FLtrackdays
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Yeah, big cities are expensive no doubt. No 1 & 2 on that high roller $$$ list don’t seem nearly as nice as Sydney for a good safe vacation spot.
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About to pick it up finally….
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Congrats mate, little bit salty considering you ordered 5 months after me and beat me to it!
lucky phil
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Really, didn't know that. Quite depressing really. More people and the same shit infostructure. Why the hell anyone would want the population of an already straining at the seams city to grow is beyond me. I moved here from Sydney 21 years ago and in that time the population has grown by 1.4 million people which is why it's so shite these days. Between 10 and 1330 is the only time you can drive these days and every drive during the week is endless road works or road side mowing or clowns tossing a shovel full of bitumen in a hole and walking away. The weekends in the Yarra valley are just packed with people, the wife and I stay home now on weekends but even during the weekdays the Cafes and wineries are damn busy as well.
Some of the worlds best cities have had a way smaller and stable population for the last 50 years. Here we just grow the population as a smoke and mirrors way of achieving economic growth. Can't go on forever but in the meantime it's pretty hopeless here.
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BMWAF
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I don't think it's quite that bad! I drove Toolangi circuit a few weekends ago and there was hardly any cars on the road. There were a fair few NPCs atop Mount Donna Buang but overall it wasn't enough to complain about. And in my experience, midweek runs are an absolute dream in country Victoria.
Beyond that, compared to most cities I have been to around the world, Melbourne is undercrowded by half. And while I agree it has gotten worse in the past few years - partiduclarly in the CBD - as a Melbournian I am contractually obligated to state that Melbourne is still leaps and bounds better than Sydney.. and always will be. ?
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FLtrackdays
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Like who? Where? Seriously just out of curiosity… ?
Always looking for good vacation destinations. Greenville, SC is one of the few in the States that has grown over the years and become better. Clean, safe and absolutely beautiful! Factoring in crime & safety, cleanliness, once you get so big, they usually become “more complicated” = a mess. Especially over here in the States. May not be the case with Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, etc.
lucky phil
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So SFA has had a population growth of 565,000 in the last 50 years from 2.775M to 3.34M and Munich a city I like and have visited a few times has grown by 309,000 from 1.275 to 1.584 in the same period. Manageable modest growth over 50 years. Here we have gone from 2.477M to 5.316M over the same period. Well over doubled and people here are so desperate to be Australias "biggest city" they love it! I've come to the conclusion that here anyway a city only needs a population of maybe 250,000 people and you will have all the infostructure and services you will ever need. Maybe, maybe medical specialists could be an issue but even towns of 100,000 here apart from that specialised medical care have everything you'll ever realistically need for a happy life. Regional areas here these days are quite cosmopolitan with really good cafes and restaurants and lets face it 99% of the stuff you need for say your car you ship in anyway. I'm dying to get out of city living I can tell you.
Like who? Where? Seriously just out of curiosity… ?
Always looking for good vacation destinations. Greenville, SC is one of the few in the States that has grown over the years and become better. Clean, safe and absolutely beautiful! Factoring in crime & safety, cleanliness, once you get so big, they usually become “more complicated” = a mess. Especially over here in the States. May not be the case with Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, etc.
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Stedy
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Any Aussies in here have experience with ADR's and swapping out the steering wheel? I'm finding the ADR's painfully confusing. Would really like to swap the Supa's wheel with one of the BMW GX series wheels and airbag. There are a few people/businesses offering this. Or at very least, keep the original airbag and move it to another wheel frame.
lucky phil
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I think I'm pretty safe in saying it will contravene the ADR's. The steering wheel is part and parcel of the ADR crash test requirements and unless the car was fitted with that exact steering wheel and airbag assy for that test approval it would be in contravention. No matter that it fits and it's a wheel from the same platform. There are a ton of things that are technically in breach of ADR's that people do such as CF hoods and fenders. As an example a VZ Monaro bonnet with the fake air scoops is illegal to fit to a VX sedan. Same manufacturer, same body shape straight bolt on mod done by hundreds of owners but illegal. SA police used to defect owners and they needed to remove them due to the car not being fitted with that bonnet/hood during ADR crash testing.
It's really about will anyone in authority notice or care at the end of the day. Like fitting wheels that widen the track by more than an inch is illegal as well but does anyone in authority check? Lowering your car is another example. Minimum ground clearance here is 100mm but plenty get away with it. Well until they get stopped for an RBT or traffic violation by a grumpy or picky cop. The cops here use a Coke can to check min ground clearance if they are having a bad day and I've had friends get a defect notice on a cam and exhaust during a roadside RBT check. Cop notices the lovely lumpy idle and exhaust and directs the driver to pull up over there for a defect notice.
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BMWAF
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Even just looking at other steering wheels probably brakes the ADR.
I don't think there is any reasonable way to stay completely legal here with any modification worth doing. I guess it's more about picking your poison and accepting the risks. And besides, with regards to steering wheels, apart from a Supra owner, who would even know it's not the correct wheel? Having said this, I'd stick to an OEM core no matter what you do.
GRMan
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Not confusing at all, only legal if Toyota (manufacturer) or BMW (manufacturer of the G series steering wheel) says it’s safe to do so…
This is for QLD but logical deduction leads me to believe that other states will have similar certification requirements
https://www.publications.qld.gov.au...nal.pdf?ETag=9b9838a666de1d95a4c34d3e6e94d2e6
lucky phil
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I was thinking if it had a BMW logo on the airbag cover and a Cop pulled you over he might ask questions, lol. You know how Cops are. I sold a nice car to a retired Cop once and I said I'd pick him up at the local train station in my DD and drive him back to my place 2 min away where he'd inspected the car pre purchase and do the handover and he'd pay the money there. I just didn't want to park the sale car in the street shopping area and go looking for him to meet up. Luck would have it it'd get backed into or something stupid. He was very very hard to convince that this was cool to do. Thought I was going to kidnap him with the cheque or something lol.
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Stedy
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Thanks all. Yeah, as I suspected, it's a matter of pushing the limits within reason and crossing your fingers. Agree though, OEM core is highly preferable.
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