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81 Hilux Vs Steel Guard Rail
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Tue, 20 January 2004 09:31
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Well for those of u in brisbane and surrounding areas, u would know how average the weather has been for us. Well last wednesday night, i was coming down the M1 past the strawberry farm northbound. Down the hill and hit a puddle of water, the back of the lux lifted into a big 4 lane drift, b4 collecting the start of the guard rail and proceeded to slide 150 mtrs upo it.
Only damage being a nice dent on the front qtr where it hit and the alloy tray dislodged a bit.
I was on my way to pick up the tyres that were going on the rear of it the next day....
Now i am up for a fair bit but i decided to just go nuts with it and do a full ground up rebuild!! 
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Campbelltown, NSW, Austra...
Registered:
January 2004
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Re: 81 Hilux Vs Steel Guard Rail
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Tue, 20 January 2004 09:35
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The question is how bad off was the guard rail.
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QLD
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January 2004
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Re: 81 Hilux Vs Steel Guard Rail
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Thu, 22 January 2004 10:29
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thats the ghey bit, the guard rail was fine. i just turned around and kept going up the highway with a really lopsided steering wheel
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Location:
QLD
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January 2004
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Re: 81 Hilux Vs Steel Guard Rail
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Thu, 22 January 2004 10:30
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thats the ghey bit, the guard rail was fine. i just turned around and kept going up the highway with a really lopsided steering wheel
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Location:
Bayside Melbourne.
Registered:
May 2003
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Re: 81 Hilux Vs Steel Guard Rail
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Thu, 22 January 2004 12:40
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You said that already.  
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I supported Toymods
Location:
fairfield NSW
Registered:
January 2003
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Sydney
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: 81 Hilux Vs Steel Guard Rail
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Thu, 19 February 2004 21:43
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It must the curse of the luxy's because one of my mates own a 90 model dual cab hi-lux. One day late at night, raining he was driving to the B & S somewhere out in the sticks where this guy wanted to change lanes at 110k's without even looking which resulted in all-wheel lockup, spun around, wheels still locked sliding backwards into the trees along side of the road and down a ditch.
Another guy came along help him out of the ditch. On close inspection the next day. Tyres Scratched up pretty bad(no punture) and little scratches from the trees.
 And So Continues The Curse Of The HI-LUX
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Adam
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Brisbane
Registered:
February 2003
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Re: 81 Hilux Vs Steel Guard Rail
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Sun, 22 February 2004 13:06
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maybe its an M1 curse
last time i went down to the coast, i passed 3 cars (2 south-bound, 1 north-bound) that had spun/skidded into the inside of the motorway and then slid down the wire-rope barriers - which had then shredded the front/rear quarters of the vehicles.
Two were point the right way, third was arse-about.
all were majorly stuffed, one looked like it was on three wheels (arse-corner in air)
i think you should have bought a lotto ticket straight afterwards as you managed to miss the shredder-barrier  
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