Treza360's .:R32

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I'm really sad to read this Trent. Your car was awesome! But you are alright which is the most important thing. Your car and this thread has been and will continue to be a huge inspiration to me in what I am doing to my car. Best wishes.


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[dylan8]

Glad to see your ok! Sorry to hear/read about the car!

[Treza360]

Thanks everyone for the support and kind words. Also thanks for the texts and PMs that people also have sent.

Good to see the Volvo laughter and hatred isn't just confined to my family, colleagues and other friends. Just the inspiration I need to do something different.

But as I said earlier, decisions are going to be a while off yet. There's the Golf R coming, the new Polo GTI is coming, there's an option to buy a MkV Golf GTI for a good price. So many options, however the one thing I'm disinclined to do is the the .:R thing again as it would have to be getting it back to the same state as what number 44 was. If money was no option though I'd have another one in a minute (with all the bells and whistles of course).

Cheers,
Trent

Edit: Oh and for those wondering, currently I am enjoying pride of Mitsubishi's Australian made fleet, the 1995 TS Magna GLX. 2.6L of Astron carbie fed grunt. Who loves having no aircon, and less than 90kW of power. On the plus side I have the same fuel economy to keep me company...

[philthy]

Edit: Oh and for those wondering, currently I am enjoying pride of Mitsubishi's Australian made fleet, the 1995 TS Magna GLX. 2.6L of Astron carbie fed grunt. Who loves having no aircon, and less than 90kW of power. On the plus side I have the same fuel economy to keep me company...

Hey, that's the same motor my 85 Sigma had!! Its greatest moment was overtaking my sister's Camry going up the Moonbi ranges

At least the aircon worked

[Treza360]

Hey, that's the same motor my 85 Sigma had!! Its greatest moment was overtaking my sister's Camry going up the Moonbi ranges
At least the aircon worked

Who still sells a passenger car in 1995 with a carbie? Mitsubishi that's who! No wonder they got into so much financial trouble. Oh and the car doesn't have air con at all. It has power steering though. Such wonderous technology.
Cheers,
Trent

[Jmac]

Astron, what a space age name for a Dung rattlie engine hey mate. I have to say i agree with the R thing, be very hard to get one back to the nick 44 was for sure. Shame.
Jmac

[Jmac]

Yeah but I could just imagine mozeying on into a bar chatting up some chick, she says to you "so what sort of car do you drive?" You respond "A volvo..."
A bit James Mayish dont ya reckon =P

Although, I must admit Jimmy, they do get up and boogey when they want to.

And furthermore....Where is my Seat ?!?!? =P

Seriously the T5 was a rocket and tuned very nicely,people think Volvo and you think of 244 with aerodynamics of a half brick. T5 was a good thing
Jmac

[JustCruisn]

Hey my 1st car was a 1984 Volvo 245 wagon. Don't knock em !
It boasted a 2.3L EFI engine, 5 speed box, AC, P/steer + 7 seats. It was as fast off the line as a ford Falcon.
Interesting that the car I had before the GTI was a 1984 Scorpion (sigma coupe), with that famous 2.6L Astron - it had AC but no power steering.
But the most crap car I owned was a 1993 Lancer, just woeful.

[Jmac]

Geez mate that would have had Kjet
Jmac

[VR6pitcrew]

Well here goes...

As a few of you out there know, a few weeks ago on the cruise to natural bridge, I had an accident in the .:R.

Without going into too much detail, basically I misjudged the greasy conditions while going around an uphill bend and hit a bump which unsettled the car causing sudden sharp oversteer. I failed to correct (not through lack of trying) and the car has gone off the road and down a gully meeting some trees on the way.

Aside from some shock and some light bruises, I walked away from he crash and am back to full health now. The car however is not so good. In fact it's a complete stat write off.

My claim has been approved and the insurance is at the last stage, so I'm sure the car will be appearing on Pickles very very soon up for auction. If you'd like some .:R32 goodies for potentially very little dollars, shoot me a PM and I'll tell you what should be salvageable off the car. In addition to this there will be some stuff in the for sale section in the future including a lot of stock .:R gear which you Bora V6 4Motion guys should be interested in.

I suppose this has been a big shock for me and I'm sure some of you will be very saddened by the loss of the .:R. At the end of the day all I can say is that it is just a car and I'm extremely lucky and grateful that I got out in the way that I did.

I'd like to publicly thank everyone who has contacted me over the last few weeks to see how I'm going. I'd also like to throw out some massive thanks to Adam (vagman), Rhys ([-Polo GTI-]), Jon (j0n_GTI) and Tim (Coxy09) for their help on the day and also friendship and continued support since.

I'd also like to add extra thanks to Adam for storing the car for me while everything was being sorted. If anyone wants top quality servicing and work done in the Gold Coast area, V A Garage is the place to go.

Lastly I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me, offered advice or simply just made comments about the car. Some specific people include:
Jimmy (Jmac), Al Walker (quozl), Graeme (Graeme86), Guy Harding (Guy_H), Mickey (Mrk_Mickey) and Mike Weber at Mike Weber's Prestige and Performance.

I'd also just like to ask can we please keep any photos of the wreck kept off the site and net please. Pics I'm sure will be up on Pickles eventually. Maybe when they do come up I'll put up a few then. Thanks in advance for your respect there.

It was a fantastic ride and it's a shame it ended the way it did, but hey I had an absolute blast. What will Trent, do next? Who knows, will be sure to let you all know though.

See you on the flip side.

Cheers,
Trent

So sorry to hear what happened but so pleased your OK, Chris would be gutted as your R32 was his dream, he loved it, said it was the best out there. Wish you all the best ( we still have some photo's of the two of your cars parked together- he was so proud of that)