fascia

(49:12):
with the climbing control because that's all SR2 specific,
because of course it is. Got the book so I so I could get
the the the code for, you know for the for the radio and what
else do we get? I've got 1/2.
The. Stop lamp.
Yeah, the the hot, the rear highmount lamp because again the the
plastics all SR2 specific. And I think what else did I get?

(49:35):
I think that. I think that was pretty much it.
That was it in the end. Yeah, yeah, so did.
I have a set of rims. Actually, no, it did.
I think it had. One in the boot.
Didn't have any. Every time we went looking,
always incomplete. Yeah, one or two.
Yeah. Yeah, so anyway, that's so got

(49:55):
those, which would be nice because I think my dad might
have misplaced my original unitsyears ago.
I thought I'd just get one just in case, but then we also saw a
CRV there, Edward Martin. We did yeah, Gen one CRV and
really, I mean, the car that David and I have is is very it
doesn't it doesn't need a whole lot of things done.

(50:17):
But this CRV did have the factory CD6 stack, you know,
lots in under the normal single din stereo and Matt's like, oh,
it's got the books, it's got thecode, you know, do you want it?
I was like, oh look, if you can be bothered pulling it out, all
right, we'll we'll option up thehigh mile with the genuine 6
stacker. Didn't have factory match, did
it? No.

(50:38):
We. Looked.
Leave you me, David, I, That's the first thing I looked at.
I must. Look in the gearbox on on the
weekend. Yeah, mental no and.
We also looked for the clock, but that was that was gone as
well. So it must be a common.
It must be a common. Thing clock.
Was gone as well. That's the only thing that
doesn't work on that car is the digi clocks.
Yeah, just gone completely the case.
Did it too. The good thing about that with
the with the six Decker there, it plugs straight into because

(51:00):
the factory head unit should have the.
Yeah. So I can keep that.
The same stereo and just just plug in the six Decker
underneath it so. I did that to a 97 odyssey I
think CD so that. Probably.
I couldn't stretch to the six disco.
No, but it David, is this modification David approved?
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, OK there.
They're gonna find some. CDs.

(51:21):
Who has CDs anymore? I've got a whole bunch.
OK, OK. So it's probably, as I say,
arranging Dick chairs on the Titanic in terms of its
usefulness. But you know, if it means it
doesn't go to hard rubbish and it goes in another car, well
great. Sure.
Yeah, absolutely. So I think that's pretty much it

(51:43):
on my on my cars. Gentlemen moving.
On for a topic tonight. I know.
Well, if we don't, I'm going to do another cast story.
I apologise. Absolutely.
Please, Alan, Please. So as you recall, I was in the
car, come back after working a hard day, flying a few hours,
you know, try and get some rest.I've been up since 5:00 or 30,

(52:03):
somewhere around there. Hard working man, yeah.
Come back home around 7-8 o'clock.
Decide to make it an early night, get to bed about 10.
My sister did come just come over.
I said hi to her, make sure I didn't snub her or anything
unless I run into some kind of wrath.
Head upstairs, you know, tuck myself and maybe watch a couple

(52:24):
of videos before I go to bed andit's about 11/11/15 I receive a
phone call from my dad. So you're not asleep by your
son? I was like, well.
Not now. Since I'm picking up the phone,
clearly I'm not, but you know what's what's up because you
need to go help out your brotherin law.
He's got a flat tyre on the citylink.

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I thought of all days, you know?Well, RACV, that's what you got
it for, I think. He has A roadside assist.
Don't. Have to change a tyre.
Just change a tyre. All right, so again, again,
story time, right, story time. So I don't know if I mentioned
this so after he received the vehicle from me because I don't

(53:09):
think the Rex, yeah, yes, it's the Rex.
It's not a purchase, he'll say given car.
But anyway, he decided to make afew modifications, some
tasteless, some tasteless, but you know, it's his car.
One of the things he did was getcollovers and lower the car and
stiffen the shit out of the car.So the car was, by my

(53:29):
description, undrivable because you would just be on a like a
bumpyish kind of road and that would bottom out well.
Yeah. How low?
How low was it? Too low.
OK. Oh.
I can't see where this is going.Yeah.
So when you can't get the Jack that came with the car under the
car, you know you're done, right?

(53:51):
This is a Car Talk after dark, by the way, and hence the phone
call, right? He was, he was off.
There wasn't really a an emergency on on that part of the
city link, but he was off on theside.
I think they had loads of speed limit down to 60 and then
blocked off the the left lane. So he's getting some angry honks
from people who would have rather been doing 100 at that
time of night. You get in the hole, you can't

(54:12):
park there. Probably.
Probably so anyway. Scotty would have been that guy.
Scotty. That is.
That's me having. Received the call.
At this point I've gotten up, you know, gotten dressed.
I decided, well, if I'm going there, I might as well go with
the full, you know, kit. So I've got my, you know, was it

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3 tonne low profile Jack courtesy of 1 Mr Mattie J at
super cheap my Tool Pro. And doing the Lord's work.
Through that on the back of the D Max, I've got my tool kit, my
tool pro rattle gun, once again courtesy of Mr Mattie Ji.
Didn't I forgot to bring my talkwrench, but I thought that's the
least of our worries. I'll get it, you know, nice and

(54:57):
snug. A couple Aga duggas, couple Aga
duggs. Yeah, You know, grab my the
socket sets, radargun socket sets, a couple of those.
I had everything prepared. You know, I was like, this is
we'll work it out. I find out while I'm on the way
that I need to get onto the Citylink, get off on Brunswick

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Road and then come northbound onthe Citylink.
So I have to pay for the ceilingtwice just so I can get to his
car, which I was already upset about that.
But as we were driving there, apparently the, the link to
people, they have their own emergency vehicles or assistance
vehicles and they came over to help and they said, well, where
where are you from? Where do you live?

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He's like, well, I live in Meklam, like, well, we can't
take you there, but we can get you off the city, link up to
where the DFO is. And he's like, if I pay you
extra, can you Take Me Home? But I'm like, no, we can't do
that. They're on a obviously a work
roster. So by the time we got that call
saying, hey, I'll be at the RSEAstore that's near DFO, I was
like, well, that's even easier because I was a little hesitant

(55:59):
of working on the side of a freeway because it was the
driver's side front tyre that had liquor been punctured.
Yeah. Allegedly punctured.
Didn't get punctured. That's.
Yeah. So you know, fortunately as we
arrived to that exit of DFO in Essendon, my brother in And then

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they had the the emergency stop vehicle that's got the big
booty. Yeah.
So can you know, if you if somebody crashes into it, it
crashes into the big booty truck.
And that way no one gets hurt hopefully so that both of those
vehicles come, they drop off hiscar.
We kind of waited for them to kind of clear the area.
And I don't know where he got this from, but he had himself a

(56:50):
little kind of I guess breaker bar.
And he had the, I don't know what I think it was 19 mil, the
little golden tool pro socket ready to take the wheel nut off.
And I've by the time I've got my, the Jack down, I've got the
car jacked up. I can't get you get it under the
front tyre. So I was like, well, I've done
this before. I Jack up the rear side and I
Jack it up enough that both tyres lift off the ground.

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So I'm like, we didn't solve theissue.
I don't think his regular Jack would have been able to lift
that high. So that's fair enough.
Got everything ready, got the rattle gun ready.
And then I take a look at his wheel nuts.
They're round and they are 12 mil hex nuts.

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So I say, you know, this is a a special bit.
Yeah, this isn't your standard 19 mil that your car came with.
He's like, Oh yeah. And I was like.
Well, you have a bit. Where's the bit?
Where is the tool? And he says, 0, I think he gave
me one when he gave me the rooms.

(57:56):
And I said, well, you better fucking find it.
And then, you know, he proceededto go through the car and not
find the pit. And I said to myself, again,
your family, it's it is what it is.
But I really took a long, hard look at, you know, his little
breaker bar in the video. And I said you didn't think one

(58:18):
second. You done messed up a a Ron.
Yeah, so the one thing we were trying to avoid was she was
paying for a tow that night. We yeah, we had to make the call
and her truck said I'm taking 300 bucks cash.
And guess who had cash? Yeah, not them, not them.
So we proceeded to wait. The tow truck drives had he'd be

(58:40):
there in 20 minutes. 45 minutes later he arrived.
Pretty. Standard got the got the car on
the back of the tow truck and headed off home.
And I said, look at this point, just park in front of my house,
the streets a lot emptier and a lot wider and I'll see about
getting your bit, your wheel nuts off.
Yeah, in the morning by the timeI'd ordered myself a nice impact

(59:05):
rated set from Amazon, you know,I was going to come in the
morning. So I was like, that's the very
least I'll get a spare on and kind of move things along that
way. So yeah, we finally get the car
home, pay the tow truck driver and you know, that was the end
of that night. The next night the bits came and
I put them on the rattle gun. Did not have enough hacker

(59:26):
duckers to get the nut off really.
And I was like. I'm pretty sure they are pretty.
Sure they go. That gun goes up to 200 Newton
metres or 250 Newton metres. That's more than a lot of cars
out. Yeah, yeah.
And I'm pretty sure the specs I've looked at for the WX is
only about 100, a 110. So I got the break of R out, you
know, got them off, put the spare on and the spare's about
20 years old. Yeah, 22 years old.

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I said you probably want a new spare at this point because I
wouldn't trust that, you know. And you know, I finally got the
car up onto the driveway off thefront of the house, checked the
air and the rest of the tyres and the spare.
So I pumped the spare up, I think the spares down to about
40, pumped up to 60 as it shouldbe.
The rest of the tyres were down to about 20 to 22 PSIH.

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Sorry, it wasn't. It pumped it up to 60.
The spare, Yes, it's a space. It's a space.
Over here. Yep.
Yeah, it's, that was my thought,David.
And I thought, Oh no. This was ready to blow it up
there, but the rest of the tyres, which were supposed to be
about that 3233 mark, they're all about 20 or 22.
And that's, you know, I had cut my hand on the tie twice,

(01:00:30):
getting it off because it wasn'ta puncture.
You bent the wheel. I will.
I'll just show Maddie the video just because I can.
So this was his tyre. Oh.
My goodness. That was metal.
The the wire is showing all overthe tyre on the inside.
Oh my God, this guy needs a bloody slap.
The whole side of the tyre is like, it's just been like, like

(01:00:52):
sometimes a knife and just hacked at it together and just
why is it that's that's cool. Could have been drifting, he
could have been stop the racetrack could have done all
sorts of things. Could have, just could have been
driving the tyre at very low airpressure for a very long time.
That'll do it. And he only found out about it
because apparently there was some kind of bad smell, so he
didn't even realise that he had destroyed a tyre.

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I was like, Oh yeah, the car wasgetting because the suspension's
so stiff that I'm assuming that everything, every ride's really
rough. So he can't even tell the
difference between having a flattyre.
This is not exactly do it to your car having a suspension
like that, it'll actually chew your tyre up.
As well yeah, because the tyres were nowhere near ready to be
changed or at least by kilometres.
The car's at 365 now I think so you know I'd said look it's your

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car, you know you do what you want but there is no reason to
have your suspension that stiff and that low.
Like I'm pretty sure he just, he's like, I'm getting caught
over so I'm going to have it as low and as hard as it goes and
I'm like, that's. It's not fun.
Look, that's fun for like a day and then after that you come to
your senses and say that's stupid.
But he obviously didn't, unfortunately.

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So he had the car booked into his mechanic and I said look, if
you if you, you know fairly longevity of this thing.
Put some springs and. Trunks, yeah, actually, you
know, set it up nicely and obviously change your tyres and
keep them. I said look, your tyres are at
22 PSI at best at the lost end. I don't know, this one might
have been an 18 before. We know.
And he said well, well, the car was service serviced about 4000

(01:02:22):
KS ago. So really, like really, that's
your place actually. So you never checked the tyre
pressure. And again, he could very easily
come over to our place. I've got the compressor, I've
got the little gauge. It's not 100% accurate, but it
get you close to where you're going.
Close. Yeah.
There's no reason it couldn't bedone.

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I do for the rest of the cars. I do for my sister's car.
It just just disappointed me quite a bit, you know, Again,
he's an adult. He's gonna live his life.
But. Not automotively.
He's not an adult, he's a amoeba.
But when, when I'm being woken up at, you know, 11, when I'm
no. And that's the thing, like, oh,
I just get more and more annoyedthe more you talk, Alan, with

(01:03:04):
this story. Yeah.
Yeah, just like. Just like.
Get our ACV, check your tyre pressures.
Think if I have to change a tyre, how do I get these wheels
off? Like just think, one step ahead,
even half a step ahead. Yeah, you know.
It's like you can't go through life just ringing Alan when shit
doesn't go like, you know, and Iand I, I get annoyed because I'm
the I'm, I'm the same, you know,I'm that guy, you know who gets

(01:03:27):
the phone calls. It's like, OK.
And look, my siblings are prettygood.
They don't. They don't, you know, they've
lived around me long enough to kind of, you know, know most of
this stuff. I did not.
Ask you. No, it's not.
That I don't want to help them. But you know, it's just like,
come on, you're an adult, supposedly physically.
Like this is adult stuff. You know, this is not

(01:03:48):
kindergarten schoolyard antics. I was.
I mean the really. Sad thing is that they rang your
dad first, yeah? Yeah, and just and if you.
Don't know about cars, That's fine.
Don't know about cars? Just make sure you've got the
backup. Have the RACV, know where the
number is in your phone, Have the card in the car or in your
wallet. Yeah, just ring them.
That's why you have them. Yes.

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So my sister's upgraded her RACVto have both the cars on it.
I think it didn't cost her that much more and that way now they
can both at least give themself coverage so.
Yeah, I, I've been trying to organise a programme at my
school for like the last year for this, for this exact reason,
for like just to show kids how to change a tyre, how to check

(01:04:30):
your tyre pressures, how to check your oil.
But again, with the the issues of the world, they're too
worried about if, if the, if theJack doesn't hold or if this
doesn't work or, you know, this RHNS comes to play.
But I'm like, these are life skills.
Yeah, like checking your oil is a life skill.
Changing a tyre is a life skill.Like you.

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I guarantee you would have changed the tyre at some point
in your life, you know. No, no, no.
That's why you got RACV. You call the fan run flats.
You know, and that's fine if you, if you don't want to delve
right into it, have your car serviced when the sticker or the
indicator tells you to have it serviced.

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Have RACV backup, have insurance, know who your
insurance company is, know what your excess is, know who can
drive your car and who can't drive your car.
You know, know that if you let you read your lapse and you
drive it, you know your car's not not insured.
These are the things you need toknow.
You don't have to be a car person, no, but if you're not a
car person, you need to have certain things in place to
ensure that you don't. You gotta have the backup

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symptoms. Absolutely.
And yeah, it's the reason like when, when my sister got her
licence especially like she's not, she's not a car at all.
Like she likes cars, she thinks they're cool, but she's not a
car person. So I said when you turn 18, I
think it was actually when she was 17, just before she got a
licence, I said keep one afternoon free and I'll show you

(01:05:52):
how to check your oil. I'll show you how to change your
tyre. And, and, and we quite literally
it with our old Mazda 3, did this in the driveway and I
showed her how to do where the jacking points were, where the,
where the Jack was. She didn't even know what Jack
was at that point. She has had numerous flat tyres.
She's changed her tyres, she's changed her friend's tyres.
She's done all this stuff for, you know, because she's learned

(01:06:12):
that valuable school. She tells me all the time she's
like, if you didn't show me how to do that, I would have had
zero idea. You know, like, like absolutely
0 idea. It's a helpful, it's a helpful
skill to have. And that's why I really want to
try and push it at at my school.Yeah, because I think that it's
because it's a, it's a life skill.
Yeah, in, in terms of like the the roadside assistance and all
those options, sometimes they'rejust not an option.

(01:06:32):
You're too far out, you don't have a reception, that sort of
thing. And you know, in certain
situations you're in a pickle that you couldn't get yourself
out even if you had the, the know how.
It's just you might be a really bad accident, that sort of
thing. There are those things that are
inevitable and you just can't help.
But for situations where you canhelp, where if you just had to
know how you probably could change your tyre, that and not

(01:06:55):
knowing that until it's too late, it's probably, again, it's
not a good kind of way to live your life.
Not that I'm the the guide on how to live a life because I've
probably lived one pretty terribly and I'm like what, 32
years old? So just, you know, if you're
going to kind of take the responsibility as an adult, say,
yeah, I'm going to drive myself around and I'm going to be the
only person in the car, you know, you, you should probably

(01:07:18):
at least know how to get yourself out of those basic, I
would say basic Pickles. Well, as I said to you, man, my
sister tells me all the time she's like that afternoon.
I've been able to to get myself out of trouble, help my friends
who's who's there ties. You know, she's like it's it's
just basic stuff like, you know,it's actually not hard.
And my sister's this tiny littlething, right.

(01:07:38):
You know, you guys have all met her.
She's she's not a, you know, basic stuff to do with Jack to
do the stuff. You know it.
It is a skill that now she will use for the rest of her life,
and because she'll know how to do it.
Just on the roadside assistance thing too.
I think a number of us around here actually have total care
with RAC. Absolutely.
Yeah, there have been some changes to that recently.

(01:07:59):
I hope you're across them and itdoesn't cover you for every car
that you're driving now. It has to be a nominated car.
Yes, it will allow up to about aa a something like 5 cars and 15
club plated cars. No, it's.
Two registered cars and 15 club plated cars.
Two registered is it and 15 clubplated?

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Yeah, it's a week. That means it brings them all.
That's the first feeling aside from where I'm going to put
them. But but yeah, so I mean,
literally, if you you just got to, you know, put in everything
you think you might possibly be driving.
I mean, David put it this way, when the camera got towed on on
Monday, that's, that would have been a three to $400.00 tow.

(01:08:42):
Yeah. And you're paying what for total
care 23240 or a year, whatever it is.
Yeah. Paid itself.
You know, it's it's it's, you know, it, it pays itself.
You know, it's, it's a, it's, you never know when you when you
need it. And yeah, that's, that's an
example of, you know, well, whatpaid itself didn't have to do
anything. Yeah.
I'm a I'm a cheap brown man, so I am the total care.

(01:09:03):
But that's, that's again, that'smy household specifically like
between me and my parents. And I can, if they have
something wrong, I can get theretwice first, more or less, yeah.
I'm not. I'm not super father.
Yeah. And I'm not gonna call somebody
at, you know, 11:00 PM to to getthem down to the city link just
to Get Me Out of pickle. I mean, I might, you know, just
beware all of you. Comically, I deserve one, I

(01:09:26):
think you know. So, you know, I'll pass that on
to you guys. Scotty, you said your school
does a twilight school thing. Yes, I noticed.
Yeah, every year they do like a Twilight thing and it's for for
the parents and that to kind of get involved and some of them
run like cooking classes and artclasses and stuff.
That's cool. And I put forward this

(01:09:48):
automotive one and broke it downexactly what I do and cover and
everything, and they seem to be really excited for it.
Yeah, cool. That's great.
So. I might have to.
I might have to do it over a couple a couple of nights.
So what would you do? What's your plan?
The. First one's had to do a burnout,
so you wrote a four grand and you have to play.

(01:10:11):
I just kind. Of want to cover?
McDonald trays. Yeah.
I kind of just want to cover thebasics and I'll just, we'll be
just around my car and I can show everything on how to do
tyres check, oil check. Pressures.

(01:10:34):
Your coolant check, your pressures, just all your.
Wash your fluid even. Yeah, yeah.
It's all the, all the basic things that you don't think
about and just how you can kind of have an idea of your brake
pads as well to check that, to check if you're getting a big
kind of a lip that you can feel on the the discs.

(01:10:55):
How you can kind of check your tyres as well.
And how you kind of got to really do a full lock, at least
to be able to see the inner partbecause it can wear quite badly
on the in the insides on some cars.
I think BMW is kind of prone to that.
Yeah. And it's just you basic, like

(01:11:17):
even if you've got an electric vehicle, a lot of these things
is something that you'd still need to check.
Yep. Because you want to be safe.
You can't. And I really want to push
forward how important it is to just save that little bit of
extra money if you need to, to get good tyres.

(01:11:37):
Yeah, absolutely. Yep.
It's the only thing that's in contact with the road this thin,
you know, 2-3, five, 235 mil of tread.
If you're lucky, you might be 235, could be less.
Oh yeah, say 1/8. 205, yeah. That is just that is on the road
and you're buying these cheap Chinese ones when all you need

(01:11:59):
to do is majority of the time wait and you can buy 3 and get
the 4th one for free. Yeah, that's that is true they.
Do this all the time. Are you a Pisces?
Nah, Gemini. Interesting.
I'm always. I'm always.
At. David because he's obsessed with

(01:12:19):
wheels and tyres. And I said, well that makes
sense because Pisces rules the feet and the tyres at the feet
of the car. So just given the way you were
talking about, maybe you're a fellow Pisces.
No, I I stand with Scotty on thetyres.
I I drove my Co workers Mazda 3 to our favourite smash repairer
in Camfield or Somerton, whatever suburb accounts is.

(01:12:42):
And there's a wet day. And you know, I flicked into
sport mode for a second quick and as soon as I kind of put my
foot, not even foot all the way down, the car just went EE and I
was just like, wait, I didn't even go fast.
I saw it was some kind of weird Chinese.
Linglongs or one of them? Yeah.
Yeah, it was one of those. And I was like, what the hell,
like got to have the new name brand hires.

(01:13:03):
We also run, they call it Rua orsomething.
It stands for something, I don'tknow, but you've got your normal
subjects that you do, but also you can do these little
specialist ones as well. And there's one of them is like
there's beekeeping is one of them.
There's first aid course. I can get behind beekeeping.

(01:13:26):
Yeah. All these other cool ones
there's like. Movie club beekeeper.
There's a book club one, there's, you know how to be a
better writer kind of 1 and all that.
And I kind of put forward this acar safety one for the kids,
yeah. It's a.
Good. So they're going to look into
that and see if there's any interest for the following year.
Awesome. Well, let's do.
This. I'll check the wiper fluid in

(01:13:47):
the Tesla in three years. OK, there you go.
Yeah. Get it on it, check it.
Yeah, while you're there, check your blinker fluid.
Did you blink fluid as well? Yeah.
Your muffler bearings. Make sure make sure your
battery's filled up too. Yeah, absolutely.
Pick your battery levels just. Gets them to the cobalt mines
and steal some cobalt and whack it in there make.
Sure, it's filled up with acid. Yeah.

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On what they should have is electronic tyre depth gauges.
How? That'd be great.
So you'd. Even have to check your tyres.
Yeah, it's Bing if you guys. Hey, Pat and pending I.
Reckon some kind of lidar scan of the tyre.
Yeah, yeah, you can you. Should have on the wheel well.
What's what I do the Elon Musk. Don't you steal our RSV?
No, I do. Ma'am.

(01:14:30):
The tyre monitoring on the ZRV is so sensitive, it bings
regularly, you know, and you go really?
Hey, I think they're all like hey, you know, two weeks ago
when I checked them they were fine, you know?
So check them again. 1 might be 1 LB out.
Wow. I love pumping up tyres on, on

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cars because you, they feel likeyou drive out the gutter or the,
the server. It feels like a sports car.
You know, they're all I just run, I generally run everything
at about 35 all round. And you know you, when I first
buy a car, there's a a certain sequence that you know.
I'll. Go through and you know, check
oil, check water, check washer fluid.
Clean the inside of the windows because normally it's got grime

(01:15:11):
on it. Wipe down all the plastics,
dissolve the grotty steering wheel with hand cream all over
it and the gear shift knob and suddenly the points are nice.
Then you know, I'll give it a full wash going through all the
gaps and, you know, blast under the bonnet at the, the car wash
and everything under the wheel arches.
It's amazing how much dirt comesout from under the wheel arches.
And of course, the obligatory when they're called, pump up the
tyres. By the time you do that.

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And then you sort of, you know, the shakedown is, is happening
now and you're like, all right, now I know what I'm dealing
with. This is all right.
They always feel so much better driving out of the garage.
I. Think you do that, don't you?
To actually shake down the car and know you know what's going
on? You just open the bonnet and
check things. Matches.
There's no water leaks. Water leaks.
Yeah, stuff. Give it a, give it a really good

(01:15:52):
going over. And then, yeah, if you do all
that and it's still good, then you're still like, all right,
I'm dealing with something OK here.
We'll have to circle back to this Scotty, when when you I
want to see how successful you are.
I'm looking forward to that. I think it will be early
November. Nice.
Until October. They're doing it, yeah.
Would I come to the class then? Yeah, I would have come to the

(01:16:13):
class too. Would I be on the wall?
It's it's going to be free because those like they're
asking like, OK, what do you need and put down what you need
to pay for. And bring it and.
My kids, I just write in mind, like.
Toby and in the. You don't.
Need anything supplying my own car so I think they love it

(01:16:33):
because it costs nothing. Nothing.
Yeah. You should be like, I just need
a new set of, you know, hand cooked tyres or something.
Yeah. So I could show the different.
Tyres. Yeah, the cheap tyres.
Maybe give an international podcaster to come along,
automotive podcaster to come along.
And yeah, special guest. Yeah, guest.
Speaker. My, my people, speak to your

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people. I don't know, I'll have to see
how much you owe. It might be a bit expensive.
Anyway, moving on to tonight's topic, what's the top?
Not tonight. Something to tonight's car quiz.
Don't have enough time for a topic I know.
We just started. I know, but next time do it
next. Time I've got to finish some
anyway. OK, so David Prince has kindly

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responded to to doing the car quiz for us.
Yeah, David. This was a bit on the fly, but
you know, it'll it'll, it'll work.
All worked out. What times they're the best
ones? Sometimes they are.
Well, let's see. Let's reserve judgement, shall
we? Edge for now, but we'll recycle.
You have your school for us ready.
Got it done ready for you mate. Ready to go?

(01:17:34):
OK, so 1975 Holden General Motors Holden in Australia came
to an arrangement with Isuzu Motors in Japan for the T car
project which became the Holden Gemini.
How many series? I'll give you the first one.
The TX was the the What Car thatwas released.

(01:17:55):
How many series of Gemini's werelocally assembled?
Ed. Matt.
ED-4 incorrect. Album.
Matt, that album's in there. You got him there.
First 3 of albums. Sorry. 3.
Incorrect. Matthew.
Matthew I. Think it was 5.
Incorrect. OK.

(01:18:16):
Oh, you're talking about like the actual like the I?
Gave you the first one. Yep, Yep, Yep.
So the series codes. Yeah, OK.
Let's go, I'll go 6. Incorrect Rob Rob 2.
Incorrect. No, we said 3.
We've already said 3. This is very baffling to me.

(01:18:36):
Yeah. How many?
Did they do? And that's not what they're
about now. I thought they were all I
thought. It was on the.
Last one too many. There was, there was.
TXI gave you TTETTG. It was actually TX, the TC, TC,
OK, TD, TD, the TE, the TF, the TG and the RB.

(01:19:02):
Oh wow, it was. 7/7. What do you have?
It's a lot of Geminis. That's a lot of mid jeweller
than Mandarin red, isn't it that?
Last RB was was Aussie assembledas well.
They were, yeah, yeah. At Casey Ridge.
I think in Casey Ridge, yeah, Yep.
We only got the RA. We didn't get anything else
after that. With fair reason.

(01:19:25):
Yeah, they weren't. They weren't.
They weren't great. Bonus question, how many were
front wheel drive? Matthew.
Matthew. Well, one.
Correct. The last one.
The last. One the RV's were front wheel
drive. Quite a shame.
Yep, agreed. OK.
How many different models are available in Australia at the

(01:19:46):
moment on Mazda's website that start with the CX model
designation? Ed.
Ed. 5. Correct.
Yeah, well, jeez, that was good.That's a guess.
Wow. CX-30.
Ever. CX-60 ever CX70 You have a 680.
You have a 690. It's a lot of CXS and none of

(01:20:09):
the CX. None of them are cool citrones
from the 70s. And none of them are and.
None of them are cool, period. I think to be.
Honest with you, a shame. Look particularly similar.
It's very hard to tell them, butthey just look like they're,
it's like when they're making those lollies in those lolly
places in the shopping centres and they just take the sugar and
they just pull it, just expand it.

(01:20:30):
Yeah, Candy shop. That shop at Chadson always
stinks. I can never walk into it.
Yeah. No, no, really.
Sickly smell. I never liked hard candy.
Correct. This week it's been announced
that an Australian manufacturer.Hang on, I'm calling
shenanigans. Alan, I don't know if he said.
Anything I'm calling shenanigans, he's calling what?

(01:20:50):
What are you calling? How many did you say, Ed?
When the Geminis. No the CX. 5.
Five, I think all. Right, let me recount.
636365666768690I counted more than five there.
You're saying it's like 7 or something?

(01:21:11):
Anyway, it's David Prince. 636-666-8690.
That's 7. 7. I'm taking half a point
reporting shenanigans. No, you don't get points for
putting out shenanigans. No, that's some bullshit.
Otherwise, you know, irreparabledamage was going to come to this

(01:21:32):
he. Please refer to David Prince,
the quiz master. The quiz master is incorrect.
Is incorrect. So I feel like I get something
for that. So you're wrong, David.
There, you're I. See what I did?
I did the CXS though I I meant to say which ones were like a
double digit double digit. Yeah.

(01:21:54):
I. Still got it right?
Yeah. I'll give it to you.
I'll give it to you. You did get the question right.
That's some bullshit. That's some secretive questions
going on. Read.
It. And.
Wait mate, read it and wait. Yeah, I I'm filing a complaint.
You'll be hearing from our union.
Maybe you could do the? Quiz Would you like to take over
I'd. Rather not.
Yeah. I just want to be on record the

(01:22:16):
David Paul shenanigans. I did Paul shenanigans.
That's what happens when you. That's when what happens when
you start putting a putting a quiz together at about 6:45?
Come on. Scotty, I need a rolling on
this. I got a rolling.
Are you happy for me to continue, Alan, or would you
like to take over? No, no, carry on, carry on

(01:22:37):
carrying. You're shambles of a quiz.
Shambles. This one is.
Weak, so it's been announced. So so just before or you
continue when Alan says you'll know his name even if he says
that Miles head of anyone. I didn't hear anybody say
anything. No.
No. You're talking a lot of shit for

(01:22:58):
a man with a very closeable laptop.
All right, David. Sorry, continue.
We'll see if we can continue. This week in Australia.
This week it's been announced that an Australian manufacturer
is being considered to remanufacture left hand drive
vehicles to right hand drive forother world markets.

(01:23:20):
Ed. Toyota.
Incorrect. Alum, alum Walkinshaw.
That's. What I meant to say.
Half a point you get. They do the.
Tundra I think, which is left hand to right hand.
Walkinshaw are doing the Tundra,but that's not the car that's
been. I know.
Yeah. But they do that.

(01:23:41):
That's what made me think walk. And Shaw.
But I said. OK, because.
It was a Toyota Tundra. I should have said Walk and
Shaw, but anyway, whatever, Matthew.
Is that some Shanigan tell me. Yeah, they called General
General Motors Specialty vehicles.
No, no, no walk. And Shaw's doing that's that was
the bonus. Question.
OK. But no one's given me because
people jumped in before I finished the question, which car
is it or which vehicle is it? Some big fat thing that's left

(01:24:05):
hand drive. Pretty accurate, but not not.
Matthew. Matthew.
Could James C Denali or something?
Incorrect. Rob.
Rob. Yeah, Ram.
Correct. No the RAM.
The Ram. So it's been announced this week
that Walkinshaw is is being verykeenly considered to produce all

(01:24:28):
the right hand drive ones for the world.
Wow. I went on a tour of their
facility. Oh, did.
You yes, that's. Cool.
How long? Ago Oh, I need a couple of few
months. Oh, really?
Oh well. Out in wherever they are.
Clayton. Clayton, yeah.
Clayton, Yep. And yeah, very interesting.

(01:24:49):
They had like Silverados, I think they do.
So they basically undo all of the Silverado back almost back
to a chassis, I think they had them and then then build it back
up again. There's a right hand drive with
certain other dashboard components.
This that a lot of the stuff they make here, some of that
they get in, but a lot of it's sort of mould and manufactured

(01:25:11):
here. So they, you know, he was like,
they're better when they leave here than they are when they
would not. Surprise me.
I mean, that's not hard. It's a low bar, but yeah, it was
an very impressive operation. So you see him going down the
line and this station and that station and.
Did you see? Tundra's there as well doing
having the same. No, they they're at a different

(01:25:32):
facility. You've got one in Dandenong, I
think, or somewhere further out there at that facility.
It's still Bethels mean why? They actually completely a
similar car. You'd think it'd only be
partially. Assessed.
Yeah, I agree with that. Like even if the steering's in,
but why, why put? I don't know why put a left hand
or right left hand drive dash inand.
All the other because that's theway we build them, that's the

(01:25:53):
way you got to check them. Probably.
It's probably cheaper to do thatthan undo that or, you know,
yeah. Yeah.
Sure, Yeah, sure. The other problem is if if you
don't have a steering column in,they're a little bit hard to
steer. Can't.
Move them on and off the boat. It's.
Harder to move them. OK, what question are we up to?
I've got no idea. I think 4/4 right?

(01:26:15):
Maybe score check? Score check?
Score check myself Rob Eden one Scotty at the score at 1.5.
OK, what vehicle is back on salein Australia this week after
having a month long stop sale embargoed Matthew.
The civic type R. Incorrect, Rob.

(01:26:39):
It was a Toyota and it was one of the Land Cruisers, I think.
Prados maybe? Incorrect.
I wonder why they had a stop sale.
It's a very good question. I know something was a Toyota
there, they had to stop because they couldn't keep up with the
demand. No, no, that's it's got nothing
to do with demand. It might be it might be a

(01:26:59):
problem with the vehicle. I'm thinking more.
Maybe they might have sold, Theymight have outsold their
allotment, not have taken. That's the reason.
Wouldn't be that I reckon that, yeah.
Don't know. Scott.
Scott. I know there was a recall on
this. Is it the Tesla model?
Y no, that just shouldn't be sold here anyway.

(01:27:21):
That's that's a different thing.Don't know.
Don't know I'll. Add all our Tesla driving
lessons. OK, you all out.
I'll go with Tesla more less. Incorrect.
Well, I thought obviously not everybody need this, the Suzuki
Jimney XL. So the four door Indian built

(01:27:43):
one had a very sudden, it had a pause put on deliveries and then
it had a stop sale put on for over a month for what reason?
Undisclosed, undisclosed. So didn't affect the three door,
it just affected the four doors.Took us the three doors made in
Japan like a proper car. As recently as it was stopped,

(01:28:05):
it was restarted. Now I've got the one of my
bigger dealers. Inside Knowledge, David.
One of my bigger dealerships is a has a Suzuki franchise.
No reason given and no reason given for restarting Scotty Tim
Favon 3 delivery boys No. Hang on, was anything done to

(01:28:25):
the cars? Nothing was done to the cars.
There was a but after a pause indeliveries there was a a full
stop sale. Embark, you got it.
You got it. Someone at the factory lost
their finger in one and they hadto find the finger and they they
didn't know which car it was in and they had to switch until
they found the finger. It didn't affect the other cars.

(01:28:47):
Thinking more of they just ran out of doors.
No, because that wouldn't stop. That wouldn't stop you selling
ones that are already made. I think it's probably more
someone thought, oh shit, hang on.
This could be a really big issue.
And but until they investigated it, whatever safety thing it was
or whatever, and then they've oh, it's actually OK, it meets

(01:29:07):
tolerance or whatever. And and then they they go,
you're fine, off you go. There were cases there.
I mean there were cars on order,there were cars about to be
delivered. The remainder the dealerships
there are they offered refunds of deposits.
Well. Was quite it was very full on UN
UN what did I say unprecedented in the industry and and then to

(01:29:30):
have it just lifted like that atthe end.
No, it's OK. Yep, don't know what you're
worried about. Nothing to see here.
Imagine Imagine you're at the dealership getting your vehicle
delivered that day. So they hand you the keys and
then the dealership principal runs in and like grabs.
No, you can't have. It you know, you know.
You try to drive out of the thing and they like launch

(01:29:50):
themselves in front of the car. You can't leave.
Yeah, it must have. It must have been a big
potential safety risk that then they deem, yeah, it's got to be
something like. That this might have been made
by Ford. Squeaky steering wheel.
OK, next question, what Australian manufactured car came
in a AZZZ edition? Matthew's.

(01:30:13):
Done. I babied.
Matthew. That'll be a Gemini.
Correct. Another Gemini question.
Yeah, actually, yes, yes, it is.Ed.
Thank you for that. What series was the ZZZ in?
That was in the TG. Yeah.
The OK next question A hypercar has become the world's fastest

(01:30:37):
EV after the latest recorded record attempt in Germany.
Who produces it and what's its name?
Don't know. It's a cracker.
I'll. Just throw it out there, rob
Mercedes and it's the, what's itcalled, the F1, whatever it's
called. Not the Mercedes one.

(01:30:59):
Do you mean the? Mercedes one, yeah.
One. One No.
Alan, Alan, is it a Koenigsegg? No it's not, Damn it.
I want to say simpler. I want to say is it a Ford?
4 new wish. No, I mean.
I mean they they did the Super. Vent like that's a wishful
thinking. That's a major wishful thinking.

(01:31:20):
Is it a fault, lady? Great song.
We're going to get Andrew Riggles about to play that for
us. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Anyone else? Anyone else?
I give you gentlemen the Yang Wang U9.

(01:31:40):
Yeah, yeah, OK. Great.
Yeah. It's the Yang Wang.
That's why they jumps. Up and down goes.
Could you repeat? That's why it can jump.
It can jump. Can it?
Yeah, could. You repeat the model name
please, David. Yang Wang.
It's the Yang Wang U9. U 9 OK do you think at the U9

(01:32:01):
plus and the U9 pro Max Can you imagine can?
You imagine paying money for something called that and then
I've just got where? Where was this speed?
Yeah, it was in Germany. OK, so it wasn't I.
Don't know if I don't think it was the Newtner burger ring but
OK so. This wasn't a record that was
broken in China, that's all. No, no.
I wouldn't trust the figures as much as all.

(01:32:22):
That is question close as two. What speed did it reach?
Is this KSL or Miles? Kilometres per hour.
Matthew, Matthew, you want to say it got to 374 kilometres an
hour? 374.
So this was the speed on a track.
Yeah, it must have been. The world's fastest EV I Where

(01:32:47):
was the? Oh, it's yeah.
OK, so this all right, I'm going.
To go 8 stretches 11 yeah. I'm going to go with 492.
Jesus 492 alum. Yep, Ed 4. 10. 410 Scotty.
I'm going to say 450. 45405405 Well I'm calling.

(01:33:16):
Shenanigans because alum's closest, too 472 kilometres an
hour. Jeez, pretty good.
Does that beat beat the Veyron's?
Oh, the Shuron. That's one quick Yang Wang,
isn't it when you look at it? Would that be the shuron?
Yeah, it would. Yeah, and a picture.
It's only got $200 Zetta ties onit as well.

(01:33:39):
I reckon, I reckon the car woulddo that once and then you'd
change the batteries entirely. It'd need a big battery to do
that, wouldn't it? It's.
Just got an extension cable it'splugged into.
It the the five mile log extension cable just run it.
This is our plug in the car juststops it's.
Got a Tesla coil wireless? Wireless, yeah, 100%.

(01:34:00):
Now they've got the the tram track above it.
Just, you know, Crane style. New track edition?
I'm just looking at it now. This is Tram edition.
Why? So it's a Gangway U9 track
edition. That can.
So it beat the Rymac, which was originally at 431.

(01:34:20):
The remix, The one that. Croatian, the one that he owns
Bugatti now. Is that the one that Richard
haven't flipped? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Good times.
It's. Good times.
Nice. OK, next question.
The most expensive car on car sales at the moment is a 2018
McLaren. Centre points go to the closest

(01:34:42):
to price wise, what's its listedprice?
Scott. Scott, I'm.
Going to start at 3.2 mil. OK, 3.2.
Rob 4 million. Rob 4.
Yep. 5.2 Ed. 5.2. I'm going to say 3.8.

(01:35:05):
You never late in a 3.8. 3.8. So this is the most expensive
car on car sales Australia. It's not necessarily the most
expensive car in Australia because I don't see the need to
for Paganis to be on car sales, but.
How else do they sell them? It's a 2018 McLaren centre.

(01:35:26):
It's the most expensive car on car sales at the moment.
Imagine seeing Pagani on marketplace.
What's the marketplace here? Is this available?
Is this available? I've seen thumbs up Yeah up for
swap your. Time's about to.
Expire. I'm going to go somebody's
getting a bargain 2.8. 2.8 OK, AL shenanigans again.

(01:35:51):
I'm calling. It's this last thing.
It's a literal bargain for all you guys.
It's 2,299,000 nine, $90.00, OK.Yeah.
So quite a bit under what you thought conversely.
Next question do. You reckon that guy's got got
insurance on it before he sells on the marketplace?
Did you see that guy? Oh yeah.

(01:36:12):
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Conversely, at the other end of the line there's a 2009 Holden
Astra CD with 100,000 K's advertised in WA for 500 bucks
which is the cheapest car on carsales.
Good case that's made with bunting case it is it.

(01:36:33):
Is. Go Astra.
It's the CD too. It's the top.
Of the line, yeah, that's the the highest spec 1.
Didn't they have CDX or? CDX.
CDX. Yeah, CDX.
CDX higher than CD? Yep, where was the CDX was
higher. Well, CD has been used on other
cars too. 9 percent 9000 and the900.

(01:36:53):
Before that there was a 900 CD that was the extended long
wheelbase. 900. Oh, right.
Very rare 75 were in the country, 50 or something, yeah.
Very rare 500. CD The Audi 5 ECD question.
What does CD stand for? Matthew.
Matthew. I believe it was for CD player.

(01:37:14):
Incorrect. Compact Disc.
Incorrect coefficient of drag. Oh.
Not bad. Creative, but no.
This is actually a question to for a point.
It is. Oh damn, what?
Do you think we're just having achat here?
I mean, it seemed like it. I'm sorry.
I'm. Sorry.
Pissed off David earlier. It seems like you were just

(01:37:35):
saying. You're not invited to to our
next. It stands for.
Cool dude, cool dude, cool dude.I like that one.
No, that's not correct. Sadly it.
Will be like a compact driver. It actually stands for Core
Diplomatic. Oh, could you pick?

(01:37:56):
That that was my second guess. Like the call driver?
Yeah. It's it's, it's fair.
You know to to to illustrate that it's an upper level trim,
but you're right, the CDX was like, you know, it's it's like.
Core. Diplomatic putting their
speakers up to 11. You just add the X to make it.

(01:38:16):
Look what did the X stand for? Xylophone.
Next question. I'm calling shenanigans already.
I'm already. You should send a bit of paper.
I've done this quiz on that's that's why it's that's why why
it is this way. So you can also search on car
sales, newest to oldest. What's the oldest car listed on

(01:38:42):
20? Oh, I mean, I don't know, but
I'm just going to guess. Are we guessing a year?
Well, we'll go to, we'll go a brand and we'll go a year.
So there is, there is, I'll say there's two that are actually
listed for this same year. 1 is a hot rod, a hot rod, but the
other is a car like a like a. Matthew still.

(01:39:04):
Oh, sorry. Oh.
I said Ed first. Sorry.
Yeah, Ed, you go. Ed.
Ed. First. 1912 Rolls Royce.
Oh, Allen, I'll give you. Hang on, Nalan, back in your
box. Just I'm I'm tagging in, that's
all. Yes, David.
You get half a point. Oh.
We're going to say which part hegets Half .4.
No, All right, since I tagged in, I'll say a 1910 Ford.

(01:39:27):
Incorrect. Damn it.
Matthew, 1912. So do you know how this works,
Alan? One of the things Ed said was
right. Matthew.
Matthew. 1912 Pontiac. Incorrect.
Rob Rob 1923 Rolls Royce, Correct?
What's? Did you look that up, Rob?

(01:39:48):
Rob. That's shenanigans right there.
Actually. Quiet at the moment.
Impressive. Rolls Royce said.
I did I. Thought you know.
It's a 1923 Rolls Royce Silver goes to Brougham Deville.
Imagine the badges across the back of that deville.

(01:40:08):
That's nothing. Have you seen the back of
Chinese cars they got? So just quiz Master David, does
he get one or two points becauseit already got .5?
Oh, sorry. Yes, you got .5.
Yeah, no, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, .5.
But you already had one answer. You've just been clever in, in

(01:40:31):
in utilising the picking the correct answer.
Is that all right with you, Maddie?
No, it's fine. Is that how you do it?
Yep. Sure, why not?
Next. What's next?
Hopefully. Please let this be #10 I've lost
count. Is this #10?
I hope so. Not as much as the most
questions we can never tell. OK, this is an easy 1.

(01:40:52):
Honda have announced that the middle of next year we'll see
the new Prelude released. What generation Prelude is this?
Matthew. Matthew. 5th generation.
Incorrect al 6th generation. Correct.
Well done, alum. Score check, Yeah.

(01:41:14):
Please Maddie, score check. Jesus Christ, here we go.
Did Scotty? Scotty yet?
The Score Rob, Rob Rob, Ed Ed 1.5.
Really awfully Ed was on .5. But you know, I'll allow it.
Yeah, fair enough. I'm on I'm on 2 and tonight's
winner on a grand total of 3.5. Mr Alan Deep saying well.

(01:41:37):
Can we say that again? 3.5 That's right, ladies and
gentlemen, even when the quiz masters against me, no one's
getting in my way. You give this stuff when you
call it a sweet. Victory that must be.
Out they've got the power of VinDiesel, the power of family.
Is there anyone you want to thank besides Vin Diesel?

(01:41:59):
Paul Walker, rest in peace. Listen, peace for it.
David. Thank you for the quiz that was
that was good fun that. Was a great quiz, David.
You've had that yourself, Sir, shenanigans or no shenanigans.
I think that's a podcast, gentlemen.
Yes, it is. Yeah, let's do some plugs.
Rob's doing it. Firefighting, electricals,
neighbour hating neighbour punching in with sandblasting

(01:42:23):
safety, I think. I think he's doing it.
So Rob's doing it. Cuts, yeah.
Rob's cuts. Rob's cuts, yeah.
Looking. Looking fresh.
Looking fresh? I'll do the golf tip of the week
if particularly now that it's cold and wet, you can't get
yourself down to the range, but you still want that practise.
Find yourself a virtual range. You know you can get some, some

(01:42:46):
good practise for your space. It's.
Actually, not a bad tip. Yeah, there's a few a few
around, and obviously it comes at a price, but you know, if
you're hanging for a practise and the weather's not
permitting, get yourself down toa virtual range.
Scotty, what do you think of that tip?
I think that's bullshit. Is it, is it, it's it's the one
thing like the quiz winner. Oh, I decide what what it is.

(01:43:09):
It's like haven't. Scotty's got tip of the weekend.
I'm going to have spoken for like a whole 2 minutes.
So this whole podcast has gone for two hours and then I'm
sitting here waiting to do my tip.
You know my my one time where I can speak and everyone has to
listen. Anybody well taken on me?

(01:43:30):
What a joke. It is a good idea, though isn't.
It. I'm sensing a lot of anger.
You know the. Worst thing I've ever.
Heard get your ass out there andplay properly, all right?
Scotty Scotty's golf tip of the week is it to go out there and
play some golf? Is that was that what you're
going to say? Rain hell or shine.

(01:43:50):
Yeah, if it's rain, get out there and play.
Don't be a wimp, all right? Yep, you heard it first.
My real one was actually play. Play like a kid.
OK. So I mean by that is get out
there and actually enjoy it. Just have a go, hit it.
Don't worry about any advice andvideos that you watch, just you

(01:44:14):
go out there because obviously you enjoy it for some reason or
another, so do that. Now, Scotty, do you have to
actually wipe your balls when it's raining?
Oh. Rob it Well, I tend to Polish
mine. Can't take off the dark.
It's really interesting. David Prince.

(01:44:37):
Anything you'd like to plug? Oh, sorry.
David's wisdom. David's wisdom Like that.
Be wise. No, good people are good because
they've come to wisdom through failure.
Oh, like that one. Nice.
That was that was that was really classy.
Ed Bunting, Hondas. Maybe.
Fail. Low case.

(01:44:57):
Call me. Call him.
I know what I got. I don't want to cut.
I got the heights, mileage 10 monthly I'll be in the country.
That's what I got. 1. 100 is that a 181800 number Ed that I'm
calling you? On I'll do some heavy breathing
for you, Scott. Whatever.
Whatever it takes to sell this damn car.

(01:45:20):
Now with optional CD player. Soon to be the optional, yes.
Yes, what's what's we install? Call the option.
I'd like to give a shout out to Andrew Reelsworth so his Magna
merch is now up online. Oh yeah, Magna 40.
Magna 40. So, so, so if you go to his
Facebook page, you can find the link to it there.

(01:45:41):
We're going to pop it up as wellon our Facebook page so you can
support the show there. So support his his event there.
I should say it's going to be a cracking event.
David Prince and him have been doing a phenomenal job to make
to make sure that this is going to be an elite automotive
experience for the for. 20 Nice.Choice of word.

(01:46:01):
Thank you, I worked on that one,very nice.
Made the executive decision to make use that word.
I did make the executive decision.
We're all going to advance our way to Adelaide.
Yep, just make sure the the Solara actually it's not going
to work, remember? The slop slap because the Solara
is going to be strong that time of the.
It is. No, I can say, I can say that

(01:46:25):
there's an extraordinarily fantastic range of T-shirts,
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We do like a tote tote. Yeah, that's that's the event.
Yeah, Rob's got it up now. It's the event.
So support the, support the. Shirt Maddie designed the the
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Thank you for you. Thank you, David.
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yeah, it should be a great event.
I can't wait to go. We'll be on in a couple of weeks
to tell us more about it, too. Absolutely he will be and
hopefully my shirt will have arrived by then.
We can wear it on the. Red date and mine.
Yeah, absolutely. I must order one.

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