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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #50 on: June 22, 2021, 09:52:35 AM »
I wanted to get this one I saw to use for dragging it up the beach, behind the old 4Runner I used to have. When the old man was selling them, my brother and I were still in high school, and used to get the job of demoing them, and taking names and phone numbers of prospective buyers, at the local shows around the Ipswich area. The old man would be down the beer tent LOL.
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #51 on: June 23, 2021, 09:41:44 AM »
I wanted to get this one I saw to use for dragging it up the beach, behind the old 4Runner I used to have. When the old man was selling them, my brother and I were still in high school, and used to get the job of demoing them, and taking names and phone numbers of prospective buyers, at the local shows around the Ipswich area. The old man would be down the beer tent LOL.
You have to earn your pocket money. 

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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #52 on: June 25, 2021, 03:59:39 PM »
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #55 on: July 02, 2021, 11:46:15 AM »
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bugger... no space for the dogs to sit up front...
plenty in the back :P
not sure how it woudl go up the high country in many tracks... guess it just dozes the bush out the way :D
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #56 on: July 02, 2021, 07:18:22 PM »
plenty in the back :P
not sure how it woudl go up the high country in many tracks... guess it just dozes the bush out the way :D
or just drives over it....looks like portals all round
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #57 on: July 08, 2021, 10:22:06 AM »


If anyone is after a portable BBQ  $99 gasmate, ex display
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/776095159741609/?ref=facebook_story_share
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #58 on: July 08, 2021, 10:23:01 AM »

If anyone is after a portable BBQ  $99 gasmate, ex display
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/776095159741609/?ref=facebook_story_share
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It may have expired or been sold. Take a look at these other items below.
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #59 on: July 08, 2021, 10:26:45 AM »
Bird, the link works when I click it
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #60 on: July 08, 2021, 10:28:48 AM »
Or for a smoker Bunnings have these on clearance.  $120 at Mill Park. ( $180 at Eltham?)
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #61 on: July 10, 2021, 12:46:37 PM »
Cheap gazebo if you want one.  Spotlight Fountain Gate/Narre Warren

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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #62 on: July 10, 2021, 12:58:55 PM »
Cheap gazebo if you want one.  Spotlight Fountain Gate/Narre Warren

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Nice find.. its just the thought of going to Fountain Gate.. its always so packed!!! :)
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #63 on: July 11, 2021, 01:34:38 PM »
Just saw mention of these:

https://www.awardrv.com.au/couplemate-easy-jack

Anybody have any experience with them ???
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #64 on: July 11, 2021, 07:26:27 PM »
They have been around for a long time. don't know anyone that has one though

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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #65 on: July 11, 2021, 07:38:31 PM »
Just saw mention of these:

https://www.awardrv.com.au/couplemate-easy-jack

Anybody have any experience with them ???
Is it just me or does anyone think these look pretty damn dangerous


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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #66 on: July 11, 2021, 07:40:00 PM »
Is it just me or does anyone think these look pretty damn dangerous


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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #67 on: July 11, 2021, 08:32:51 PM »
I would like a longer foot.  Someone moving a round in the tug might be enough to rock it back and forth.
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #68 on: July 13, 2021, 10:24:29 AM »
2 heads faced and 2 broken exhaust bolts removed for $120.... BAAAAAAARGAIN,

I broken one was easy, one was a turd he reckoned.
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #69 on: July 14, 2021, 04:39:36 AM »
Geez, picked up the parts for Astrid's yesterday..... they did look after me on price too.... very well in fact.

I spent $1,063 on the bits required to sort the noisy lifters.  :'(

If this was done in a workshop, by the time you threw labour into the mixing bowl, this would be a $2,800 to $3,000 job.

My random question is, why do the car manufacturers continue to build stuff that is so out of control when repairs are required. 
I had a look on a couple of forums yesterday arvo..... quotes as high as $3,500.

More than a few cars, just parked up.... one was a 160,000klm VE commodore sports wagon.
If, like a lot of folks do, you lived week to week on your pay, not many could pluck that sort of coin to do a simple set of lifters.
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #70 on: July 14, 2021, 07:21:39 AM »

If this was done in a workshop, by the time you threw labour into the mixing bowl, this would be a $2,800 to $3,000 job.

My random question is, why do the car manufacturers continue to build stuff that is so out of control when repairs are required.

Because the workshop & spares dept are where they actually making money on selling a car ???

Like printers - we all know that it's much cheaper to run a printer till it's sample pack of ink runs out, then throw it away & buy a new printer, rather than refilling the old one with OEM ink :'( >:(
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #71 on: July 14, 2021, 10:23:20 AM »
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If, like a lot of folks do, you lived week to week on your pay, not many could pluck that sort of coin to do a simple set of lifters.
what about 37k for your new cruiser donk etc like someone here had to...
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #72 on: July 14, 2021, 01:35:30 PM »
what about 37k for your new cruiser donk etc like someone here had to...

Yeah, i nearly passed out when i saw that..
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #73 on: July 14, 2021, 03:31:42 PM »
Yeah, i nearly passed out when i saw that..
I'd still be sleeping in it on the side of the road.
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Re: Have you found a bargain - 2021
« Reply #74 on: July 14, 2021, 07:45:58 PM »
what about 37k for your new cruiser donk etc like someone here had to...

You’re in a bad situation, but what do you do……not mine, but what if the cruiser is ( was ) worth 70K ??
Now almost worthless without a motor.  Maybe 20K ? So, do you give it away and lose 50K or put a new motor in for 35K ??

Even worse if it was mine….immaculate 09 model, only worth 45K…..do the sums either way… not pretty !!
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