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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #102 on: January 05, 2018, 07:19:49 PM »
Found this - well pinched it from another site.
https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/maryborough/2018/01/04/police-cant-believe-eyes-fraser-island/

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Oh man, those nice landcruisers... that makes my heart hurt. Especially when I think some poor bastard who could never in a million years hope to afford a new landcruiser is going to come along and buy one of those second hand thinking he got a good deal on a late model cruiser...

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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #103 on: January 05, 2018, 08:38:18 PM »
Oh man, those nice landcruisers... that makes my heart hurt. Especially when I think some poor bastard who could never in a million years hope to afford a new landcruiser is going to come along and buy one of those second hand thinking he got a good deal on a late model cruiser...

Did a trip last year with a bloke who had a nice 200 series that had come from Queensland.

In a conversation we both wondered what it was about the used car market that a dealer could  bring a Cruiser  from Queensland to meet demand in WA. We came to the conclusion that there must be more of them there and they must be cheaper.

Hopefully his has never been to Fraser.

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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #105 on: January 06, 2018, 08:04:23 AM »
Did a trip last year with a bloke who had a nice 200 series that had come from Queensland.

In a conversation we both wondered what it was about the used car market that a dealer could  bring a Cruiser  from Queensland to meet demand in WA. We came to the conclusion that there must be more of them there and they must be cheaper.

Hopefully his has never been to Fraser.
Fraser isn't a death sentence....The footage being shown lately shows people negotiating Eli Creek, driving at high tide of a King tide, there is no need to be doing what they are doing other then they don't care about their vehicles. My previous Cruiser went to the beach (Fraser included) more times then i can recall, it was rust free when i sold it due to avoiding giving it a salt water bath (it certainly saw a degree of salt water which is unavoidable on the beach), had a thorough wash down on return from each trip aswell as regular rust prevention treatments.
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #106 on: January 06, 2018, 08:54:58 AM »
LOL


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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #107 on: January 06, 2018, 08:57:32 AM »
Found this - well pinched it from another site.
https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/maryborough/2018/01/04/police-cant-believe-eyes-fraser-island/

Dan.

Why would you do that to you car ??? :'(

But the blow-up unicorn sitting on the roof - saw someone driving down the GC Hwy through Burleigh yesterday arvo with a blow-up swan on their roof-rack! Have to wonder about the :police: of doing that ???
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #108 on: January 06, 2018, 09:13:44 AM »
Oh man, those nice landcruisers...
double negative much ??? ;D
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #109 on: January 10, 2018, 10:48:21 AM »
Hi. Was over there last Tuesday and saw a guy at Lake McKenzie in an SRT Grand Cherokee, the one with the 6.4 semi demi Hemi - the plastic fake underbody protection was ripped off, his rear bumper bar was severely creased. His 20 or 21” tyres wouldn’t have allowed much in the way of reduced pressure. He seemed puzzled when he saw the damage.

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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #110 on: January 10, 2018, 11:12:53 AM »
I bought a Jeep!
Just add more straps for the multiplier effect, instead of one dead when it lets go we might kill three! ??? ??? ???
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #111 on: January 10, 2018, 04:23:04 PM »
https://www.facebook.com/campsonthebeach/photos/a.1280681252077801.1073741828.1280661138746479/1324881007657825/?type=3&theater

whoops

was reading the posts about the trailer with one wheel.............................gotta love this comment -

"A common problem with the KINGS side awnings which provide so much aerodynamic advantage that the vehicle upon which they are mounted develop too much power.
Go back to the December 29 post which shows a KINGS awning equipped Patrol tear the bullbar straight off a ute.
The 4wd Supacentre need to detune their awnings or at least offer a software upgrade before somebody gets hur
t"
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #112 on: January 11, 2018, 08:04:57 AM »
Found this - well pinched it from another site.
https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/maryborough/2018/01/04/police-cant-believe-eyes-fraser-island/

Dan.
Saw about 10 vehicles go through similar on the 3rd of Jan at high tide last week.   I'm sure there were more that went through - we only watched for 5 mins.  And probably on other days.   

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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #113 on: January 11, 2018, 08:07:08 AM »
earlier today
3 barges going, apparently line moving pretty quickly




I think i'd setup for another night.
We drove past this lineup on the 2nd (about 2pm) going the other direction.  There were a few still coming back down the beach to join the lineup, too.  I'm not sure how (or if) they managed to clear everyone before the barges stopped that evening.

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« Reply #114 on: January 11, 2018, 11:33:54 AM »
We drove past this lineup on the 2nd (about 2pm) going the other direction.  There were a few still coming back down the beach to join the lineup, too.  I'm not sure how (or if) they managed to clear everyone before the barges stopped that evening.
in peak periods the barges run to demand usually, so if low tide is 6.00a.m for instance they'll run earlier then their usually timetable to get people over to the island...my guess is they likely ran later that day if need be to go clear to back log.
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #115 on: January 11, 2018, 11:51:43 AM »
Nothing fell off the barge this year either.  ;D
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #116 on: January 11, 2018, 01:41:13 PM »
https://www.facebook.com/campsonthebeach/photos/a.1280681252077801.1073741828.1280661138746479/1324881007657825/?type=3&theater

whoops

was reading the posts about the trailer with one wheel.............................gotta love this comment -

"A common problem with the KINGS side awnings which provide so much aerodynamic advantage that the vehicle upon which they are mounted develop too much power.
Go back to the December 29 post which shows a KINGS awning equipped Patrol tear the bullbar straight off a ute.
The 4wd Supacentre need to detune their awnings or at least offer a software upgrade before somebody gets hur
t"





    80 kph down the beach, not slowing down for the creeks, hitting the dips and crests at speed, loaded up to the hilt,  they just never learn.

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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #117 on: January 18, 2018, 11:45:04 PM »
Big tides / sea's  with wind pushing it in .. Been quite a few trying their luck on Fraser the past few days and loosing everything in the gamble ..
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #118 on: January 19, 2018, 05:43:54 AM »
Why would you?...park up for a few hours and grab a drink from the fridge and the fishing rod out till the tide drops.
I see someone lost their vehicle at Poyungan Rocks yesterday...there's a bypass track there to get around the rocks. You can take a 60 second detour around Yidney Rocks, or worst case scenario the longer detour route inland to Happy valley that avoids the whole section is a 5 minute drive to save your vehicle
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #119 on: January 19, 2018, 07:29:22 AM »
Exactly Mal ..Looks almost like it was back in 2013 ..Both pics are just North of Eurong, Not a lot of beach there .. Glad I was on a solo trip and not towing a camper that day .
Had to sit out for a few hours till almost low tide and even then it was play  Dodgem into the dunes with the waves all the way to the inland track for Hook Point.
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Re: Fraser Island Idiot Report
« Reply #120 on: January 19, 2018, 07:46:38 AM »
And what happens when you try to go the beach front .   Instead of the Bypass track .... Yesterday and Today .Stole these from facebook .
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« Reply #121 on: January 19, 2018, 08:02:32 AM »
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« Reply #122 on: January 19, 2018, 08:13:20 AM »
Will end up on Gumtree as a 'Almost new, never been driving on the beach and washed inside and outside'
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« Reply #123 on: January 19, 2018, 08:15:48 AM »
Will end up on Gumtree as a 'Almost new, never been driving on the beach and washed inside and outside'
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« Reply #124 on: January 19, 2018, 08:22:00 AM »
na, at the auctions across the other side of the country
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