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Author: John HudsonJohn Hudson
Date: Feb 15, 2008 19:59
From: "Noddy" home.com>
Subject: Re: OT: What if?
Date: Saturday, 16 February 2008 12:18 PM
"GrassyNoel" webace.com.au> wrote in message
news:d38c5a54-cf34-4ec2-bae2-
> But it is not the people.
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Date: Feb 15, 2008 18:19
http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23636,23222647-462,00.html
DESPERATE drivers are roaring off without paying for petrol in a crime surge
costing service stations up to $300,000 a week.
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In response, BP is looking to roll out automatic number-plate recognition
cameras to black-list vehicles involved in thefts.
ANPR cameras were first installed in Melbourne in 2005.
Mobil is also testing the systems at three of its stations, following
anti-theft successes in Britain, where almost all stations have the
equipment.
The ANPR cameras record vehicle number plates at station entrances, and
alert staff if the vehicle has been involved in a drive-off or petrol theft.
If an alarm within the station operator's booth sounds, the operator can
decline to activate the bowser and ask the driver about the previous theft;
ask the driver to pay before fuel is supplied; or phone the police.
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Author: Daryl WalfordDaryl Walford
Date: Feb 15, 2008 15:33
Toby Ponsenby wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:02:26 +1100, Noddy blathered on in :
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>> I looked at some recently in passing (not that I would buy one, but
>> anyway) and I think it was a little Fuso I saw with all wheel discs and
>> independent front coil suspension. Looked like quite a nice little
>> truck, but it still needed the little stinky it came with turfed to the
>> shithouse and swapped for a real engine.
>
> Standard marketing - work the market with one 'feature set' at a time.
> Be years before they put a decent mill in those canters in this market -
> if they *ever* do.
In the 90's my wife brother had a new Canter as a work vehicle, the POS
was flat out at 80 kph making it next to useless for country work which
he had to do occasionally.
I managed to "tweak" it into doing 100kph but the fuel consumption went
nuts so I had to "untweak" it:-)
Daryl
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Author: Daryl WalfordDaryl Walford
Date: Feb 15, 2008 15:28
Toby Ponsenby wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:51:57 +1100, Noddy blathered on in :
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>> "Daryl Walford" internode.on.net> wrote in message
>> news:13r85a0gmlvcg5e@corp.supernews.com...
>>>>> I drove an Isuzu FRR500 for about 7 yrs, I've seen DAFs of similar size
>>> and I'd bet your left nut that the DAF would be a hell of a lot nicer
>>> to drive than the Isuzu:-)
>> Nice of you :)
>>
>> To be honest I haven't seen any 3 tonne Euro trays around these parts,
>> and I wouldn't know who makes one to start looking. The Japs have that
>> corner of the market well and truly stitched up as tight as a cat's
>> arse.
>
> Iveco are in there with a few.
> They're Wop built, apparently - and spare parts availability and pricing
> is interesting to say the least. The people that make them appear to have
> never heard of a diesel engine with more than 4 cylinders - but they have ...
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Author: NoddyNoddy
Date: Feb 15, 2008 13:34
> That speed bump story is interesting. Bet your left one that most of the
> parts required simply ain't in country. Still, if that half blind driver
> had have hit the same bump in a truck made by MSM's his medical bills
> would probably have been 60 large.
> Truck would be ok, though:-)
That probably would have made the company that owned the truck happier :)
> Trivia.
> St Lucia university ring road has speed humps that will definitely launch
> a Landcruiser. Why is that important? Virtually every other vehicle on
> the market has no trouble with them at the same speeds that launch
> Cruisers. Marvellous design work.
Nice.
--
Regards,
Noddy.
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Author: NoddyNoddy
Date: Feb 15, 2008 03:02
> Iveco are in there with a few.
> They're Wop built, apparently - and spare parts availability and pricing
> is interesting to say the least. The people that make them appear to have
> never heard of a diesel engine with more than 4 cylinders - but they have
> heard of major boost - which does nothing but amplify ALL the problems of
> 4 cylinder engines.
Some of their big stuff is pretty average.
I was looking at one a few weeks ago at some place while picking up some
parts, and it needed *major* repairs. Apparently it's driver didn't see a
speed bump and hit it at about 40km/h, and that busted the engine off it's
mounts. To be precise, the *alloy* mounts broke in half on both sides, the
engine fell over and snapped the bell housing, fucked the clutch, input
shaft of the trans, punched a bowling ball sized hole in the radiator and
busted all the pump and accessory drive stuff as the donk hit the chassis
rails.
Close to 60 large worth of damage according to the repairer, and the "bump"
apparently wasn't enough to bounce the driver off his seat :)
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