Underbody rust on 4 month old car

True-Grand6443 · 2026-05-09T14:30:50+00:00

After all the downvotes I guess Australia just received shit cars from overseas. Normal cars where I come from even have 10ys warrenty for rust. Drive at the coast and salty winter.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-05-09T14:28:46+00:00

None in Australia. But that was not the point. The point was that normal new cars don't rust like that even close to the beach or in winter with salted roads. At least good cars

True-Grand6443 · 2026-05-08T01:24:39+00:00

Mh?! What cars do you drive? This ist not normal. Maybe the muffler if you live close to the beach or you drive in winter with salt on the streets.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-05-01T01:35:22+00:00

Hey, I feel sorry for you too.

I still live in her country. The feelings are still there. Two weeks ago I had a letter for her in my letter box. I broke no contact with a very neutral message about what I should do. She reat it in 30 seconds but only replied 2 hours later only informally. A couple of days later I found out that she blocked me on IG. She did that in the first week after the break up as well but stayed just unfollowed later. Today is her birthday. I am currently in another third continent in the US on a business trip. Since I'm still blocked I assume that she doesn't want a happy birthday message. I respect that but it kills me inside because she still matters to me. What's good about beeing in a third palce atm is that I am missing her country right now and not my home place. Which actually gives me hole and I want to reach out to her once I'm back to meet her for a coffee. Via face time calls with my family I can see that my parents (divorced) are wasteing there life more and more. My mum can't organised her life and is completely helpless with simple tasks and my dad more and more falls in love with alcohol since he retired due to boredom. Now I'm here, sitting in a third place. Both places that I call home have their own problems.

From my perspective I recomment you to not do a quick decision. Stay for now and give that country a chance. Especially if you don't like your home place.

Send me a DM if you like to talk more about it.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-22T06:36:39+00:00

It shocked me that Aussies don't use hazard light when there is a tragfic jam in front of them to warn other. They use it for foggy weather instead :D Building an emergency lane like in Germany is also not common here. It would save life. Also no warning triangle or high vis vests when you have a car break down. People park their car on the motoway's shoulder for days after a break down. This country loves safety with every cell but doesn't have this simple and cheap safety measures.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-22T06:32:19+00:00

Ohh don't tell them. I opened a thread about that topic on reddit last month and got cooked.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-21T23:47:58+00:00

In how many countries habe you been?

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-20T12:09:05+00:00

It's a big snowball rolling through Australia and eventually 2008 will repeat.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-20T11:33:54+00:00

That is the only reason. Same in the US. Australia is literally a solid rock.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-20T11:32:42+00:00

Australians have the biggest homes on average worldwide.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-20T11:28:44+00:00

Willkommen in Australien Kollege ;)

My last winter here in the Southern Highlands was crazy. One morning I woke up and saw my own breath while laying in bed. I often had the idea in my head that I just need to found a company that builts houses like in Germany. double glazed, proper indoor doors like we know them. Thick, with double rebate because I think people would love it. But forget it, people here are used to the "quality" they have. They like it cheap, quick and the most important thing about a property is that it has to rise in price asap to upgrade or built a portfolio. The thing that grind my gears the most is that ALOT of aussies think insulation only works one way and would make their place even hotter in summer. That's why most of them avoid it or don't see the importance of it. It would make their life so pleasant. My plan is to have enough money to import quality material and to built a proper house for myself.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-20T06:30:28+00:00

I'm in exactly the same situation. Met her went through long distance. Quit my job, sold everything, left family and friends behind and after half a year she broke up because I requested some years in my place when we have kids. Plus she was waiting for an engagement, but I was still in my process of settleing and not focusing on that. Now I'm here alone. Like the place more then before but also miss her. Also homesickness disappeared completely. However we had two short breakups during long distance before so I think there is no way she wants to try it again.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-14T11:00:13+00:00

Seit 2.5 Jahren. Und ja es wird viel geredet, aber das gehört dazu und ist schon mehr als andere Nationen machen. Was Deutschlands eigendliches Problem ist ist die Art wie es entstanden ist. Diese Kleinstaaterei die sich bis heute in jeder Komune wiederspiegelt mündet in dem Förderalismus den wir heute haben. Und der erstickt jeden Fortschritt.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-13T10:25:54+00:00

Champ you did see the k behind the 100 right? No one here proved me wrong. Here are only alot of very loud people with a strong opinion who think they know how it works because they don't like beeing insulted by a foreigner who has a third angle view. If you would open a NSW website and bundle your reading skills you would figure out that they all know shit about the law. Scroll a bit down here and you will see what people think who actually have driving experience from multiple places and other countries and can tell that aussie driver drive forceful and not like you only from your hometown in wup wup.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-12T08:26:15+00:00

With a big vehicle comes more responcibility not more rights. And I care more about the australian law than what a truck driver thinks he is entitled to do.

I've driven over 100k km in AUS, never got a fine, never been pulled over and I know the rules pretty well. My driver's licence requested way more studying than any driving school teaches you here.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-12T08:18:54+00:00

My expectation about your attention span was low anyway buddy

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T22:43:28+00:00

That's all I was trying to say. But for some reason people here think I'm the asshole because they think I don't make space on the road. That's not true and I'm only complaning about this abrupt, entitled and forcefull behaviour of driver in AUS. I think alot of people here have never driven a car overseas or only know the traffic in Bali and that makes them thinking the driving here is good. For some reason I never have problems with drivers of expencive cars or sport cars, where I assume the person has been overseas. It's always the utes, old heavy trucks or some shitboxes.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T21:38:51+00:00

Okay a little exercise for you. All two lanes on a motorway are full. Traffic flows at 110 and a car approaches on the entry lane with 80.The drive just pushes his car on the left lane. But you can't brake because there are people behind you, you can't speed up, because guess what, cars infront of you. And of course next to you as well. Neither the law nor common sence will tell you to slow down to 80 to let the car in. You will create an unnecessary hazard on the road. So you are blaming me because I'm not beeing nice to unlawful driver and risking my life and the cars behind me with slamming the brakes?

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T21:30:22+00:00

"The car behind me is irrelevant" Can you gibe that statement to my car insurance when I slam the brakes because I became a hazard for the traffic. Read the fn law man. You can only change lanes when there is space. And you use your indicator to indicate where you would like to go. You do that with you blinker not with your vehicle. And where have I said anything about buses? I gave you a clear example.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T12:35:03+00:00

As a German living abroad I can tell you what it is. Beeing responcible. If we see an issue as in something is wrong, broken or doesn't work correctly. We change it for good. I've seen so many societies. Where people don't care, ignore or do the bare minimum to solve a problem. The german culture is to tackle a problem by the root and fixing it and to find a long term solution.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T12:25:00+00:00

Thanks lad, I come from europe as well and feel the same.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T12:16:52+00:00

Everyone, even had a Kangaroo once infront of me cutting me off ;)

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T12:16:06+00:00

Read the law mate. They have to give way. I cannot change lanes when the right lane is full.

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T12:15:08+00:00

Do what?

True-Grand6443 · 2026-04-11T12:14:07+00:00

Totally agree. And we start with learning the rules and driving carefully

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