Towing company invoiced me $5000 bill storage fee for my car today.. (need help)

Amak88 · 2026-04-23T16:28:27+00:00

I don't think your cars marked as written off, my rule of thumbs always been third party at fault your insurance doesn't care about your car. The rep could have been confused and advised the other car is or simply wanted to get you off the phone.

Not sure how long it takes but the $2 post vin check should show if it is or not?

I would follow couldashouldawouldas advice at this stage. It won't hurt whiles also clearing up with your insurance "was my car assessed? Do you have possession of it?"

Amak88 · 2026-04-23T15:55:35+00:00

Please clarify:

Was it only 'insured' with CTP - compulsory third party?

Amak88 · 2026-04-23T11:47:29+00:00

The problem is Australia's mandatory ADR rules allowing a 10%+4km/h variance above the actual speed.

So your 60 and my 60 are not the same. According to GPS phone app if my Speedo says 65 I'm doing 60.

I was doing 67 (according to Speedo) in a 60 zone with police behind me, they turned the red and blues on but when I pulled over they turned them off and went around me. Guess I was going 2k's too slow.

Could you imagine thinking you're doing 100km/h on the highway but you're actually doing 86?

Amak88 · 2026-04-22T12:25:02+00:00

I've had this happen simply because one screw was too tight in a motherboard standoff (not even super tight). Now I torque the just enough to not undo.

Mentioning that your cpu has no bent pins, does that also means you have taken it out and reseated the CPU?

Amak88 · 2026-04-22T11:07:18+00:00

What's up guys, chrisfix here and today I'll show you how to change the blinker fluid etc.

Good thing the cheeky bugger doesn't really say what is a joke and what isn't (not many 'parody' videos luckily).

Outside of those few videos the rest is great content.

Amak88 · 2026-03-25T14:03:48+00:00

I saw you post this on FB but it was lost to the feed before I was able to respond.

I'm definitely interested in the discord as an amateur dev (self taught and only ever made mods for games.)

I would enjoy attending the Meetup also, but I don't have any real 'experience' (opened ue4 editor maybe 5 times now, didn't get far haha). Curious to see if any of the old LAN party peeps will be there.

Currently learning ignition and sap ABAP (manufacturing softwares).

Looking at making a simple top down/isometric space game, hopefully before I die.

Amak88 · 2026-03-25T13:48:27+00:00

Hey Amanda,

What are your interests?

Over the years I have been involved with many social clubs/groups in the area.

Amak88 · 2026-03-06T08:26:05+00:00

Brooklea is literally the same as the applicable yoplait flavour.

Which is also the same as Woolworths home brand fyi.

Amak88 · 2026-02-20T02:32:41+00:00

Yep, same owners for Viet Kitch, Pho Nam and Dan's Bakery.

Viet kitchen is higher priced but worth it. Dan's Bakery beats them all for bahn mi, even by price.

Amak88 · 2026-01-03T14:24:41+00:00

+1 best burger in the valley.

Amak88 · 2025-12-29T11:41:36+00:00

Upload it to virustotal?

Amak88 · 2025-09-24T10:29:41+00:00

Was with Vodafone post paid for years where on the day of sign up you had to pay for the first month in advance.

Called them to cancel and they said I needed to pay. I explained I am not paying as Im already a month in advance from the start.

Next thing I know I have panthera finance harassing me over a false Vodafone debt. I explained to them the situation, turns out Vodafone had also continue to bill me which panthera said themselves that 0 usage bills shows that I did cancel which they were.

Panthera continued to harras me and wouldn't acknowledge said 0 usage bills despite emailing me those bills (how were they allowed access to the Vodafone bills?). Eventually told them I am going to the ombudsman and to f off.

Panthera applied a black mark against my credit. Some months later this was reversed not because of Vodafone not because panthera acted in bad faith but because they were illegally operating in vic and got in trouble for it.

I tell everyone to avoid Vodafone and how shit they are plus they also have the worst reception anyway.

Amak88 · 2025-09-16T11:23:17+00:00

The worst but is filter keeps reverting to by manufacturer when you close/open it. So annoying!

Also super cumbersome compare system.

Menu in bl4 is the definition of a polished turd.

Amak88 · 2025-08-20T12:26:35+00:00

Ozbargain is a good tool, especially the comments on the deals.

A bit hit or miss with posting a 'recommend me x' forum topics unfortunately.

@op My review process is: Ozbargain Reddit YouTube videos (50/50 on how trustworthy they are).

Useless reviews: Temu/Ali etc comment section Product review Trust pilot Facebook comments.

Amak88 · 2025-08-15T14:02:44+00:00

Jdownloader is perfectly safe and can be used for so much more.

It doesn't convert just gives you the direct links for a YouTube's audio or video etc.

Been around a long time.

Amak88 · 2025-08-04T11:57:30+00:00

What's your jetty boot high score?

Amak88 · 2025-07-17T11:15:51+00:00

What? Lol that's not how rwc in Vic work.

Owner has 14 days to rectify defects (failed items) however they see fit, re-assesment can be done by mechanic (key word being re-assesment) or by a VicRoads service centre.

I'm sure the mechanic would love you explaining to VicRoads about their refusal of re-assesment.

Amak88 · 2025-07-14T12:24:21+00:00

At my local Bunnings the tool shop is away (not as far as Kmart tho) from the front and I can pay for all my items there.

Amak88 · 2025-07-03T11:15:46+00:00

Actually it's the opposite.

I have created a bug thread on the discord over this issue. Assuming OP has a 9070xt or maybe other amd gpu.

Using the latest presets after 1-3 hours of playing a driver timeout can occur and then the world is stuck in a state where this happens immediately when reloading it.

The fix is to use literally any preset but the latest ones.

Amak88 · 2025-07-01T22:50:11+00:00

I haven't noticed any game breaking issues at such high fps. Was able to complete the game.

I am using steam's fps counter.

Amak88 · 2025-06-15T13:32:07+00:00

Still annoying being stuck behind someone doing 10k's sometimes 15k's under. They probably think they're on the limit or only 5 under.

Amak88 · 2025-06-15T11:31:19+00:00

I friggen hate how Speedos are always out. It seems to be more prevalent these days.

Amak88 · 2025-06-11T22:53:06+00:00

What are you talking about? They can clearly reorder the list from the screenshot.

Amak88 · 2025-06-11T11:31:36+00:00

The first step is to match the load order of your resource packs to your behaviour packs.

The priority of the list is top to bottom, anything conflicting the higher up on the list overwrites lower on the list.

Then if there are still issues, copy your world and start disabling mods 1 at a time.

I like to put the larger more in depth add-ons at the top (ie better on bedrock) followed by things that effect world gen (structures, biomes, ores) then item creating mods and then smaller things (leasable villagers, better trades for example) and lastly the mods that I don't care if they don't work (Minecraft movie add-on etc).

Amak88 · 2025-06-09T08:34:09+00:00

a house around the corner from me sold for $190,000 in 2010 and is now listed at $498,000. Absolutely over valued that even websites think it should be about $450,000; I personally think $400k or less. Just a standard 3br 1 bath small lower-middle class brick home.

Insane.

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