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  • #52
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    I got the missus up the duff again. Seven seater hell is getting closer.


  • #53
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Absurdum wrote: »
    I got the missus up the duff again.

    classy! :D

    mazda 5 ftw!

    congrats kiddo


  • #54
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    id be leaning towards this instead of the focus confab http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2732238


  • #55
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Absurdum wrote: »
    I got the missus up the duff again. Seven seater hell is getting closer.

    It's Emina time.


  • #56
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    id be leaning towards this instead of the focus confab http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2732238

    I dont get the love for Astra's from some people on here. Apart from the OPC (and even that I'm not too keen on) I dont see why anyone would ever consider one? :confused:

    But then again I guess the Focus is somewhat the same, apart from the ST/RS I wouldn't have considered one.


  • #57
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    you obviously need to hang around here more cos there is NO love for astras around here!


  • #58
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    you obviously need to hang around here more cos there is NO love for astras around here!

    True, I have an Opel and hate it. Not a chance of me buying an Astra.


  • #59
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    well you do have a corsa....i wouldnt want anything associated with that either. horrible cars


  • #60
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    I hang around quite a bit actually, but they seem to pop up quite often and a fair few people here seem to own them...

    Only going by what I have seen. ;)


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  • #61
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Confab wrote: »
    My name's Niall, and like Alan I drive a sh[COLOR="Black"]i[/COLOR]tty car.

    Stuck the exhaust back on over the weekend - mother of god what a job. Had to whack it back on with my largest ratchet (don't have a hammer) and a fair amount of force. It's the most amount of physical effort I've put into fixing a car yet.

    In the end I couldn't push the exhaust in far enough to get the exhaust hangers to line up so I had to use the ratchet to dent the inner bumper enough to get it over the inner sill. Finally got it into place, stuck it on the hangers and reinforced it with duct tape. Success! And lots of large rust flakes all over the place. Actually the back of the car is rusting to bits.

    1.6 Mk1 Focus soon!
    I like your style. If it don't fit then MAKE IT FIT!


  • #62
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    RoverJames wrote: »
    Have you sat in a mark 1 Focus Confab? They are a fairly love them or hate them interior :)

    I sat in his Corsa, a Focus is Paradise in comparison


  • #63
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Yeah, there not bad cars: I'm on my second one now :).


  • #64
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Confab wrote: »
    True, I have an Opel and hate it. Not a chance of me buying an Astra.

    Keep an eye on the bangernomics thread for a clean Alfa 156 with NCT. Going for very little these days but try find a 1.6TS. Lovely motors and I don't think you would regret it once you drive one really. Huge amount of car for pennies. :D


  • #65
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    oh i want this! http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2697164

    Full?id=8631377

    id put my alloys on it though


  • #66
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Considering new ones were going for less than twice that and couldnt sell I'd take that price with a pinch of salt. Nice car though.


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  • #67
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    its the cheapest ive seen. they do good enough mpg too. any chance of me being able to afford one next year....maybe :D


  • #68
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    EPM wrote: »
    Considering new ones were going for less than twice that and couldnt sell I'd take that price with a pinch of salt. Nice car though.

    What's the story behind your avatar?

    This thread needs a cool title


  • #69
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    What's the story behind your avatar?

    This thread needs a cool title

    Found an old box set. Forgot how funny that show was...

    I can think of one or two but see how things develop on the name.


  • #70
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    Fiats r Cool!


  • #71
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    Excellent let the Boards 1.2 8V FIRE engine appreciation begin now!

    What was the reason the gaskets went in the first place? Something to do with airlocks? And are the 8v or 16v's the bad ones?


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  • #72
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Thread title changed. It's the only thing that's stood out in the last few pages. Bar Ardennes Astra love...


  • #73
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    EPM wrote: »
    Thread title changed. It's the only thing that's stood out in the last few pages. Bar Ardennes Astra love...


    Nice Avatar. If that's you then you may wanna cut down on the pies or you'll have to get that Octy remapped ! :D

    Please dont ban me :(


  • #74
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    I mainly just wanted to give you thanks for that new Avi.

    Costanza is a legend. :D


  • #75
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Ah leave George alone.


  • #76
    Tea 1000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Tea 1000


    Ford's are over-rated shítboxes!!

    I feel better now!
    And I should have bought that Bravo HGT that I saw 3 years ago with 1 owner, 48k miles and full Fiat service history in the UK for ST£850 asking... because nobody knows how cool they really are.
    Also the 205 GTi isn't the best Peugeot hot hatch, the 306 GTi-6 Rallye is.
    There... I said it.


  • #77
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    oh i want this! http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2697164

    Full?id=8631377

    id put my alloys on it though

    I have a funny feeling that I have seen that car on here before becaus eI think I remember commenting about the low price and the high reg number... Nice car though except the interior..


  • #78
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    Tea 1000 wrote: »
    Ford's are over-rated shítboxes!!

    I feel better now!
    And I should have bought that Bravo HGT that I saw 3 years ago with 1 owner, 48k miles and full Fiat service history in the UK for ST£850 asking... because nobody knows how cool they really are.
    Also the 205 GTi isn't the best Peugeot hot hatch, the 306 GTi-6 Rallye is.
    There... I said it.

    Renault / Citroën / FIAT are over rated sh1tboxes!


  • #79
    Atomic Pineapple
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    Time to get this thread on the road to ruin............Octavias are **** boxes!


  • #80
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    And focuses are over rated at best....


  • #81
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    EPM wrote: »
    Thread title changed. It's the only thing that's stood out in the last few pages. Bar Ardennes Astra love...

    *shakes fist*
    Time to get this thread on the road to ruin............Octavias are **** boxes!

    Nah, they're good ok really boring cars really. Can't fault their reliability though.


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  • #82
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Confab wrote: »
    *shakes fist*



    Nah, they're good ok really boring cars really. Can't fault their reliability though.

    I disagree. My reliability has been rubbish tbh.

    Also, they are surprisingly good to drive in the right spec for what they are. And I'll stand over that despite the p1ss take. I didn't even have one on the radar when I was looking.


  • #83
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    EPM wrote: »
    I disagree. My reliability has been rubbish tbh.

    Also, they are surprisingly good to drive in the right spec for what they are. And I'll stand over that despite the p1ss take. I didn't even have one on the radar when I was looking.

    By 'right spec' you mean vRS, right? :D


  • #84
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Also, Wheeler dealers revisited on discovery RT+ 1 now.


  • #85
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Confab wrote: »
    By 'right spec' you mean vRS, right? :D

    Yes, the non-vrs models are very soft. There's a sport pack available which is better apparently.


  • #86
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    EPM wrote: »
    Also, Wheeler dealers revisited on discovery RT+ 1 now.

    Alfa Spyder too :D


  • #87
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,427 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Clearly the only Skoda to buy is a Roomster because of what it says about the driver - keep well clear of me, my eyesight is so bad I can't even see that the front and rear doors are completely mismatched. Clearly the car to drive if you want a clear road to yourself.

    Onto the intro/history part, name's Marcus (hardly a surprise). History is bizarre, learned how to drive 4 years ago at 35. Cars so far: Vauxhall Signum 1.9 cdti (8v) then 6 months later added a Mini Clubman Cooper S and in July gone past, swapped the Signum for a RR Supercharged 4.2 V8. Clearly I'm having a midlife crisis but at least my cars are going in the right direction.

    (Just joking about the Skodas, I'd seriously consider a Superb for the legroom.)


  • #88
    MyStubbleItches
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭MyStubbleItches


    Hi my name is Gus and I just bought this.

    I'm very happy.


  • #89
    johnos1984
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,096 ✭✭✭johnos1984


    Extra hot tobasco sauce is not to be used like Ketchup

    My head, throat and stomach all BURN.

    Still it makes me wonder would it be good for a few extra BHP if I put it in the diesel tank


  • #90
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    johnos1984 wrote: »
    Extra hot tobasco sauce is not to be used like Ketchup

    My head, throat and stomach all BURN.

    Still it makes me wonder would it be good for a few extra BHP if I put it in the diesel tank

    With your luck at the moment I'd have to say no...


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  • #91
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,580 ✭✭✭✭vectra


    Tobasco sauce & Lee and Perrins mixed with Tomato juice.. Now why do I get flashbacks of Sunday Mornings with that landed in front of me in my local :P


  • #92
    mondeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,676 ✭✭✭mondeo


    I hate Top gear, those three old men should be sacked in exchange for a younger persons point of view. Hammand is so bloody scripted, it's like everything he says he planned to say it 6 months ago. Clarkson is one of those people who I'd love to knock out. The other fella is abit strange and his personality does not really fit the show. I want the old Top gear from the 90's back.

    Why does 'Dave' and 'Setanta' always show episodes from 2004'?

    BMW e46's are oil leaking, coolant dripping, bottom ball joint knocking piles of premium sh!te!

    The old Skoda jokes from years ago are still fresh in my mind and I secretly laugh everytime I see an Octavia.

    I love LASAGNE.

    My neughbours daughter is a foookn roide!

    :)


  • #93
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    [QUOTE=mondeo;75590506]I hate Top gear, those three old men should be sacked in exchange for a younger persons point of view. Hammand is so bloody scripted, it's like everything he says he planned to say it 6 months ago. Clarkson is one of those people who I'd love to knock out. The other fella is abit strange and his personality does not really fit the show. I want the old Top gear from the 90's back.

    Why does 'Dave' and 'Setanta' always show episodes from 2004'?

    BMW e46's are oil leaking, coolant dripping, bottom ball joint knocking piles of premium sh!te!

    The old Skoda jokes from years ago are still fresh in my mind and I secretly laugh everytime I see an Octavia.

    I love LASAGNE.

    My neughbours daughter is a foookn roide!

    :)[/QUOTE]

    I wouldn't hate on Top Gear but I completely agree on the scripted thing, he says everything in that same annoying voice all the time... James May I think tries to be more clever than he is and Clarkson well I used to laugh at him but now it's just painful listening to him.

    I laugh everytime I see somebody driving a big '07/'08 Range Rover petrol yoke just thinking of how worthless that car is or how a BMW 645ci is also worth sweet fcuk all too.

    :D


  • #94
    Cosmo K
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Cosmo K


    Have you seen the american Top Gear. Its baaad, very, very, very baaaad. It was on BBC3 the other night, tried wantching it, gave up after 30 mins......


  • #95
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    mondeo wrote: »
    I hate Top gear, those three old men should be sacked in exchange for a younger persons point of view. Hammand is so bloody scripted, it's like everything he says he planned to say it 6 months ago. Clarkson is one of those people who I'd love to knock out. The other fella is abit strange and his personality does not really fit the show. I want the old Top gear from the 90's back.

    Why does 'Dave' and 'Setanta' always show episodes from 2004'?

    BMW e46's are oil leaking, coolant dripping, bottom ball joint knocking piles of premium sh!te!

    The old Skoda jokes from years ago are still fresh in my mind and I secretly laugh everytime I see an Octavia.

    I love LASAGNE.

    My neughbours daughter is a foookn roide!

    :)

    New thread title? Mondeos neighbours daughter...bit too AH.


  • #96
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Cosmo K wrote: »
    Have you seen the american Top Gear. Its baaad, very, very, very baaaad. It was on BBC3 the other night, tried wantching it, gave up after 30 mins......

    Saw the same episode. Christ it was awful.


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  • #97
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Cosmo K wrote: »
    Have you seen the american Top Gear. Its baaad, very, very, very baaaad. It was on BBC3 the other night, tried wantching it, gave up after 30 mins......

    Woeful show. Makes the Irish efforts look good.


  • #98
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    Audi Q7's.

    I detest them more than any other car. I think they are a symbol of gross excess.


  • #99
    MugMugs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,875 ✭✭✭✭MugMugs


    EPM wrote: »
    Audi Q7's.

    I detest them more than any other car. I think they are a symbol of gross excess.

    Great if you wanna look like a drug dealer though. One with no taste.

    Any pics of that Buer next door to you Mondeo? Perhaps sitting a car to keep it relevant? :D


  • #100
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Oh where are my manners...

    Hi, I'm Mal :)

    I drive a rattly, squeaky blue van which is disappearing for the winter... :eek:

    Every car I've insured under my own name, I've had to put together :rolleyes:

    I have an unhealthy obsession with collecting cars, cut down this year to just 7 under my name

    In my spare time I only work on my current collection, somehow...

    I don't really do anything else, except college schtuff

    I have a sweet tooth and as a result have lost a tooth, have 12 fillings and 2 root canals. Costly...

    I hate most modern music...

    I learned to drive at 12 and got my first car at 15 :)

    Er I think that's a decent insight into my tunnel vision lifestyle :D


  • #101
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    EPM wrote: »
    Audi Q7's.

    I detest them more than any other car. I think they are a symbol of gross excess.

    Been in a few of them and was so disappointed, hated the exterior but I found the interior to be quite small for a car that was so big. It was on 20 inch wheels too and the ride was crap. Oh and it cost over €100k!

    Disgusting thing. Volvo XC90 is so much better.


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