What to do, thinking about spending some money on my fto.

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What to do, thinking about spending some money on my fto.

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im in a bit of quandary, I really like my Fto and I would like to begin to personalise it a little or a lot :D The main problem to do with where I am living seems that all the car mechanics are anti imports unless the car is more main stream skyline ect.
And I really do not want this to sway me as far as giving up the fto for somthing abit more main stream just beause it will be easier to work with, Its just abit annoying when you take your car to have some work done on it and you have to provide all the parts yourself which when you ave to order some stuff from overseas can be a bit time consuming too.
Lastly in my experience whenever I have spent some spare cash on a car when it didant need it, it usually repayed m by bitting mein the arse and developing a fault of some kind.
If I end up moving back to sydney I know it wont be a problem as sydney seems to be a better place to own a import, I know I could always have a go at fixing the problems myself but last time I tried that it work out too well.
I guess what im trying to say is that i dont want to spend a whole heap of money on the fto for it to develope a terminal problem and its going to be impossible to get some one to sort it out or even want to help out with it.
So I dunno very confused :cyclopsani:
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Re: What to do, thinking about spending some money on my fto

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Well,i think you should just spend more time and look for a better mechanic
even if it means driving a little out of your way to find a good mechanic,ask
other qld members where they get there cars repaired,at least you are not in
perth,on two occasions when i rang up for a quote the mechanics thought
an fto was a fuso truck :lol:
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im lucky i have a mobile mechanic that did his apprenticeships threw booths mitsubishi , hes done all the work on my car, he dose every thing a lot cheaper as well ,
dont forget its the same engine as in the galant so its not like the engine isnt in aus ,
sourcing your own parts ends up cheaper even if it dose take longer
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Who is your mechanic? I might try his services one day
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well im from the central coast
so far hes replaced tappets, seals, gaskets, water pump, timing belt, clutch , changed gear box oil , engine oil , oil filter, got cv joints rebuilt , replaced the cv joints
he worked on all of our cars normaly he takes a deposit for big jobs to cover cost of parts but he dosent with us cause hes worked on our cars for a while
when he did the engine work he came picked up the car and droped it back off for me
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Re: What to do, thinking about spending some money on my fto

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Well I have a few things which I need to get sorted, id like to fix the rust on the roof, Fix an oil leak, respray the freshly resprayed rear bumper again because I reversed it into a wall at 6am this morning :oops:
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Sweep wrote:Well I have a few things which I need to get sorted, id like to fix the rust on the roof, Fix an oil leak, respray the freshly resprayed rear bumper again because I reversed it into a wall at 6am this morning :oops:
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