Author Topic: Proton ute (Read 11894 times)

Rosco400 · « **Reply #15 on:** November 13, 2008, 05:41:49 pm »

Where do you put your riding gear and an esky if you have to bring a flaggy along $:-\$

husky61 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 13, 2008, 07:05:12 pm »

esky in the trailer with the other bike.

One in the ute one in the trailer.

Thats about all it will pull.

Send your gear via post the week before each meeting

Dont forget to join the NRMA you will need them each trip.

Oh and get the extended warranty

jimson · « **Reply #17 on:** June 21, 2013, 02:28:14 pm »

G,day viewer's

Wells its taken 4 & half years but I finally stuff the gear box in the jumbuck pulling scrap metal. So in all fairness its been okay you just have to drive it like a 2 stroke

jimson

DR500 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 21, 2013, 02:57:50 pm »

Now it's scrap metal!!

jimson · « **Reply #19 on:** June 21, 2013, 07:40:29 pm »

It's still got some years in it. Fits 3 bikes easy

jimson

Nathan S · « **Reply #20 on:** June 21, 2013, 08:24:44 pm »

Manual box, Gaz?
If my sources are correct, it should be the same as any 1600cc Mitsu/Hyundai/Proton. Let me know if you can't get one cheap.

Rossvickicampbell · « **Reply #21 on:** June 21, 2013, 09:05:07 pm »

are sold up here along with every type of Hyundai, Kia and Chinese vehicle the Laos can get their hands on - lets say Laos people won't buy them.

EML · « **Reply #22 on:** June 22, 2013, 09:03:04 am »

zactly the same as an Excel. Pretty good little thing and will be an icon just the same as Datto 1200. Try to find one of them now.
Exhaust upgrades do them well, extractors and a nice free flow system will give it +10%. Better on fuel too.
Just watch which g/box you get. We have had to get 2 or 3 sometimes from the wreckers....all with small variations. Mostly where the clutch fork pivot goes.

jimson · « **Reply #23 on:** May 06, 2016, 06:49:40 pm »

The good old jumbuck sitting at a set of traffic lights & saw these 7 pallets for free & I need to build a wall in the shed so 7 pallets 2 x 2 metres will do the job lined with corrugated iron. The jumbuck has been a great little workhorse over the years. Jimson

Sorelegs11 · « **Reply #24 on:** May 07, 2016, 08:19:18 am »

Well mate you have certainly proved the sceptics wrong.

jimson · « **Reply #25 on:** May 03, 2017, 10:50:55 pm »

G'day viewers, We'll I'm sad to say the jumbuck is dead, hit while parked on the side of the road & now it's a ride off. It had a hard life and I know a lot if people don't give them much credit, but for me it worked well & kept going even know it was overloaded & being flogged... Jimson

GMC · « **Reply #26 on:** May 03, 2017, 11:01:52 pm »

Bugger, did they own up or do a runner on you?

jimson · « **Reply #27 on:** May 03, 2017, 11:13:31 pm »

Yeah, it was parked outside my house & a woman in her 60s hit it. She said she lent down to pick something up, but I think she was on her phone... I was in the shed & heard a bang & came outside to see the jumbuck pushed up over the gutter....

Mick D · « **Reply #28 on:** May 04, 2017, 12:12:01 am »

That's a bummer Jimson. I hope she is insured?

I personally think they are a fantastic little thing.
An Ex had a 1.6 sedan for a while,,,I had a ball flogging it,,,like driving a slot car I thought and dirt cheap to run.
I thought they were very underrated.

jimson · « **Reply #29 on:** May 04, 2017, 12:27:01 pm »

Yeah Mick, insurance all sorted, just in time for me to buy a Kawasaki GT750 1982 about to put it on club rego. One door closes & another opens... Jimson

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