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********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********

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    #9512
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Was it not pretty beat up man?
    It will probably destroy the cylinder pretty quick imo.
    Just watch for a slow drop in fluid.

    It may be fine but I'd be cautious of it :)

    Actually it didn't look too bad compared to the on the other side.

    The cylinder started leaking because the piston naturally started sliding out once there was nothing (brake shoe) applying pressure on it. Once I pushed the piston back into the cylinder it didn't leak no more.

    Took it for a decent drive and it was fine.

    I suppose I was lucky to find the bit in the centre of the drum instead of stuck between the shoe and the drum.


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    #9513
    ba_barabus
    Registered Users Posts: 9,615 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Errr are you not supposed to replace contaminated brake shoes and clean the drum if the fluid has leaked......


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    #9514
    quadrifoglio verde
    Registered Users Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭quadrifoglio verde


    Stheno wrote: »
    The oh has been using my car today as his needed to be jumped started.

    He has the most irritating habit of allowing the fuel to run down to the warning light, and parking it up, so I go out to use the car and discover it's on fumes :(

    Is he the woman in the relationship because any woman I know always does that?


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    #9515
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Errr are you not supposed to replace contaminated brake shoes and clean the drum if the fluid has leaked......

    The amount of fluid that leaked out wouldn't contaminate anything. Think about it - the drum was off so there's no brake fluid on the drum. The shoes are to both sides of the cylinder so when it leaks the fluid runs straight down onto the ground :)

    It would be a different story if the cylinder seals were ruined and it was leaking whilst driving... This wasn't the case as it only leaked when I took it apart.


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    #9516
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,257 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    quadrifoglio verde wrote: »
    Is he the woman in the relationship because any woman I know always does that?

    Behave :P


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    #9517
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Autosport wrote: »
    Behave :P

    He does have driving habits you see guys on hear attributing to women fairly regularly :)


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    #9518
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users Posts: 7,289 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    He hasn't been driving in heels again has he ? :(


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    #9519
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Supergurrier wrote: »
    He hasn't been driving in heels again has he ? :(

    Nah not today, he reserves that for the weekend :D


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    #9520
    challengemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSwZ2Y0Ops


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    #9521
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    http://www.adverts.ie/commercial-4-x-4-s/nice-clean-jeep-onily-got-it-put-cant-get-insurance/8315289

    Adverts is comical. "@scubas if it's gets nct I wood do something need few bob with it my jeep it getting new beaks and dicks on it" :pac::pac::pac:

    I dunno if I'd like a jeep with new beaks and dicks on it :D


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    #9522
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,431 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    challengemaster wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSwZ2Y0Ops




    No wonder they can't build a decent diesel if they're arsing around on skateboards listening to Rudimental on their Mark Levinson headphones


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    #9523
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    No wonder they can't build a decent diesel if they're arsing around on skateboards listening to Rudimental on their Mark Levinson headphones

    Ah stop, you'll all have this thread invaded soon!


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    #9524
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,625 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    No wonder they can't build a decent diesel if they're arsing around on skateboards listening to Rudimental on their Mark Levinson headphones

    They don't need jeeps. Where they're going, they don't even need roads!


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    #9525
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    Can gardai have any cars as unmarked yokes? I know the common ones are focus', mondeos and recently white i30 estates. Distinguishable by the lights on the side of the bumpers.

    Lately however I've seen Gardai in an unmarked landcruiser. 1999 reg lwb, light blue, but all tinted out windows, drivers too - fully black, illegal to joe soap I'd say.

    Very well disguised, seeing as late 90s landcruisers are owned by the majority of farmers out in the sticks.


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    #9526
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Can gardai have any cars as unmarked yokes? I know the common ones are focus', mondeos and recently white i30 estates. Distinguishable by the lights on the side of the bumpers.

    Lately however I've seen Gardai in an unmarked landcruiser. 1999 reg lwb, light blue, but all tinted out windows, drivers too - fully black, illegal to joe soap I'd say.

    Very well disguised, seeing as late 90s landcruisers are owned by the majority of farmers out in the sticks.

    They used have a couple of bmws as well


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    #9527
    challengemaster
    Registered Users Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Can gardai have any cars as unmarked yokes? I know the common ones are focus', mondeos and recently white i30 estates. Distinguishable by the lights on the side of the bumpers.

    Lately however I've seen Gardai in an unmarked landcruiser. 1999 reg lwb, light blue, but all tinted out windows, drivers too - fully black, illegal to joe soap I'd say.

    Very well disguised, seeing as late 90s landcruisers are owned by the majority of farmers out in the sticks.

    Yup, theres apparently a heap of random stuff. I've heard tales theres even an Evo in the mix, or at least there was.


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    #9528
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,625 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Can gardai have any cars as unmarked yokes? I know the common ones are focus', mondeos and recently white i30 estates. Distinguishable by the lights on the side of the bumpers.

    Lately however I've seen Gardai in an unmarked landcruiser. 1999 reg lwb, light blue, but all tinted out windows, drivers too - fully black, illegal to joe soap I'd say.

    Very well disguised, seeing as late 90s landcruisers are owned by the majority of farmers out in the sticks.

    In Limerick they do drive a white, beat up Citroen Berlingo and not a new one, this is like an early 00's.
    Saw it fly up the Dock Road with blues and twos some years ago. Don't know if it's still around.


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    #9529
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    They've an old light blue forester that's on the M50 and M4 often enough.


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    #9530
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Can gardai have any cars as unmarked yokes? I know the common ones are focus', mondeos and recently white i30 estates. Distinguishable by the lights on the side of the bumpers.

    Lately however I've seen Gardai in an unmarked landcruiser. 1999 reg lwb, light blue, but all tinted out windows, drivers too - fully black, illegal to joe soap I'd say.

    Very well disguised, seeing as late 90s landcruisers are owned by the majority of farmers out in the sticks.

    They can be in anything, I've seen them in 5 series, 407s, Connects, Berlingos and Octavias. Last year i seen them on a few occasions in a 98 Camry. Also seen them in cars that aren't even D reg's. The typical mondeos and focus are still about but there are a lot of new Hyundais and mk3 Focus's on the roads lately that are very hard to spot.


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    #9531
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    challengemaster wrote: »
    Yup, theres apparently a heap of random stuff. I've heard tales theres even an Evo in the mix, or at least there was.

    Could be just pub talk I heard but apparently they used the Evo solely for the M1 so catch people heading for the boarder. Also heard that back in the early 90s they had Sapphire Cosworths in Dublin but they where short lived as they were too powerful for the guards to handle. Again that's probably a load of bollocks.


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    #9532
    Je suis tres mal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Je suis tres mal


    Mister Jingles wrote: »
    They can be in anything, I've seen them in 5 series, 407s, Connects, Berlingos and Octavias. Last year i seen them on a few occasions in a 98 Camry. Also seen them in cars that aren't even D reg's. The typical mondeos and focus are still about but there are a lot of new Hyundais and mk3 Focus's on the roads lately that are very hard to spot.

    There's a camry around dunshaughlin a lot.
    Didnt that girl get pulled in by a camry, the one that was done for having a welded rear diff.


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    #9533
    YbFocus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Mister Jingles wrote: »
    Could be just pub talk I heard but apparently they used the Evo solely for the M1 so catch people heading for the boarder. Also heard that back in the early 90s they had Sapphire Cosworths in Dublin but they where short lived as they were too powerful for the guards to handle. Again that's probably a load of bollocks.

    Don't know about the Evo but the Cosworth spey is true.
    They broke them all up in no time!


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    #9534
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    sometimes the garda sense just starts to tingle, usually when that dirty d reg car with 2 lads in the front is actually using indicators and following the rules of the road


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    #9535
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    I've seen a guy in a tracksuit driving a 98 Corolla at the quays. Next I hear sirens and I see flashing lights on the Corolla.

    Must be some kind of drug squad.

    I'd be vary of any newish Hyundai behind me. There's a few that are used as undercover cars.


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    #9536
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users Posts: 7,882 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    I'd say the trick with that level of undercover is just to not do something so bad that they'll waste their undercoverness on stopping you


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    #9537
    Je suis tres mal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Je suis tres mal


    Generally they won't blow their cover to stop you unless it's justified.


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    #9538
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    BMW 5 series and Audi A6s are in use around Dublin.

    And the Landcruiser Noccy described does too, well in Cork anyway


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    #9539
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    2003ish Citroen C6 around here.


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    #9540
    UnknownSpecies
    Registered Users Posts: 3,183 ✭✭✭UnknownSpecies


    I've seen the blue Forester in Cork twice. Flew past me like a rocket both times.


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    #9541
    Duke O Smiley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    Have seen a blue/ purpleish Forester in Dublin too


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