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Supposedly getting the Caldina back in the next week or so... Only been like 3 months...



aaaaand then I am going to have to sell it and get a sensible daily because my works Cube that I usually drive is screwed and work doesn't want to spend any money or time on it to try and fix it... Feels like it has dropped a cylinder, super super rough running and over 2000rpm feels like it is going to blow... No CEL light or other obvious issues though...

I don't mind double turn lanes, people are just stupid...

The woman still thinks she wasn't at fault lol... oh well can't fix stupid.




Caldina is still off the road cause they have now found the suspension strut and knuckle are bent and need to be replaced too. Waiting for the parts to arrive...

Thanks, everyone is all good which is the silver lining.

The Caldina is still off the road waiting for parts going on almost two months now :L

Well had two cars taken out within a month.
Caldina was hit while turning at a set of lights. Corolla in the inside turn lane changed lanes midway through the corner to enter a shop driveway. Hit the front quarter of the Caldina and pushed it into the gutter on the passenger side. Both wheels, front bumper, front driver quarter panel, drivers wing mirror, front driver suspension strut, front driver steering knuckle and front driver steering end link all were damaged.

Dashcam Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb8zrlph0tQ...1I&index=12

Then, only two weeks later while driving down the M5 Motorway we were rear-ended while in our daily Tiguan. The other driver was an International, uninsured driver who wanted us to claim the crash was on the following Monday. We declined this and got our insurance involved, unfortunately we are with a budget provider as my Fiance and I are in the 'high-risk' age bracket and it is super expensive for us, so we had to put our excess forward upfront. To top it off, the cars registration and CTP Insurance was due on the Monday costing us a total of around $3600 for the weekend. The excess has since been refunded as we are not-at-fault.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Gj9jRDYu8...HUnKbCRAsLuK01I


The Tiguan was dropped to a smash repairer on the following Friday and was back to us by the Monday (3 day turnaround). The inner and outer bumper, reverse sensor, reverse light and brackets were all replaced. The new inner bumper and the tailgate were repainted and all new rear badges were installed.

Before repair:




After Repair:

Your photobucket is RIP now

I refused the recall work lol, it doesn't affect my car anyway as it will be stage 1 tuned soon.
And yeah, the short ram intake, turbo spools faster now


I've also never had any issues with TDI motors, but my mate that works at VW said that the common issues are leaking seals which mine has none

I did a thing to my Fiance's car:

Come live here lol, we have two sets of rules. If the lane marking continues to the end of the road it is considered a lane change and not a merge and the car with the lane ending (the one "merging") has to give way to the other lane. If the lane marking does not continue to the edge of the road, then it is the zipper method.

Haven't done anything to my cars lately. Everything has been focused on the house. New taps, new TV unit, new sideboard, new games storage.
In the garage front I have just gotten a new rolling toolbox and a workbench and have replaced the roof fluro lights with LED replacements, but the garage is still far from complete lol.

Hi there, yes it is.

It's about $15US to send it to that postcode.

If you were in Australia I would consider it lol Postage would probably make it not worth it though...

I know haha, I think they make the front look a bit over the top though.
I will see once the headlight mods are complete though.

Nothing to do with cars but today I built an $18k PC at work.
Dual socket 2011 Xeon Chips, 128GB RAM, 512GB M.2 SSD, 1500watt PSU, x4 GTX1080ti GPU.



I also have spent the past few days changing small things around the house to make it a bit more modern. New taps, new showerhead, LED conversion on all outside downlights and internal lights that can be swapped to LED are being

Bump, make an offer!

Thanks


They currently do have regular white LED bulbs in there for more light output through the tint. I have some plans for front light mods which are already underway and I think adding foglights to the mix might make it over the top. I will see after the niext mods go though

So I got time yesterday after work to install the foglights and trim pieces to complete the bumper.
While I was there, I decided to replace the faded grille meshing that came with the bumper and install some brand new black mesh.
Results make it look so much better:

This was also a vinyl film, but it was a cheapo ebay one. Only cost $1 and had enough to do both lights, the only bits that look eh will be covered by the trim so it is alright haha.

If it does lift down the track I might get some proper tint and re do them

So got time to tint the Foglights today. Not the best but first time I have tinted anything before.


And I finally found the mounting kit for the replacement TRD badge for the front bumper, I thought the screws were lost during the move but luckily I found them!

Already have the stock ones ready to go just no time to install them.

Yesterday I finally got a chance to remove my stock bumper and install the TRD bumper. It looks way better than the stock one and also isn't cracked like the stock one is.
Stock:


The car looks sort of sad without a front bumper lol:


The bumper just after unwrapping from the "Genuine Kia Parts" bubble wrap.


First mount but no mounting screws installed:



Screws installed and number plates installed:


And finally, the final product:

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The one in Box's photo is in Romania I believe. Called Transfăgărășan
Europe is full of roads like this though.

haha thanks, first time having enough room to do anything in the garage xD

I'm not sure lol
It is all brick, but no idea what frame it has.