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Luxury Aurion given steroidsPolice are trying to

tactfully remind mo-torcyclists to ride to

their skill level this summer as more baby boomers take to the roads on two wheels.

The Coromandel and Hau-raki Districts have spectacu-lar views and vistas and one of the best ways to see the sights is by motorcycle, but this terrain can be very un-forgiving if you fi nd yourself involved in a crash.

Police Eastern Waikato Area Commander, Inspec-tor Glenn Dunbier said over the past three years 50% of New Zealand’s ACC injury claims involving motorcycles originated from the Thames- Coromandel and Hauraki District Council areas.

“Over this period motor-cycle injuries cost the country approximately $3.2 million dollars, and of that, about $2.2 million dollars originat-ed from claims in our area.”

Analysis of the crashes show that while some lo-cal residents were involved, by and large the majority of injury claimants came from Auckland, the Waikato and Bay of Plenty.

“Across the country peo-ple are returning to riding motorcycles both as a more economical form of transport and as a lifestyle change,” said Mr Dunbier.

“Anecdotally we know most of the crashes have involved day trippers and people on bike runs visiting

the Thames- Coromandel and Hauraki Districts.”

One of the problems iden-tifi ed by crash investigators is that the cognitive skill level of new or returning rider ’s does not match the size and power of today’s motorcycles.

“In other words, new bikes are too large and powerful for their skill levels to ride safely, particularly around the Coromandel’s roads.

“Our environment is very unforgiving. Falling off a bike on a country road a rider may slide onto the grass verge and be relatively unscathed. But on Coromandel roads we have trees, bridges, dirt banks and seawalls which means our crashes usually result in seri-ous injury or death,” said Mr Dunbier.

To that end Eastern Waikato Police are working with partner agencies such as local governments, road-ing engineers and road safety educators to highlight the is-sue.

“And of course there’ll be an enforcement element as we increase our presence placing emphasis on speed, alcohol and compliance of both vehi-cles and riders’ licences.

“For a Police offi cer fatal crashes are one of the worst jobs to go to. Not only is there the trauma of the scene, but shocked witnesses to in-terview and grieving family to inform. This campaign is all about avoiding that and re-ducing our road trauma.”

Take it easyBy Dean Taylor

Imust admit that I was a little surprised when Waikato Toyota’s Les

Murrell offered me a test drive - in his parent’s car.

I had driven the Toyota Aurion back in February last year, so what had changed? Well in this model, quite a lot.

Last year I said the Aus-sie built Toyota was defi -nitely worth a look in the over $40,000 ‘big’ car category.

Back then the 204kW, six speed Toyota was a great option.

Now they have the Spor-tivo ZR6 - a sort of luxury sports model that is the fl ag-ship Toyota sedan.

So in the model Les sold his parents, it features keyless entry and keyless push button start, satellite navigation, premier sound system, reversing camera, 17” wheels and beefed up suspension front and rear to give it a more sporty stance

and handling characteristics.But inside it is about

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of torque is still very impres-sive.

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To help motorists reduce their impact on the environment and save them fuel this summer, the

Automobile Association is distributing free Make Cars Green booklets with tips on greener driving.

AA Motoring Affairs General Manager, Mike Noon, says there is no better time to be using fuel effi cient driving techniques, while at the same time reducing the impact cars have on the environment.

“We have experienced a turbulent year with regard to petrol prices. Add in the current economic climate and upcoming festive spending, now is a good time to put these techniques into action to save money and drive fuel ef-fi ciently.”

The Make Cars Green booklet is part of an ongoing international envi-ronmental campaign supported by the FIA, of which the AA is a member, and Bridgestone. The global launch of the campaign took place in New Zea-land earlier this year on World Environ-ment Day.

Mr Noon says “driving fuel effi cient-ly not only saves money and reduces

emissions, it is also safer.” Make Cars Green booklets are avail-

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● Buy Green - Check environmental performance (emission standards/fuel economy) before you buy a new car, fuel and components.

● Plan your journey - Planning your route can avoid delay and diversion. Ten minutes of unnecessary driving in a one hour trip results in a 14% decrease in fuel effi ciency.

● Check tyre pressures frequently - Driving on tyres with air pressure 50kPA lower than it should be de-creases fuel effi ciency by between 2% and 4%.

● Reduce loads and avoid the need for roof racks - Driving with 100kg of unnecessary onboard weight leads to a 3% decrease in fuel effi ciency and lug-gage on the roof will add to aerody-namic drag.

● Don’t warm up your engine be-fore starting off - Today’s passenger cars don’t require warming up, except in cold climates and after long periods of non-use. Slow running is enough to

warm up the engine. ● Use air conditioning only when

necessary - Avoid setting the AC too low. AC when the outdoor temperature is 25 degrees decreases fuel effi ciency by 12%.

● Accelerate gently and keep your speed constant - Start off gently (20km/h in 5 seconds, for an 11% increase in fuel economy) and avoid abrupt, heavy accelerations while driving. Avoid tail-gating causing unnecessary acceleration/deceleration which costs 2% and 6% less fuel effi ciency respectively in urban and suburban areas.

● Use engine braking - Releasing the accelerator when recognising the need to slow down stops the fuel supply leading to a 2% increase in fuel effi ciency.

● Don’t idle your engine - Ten min-utes of engine idling (in neutral, with the AC off) wastes 130cc of fuel. Turn your engine off instead of letting it idle.

● Offset your CO2 emissions - if you are driving economically and can’t reduce your car use then consider buy-ing carbon offsets equivalent to your annual mileage.

Environment Waikato is remind-ing motorcyclists and drivers of four-wheel drive vehicles to

keep out of sand dunes on the region’s West Coast beaches for human safety and environmental reasons.

The appeal comes ahead of a tra-ditionally busy summer holiday season period for the beaches.

Last year EW publicly appealed for caution after a series of incidents and near misses involving motorcycles, four-wheel drives and beach users in dunes at Port Waikato, Raglan and Ruapuke.

EW community education facilita-tor Sam Stephens says given our envi-ronmental protection role, we’re also concerned that the vehicles can damage the sensitive ecosystems on the dunes, threatening the stability of beaches, and can hurt birdlife.

New Zealand’s dunes have had their native vegetation reduced to only 11% of its original cover. Volunteers put hun-dreds of hours each year into restoring these degraded dunes, and all this hard work can be undone in a single after-noon by vehicles being driven through

these fragile areas, Mr Stephens said.He said people were able to make

complaints to police about anyone using bikes or four-wheel drives in a danger-ous manner, and could also approach their local councils if they were con-cerned about environmental damage.

“Environment Waikato has set up a complaints register that is recording details of every complaint we receive about vehicles on to provide a better picture of where the hotspot areas are in the Waikato region and who is in-volved.”

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Keep off the sand dunes

By Dean Taylor

DriveBy readers are looking at one of the most unique

motorcycles in the world - the one-off CALSCO Ethan-Nova 985 built on-and-off over seven years in Grant Pye’s shed.

To say Mr Pye is fanatical about bikes is a bit of an un-derstatement.

He has enjoyed riding bikes on the road and track for about 40 years.

It was about the time his father died that he became inspired to build something unique in his Te Awamutu shed.

Originally the bike was for competing in the Paeroa Street race, but when it was fi nished Mr Pye thought it was too good for racing.

He says he has exceeded even his own expectations, and judging from the stares and admiration the bike gets, he has done something right.

He started with the idea of a great road bike using an air cooled engine from the late 70s or early 80s.

A donor Suzuki GSXR1100 was used for front forks, wheels, brakes and rear suspension - then the perfect Honda 900cc engine turned up.

Mr Pye did his own cal-culations for ride height and clearances and mocked up the stance in a home-made jig.

Once it looked right he fabricated a lightweight 1.5mm steel tube frame then added a front guard and rear cowling from a Ducati 916.

With the basic structure in place he used styrofoam to mould a tank that gave the bike the right look.

Hours of trial and er-ror went into achieving the perfect proportions, then he wisely made a plug so anoth-er identical tank can be made if necessary.

Meanwhile Engine Prepa-rations in Otorohanga were working on getting some more power out of the Honda.

Mr Pye says originally it was 95hp. He believes the 985cc Honda now makes about 130hp.

The best parts he could afford were used to up the compression and make extra power, and the clutch and gearbox were given an up-grade as well to handle the power.

The CALSCO runs four 33mm Mukuni smooth bore carburettors, then expels the burnt gas through a custom four-into-two exhaust.

Grant McFie made sure

all the electrics worked so the bike would perform at its best and painter Glen Mc-Kenzie put on the awesome colour.

Originally destined to be green and white, the red and silver - with hand painted fl ame job - goes beauti-fully with the black and silver HPC fi nish on the working parts.

Mr Pye has already had

enquiries about building another bike to sell, but he hasn’t committed himself.

He says he wants time to enjoy his unique bike fi rst - plus there’s those other ideas that have been in his head for a while.

And no doubt you been wondering about the name - Mr Pye has three sons to satisfy - Callum, Scott and Brad Ethan Pye.

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Managing director Lance Sisson says the Transit is their vehicle of choice for its European chassis design, rear wheel drive and dual rear wheel confi guration and tre-mendous power plant.

He says a long wheel base cab and chassis allows them to build a motor home up to 7.4 metres long and from two to four berth with a range of other features.

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Auto-sparkies together again When Deane Mark started

his auto electrical appren-ticeship with John Framp

Auto Electrical his main teacher was Grant McFie.

Seventeen years on and the pair are again in the same workshop.

When John Framp Auto Electri-cal closed recently, Mr Mark didn’t hesitate to offer Mr McFie a job in his business.

He says Grant is well known and respected in the industry and by the public and his knowledge, skills and contacts are an asset to his business.

Mr McFie was destined to work in the automotive industry and joined Te Awamutu’s then largest auto electrical workshop as soon as he left school.

He left Framps in 1987 to trav-el overseas, and upon his return to New Zealand was offered his old job back.

He left again in 1990 to work as a sales rep for Lucas, but didn’t like the politics of the big company and was soon back in the workshop.

Mr McFie says over the years he has been involved in mechanical and exhaust work, as well as the electrical side of the industry - but it is the lat-ter which he still fi nds challenging and interesting.

He says cars have become more sophisticated which generally means that fi nding and fi xing a problem is more time consuming.

Mr McFie recalls that all cars were

basically similar and usual half-hour jobs would be to remove, overhaul and refi t an alternator.

“Now it takes half-an-hour to fi nd the alternator and specialised parts have to be ordered,” he says - tongue-in-cheek.

But he has enjoyed keeping up with new developments and working on his own solutions to fi xing import-ed Japanese models and the increas-

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He says the job now involves much more use of diagnostic technology and a methodical approach - which he enjoys.

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Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm and Saturday 8.00 to 12noon

• Warrant of fitness • Pre-purchase inspection • Driver licensing • Vehicle registration • Certificate of fitness • Road user charges

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KEEP YOUR VEHICLESAFE ON THE ROAD!

Check inCheck in......Drive onDrive on........

Beat the Christmas RushBeat the Christmas Rush

Santa is coming on:Monday 22Tuesday 23

Wednesday 24From 10am - 3pm

each day sausages,lollies & drinks

for everyone.Come and join us.

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2007 Honda Jazz

1.3 manual, 5 door hatch,

ABS, A/C, air bags, CD/

radio, versatile “magic”

seating

$17,990

Ho Ho HondaHo Ho Honda Xmas Specials

Come down and see

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2007 Honda CRV Sport

5 door, nighthawk black, 2.4,

4WD, A/C, airbags, CD radio,

elec sunroof, PAS, power windows,

ABS, picnic table, good kms

$19,500

2006 Honda

Accord Euro

2.4 auto Sportshift, A/C, airbags,

ABS, excellent mid-size salon.

$26,900

Pop a JazzPop a Jazz in your stockingin your stocking

Annual Cambridge Swapmeet Each November the

annual Cambridge Swapmeet at Cam-

bridge Raceway attracts a huge number of people want-ing to buy or sell everything and anything automotive.

And with a vintage and classic car display - plus the odd hot rod and street ma-chine - it makes for a great day out for the enthusiast.

Right: THERE must be one of those thingymebobs amongst this lot!Below: 1946 Chevrolet Series MS bus brings back memories - of dusty roads, back breaking seats and slow hillclimbs.

• An engine’s TIMING BELT is vital to its operation• A worn or broken TIMING BELT means engine failure and in most instances it will result in costly engine repairs not to mention the inconvenience of a breakdown• We service all makes and models

TE AWAMUTU MOTORS LTD

MITSUBISHIMOTORS

Phone 871 5048 Direct Line 870 1362Monday-Friday 7.30am-5.30pm, Saturday 9am-12noon

CHURCHILL STREET, TE AWAMUTU

Make the change every 4 years or 80,000kms

Change your TIMINGTIMING BELTBELTBEFORE IT BREAKS!

and drastically changes your bank balance

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410 Bond Road, Te AwamutuPH 871 5069 • FAX 871 4069

TONY FABISH PANELWORKS

TO NY FA B I S HHis years of experience ensure

your vehicle is fully repaired back to factory specifi cations

Had an AccidentHad an Accident Need a Tow TruckNeed a Tow Truck Need a Courtesy CarNeed a Courtesy CarWindscreen Chipped or BrokenWindscreen Chipped or Broken• State of the Art Autorobot Chassis Alignment System• Your local Smith & Smith Autoglass service centre • Repair small chips and cracks in your car windscreen

• Vero • AA • SIS • AMP • Axiom • Lumley Insurance • Tower Insurance • Farmers Mutual Group • AMI Insurance • NZI Insurance • State insurance

A RECOMMENDED REPAIRER FOR

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HappyChristmasand Best

Wishes from Tony and his

Team

PRIDE OF TE AWAMUTU AWARDS 2008PRIDE OF TE AWAMUTU AWARDS 2008

RECOGNISING ASTOUNDING ACHIEVEMENT

CRA - BEST OVERALL SHOP

The team fromFleet Image

wishes you alla great Christmas

and happy holidaying.

Thank you for your custom in 2008.

Happy New Yearto you all.

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TE AWAMUTU’S AWARD WINNING

a mecca for petrolheads

STEAM attracts a crowd - even when its coming from the wrong place.

Above: SHOOTING the breeze among vintage and classic cars.Right: ALWAYS something different - even in the carpark - ‘48 Nash Ambassador Airfl yte.

ALL VEHICLES COME FULLY SERVICED, NEW WOF & REGISTEREDTRADES TO CLEAR

MAIN SOUTH ROAD • TE AWAMUTU • OPEN 7 DAYS

$4,990

95 MITSUBISHI V3000As new throughout! NZ New, alloys, tow bar, fully serviced, a real credit to its last owner,

1st to view will buy! Best in NZ! Must view today!

$4,990

98 TOYOTA CAMRY 220GLWagon, 2.2 EFi 16V, 5 speed, NZ New, alarm,

CD, tow bar, remote lock, all options, very tidy throughout, first to view will buy!

$12,990

01 NISSAN PRIMERA S/W2.0-X, very high spec wagon, stunning condition, multi airbags, ABS, alloys, CD, tinted glass, park-

assist, pearl, nissan reliability, beat the price rises!

$8,990

98 MAZDA FAMILIA-AERO1.5 twin cam, hard to find aero model, full options including ABS, multi airbags, new 17 inch alloys, tinted glass, CD, roof rails,

spoilers, only 80km!

$14,990

98 TOYOTA SURF SSR-XNew shape, 2.7 EFi 16V, wide body, fully

optioned, ABS, airbags, alloys, tinted glass, sunroof, full history, only 88kms,

very hard to find, immaculate!

A/Hrs Justin 027 271 4310 • Nick 027 477 8569www.whmotors.co.nzRMVT M100853

WEEKLY PAYMENTS BASED ON NO DEPOSIT* TAP & A STANDARD 48 MTH TERM

FREEPHONE 0800 16 90 90 • PHONE 07 871 4187*SPECIAL

CONDITIONS APPLY

NO DEPOSIT FINANCE TAP & NO PAYMENTS UNTIL MARCH 09*

DRIVE AWAY - NO DEPOSIT TAP $11,990

01 VW POLO SPORT1.4 EFI 16V, only 29kms! Bright red,

4 airbags, ABS, CD, full electrics, one owner from new, quality motoring, best available, compare our price!

$11,990

96 NISSAN TERRANO R3-MR2.7 TDi, wide body, airbag, ABS, alloys, tow bar,

climate control, full electrics, stereo, sold & serviced by us, great tow wagon,

LOOK!

$6,990

98 NISSAN PRIMERA G-VTop of the range, 6 speed M6, neo 2.0 VVi engine,

tinted glass, alloys, tow bar, aero kit, roof rails, sold & serviced by us, excellent throughout!

$3,990

93 MITSUBISHI RVRSportsgear, 2.0 Twincam, ABS, alloys, bull bar,

tow bar, nice example, sunroof, spoiler, very tidy throughout, excellent buying!

$7,990

00 MAZDA DEMIO “BRIZA”Special edition, very popular model, ABS, airbags, CD, spoilers, driving lamps, fold away rear seats, only 80kms, AA certified, as new, be very quick!

$9,990

00-01 NISSAN SYLPHY (PULSAR)

2 in stock, both 1.8 EFi 16V, automatic, full options & electrics, airbags, ABS, CD, AA

certified, both under 60km & immaculate, hot buys! Be quick!

$6,990

98 SAAB 9-5New shape, luxury model, full leather, multi airbags, ABS, alloys, dual zone A/C, TCS, CD,

alloys, sport mode auto, lovely driving car, SAVE $$$, LOOK!

$4,990

97 MITSUBISHI LIBERO-XWagon, 1.8 EFi 16V, 5 speed manual, full electrics, air

con, spoiler, roof rails, very popular model, rare in manual, be very quick!

$9,490

99 NISSAN CEFIROExcimo-G, top of the line, 2.0 V6, ABS, dual airbags, alarm, alloys, climate cont, power

seats, active restraints, lovely vehicle in excellent condition, was $12,000!

$11,990

02 MITSUBISHI DIAMANTENZ new, one elderly owner, only 38kms, airbags, ABS, CD, air con, facelift model, alarm, beautiful

order throughout, suit very fussy buyer, mint!

$12,990

01 BMW 318i-LNew model, 1.9 vanos, steptronic, multi airbags,

ABS, business audio, 6CD, all power options, dual zone air, one owner from new,

only 79kms, superior example!

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97 NISSAN MISTRAL-XNew shape, 2.7 TDi, full 7 seater, wide body, alloys, airbags, climate control, sunroof, side steps, excellent family wagon,

nice order throughout, LOOK!

DRIVE AWAY - NO DEPOSIT TAP

XMAS MEGA SALEXMAS MEGA SALE

$8,990

94 TOYOTA RAV-42.0 EFi 16V, popular 3 door, immaculate throughout, very low kms, ABS, bull bars, CD, all electrics, sold

& serviced by us, immaculate thoughout!


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