Recent content by piratemonkey

Whilst willing to make it work I was asking a lot from the TJ, and towing a trailer almost every time I drove started to get tiring. The 4.5L TD V8 is surprisingly more fuel efficiant than the TJ towing a trailer too.

It's been a while since I popped my head in here. As much as I loved it unfortunately the TJ just wasn't cutting the cheese, so we parted ways. The new workhorse:

One thing I miss about Suzuki Sierra (Samurais) was the split rear seat. I'd love the jeep to have a split rear and have the option to take out one seat.

In short TJs are very fuel heavy, but we don't drive them for fuel efficiency.

Interesting, I really hope that's the case. My understanding was if the seller wasn't collecting GST, the government would pursue it where possible. I've got lucky in the past and had a couple of $2k+ purchased come through and not get flagged.

Actually, as of the 1st of July GST is applicable on all overseas purchases (new products).

Jeeps have a bad reputation here in Aus, mostly JK on wards. (A fair few caught fire) I like to troll, so I named mine Heep (heap).

I've missed James almost daily updates. Going on his last post he had a lot going on, but strange to see he hasn't been online in so long. Hope everything is ok @JamesAndTheSahara

Personally, I'd walk away from this one. He lied and tried to tell you it was a Rubicon, someone like that could be hiding other things.

The previous owner of my Jeep had huskies and the carpet and back seat was thick of hair. Our Dyson did a great job of removing the hair but it took several hours. The smell of the carpet was my biggest concern on wet days (wet dog smell). In the end I just removed all the carpet and binned it.

I'm gonna be that guy. Replace it with a Cummins 2.8 :aaaaa:

Looks like a GPS cradle. You'll have to follow the wires, but one could be power and one an external aerial.

Same as me bru. I wanted a silver or dark green. Looked for months and months. The red was on the market but out in whoop whoop. I wasn't interested. The price kept dropping because of it's location, then eventually it was half the price of anything else on the market. I was always thinking...

Easy way to rule out wheels is to swap them left to right.