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86 went in for service last week. Nothing to report other than low rear brake pads and looking at needing two rear tires soon. Will probably swap all four for Michelin PS5 as even though they're not worn down, the tires are getting on in age.

It also had the aircon looked at, which turns out was ...

That's very fucking cool.

I'm really cautious about dropping the money on one - I've only tried one VR headset and I got chronic motion sickness from it, as well as a headache from the pressure of it on my head.

I really, really wanna go that way though. My old plasma TV with screenburn of the rev counter is fine and all ...

Did they provide you with a courtesy car for that timeframe?


Not originally, but after week three, I thought they better had. Was supplied a same era non-hybrid Corolla. Base spec. Still incredibly well screwed together at 118,000 km of loan car use, but I was very surprised at how less smooth ...

After over 2.5 months at the dealer, the Corolla is home. I saw the paper trail in the job folder - roughly a ream of paper thick of emails back and forth between the dealer, Toyota NZ and Toyota Japan. Between the last call and collecting it, they'd gone from ordering the brake control unit (some ...

Living the fucking dream.

I may need this!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcrfxFjjpDl/?igsi=MWw2Nnh2ZDFrM2RzYg==


Lego's greatest skill is not making more tires than anyone else, or being exceptionally good at injection moulding. It's being exceptionally well tuned into pop culture of middle aged dipshits with ...

Jobbo wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2026 8:11 am Does NZ have an Apple refurb store? That's usually a way of saving 9-10% on a new one.

That's a good call - I'll look into it. We definitely don't have any Apple stores but there are authorised resellers and repairers.

It would be if we had eBay in NZ!

Most recent look for Macbooks second hand revealed plenty of Intel stuff and one lone M4 device at $100 less than new. May be a case of watching like a hawk...

Super short background: I've picked up a secondary job for the next wee while, consulting on/doing some digital archiving work for a musician. Part of this involves making as full a backup as possible from a number of Macbook Pros, a Mac tower, iPad and iPhone. We've already been doing Time Machine ...

scotta wrote: Mon Aug 03, 2026 2:53 pm Me..."Well dear those come with me. This is non negotiable "

The hero we all need...

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Excuse the ignorance and side tangent... I didn't realise you had a Caterham. Are you not quite tall? The only Caterham I've ever had the opportunity to sit in was Ben's (formerly of this shire)and my memory of it was that with the seat removed and me ...

Thanks for all the replies gents - sorry for the late response, snowed under with work.

Does anyone have take on when is too late in the year to try and do it? Like August/September?

DeskJockey wrote: Thu Jul 23, 2026 10:01 pm Want!

Yes I saw that and it was pretty much my reaction. They really are nailing the 'pander to middle aged people with disposable cash' angle very well these days...

Team.

The Mrs and I are discussing doing a Euro road trip vaguely this time next year. (I'll come back to this bit later.) I also want to do the NC500, because when I lived in Scotland I never managed to get up above the Inverness -> Skye invisible line and because so far on my trips back something ...

Jobbo wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2026 3:19 pm Do you make your own coffee?

Fun fact - I had a fantastic stout brewed with these coffee beans. Really, really great. Clicky

I've found this one has hit me off kilter. I'm a fan of many of his films (who isn't?) but it's who he was as a person that's always resonated. He seems to have summed up the quintessential decent Kiwi bloke - cared about things that matter and having little patience for the evils of the world. He's ...

Corolla update: We're into week six of "WTF is wrong with it?!"

Sorry to hear this Simon. Dogs really are the best of us, seeing them go is not cool at all.