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Yes, kinda. A second hand turbo will set you back around $500 for a good one and maybe a couple of hundy to get get it installed. On those things it is a really straightforward job. If you put it into perspective that they will normally do 200,000kms before dropping their guts, the savings in fuel by far outweigh any prospective servicing costs. In saying that, don't buy a mitzy turbo diesel. They are particularly known for catastrophic mechanical failures. Nissan or Toyota are best.

While I have not owned either of them, I have had to fix many in my previous life as a mechanic. The mitzis were chronic for transmission faults. My reccommendation would be a post '95 toyota surf with the 3L turbodiesel, and arguably a much more forgiving setup if 4wd'ing is being considered than a petrol engine. The mitzi v6 and the isuzu v6 are not in themselves hugely bad powerplants but I always smile when people buy them as it is a step towards ensuring my job security (work for an oil company!) and they will, as Caryl says, be hugely hungry around town and only slightly less so on the highway.

I'm working christmas eve and christmas day at this stage... tanker full of fuel from singapore to go into our tanks.

You can go in to your user control panel and change and customise the skins and colours to get something that you prefer. Much cooler than before.

Nice one Jim R We all have the potential to be extreemly rich - but I think what Jim is referring to is wealth is not always measured in money, but in family and lifestyle. We have just bought our first home (earlier in the year, before the interest rate drop!) and are squeezing our 4 children into a 3 bedroom house and sleepout. I guess it's how you prioritise things, and how you choose to live pre-homeowner.

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True. And if you think wetting the bed might be bad, imagine my Teenage son in it. No pretty plastic cover there!

lol, Three kids trapped in the ute for three hours... Small cabin and very noisy kids Was a bit strung out and tense when we arrived and I wandered around talking to myself, opening myself up to much mocking and ridicule. I didn't see the problem :lol: Maybe next time we'll strap the kids to the tray and arrive sooooooooo happy!

Fun adventure to collect! Teenage boy will be absolutely stoked! Thanks Shadowfax! (btw... Hope we didn't scare you!) (!) :lol:

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Things have settled down a bit because everybody is giving rugfus a wide bearth every time they see him. Snowballs is booked into get fixed have to ask Sharron when but I think it's early next week when I'm in auckland. It is very hard to like a cat that attacks so forcefully but we're still trying! Will keep everybody posted.

Thats usually the case, unless the road is marked differently. As an example, two roundabouts on my way home allow right turning in the left lane.

It felt vicious to me :-(..... We've had a think about it and occasionally when the two cats are in the same room rufus for some reason gets upset or tense, yet there are times when we will come home and find the two of them sleeping on the same bed or couch. It's just weird. Yep, 100% deaf. Only indication of any hearing at all was when I was hammer drilling today (vibrates the ground) and I got a raised eyebrow - as if to day.... things are vibrating! Snowballs the deaf cat is as placid as can be... I've never heard him hiss or spit but he has a bloody loud meow. Rufus the killer attack cat is the one who is unstable and leaves puncture wounds on arms. Traquilisers? Great idea. It's either Rufus mellows or one of them has to go.

Okay, so today, Rufus the killer attack cat leapt onto me and left four neat incisor holes in my arm and claw marks everywhere. Unprovoked! Not happy!

Niiiiiice! Seriously, though, thanks everybody for their helpful advice. We've looked at snowballs's snowballs and they are definitely larger than Rufus's..... The sorting out of that might help. The kitty tranquilisers are a good idea, and might help the settling-in process. Wish we'd known about them earlier. I don't really want to rehome either cat. Snowballs is a couch cat, that keeps your lap warm, and if we had a guard dog he'd dig holes all over the place... so we have Rufus!

It's been around six or seven weeks. Rufus is around two, not sure of Snowballs. :lol: pmsl Snowballs isn't spraying or anything. How can we tell if he's been fixed?

Thanks everyone for your responses :-) Definitely. In a biting, scratching, hissing angry cat way. Is on the cards. The strange thing is, Rufus is getting progresively worse... no longer is he leaving scratches, theres now hardcore bloodletting that would make an emo sit up and take notice :lol: Family meeting tonight - I'm picking two out of four children will want Rufus gone which seems real extreme, cos he is a cool cat when Snowballs isn't around.

We've done the whole attention and affection thing... tried the big hugs, the special food, the "lets make Rufus feel like the king" treatment. Gave up after a couple of weeks cos we got scratched too much!

That is so fricken awesome!

Hi Guys, A little while ago we "inherited" a white male cat, with two different coloured eyes, and we named him "Snowballs" for obvious reasons . Real cool cat but deaf as a post. Anyhow, it and our existing cat have issues - our existing cat is a neutered ginger (Rufus) and every time they see each other there is much hissing and gnashing of teeth from Rufus . Snowballs however is very dignified throughout the whole process, if he even knows whats going on. This issue has now developed to the point where any person walking past Rufus when Snowballs is in sight risks being molested by a violent flying furball. Every family member has scratches somewhere and tonight my daughter went to pick up Rufus and got bitten on the arm for her trouble - not an ordinary cat scratch but with two puncutre wounds on each side of her arm. AFAIK Snowballs is non-fixed. We've had him for only a few weeks and have not yet had the opportunity to get it done yet though it is a definite must in any case. Does anyone have any ideas as to where to from here with Rufus - he has always been quite a highly strung creature but now it is beyond a joke and we are at our wits end

I don't know if a steel-framed building is such a good idea - I was having this very conversation with Highways in Tga (importers) and they use steel framed/clad garages... they normally last five or so years and they're finished. If it was me I would build a bunded concrete floor (as per MAF), and frame with H4 treated pine, and line the interior with seratone. Plywood might be okay if it was appropriately sealed....... We did look at this last year, and decided that the building would cost approx $18000 for the materials (6x4m shed) plus permits and council compliance, resource consents, and the MAF compliance was on top of that again. Still, if someone else was prepared to invest close to $50k including the first shipment of fish, then we would happily buy their fish :-)

Reference Number 2958743/G Universal Time August 25 2008 at 11:25 NZ Standard Time Monday, August 25 2008 at 11:25 pm Latitude, Longitude 39.70°S, 176.78°E Focal Depth 30 km Richter magnitude 5.9 Region Hawke's Bay Location 10 km south-west of Hastings 250 km north-east of Wellington wow

oh yes, was woken by it

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