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Finally.Have had it listed since before Easter.A couple of tyre kickers over the time and finally someone had a look on Saturday and was keen.Sale finalised today.

Super Hama wash day

Yer it started to shower abit tonight. Lucky it had stopped when I finished work.

The world needs more blokes like you,you've just been talking about tyre kickers, and procrastinators, but you just get in and get the job done, :thumbsup: Oh!,and I think the saying is 'Photos,or GTFO'.....come on K show us your new toy :squint:

Here's what Volkswagen did and how they got caught

Volkswagen is facing huge fines, its reputation in tatters and a CEO on the edge.

The company cheated US diesel emissions tests for seven years.

It did so through a clever piece of software that could identify when it was being tested and reduce harmful exhaust so it looked like the cars met requirements, when in fact they didn’t.

Volkswagen was caught out by independent testing carried out by a clean-air advocacy group, called the International Council on Clean Transportation, which tested the cars themselves because they thought they were such a great example of how diesel can be a clean fuel.

Here’s a rundown on what happened and when.

In 2008, tougher emissions rules come in to force.
Most car manufacturers use a urea-injection system, often called AdBlue, which uses a chemical catalyst to make sure unburnt fuel doesn’t get into the exhaust.

But VW says it can meet the regulation without the AdBlue system on many of its cars.

In 2013, The International Council on Clean Transportation teams up with West Virginia University for a study on the Volkswagen diesel cars.

“We had no cause for suspicion,” John German, from the ICCT, said in an interview with Bloomberg. “We thought the vehicles would be clean.”

The study tests three cars — a 2012 VW Jetta, a 2013 VW Passat, and a BMW X5 SUV — in real-world conditions under both laboratory and road conditions, finding huge differences in the amount of harmful emissions.

The group tests one on nearly 4,000 kilometres of highway driving between California and Washington state.

The tests find that the Volkswagen Jetta exceeds nitrous oxide caps by 15 to 35 times, with the Passat exceeding emissions caps by five to 20 times.

Meanwhile the BMW met all the standards under normal driving conditions.

The two groups alert the California Air Resources Board and the Environmental Protection Agency in 2014.
The EPA and the CARB put the findings to Volkswagen.

Volkswagen says the study is flawed, blaming “various technical issues” for the results.
The company disputes the test results, “citing various technical issues,” but implements a voluntary recall of nearly 500,000 cars in December 2014 to put in a software patch it says will fix the issue.

It doesn’t, and the CARB and the EPA keep pushing to find out why the cars’ own diagnostics systems don’t register the high emissions under test conditions.

The tests find the root cause of how Volkswagen got its cars to pass the tests: the software called “the switch.”
The switch is clever. It tracks the position of the steering wheel, vehicle speed, how long the engine is on, and barometric pressure. If these inputs match the ones commonly found in vehicle testing, the software cuts harmful emissions to pass the exam.

If it sensed that the car was being driven on a road rather than in a lab, it switched to a separate callibration that turned off the exhaust controls.

People have speculated this was done to keep the cost of the cars down, tricking the testers into thinking they were fine without the AdBlue systems used by other manufacturers.

Volkswagen finally admits to the scheme on September 3 to the EPA and the CARB.
The company was confronted by the authorities with evidence of the software scam. Running out of excuses, the company admits to gaming the tests.

On Friday, September 18, the EPA goes public with the findings of its Volkswagen tests.
“Using a defeat device in cars to evade clean air standards is illegal and a threat to public health,” says Cynthia Giles, assistant administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance.

The fine could be as high as $37,500 per vehicle for the violations, a total of more than $18 billion (£11.8 billion). The US Justice Department and German authorities also begin investigations.

When markets open on the following Monday, Volkswagen stock plunges more than 20%.

Volkswagen experiences its biggest one-day drop in six years as the potentially huge fine spooks investors.

CEO Martin Winterkorn releases an apology, saying “I personally am deeply sorry that we have broken the trust of our customers and the public.”

A day later, Volkswagen admits that the emissions scam is far more widespread, saying it could affect 11 million cars.

Once again, the shares go into meltdown, and another 20% is wiped off the value of the company.

Volkswagen issued a profit warning setting aside €6.5 billion (£4.7 billion) to “cover the necessary service measures and other efforts to win back the trust of our customers.” It adds: “Discrepancies relate to vehicles with Type EA 189 engines, involving some 11 million vehicles worldwide.”

Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn appears in a video saying he’s staying at the company, in response to contrary German press reports.
The statement comes after the German newspaper Tagesspiegel reports that Winterkorn was to be replaced by Porsche CEO Matthias Müller.

The Tagesspiegel report cites sources close to the company’s 20-person supervisory board, which is having crunch talks this week on how to respond to the scandal.

A day later, Volkswagen’s supervisory board announced Winterkorn’s resignation.

The Volkswagen diesel cars may be responsible for as much as 1 million tonnes of air pollution globally.
According to analysis by The Guardian, the 11 million cars affected globally might have emitted the same amount of pollution as all power stations, vehicles, industry and agriculture in the whole of the UK combined every year – 948,691 tonnes of nitrous oxide.

Calculations show that the 482,000 US cars originally found to have been non-compliant released between 10,392 and 41,571 tonnes of nitrous oxide annually at a standard US mileage.

The EPA standards would have allowed 1,039 tonnes.

I pick it up Tuesday.I only deposited the bank cheque from the wagon yesterday so have to wait for it to clear to then take it out.
So will put pics up then

you can see that this is going to cost VW a whole lot of money in fines - certainly more than what it'd have cost to make the car compliant in the first place..........

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/heres-wh...t-caught-2015-9

No rush,think of it as keeping this thread alive

Makes you wonder what they were thinking,surely they didn't think they would get away with it for ever.As you said,they could have spent the ten billion dollars they had put aside,in case they did get caught,on fitting the correct pollution control equipment.The flow on from this is going to put them well and truly up shit creek in a barbed wire canoe.

But the fate of Volkswagen doesn't only affect the 70,000 direct employees, who work in Wolfsburg. Many are employed by external service providers who depend on business from Volkswagen. And some of them think they'll be the first to go.
"One has to understand that Wolfsburg is Volkswagen. If Volkswagen isn't doing well, then Wolfsburg isn't doing well," said Ingo, who works with one such service provider. He withheld both his last name and company name. "We're expecting to be let go, and we're not going to find anything else to do in Wolfsburg."

Defying calls for his sacking, Auburn's deputy mayor Salim Mehajer was re-elected to the position on Wednesday night after his name was drawn from a box to break a tied vote.
Only eight out of 10 councillors voted and a Labor councillor left the room instead of voting for the Labor candidate for the deputy mayor's position.
On Wednesday night, Cr Mehajer and his rival for the deputy mayor position, Labor councillor George Campbell, tied with four votes each after Labor councillor Hicham Zraika left the room and Liberal councillor Steve Yang abstained.
The two names were then put in a box and general manager Mark Busby pulled out Cr Mehajer's name, which led to applause.
The property developer has also raised controversy by voting on council matters potentially benefiting him, thanks to a 2012 amendment to Section 451 of the Local Government Act. The law allows councillors to vote on changes to planning controls in which they have an interest as long as that interest is declared.
Councillor Irene Simms told Fairfax Media she was "horrified" with the result, describing Cr Mehajer as "Mr Teflon".
"I think this is a slap in the face to the community that he was even nominated," she said.
"I think this will ultimately lead to the dismissal of this council.

And while we're on a happy note,'Mr Teflon' has been re-elected as Deputy Mayor


Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer re-elected as rival's colleague reneges on vote deal


http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/nsw/auburn...20150923-gjtmg7

name drawing out of a hat? what's wrong with Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Butch Patrick "Eddie Munster" Pigeon Forge Rod Run

Published on Sep 21, 2015
Butch Patrick "Eddie Munster" from the TV show the Munsters was at the Pigeon Forge Rod Run...He is a very cool Guy...but he also brought some replica pieces from the TV Show.....Dragula the coffin based Hot Rod Grandpa built for Herman....Eddies bicycle built by George Barris.....and of course the Munster Mobile.....Very cool video....Check it out!!!...To see more from the Pigeon Forge Run visit http://www.scottiedtv.com/ The coolest Cars on the Web!!

Life of a Thief Trailer - Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection TGS 2015
GameSpot

Published on Sep 17, 2015
Take a look at the life of a thief in this trailer for Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection.

Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps Gameplay - TGS 2015
GameSpot

Published on Sep 18, 2015
Here are a few rounds from Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps.

The 19-year-old, who stood at an intimidating 7ft 2in and weighed 127kg, longed to be as big as wrestler-turned movie star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. But, in the end, it was that desire that killed the young fitness fanatic.
Mr Gajdos was standing outside a supermarket in the British seaside town of Weston-super-Mare when he suddenly fell to the ground, the Bristol Post reported
The main artery that runs through the chest — the thoracic aorta — had burst. It was so rare and so serious, that he didn’t stand a chance, dying almost instantly.His training program came under scrutiny at an inquest into his death where it was revealed that he went to the gym twice a day. It also heard that traces of anabolic steroids and testosterone were found in his body, and his family found four different types of steroids in his flat.Dr John Oxley, who performed the autopsy, said he had “never met a man so big”. Normally someone with such enlarged organs had a genetic abnormality.He suspected Mr Gajdos, who was born in Slovakia, had been using steroids for a long time, although he couldn’t say they directly caused his death or if it had been genetic, reported The Bristol Post.

Top Fuel Dragster Fuel Pump Demo single cylinder

Miracle System Steel Panel Repair from Power-TEC
The Tool Connection Limited

Uploaded on Feb 6, 2012
Describes the use of the Power-TEC Miracle System for repairing steel panelwork

This might be the perfect opportunity for Wolfie to do a bit of 'moonlighting' for some extra cash

Road Rage Between BMW and Ambulance

Published on Sep 22, 2015

Douchebag BMW driver blocking the path of an Ambulance
(GT)Recall traffic incident received wide publicity, occurred on Tuesday, September 15 at the section of the route between Zelenograd and the airport "Sheremetyevo". On the record shows that the driver of a sport coupe BMW M6 red numbers do not have 236 777 special vehicle ahead on the right hand, left his band and began to slow down, then stopped. When the ambulance driver attempted to overtake a foreign car, BMW prevent this maneuver, locking the medical car. The man, who was driving a sport coupe, the driver began to show gestures of "first", he turned to the right lane, and then got out and repeated roughly the same words. "You do not come to the challenge, I see it perfectly. You use [inaudible] for other purposes, in violation of the Administrative Code. You are not allowed to drive on the left lane, "- said the driver of BMW.