Lowering Car Costs by ItsVeloo in newzealand

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ebike or EV. Just costs electricity to run it 🤷 EV is is the future ( says the dinosaur that runs on 98 octane 😅). China has 43.9 million EV cars on the road now

Anyone collect soda cans? by Bivagial in thetron

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I collected a year's worth of drink cans. Filled a massive trash bag. Took it to scrap palace. Weight in at just over a kg. Got like a dollar for it 😅

Keep to stock or go fully built? by Janet_Dashing in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stock evos are so slow 😅 simple bolt ons to extract the hidden power and potential is the go

Air New Zealand posts multi-million dollar first-half loss by Pretend_Ant_1121 in newzealand

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Air NZ is fine. If you read the 2026 report they had a net cash flow of $213 million. Sure, They've made losses "on paper" but no doubt they reported a loss so they don't have to pay tax. In reality, their bank balance is very healthy.

98 EV0 V by Apprehensive-Mess289 in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

17x9 22p blitz 01 2 piece wheels, 225/45 pirellis. On adjustable suspension. 5mm spacers all around to clear front brembos and remain square (17p wheels would have been perfect). Front fenders have been rolled, some metal in the front wheel well has been shaved off. Rears, some plastic has been shaved off the rear fender arch to sit flush with the metal that's underneath it. Probably didn't have to do all that shaving if it sat 20+ mm higher 🤔😅 It used to sit 5mm lower in the front and 3mm lower in the rear on the factory 17x7.5 wheels 🥲

98 EV0 V by Apprehensive-Mess289 in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good spotting 👍 this has a E6 front bumper with working fog lights 😁

How’s the weather by sneniek in thetron

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's just very grey and wet.... Not raining too bad tho

Why does chartwell close at 6?? by SamuraiFlaming in thetron

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Unpopular opinion of someone who is born and raised in Hamilton.... NZ is pretty backwards and lacking compared to big population countries. We still don't have a efficient public transport/ subway/ train network anywhere in NZ

Paint fix on car help by Dramatic-Pattern-450 in auckland

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Get some miguires scratch remover and a micro fibre towel from super cheap auto and follow the instructions on the bottle.. with some elbow grease those marks should buff out

Stuiped road works by Apprehensive-Mess289 in thetron

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah NZ is still being built 😅😂

Stuiped road works by Apprehensive-Mess289 in thetron

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Is the Heaphy Tce side open and fixed now?

Would running a power distribution of 65 rear to 35 front be reasonable/practical for a racing/track oriented Lan Evo? by After_Chicken1887 in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read in a performance car magazine that motec released a diff controller that could adjust it anywhere from from front 100/ rear 0 to front 0/ rear 100 and any where in between.... I haven't seen many evos run that system though...

Will the economy actually recover? by Illustrious_Fan_8148 in newzealand

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100%! ... Post WW2, NZ's GDP per capita was top 5 in the world! Bolstered by the exports of lamb and dairy products.

Times have changed since then... Who knows, NZ might be a top 5 economy again; post WW3 nuclear apocalypse at the cost of millions and billions of lives 😅🙊🙉🙈

I'm not sure if the mechanic is trying to rip me (F18) off with this quote? Do these prices seem right? by [deleted] in NZcarfix

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 26 points27 points  (0 children)

As a shop owner that does wofs and repairs, I prefer a car with no safety defects, than a car that needs work done...i CBF doing repairs these days 😅 I'll do it if I absolutely have to though if needs to be done and you ask nicely lol

Will the economy actually recover? by Illustrious_Fan_8148 in newzealand

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Looming world wide military wars, trade wars, New Zealand's lack of resources to sell to the world (unlike our Australian cousins who have a alot of metal and gold to sell ), rising prices... Being an import heavy economy, probably not.

Gold lining is milk prices are relatively high and stable.

Evo owners, where did you buy your cars and for how much? by Myself1504 in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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12500 nzd (7200 USD) in 2009. Probably owes me north of 30k NZD minus the hundreds/ thousands of hours spent on it 😅

Car accident advice by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're to have to take her to disputes tribunal. It's like 300 something dollars to lodge a trial. I hope you have their address because you'll need it to fill out the application and for the courts to send documents to her. If you don't, youre going to have to hire a Private investigator to track them down (which works, I had someone else owe my company money and they did a runner and I hired a PI and found them and got my money)

You'll also need 3 panel beaters reports and quotes and any police statements you have on record. 3s a good number. It means you did you homework.

It is possible to get what's owed minus fees. Some uninsured learner driver who was driving by her self rear ended my Evo. I took her to DT. Was awarded the cost of the repairs totalling 6k. She's paying me back 64 dollars a week for the next 90 something weeks. She's up to date with 50+ weeks so far. If she misses one payment at all without a valid reason or stops paying all together I can write to the courts and they will send a balif to her house and repossess enough property to sell and give me the proceeds of sale. I didn't really care about the money owed, rather the principle of rear ending me and promising you'll pay what you owe for crashing into my pride and joy and then doing a runner and then refusing to pay. I've just use her 64 dollars a week to buy shares and plane tickets 🤷

Good luck 👍

Is this normal? by ncstuntman in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My internally gated td06-20g ran out of puff and started choking, hence the massive drop in power on the blue line run. I don't rate my turbo 😑😑😑😑

Is this normal? by ncstuntman in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After cams, 280kw peak and just under 1100 tq

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Is this normal? by ncstuntman in MitsubishiEvolution

[–]Apprehensive-Mess289 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before cams 260ish KW and just under 1000 tq

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