AUII Fairlane Sportsman - BIG AL

[PG2]

Originally Posted by Cav

Big Al is officially over the hill

image

What the hell is going on over at Postimage?

The lines on the dash graphics look like barbed wire.

You have scaled the image with Postimage. Try scaling down the image with a third party image program such as GIMP or photoshop.

[fordomatic]

Originally Posted by Cav

Big Al is officially over the hill

image

What the hell is going on over at Postimage?

The lines on the dash graphics look like barbed wire.

Over 200km now and crap pics for advertising, that gearbox is a ticking time bomb, $1750

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by fordomatic

Over 200km now and crap pics for advertising, that gearbox is a ticking time bomb, $1750

Are you feeling generous or just trying to save a poor old pensioner from more expense down the track?

[Cav]

Memory is faulty.

Seeing as the old girl has breasted 200,000kms, I thought now would be a good time to do a recap on how things have gone.

I checked the file.

BTW, PG2 was right (yeah pretty rare I know) I used Postimage for this image and I hit the bit where it says do not resize and it seems it is much more betterer. Certainly no barbed wires lines running all over the pic.



I bought the car on 3 May 2016 with 177,636 kms for $5,500

From memory I would have said 2015 @ 150,000kms

In reality I have owned the car for 4 years and I have covered roughly 23,000 kms.

Youse wanna know what it has cost me since?

From memory it has been rather cheap to run with no real problems - the reality is something quite different:

Fuel $5,175 (23,000kms at 15l/100kms at a cost of $1.50 a litre)
Servicing $1,686
Tyres $1057
Rego $1,878 (rego was free in NSW, then I moved to Qld )
Stereo $720

Total running costs $10,516


Or looking at it another way: $2,600 a year or $0.45 per kilometre

So what about future liabilities?

The car is mechanically sound with up to date service and good tyres.
There is no rust.
The carport shows a few minor oil drops coming from the front of the motor and from the rear as well.
Service is due in Sep $250
Rego is due in Nov $939

The car had a full transmission flush in 2016 and I will probably get a transmission service soon $200?

A/C was also serviced in 2016 and it is really cold, so I won't bother with a service yet.

Cost benefit analysis....

I love this car and it puts a smile on my face every time I drive it.

Fordomatic has driven it and he lusts after it but I won't sell it to him, but I'd swap his XR6 for it.

It serves as a backup car to the Territory which is about to go for smash repairs for a couple of weeks.

Lemme tell you about the stereo.

The Fairlane has 9 speakers. I replaced the headunit with a Sony



I also replaced the front speakers - the tweeters in the A pillars and the 6" speakers in the front. The rear door speakers and the rear parcel shelf speakers plus the sub originals were retained. I also had the cable inserted so that the steering wheel audio controls work.

Even clips taken off Youtube and converted to MP3 and played on a USB can sound really great with that bass boost.

The sound is sensational, even on non-country music tunes.

My wife also likes driving the car so I have a devil of a time keeping her out of it.

I keep reminding her that her car is the Ford Territory.

It makes no sense to sell the car for the current market value of about $3,000 and get into a smaller more fuel-efficient car. And besides, Scomo's $750 stimulus package to pensioners doesn't go very far.

This is how the car looked when I bought it, pic taken in Chew-Mit



And now in Yap-Hoon



All overs over $7,500 will be considered.

Did I tell youse that this car is a chick magnet?

[whitelion65]

"Big Al is officially over the hill"...
What a coincidence! ;-)

[fordomatic]

Serious post, the car looks great mate and having seen it a few times in person now there is no way I would sell it unless it started costing you big $ in upkeep. It's clean and straight and presents really well.

[Cav]

Rain?

No problem





It has one of these that apparently don't work, but the Fairlane has no rust except maybe some little bitty traces of surface discolouration of a rusty colour.

[Cav]

If it gets any closer to the Ford Fairlane Sportsman's keys, I'll move in for the kill.

[kcodezd]

Out with the hair dryer. Or eat cake and wait for it to dry.

[Cav]

Look at what some bastard did.

[.:4:.]

Make sure you feed them every day.....

[Captain Stubing]

That might help pick up the cat's eyes better!

[.:4:.]

On a more serious note, those little packs of dessicant you get in shoe boxes, or in the new shoes in said boxes, provided you dont eat them, which isnt recomended. The absorb moisture pretty good. As for the boot, if you dont have, or cant find a new one, sylicone the cracks, its flexible enough.

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

On a more serious note, those little packs of dessicant you get in shoe boxes, or in the new shoes in said boxes, provided you dont eat them, which isnt recomended. The absorb moisture pretty good. As for the boot, if you dont have, or cant find a new one, sylicone the cracks, its flexible enough.

The water gets in through the seal on the glass not the boot on the back....................unless you forget to put it back on

[Cav]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

On a more serious note, those little packs of dessicant you get in shoe boxes, or in the new shoes in said boxes, provided you dont eat them, which isnt recomended. The absorb moisture pretty good. As for the boot, if you dont have, or cant find a new one, sylicone the cracks, its flexible enough.

We're talking about headlights, what are you talkin' about?

[Cav]

Oh, silly me, you mean the cap on the headlight.

[fordomatic]

$1000

[Cav]

Headlight is clear.

Then it rains.

[Cav]

Once seen cannot be unseen!

[whitelion65]

Have you managed to get back up off the driveway yet? Or did the F-G dog take the pic?

[Cav]

Originally Posted by whitelion65

Have you managed to get back up off the driveway yet? Or did the F-G dog take the pic?

The driveway has a downward slope - if you are familiar with this thread you would know that, so I only had to crouch down.

And besides, if I did lie down I'd be covered in slobber.

[fordomatic]

Mate, can you please reply to my offers. I see them as very generous. It’s now obvious it’s a rust bucket, $1000 is a good deal man

[Cav]

Originally Posted by fordomatic

Mate, can you please reply to my offers. I see them as very generous. It’s now obvious it’s a rust bucket, $1000 is a good deal man

How does **** off sound?

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by Cav

How does **** off sound?

Agreed that $1000 was a silly price....................I'll up it $1500, but you still have to deliver it.

[Cav]

Originally Posted by GasoLane

Agreed that $1000 was a silly price....................I'll up it $1500, but you still have to deliver it.

And you can **** off too.

Although I do have a question?

How long do normal spark plugs last?

When I first got the car, about 5 years ago, I changed plugs, oxygen sensor, cleaned intake thingy near the massive flow meter or whatever its called, got a full transmission fluid replaced, A/C serviced and put the nice wheels on.

Plus I replaced the head unit and front speakers.

In the 5 years, it has done 30,000 kms, taking the total just over 200,000kms.

Serviced regularly with synthetic oil.

So maybe I had better get to with a few jobs - replace plugs, plus I think I'll flush the cooling system and put new hoses on simply because I dunno when that may have been done before even though it still runs OK and doesn't get hot.

Fuel consumption readout on the dash shows 15.5 l/100kms

[GasoLane]

Originally Posted by Cav

And you can **** off too.

Although I do have a question?

How long do normal spark plugs last?

When I first got the car, about 5 years ago, I changed plugs, oxygen sensor, cleaned intake thingy near the massive flow meter or whatever its called, got a full transmission fluid replaced, A/C serviced and put the nice wheels on.

Plus I replaced the head unit and front speakers.

In the 5 years, it has done 30,000 kms, taking the total just over 200,000kms.

Serviced regularly with synthetic oil.

So maybe I had better get to with a few jobs - replace plugs, plus I think I'll flush the cooling system and put new hoses on simply because I dunno when that may have been done before even though it still runs OK and doesn't get hot.

Fuel consumption readout on the dash shows 15.5 l/100kms

What, it needs plugs as well?............take $300 off my offer

[whitelion65]

Fuel consumption readout on the dash shows 15.5 l/100kms

Hey old fella, the army isn't paying the fuel bill now!.......
.......or is it ???

[Cav]

Originally Posted by whitelion65

Fuel consumption readout on the dash shows 15.5 l/100kms

Hey old fella, the army isn't paying the fuel bill now!.......
.......or is it ???

No, but you're taxes are.

[Cav]

EGAD!

Fuel consumption is now 15.6, that's because my wife just went down to the shops.



BTW youse dumb ugly Southerners - check out the ambient temperature here in Yap-Hoon at 4.30 pm.

In case you can't read it it says 25°

Sorry about the blurry pic, but Fordomatic taught me everything I know about photography.

[Bossxr8]

Regular plugs last 30,000km. I'm assuming AU's still ran these? Can't recall now.

I think it was BA onwards that used the longer lasting platinum plugs which go 100,000.