It's a Chilly Bin Bro! XR4 Daily Novelty FiST

[Aaron]

With many thanks to Lobster and evo-gsr I have steering wheel controls.

Turns out the adapter had two small issues with a pinched wire grounding something through dumb luck plus some idiot...

[Aaron]

For a car that would be described as being pretty clean when I picked it up the amount of embedded dirt in the plastic textures was huge.

It was well and truely a victim of years of spray...

[Aaron]

Another day another adventure. Took it to get an alignment and left with 4 new tyres and an alignment. Epic sidewall split in one tyre, so rather than fuck around and wait for the ideal tyres at the...

[Aaron]

No idea - it had air in it two days ago and certainly had air in it at the tyre shop today. Either way it’s off my car and in the shit pile and no babies died

[Aaron]

I think the guy that runs the tyre shop that found this on my car is posting a similar picture on the “shit your customer drove in with” group for his franchise tonight.
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[Aaron]

Well it’s now 100% ACT rego’d and I’ve had some suitably subtle plates reissued for it cementing my status as a bit of a wanker

currently waiting for it to be aligned...

[Aaron]

Yeah I can’t even get it to let me press the button for the Steering wheel controls. I’m going to pull the unit again to chase a few loose wires and neaten it a bit more and will then do...

[Aaron]

Yeah I know dude, the car is solid and I’m super happy with it, exactly as described and really I’m only doing all this stuff while between jobs because I’ve got the time.
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[Aaron]

Today was going to be Rego Inspection day. So of course last night on the way to the pub last night a couple of minor things were apparent:
1. the bundle of gps antenna wire I’d stuffed up...

[Aaron]

Yeah going on a hunt down that path. There's some stuff in the Aerpro manual and the Pioneer manuals that make it sound like a bit of a fuck around but worth doing. Something like the Adapter has to...

[Aaron]

As mentioned on first inspection the stereo had ceased to work. I pulled a few loose wires and found this nest. It’s for some external satnav module. No module present though.
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[Aaron]

The GT220 got munted pretty hard in the hail the day after I shook hands on this! Will see how the insurance plays out.

Now on with the Chilly Bin.



Bigg pod sounded...

[Aaron]

What's in the Chilly Bin?

Looks a bit low? That'd be the coil-overs officer.
Sounds a bit loud? That'd be the giant pod filter and muffler swap.
Stock bits came with the car so...

[Aaron]

On the drive home...






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[Aaron]

The back story
Changing jobs to one with an actual commute and some crapping car-parking meant I started thinking about converting some cash to a "station car" - something smaller, cheap...

[Aaron]

Yeah 2021 - last year they got the last of the big personnel changes in place, which means the 2020 car really is going to be a mish mash of the old design team and the new bodies tweaks around the edges....

[Aaron]

What’s really going to be the long term issue with electric cars, in particular Tesla’s, will be the software and the ability for the car company to simply declare that at 10 years of age...

[Aaron]

Yeah it’s his only chance for a WDC. No one is getting a WDC in the next 2 years that isn’t already in the team they’ll get it with....

[Aaron]

But surely Alonso is leading because Fred can do no wrong?

[Aaron]

https://www.vehiclewiringproducts.co...stant-sleeving

This is some of the stuff I’ve used before. It sits between the Foil covered sleeve stuff which...