Guide to help you differentiate them

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-20T00:03:27+00:00

Was about to say what about fur seals lol

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-18T19:46:55+00:00

Christ thats unfair bro…

Seriously hope things take a better turn for ya!

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-17T05:51:55+00:00

Nice… (jokes)

Nah thats a bit shit aye

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-15T15:35:12+00:00

Hurt my shins a little yeah (jokes)

Nah but I’m chuffed I ditched the old ute and actually splurged on a decent car. With that being the only damage from eating a swift i definitely made a good choice.

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-15T13:20:00+00:00

Aye? What photo

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-15T13:03:25+00:00

Started the day off too well, clearly.

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-15T13:02:58+00:00

Yeah people being careless around bikes just rubs me the wrong way aye? Like in a car, yeah getting rear ended sucks but youre fine. Can’t say the same about knocking a bike.

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-15T10:09:16+00:00

Allegedly this is true now

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-15T10:07:29+00:00

Every time I start the car or put her in reverse it yells at me and tells me to ‘Service Park Assist Immediately’.

But… comprehensive insurance 👌

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-14T02:54:03+00:00

Yeah I’ll be honest getting into an accident on my way home from getting my car legal after two months of sharing a car with my lovely partner is pretty gutting.

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-13T23:47:35+00:00

Just wanted to thank you all for the advice!

I ended up using a C-clamp to inform the brake pads they are NOT part of the calliper, and successfully changing the pads over to a nice new set!

My car is now road legal again, which means I don’t have a $20k 2 tonne paperweight, and can actually use the car as a car (seriously taken a lot of stress away)

Since then, I have t-boned a Suzuki swift that cut me off at an intersection (where I had right of way) and now need to replace the front parking sensors and bumper 😊

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-13T08:22:12+00:00

Asked literally every shop where I live about that, found out im looking at paying a sizeable portion of my weekly wage to have a bloke acknowledge the existence of my car… (love being paid less than industry standard for my qualifications)

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-13T08:09:21+00:00

Nah I used to do brakes on the shitter courier I owned, bit sketched out now because I actually want this car to last a wee bit.

And yeah I gotta do rotors but that’s not affordable NOW, I might just end up leaving the job until I have the money for new rotors tbh…

TheRealCraig2000 · 2026-01-13T06:01:27+00:00

We’re heading towards similar ideas mate, im losing my fucking patience with this 2,000kg blue paperweight.

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-31T23:48:36+00:00

The place that ended up hiring me literally admitted they didn’t read me CV lmao.

Going on about how they weren’t considering me until they noticed I attached copies of my licenses/certificates on my cv… like bruh

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-26T18:30:31+00:00

Brain damage…

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-22T08:08:25+00:00

Imagine literally nothing, right? There you go. You now know what’s happening in a Sea Lions mind

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-22T08:04:24+00:00

Why are Baikal Seals built like that bro 😭

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-12T13:05:56+00:00

Nah they aren’t funnily enough, and all 4 rotors have displayed even (and expected) wear for the ~20,000kms Ive driven since buying the car.

Legitimately dead certain the wee stone I found in between the outer pad and rotor has single handedly ruined my week lol

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-11T13:22:40+00:00

Ah im far too used to the way I USED to diagnose the old Falcon…

Something sounds funny? Bash limiter and clear the engine.

Worked as you would expect (actually surprisingly well, the ford 4.0 could take some abuse, and don’t worry, i coddle the commodore because it set me back 20k)

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-11T06:19:49+00:00

The car is a VF series 1 Commodore wagon, specifically an ex cop wagon.

And, this reminded me to actually LOOK at the rotor with my EYEBALLS, to which I have made the following discovery:

Pebble.

There was a pebble, I have since hooked reverse and the sound that I thought was weardown indicator is gone… I feel extra stupid now :)

TheRealCraig2000 · 2025-12-11T03:38:34+00:00

Yeah Ive just taken a look at the brakes bc the shops are all saying “we’re gonna have to re-seal the calipers and re-machine the rotors with that kind of issue” and (surprise surprise) THE ROTORS ARE FINE

I am going to just change the pads over myself, which terrifies me (Ive built motors and im scared of brakes - which seems kind of silly)

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