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Old 06-01-2006, 11:57 PM   #1
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Old 07-01-2006, 12:05 AM   #2
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i dont get it. !!!!!!!
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Old 07-01-2006, 12:20 AM   #3
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Your speedo stopped functioning ?
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Old 07-01-2006, 12:28 AM   #4
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Its getting old...

Sorry, what year model is it? I cried when mine hit 24000km in 1 year :(
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Old 07-01-2006, 12:43 AM   #5
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Yey someone got it

Must take a 4 cyl owner to understand

2003 car, got it in 2004 Jan so its just on 2 years old :(
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Old 07-01-2006, 12:46 AM   #6
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Must take a 4 cyl owner to understand
2003 car, got it in 2004 Jan so its just on 2 years old :(
Don't tell me these cars come with birthday clocks
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Old 07-01-2006, 12:46 AM   #7
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Haha, mine will beat 40000km before its two! Thats for sure! Its got about 24600km on it... and i got it in Oct 04

Hmmmmmm, seems your ST170 is clocking up too many Kms Chris. Would you like to swap? :Up_to_som
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Old 07-01-2006, 01:05 AM   #8
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Yeah i think it needs a rest hehe ;)

MIght steal the g/f's fiesta i rekon

Yeah ill swap, give me the cash to pay out the loan
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Old 07-01-2006, 01:28 AM   #9
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You must rack up km at almost exactly the same rate as me. My ST turns 2 in April and it's at 36900km at the moment....Still, I may not see it hit 40 thousand...hopefully I'll be driving a black focus with a 5 cylinder turbo very soon :Up_to_som
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Old 07-01-2006, 09:28 AM   #10
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Yeah I got my car end of october and i've alread y racked up 9,500k's in just over 2 1/2 months... loving every minute of driving it though lol
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Old 07-01-2006, 01:35 PM   #11
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Yes, yes they do hehe
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Yeah yeah i got it i was being sarcastic. I've hardly done any k's since i bought my xr back in July.. haven't even hit 6000km yet, it's more of the after hours and weekend car. We use my gf's fiesta for the day to day city work driving, that's racking up the k's pretty quickly.
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Old 07-01-2006, 11:37 PM   #13
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Time to upgrade the BOV/Anti lag then chris...
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Old 08-01-2006, 10:41 AM   #14
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mines about 1 year and 3 months old now. bout 17 thousand kms.

had to do a fair bit of work in sydney and central coast. if i hadnt of done that i would of only had bout 13 on it still :P
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Old 08-01-2006, 09:17 PM   #15
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Is that all?!
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Time to upgrade the BOV/Anti lag then chris...
Sure is ben, needs a bit of work done to it, time to drop it off next week ;)
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Old 08-01-2006, 10:39 PM   #17
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Pffft mine's done nearly 63,000km, almost 3 years old.
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Old 09-01-2006, 03:07 PM   #18
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Mine has travelled just under 40000. 6000 of that has been when I was working in Adelaide for 4 months. About a 650km round trip. But it will be a sad day when it turns 40000.
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Old 09-01-2006, 03:34 PM   #19
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my Zetec is still sitting on 16,000km after 18 months...aded a heap in the last two months :(
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Chris found the answer for you, try one of these new weapons out, must say they sound darn good, seen some info they are not sure about pricing but they sure look the part
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Pffft mine's done nearly 63,000km, almost 3 years old.
Yeah but yours is an old hobo car matt ;)
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Old 10-01-2006, 05:21 PM   #22
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Chris found the answer for you, try one of these new weapons out, must say they sound darn good, seen some info they are not sure about pricing but they sure look the part
yeah seen a nice blue one of them. but as nice as they are I wont be buying a focus or a ford again i dont think.

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Old 10-01-2006, 06:20 PM   #23
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I own a 4cyl and I didn't get the joke : Then again, my focus is just transportation.

I bought the car new on March 1 2005 and today I hit 14,941k's. First service is Monday next week (Apart from the 3,000)

The car has done 1 interstate trip apart from Queanbeyan
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Old 11-01-2006, 08:21 PM   #24
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Yes if its only transportation you dont count
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