Minor as in easy to fix. I used to have the back tyres on the front when I had a positive camber issue, and hence the outside of the tyres has worn out.

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Howard: "You don't need a pen to be a writer Vince"
Vince: "I think you do"

Grow up hanra, tell me you've never put off new tyres for a month or two because you were short of cash or you forgot. Give the guy a break.

hanra, uni is hardest for the kids without rich parents. Who gives a fat rat's pecker if a uni student has bald tyres, or lives on two minute noodles just so he can get the degree he needs to do what he wants in life.

Don't suppose you did it hard for a while being a first year apprentice at all?

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Daniel the concreter (for now)
1974 mini 1100, fully sick rims, disk brakes, new paint, air conditioning, cruise control,v-tech... wishful thinking

if you cant afford something you go without.
im at uni working part time yet still manage to maintain my daily in a roadworthy state, and pay for the aprts i need for the mini which is currently sitting in a garage waiting for me to save the money for rego.

if things arent legal then you dont drive simple, ride a bike or walk. you will be a lot poorer if you have a crash and you have to pay all the costs involved because your insurance was void because of crap tyres

The guy has been smashed into and his car defected off the road - how about we keep our opinions to ourself and resist the urge to lay the boot in whilst he's down? We all learn from our mistakes in life (granted some take longer than others).

Dixon, how about throwing some pictures up of the accident damage?

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While at Uni there is always ways and means to earn the cash. I had a Saturday morning job that gave me day to day living expenses. I gave an ex-girlfriend a lift to Uni every day and she paid the petrol money as it was cheaper for her to do that than pay bus fare (1/4 the cost in fact). And for the big items I was in the Army Reserve (CMF in those days) partly so I didn't get conscripted to go to Vietnam - partly to earn money, which was paid six monthly - one in time to pay the rego and things like tyres and the other at Christmas - good timing - and it was tax free

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

You charged a girlfriend petrol money?? Is that why she's your ex? Or was she your ex before you started charging her?

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1969 Mini Cooper S MKII (1330)
1972 Honda 750/4 (his),1976 Honda 400/4 (hers)
1982 Honda CB1100RC (ours)

I wasn't going to comment on this thread after the blasting he has recieved but some points must be made.

Firstly Uni is tough and a car is probably an unnecessary expense but even uni students need a life. However, its a privelidge that carries a responsibility. The car must be road worthy with no short cuts or excuses. Tyres with insufficient tread are magnet for regulative bodies and the police are the front line on that. Secondly the laws on licencing apply and it was just a cash payment over the counter, it should have been done and now its costing a whole lot more.

As for taking a car over the pits. The inspectors usually actually like cars and that why they do that job. They are not out to trash a car - they will just want it right. Its as simple as that. Part of the trick is to have it right, have it clean (including the engine) washed and polished. Clean all the windows inside and out and blacken all the tyres.

Finally take out the two years of Macca's and KFC packaging and let it have a clean floor. A scruffy car warants further inspection and further faults are found.

Wombat - the Reserves currently are not a good option as with ADF attrition and poor recruitment many many reservists are being pressured into full time service which usually means O/S service. I would want better repatriation benefits (or at least equivalent to the VEA) before I encouraged any of mine to travel that route.

Mike

She was an ex before I started charging - (she offered actually) - became an ex after 1st her parents then her little brother (insisted ?) on coming to the drive-in with us

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Jeez, that would have been squeezy in the Mini.

Tim

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1951 Morris Commercial J Type Van
1955 BSA C11G
1961 Morris Mini Traveller
1969 Triumph TR6R
1977 Leyland Moke Californian

We faced a lot of pressure to go to Vietnam as well - I was in a Field Ambulance and a lot of the Doctors and full time (day job) nurses went for short stints - they wanted me to go as part of the Medical stores management but I just used the excuse I was tied up with my Uni course thank you very much Instead I picked up the management of the detail that conducted evening medical assessments at 3 Div HQ one night a week which effectively doubled my pay.

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

My unit (8 fd Amb - in Nui Dat) in 1969 had a graduate pharmacist who been conscriptied running the pharmacy and the pathology was being run by a vetinerary surgeon who had also been conscripted. Ian Hobson was his name and is went on to run a very successfull practice in Southport QLD.

I chose to get conscription over and done with as I figured out that I would be 25 or so before I finished my nasho committments and given my perchant for girls and sex god knows what predictament I would have been in by then.



Mostly the CMF doctors or allied health professionals went to Vung Tau (1 Aust Fd Hosp) for their stints and all ours were regular serving members. We had no females in Nui Dat.

But having said that - had you gone you would have been protected under the Veterans Entitlement Act which modern ADF and reservists are not. They come under a completely different act that does not differentiate between a public service penpusher and a frontline ADF infantryman. Terms like peacemaker and peacekeeper further legally diminish their roles and the government responsibility.

Mike

Wow this is getting intoa heated discussion! Thanks for your comments guys.

I think maybe I have the wrong idea about the pits, I think I will give it a go, and worst comes to worst I have a list of jobs to do.

With money the problem with me is that I spent about 12-14hrs a day at uni and come in on sundays as well. Why? Because we build a schmick fsae open wheeler and time for comp is fast approaching. I work 2 jobs, one on a saturday and one I do some CAD during the week. So money wouldn't be a problem if I didn't spend so much time at uni (food is the major cost).

It was a rookie error not changing the tyres, but I thought it would be a better idea to go to melbourne for this motorsport comp, and while I'm over there see daft punk.

Sorry about the pics, I will try and get some now.

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Howard: "You don't need a pen to be a writer Vince"
Vince: "I think you do"

OK here's a pic of the damage, it's not too bad, just lots of bog around there unfortunately...



And here's a pic of the rear tyre, like I said there's still plenty of tread, and I know it's no exuse, but they still grip like no other car i've driven.

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Howard: "You don't need a pen to be a writer Vince"
Vince: "I think you do"

Dixon
Thats not a lot of damage and you would be quite suprised at how little that would cost to have repaired as a spare time job by virtually any panel beater as a cash job. If its a quiet time then the P/B's have to pay their apprentices anyway and they would rather have practicing their trade than sitting around swapping yarns.

Ask around and spin the poor uni student yarn. Treat the insurance money from the lady as a totally different issue.

It just cost me $80 to have my mini buffed and polished by a PB as a spare time job and he even mixed the right colour paint and went around touching up paint blemishes.

Mike.

No. Tyres are very important. I usually replace them before they need to be.

Well my gf has had no assistance from her parents. She just works her ass off. And i care if a uni student has bald tyres cause i dont want them running up my ass at a set of traffic lights.

Nope, i lived at home for the 1st couple of years.

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