Thread: Interesting stats

Originally Posted by bob10

Sounds interesting, would it be found as ' Thunderbolts & Buckets way' on the map, and does it start at Uralla? I'm keen to drive these less travelled roads when the chance arises, especially if it's a good drive. It's not the destination, it's the journey, for me, nowadays. Bob

Go to Google Maps, Get Directions and use Uralla and Raymond Terrace as 'to' and 'from' locations.
Beautiful undulating sheep and cattle country through Walcha and Nowendoc, a few nice camp sites around the Barnard and Manning Rivers and nice hamburgers and coffee at Stroud Rd.

Last time I did it, travelling south a few weeks ago, I took a slight detour via some fire roads and descended (1st and 2nd gear low range) to Giro and through the Barnard River valley. Took about an hour longer but a very pleasant run.

And the best coffee in Uralla is found at 'The Galloping Gourmet'

Young Lachie, the barista there is passionate about his coffee and does a great job.
He also road races motorbikes and their cakes are extra good too.

Just reading the latest Overlander 4WD. Mag., a letter on page 11 [ I wont repeat verbatim ]. Basically a NT Pajero 115,000km., has had a major oil leak at the top of the engine, , fixed under warranty, and recently, an engine computer failure. He wrote in because the mag. had said there were no known issues with the vehicle. The vehicle is expected to be off the road for 6 weeks, as there are no computer parts in Australia, all in Japan. I must stress, this is not a dig at the model, but , welcome to the 21st century. Bob

Originally Posted by wardy1

I was driving alone so thought I'd keep a record of 4wd breakdowns etc by brand.

See this is where you are mistaken. In Land Rover world we would call a transmission failure a break down however in the Japanese world of 4WD ownership these issues are called "maintenance". This is confirmed when discussing the reliability of Japanese vehicles with their owners as you will often here the sentence "I have had to do nothing to it other than the required maintenance".

Originally Posted by inside

See this is where you are mistaken. In Land Rover world we would call a transmission failure a break down however in the Japanese world of 4WD ownership these issues are called "maintenance". This is confirmed when discussing the reliability of Japanese vehicles with their owners as you will often here the sentence "I have had to do nothing to it other than the required maintenance".

Lol. This is actually true do a point.
In the reliability game, if something is deemed to have a finite life and reaches its life of type, then it is indeed 'maintenance'.
E.g. If a component manufacturer builds a gearbox with the expectation that it will be rebuilt at 100000km, then that is classed as 'predictive' maintenance as you should book it in for this work at 100000km.
If it fails at 75000km, yep she's a breakdown, at 115000 km, well, that's overdue maintenance.

Cheers
Ralph

Originally Posted by The ho har's

Ummm didn't we meet you last weekend

Mrs hh

Yes we did..... and my car wasn't 'broken down' LOL, just gutless!