Thread: Slow learners???

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

you would think after 50 years of crossing the ford....they wouldnt be facing UPSTREAM aiming at a small shear bank....

That Motu Rd crossing can get deep.. especially on the RHS heading in.. was a little sketchy last week but have seen it pretty bad. Won't be good for few days now after all the rain we're having

Also, "allegedly" said claimant has had many a run-in with the council, including blocking public roads with gates to restrict access.
Is there more history between said parties than what is lead to be believed in the article...??

Spent a few days up that valley and a cousin lived there.Also had a mate prunning pines up the whitikau .
Another mate found a dead body up the Takapatahi road whuch heads to the motu river

I thought that. But the diff was already apart, hence how he found out. Its what first git my interest before I overhead the mechanic. So that's about a third of cost. I assuming he still had to pay for that labour regardless.
Judging by your thumb nail pic, you will be aware of how much a kick in the wallet a rebuilt diff would be.

Originally Posted by Shamus_

There is a lot to replace ...
https://vehicleinspection.nzta.govt....er-damage#tab2

That's my point - how many of the utes etc get 'flooded' during normal work and or play, which should cause a technical write off but just drive away and open the doors, let the water out and let the thing air dry out over a few weeks to carry on with no issues???

Just in my small circle , almost all at some stage.

Thats how you wash the carpets

They are older though , doesn't work so well with the newer stuff.
Electrics & water can get expensive.

I vividly recal the lada niva with water flowing in one door and out the other,mid shin deep...and she just carried on happy as pig in pooh.
water 3" deep inside the ford escort,same deal,wet carpets needed taking out to dry.
my little honda MB100 2stroke...last school C exam all roads out of kaitieke were closed,I went through a mud slide with mud up over 3/4 of way up wheels put put put put through and off to Taumarunui I went lower legs covered in wet mud...got to school and borrowed some strides from lost property to sit through exan then headed off homewards again hoping roads had been reopened.

I read this thread hoping everyone's current favourite southerner was going to post saying he drives his Swift, or whatever, through flooded rivers and returns with 23 deer, 48 ducks, 3 pigs and a partridge in a fucken pear tree strapped on.

Originally Posted by No.3

Electric + water, what can go wrong.

In actual fact, this is a great example of the issues with current hybrids - it does not take much to go wrong to make a perfectly good vehicle a technical write off just because the cost of repair exceeds the practical value of the vehicle. A nice little outlander 4x4 PHEV and one little splash oh golly worth more than the car to replace the battery!

How many utes and 4x4's out there are in the situation of being technical write offs due to flooding damage where just because it's not 'claimed' they haven't been written off? It's a fairly blunt rule from my experience, say a Ford Everest that was written off for flood damage when the internals weren't wet and the water line was well below the practical and advertised 700mm wading depth... I just reckon the owner thought it was time for a change, buying a write off 'flood damaged' vehicle for under $10K when the lot value is over $50K seems a good deal to me even if cert costs and replacing the ecu's and sensors pops it out to $20K...

I know a call out guy who got called to a new hatchback (well known 'flash ' brand) that had broken down. They had gone through some water attempting to get in their driveway and have "over estimated " the capability of their hatch. Well he checked the engine and water had been sucked into the air intake and fuel system, so engine will not be turning over anytime soon. She asked how to get it out of the entrance to the driveway....Answer tow?. How do I get a two truck in front of it to tow it? Answer- Unsure- How easy is it to get it into neutral- Answer Not without the engine running. Electronic shifter(?) means new safety protocol requires engine to be running before you can select neutral- I am glad most of my vehicles have 6 month WOFs...It means they are made of fixibles rather than replaceables.....

I am with Micky on this. Mr and Mrs Richard Cranium (a.k.a. Dick Head) could see the water was higher than normal and could see that the embankment on the other side had been washed away yet still chose to take their unsuited vehicle for a swim. When asked, Minister James Shaw said “Climate Change was to blame” but another interviewee, local man Don T Bedumb said “Dick has lived here for years but the silly cunt still put his Greenie wind up in the water”.

Originally Posted by timattalon

I know a call out guy who got called to a new hatchback (well known 'flash ' brand) that had broken down. They had gone through some water attempting to get in their driveway and have "over estimated " the capability of their hatch. Well he checked the engine and water had been sucked into the air intake and fuel system, so engine will not be turning over anytime soon. She asked how to get it out of the entrance to the driveway....Answer tow?. How do I get a two truck in front of it to tow it? Answer- Unsure- How easy is it to get it into neutral- Answer Not without the engine running. Electronic shifter(?) means new safety protocol requires engine to be running before you can select neutral- I am glad most of my vehicles have 6 month WOFs...It means they are made of fixibles rather than replaceables.....

Im was told the new Ibooboo trucks have a gearbox destruction button...for just that senario...the boss decided he best get it disconnected as he KNEW someone would just have to try it to see..apparently it breaks something major at flick of a switch..so assumably it must be connected to some serious power source that just sits there waiting like a time bomb!!! dumbest thing Ive ever heard of in a heavy truck.

Well, until the computer stops as that lineage is known for I guess, and you REALLY need to get the thing out of the way...

Originally Posted by Beetroot

I call BS on that article.

All car owners commute less that 80kms per day and do 100% city driving.
Electric cars are perfect for NZ condtions.

they certainly have their uses though. a colleague has a hybrid ford transit. costs a pittance to charge it and must have saved the boss thousands on diesel in the time it has been in use. Granted he does only work at one place so no long trips all the time. however the savings and practicality if the circumstances are right are quite good.

Originally Posted by XR500

Lived up the Motu for 50 years, but use a petrol vehicle for fording streams. Then when that failed.....purchased a hybrid and rooted the battery, again fording streams

aaaah, the price of virtue...hope it was worth it