Motors Chat - Round 7

22-09-2014 10:15pm

wotzgoingon wrote: »

As far as I'm aware it was a 100 km/h zone. They had it parked at the end of the only stretch that had a hard shoulder. Nice and straight where they know you would be going faster.

I was clocked at, I think, 107km/h, on a 100km/h stretch of road.

Was talking to a few Gardai afterwards (was on the way to Ardee to a Garda crime prevention meeting, with the camera). They said there's generally a bit of 'play' in the speeds involved (ie; 75 is allowed on a 70, for example).

But I don't know if that's true. And either way, I'm sure, if there is an allowance, i'd have been over it by 1km/h knowing my luck

That said, you can bet your hole I made sure my beam lights were working for the rest of my journey up and down that road! :mad:

Unrelatedly, a more genuine question here; friends car was broken into (for anyone familiar with the area, and especially anyone unfamiliar that may find themselves there, never leave your car unattended at Clogherhead beaches/strands.. break ins are after becoming far too common out there).

Wires cut in the door... nothing taken though.. will insurance cover that? or will they give you a 'tough luck' talking to instead?

Ded_Zebra · 22-09-2014 10:40pm

Holy sh!t balls I missed this thread starting!!!!

Thought it had been awful quiet about recently!!! mods should give more warning:p

toastedpickles · 22-09-2014 11:01pm

Boooo for shame!! :P

wotzgoingon · 22-09-2014 11:23pm

I see Supergurrier's thread and that he only does 12,000 kms a year which is very low considering he lives in the country and works in Galway city. (unless he moved recently) That's a fairly decent commute every day. I actually do 33,000 kms a year, which is kinda high for somebody who doesn't work. I spend €90 a week on petrol.

Supergurrier · 22-09-2014 11:57pm

Im 13 miles from work and im currently on a 3 day working week

Not idea but that's why milage is so low.

Milage might be as high as 16,000km but im not driving the Volvo like i did the ST for no reason but to drive as well it's boring and somewhat unreliable atm.

ShadowHearth · 23-09-2014 9:01am

Supergurrier wrote: »

Im 13 miles from work and im currently on a 3 day working week

Not idea but that's why milage is so low.

Milage might be as high as 16,000km but im not driving the Volvo like i did the ST for no reason but to drive as well it's boring and somewhat unreliable atm.

What I noticed from personal experience: "reliably usually is the biggest factor when it comes to hating or loving car".
I know some people realise how unreliable they cars are. But they still love them ( alfa drivers Trololol :pac:), but for me it can break or make a car.

I love scooby right now as it is little tank, that did not backstabed me yet. I got it for 2 years and still plan on keeping unless financial issues.
Skyline wasfun and I loved it, but constant little issues that were impossible to sort out without sinking a lot of money and time put a bitter taste in my mouth.
Mx5 might be still one of my favourite cars ever as that thing was just keep going. In all its time it only had one issue - coil packs. Other then that, reliability combined with fun made it best car ever.

Tl:Dr maybe if volvo would not be giving those reliability issues, you might like it a lot more.

bear1 · 23-09-2014 9:23am

Finally told AXA to shove their policy.
Insurance up on the 7/10 and they sent me the renewal.... increased by 150e!
Decided to give myself a quote on their own website and it quoted me the exact same price I had been paying.
Called them yesterday and queried this.
Obviously got speaking to an utter eejit who quoted me this:

"It's because your car is of significant horsepower so it is now at a higher insurance rating".

It's a 2001 S40 DCI with 115bhp........!!!!!!!!!?!??!?!?!

I burst out laughing on the phone and told to not roll over the DD.
Did a subsequent search on FBD (we have another car with them) and they quoted me fully comp with a named driver and 2 NCB (I'm 27) at 300e less than AXA.

Alanstrainor · 23-09-2014 10:48am

bear1 wrote: »

Finally told AXA to shove their policy.
Insurance up on the 7/10 and they sent me the renewal.... increased by 150e!
Decided to give myself a quote on their own website and it quoted me the exact same price I had been paying.
Called them yesterday and queried this.
Obviously got speaking to an utter eejit who quoted me this:

"It's because your car is of significant horsepower so it is now at a higher insurance rating".

It's a 2001 S40 DCI with 115bhp........!!!!!!!!!?!??!?!?!

I burst out laughing on the phone and told to not roll over the DD.
Did a subsequent search on FBD (we have another car with them) and they quoted me fully comp with a named driver and 2 NCB (I'm 27) at 300e less than AXA.

I had the same with Axa this time around. So I put my details into their online quoting system and got a better quote, and put in my existing policy for a further 10% off, called them and they accepted the quote I had. They quoted me 800 in the renewal letter, and ended up getting it for 635 on a 325ci at 26. Not the worst.

bear1 · 23-09-2014 10:54am

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I had the same with Axa this time around. So I put my details into their online quoting system and got a better quote, and put in my existing policy for a further 10% off, called them and they accepted the quote I had. They quoted me 800 in the renewal letter, and ended up getting it for 635 on a 325ci at 26. Not the worst.

Shower of chancers.
That's a pretty good quote for a 325

Alanstrainor · 23-09-2014 10:56am

bear1 wrote: »

Shower of chancers.
That's a pretty good quote for a 325

It's a rocket ship don't you know!

toastedpickles · 23-09-2014 10:56am

bear1 wrote: »

Shower of chancers.
That's a pretty good quote for a 325

Next year I'll be under a grand on the 9-5 so i'm happy

bear1 · 23-09-2014 10:57am

Alanstrainor wrote: »

It's a rocket ship don't you know!

It's so sad to think that some insurance companies actually think that way :rolleyes:

Alanstrainor · 23-09-2014 11:03am

bear1 wrote: »

It's so sad to think that some insurance companies actually think that way :rolleyes:

That's the reason I stayed with them to be honest. No one else would touch it. It's a BMW? It's a petrol? It's got a 2.5 liter engine? You're mad? How much is the tax on that? Would you not get a 2008 320d?

EazyD · 23-09-2014 11:19am

ShadowHearth wrote: »

What I noticed from personal experience: "reliably usually is the biggest factor when it comes to hating or loving car".
I know some people realise how unreliable they cars are. But they still love them ( alfa drivers Trololol :pac:), but for me it can break or make a car.

I love scooby right now as it is little tank, that did not backstabed me yet. I got it for 2 years and still plan on keeping unless financial issues.
Skyline wasfun and I loved it, but constant little issues that were impossible to sort out without sinking a lot of money and time put a bitter taste in my mouth.
Mx5 might be still one of my favourite cars ever as that thing was just keep going. In all its time it only had one issue - coil packs. Other then that, reliability combined with fun made it best car ever.

Tl:Dr maybe if volvo would not be giving those reliability issues, you might like it a lot more.

I DD my MX5, hasn't ever missed a beat, likewise when my father owned a 91 NA. Very few car's strike that balance between fun and reliability at a fairly low cost.

pred racer · 23-09-2014 1:22pm

Alanstrainor wrote: »

It's a rocket ship don't you know!

But it's still silver:pac:

That's a good quote, I'm ancient and mine is 480 on a daysul Alfa..

Coz it's a sports car dontcha know

Interslice · 23-09-2014 1:24pm

I'm paying the same on a 90 hp 2.0 TD as I would on a 150+hp tdi, which is hard to stomach. Sports car me hole!

pred racer · 23-09-2014 1:29pm

Mine went up €50 from my 2l hdi 110
That was a 01 C5 definately no sports car!

Interslice · 23-09-2014 1:33pm

pred racer wrote: »

Mine went up €50 from my 2l hdi 110
That was a 01 C5 definately no sports car!

Madness! I got a quote of 70 quid more for a 2.4 jtd 156!
I'd say mines about as quick as your average 1.3/1.4 golf corolla etc. but I'm paying nearly double the insurance and tax. Stupid country.

Dartz · 23-09-2014 1:34pm

I'm paying 1300 on my car. And that's comprehensive insurance.
I got quoted 1500 for a 1.4 Passat from the same year.

Insurance is a crapshoot at best

MetzgerMeister · 23-09-2014 2:17pm

Dartz wrote: »

I'm paying 1300 on my car. And that's comprehensive insurance.

That's expensive for a Mazda 121 :pac:

Interslice · 23-09-2014 3:30pm

Pre what year are insurance companies likely to say no to insuring you? Or does that happen? Currently driving a 00 but looking at changing to something older. Early 90's yolk.

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 23-09-2014 3:43pm

Interslice wrote: »

Pre what year are insurance companies likely to say no to insuring you? Or does that happen? Currently driving a 00 but looking at changing to something older. Early 90's yolk.

Some are 20 years so 1994 is the oldest.
I had no problem insuring my 95 carina as a daily if I wanted
However at that age normally you'd want a classic policy and a separate daily

Chris_Heilong · 23-09-2014 4:35pm

Some insurance companies have issue if your car is over 10 years old.

Dartz · 23-09-2014 4:58pm

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

That's expensive for a Mazda 121 :pac:

Well, there's no no-claims bonus so it's starting from scratch there now....

Interslice · 23-09-2014 5:40pm

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Some are 20 years so 1994 is the oldest.
I had no problem insuring my 95 carina as a daily if I wanted
However at that age normally you'd want a classic policy and a separate daily

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Some insurance companies have issue if your car is over 10 years old.

I'll give them a ring so. One of the cars I was looking at was actually a '94. Would be my daily/only car.

toastedpickles · 23-09-2014 8:00pm

A set of jump leads walk into a bar, the bar man says, I'll serve you, but don't start anything :pac:

I'm gone I'm gone :P

Bpmull · 23-09-2014 8:53pm

I've noticed this since I've got the golf I'm not sure if it's just a kilkenny thing or what. But this has happened with a few people I know and there not joking dead serious. Conversations kind of goes like this,

Them: that's a nice golf you have is it an sdi ?

Me: no it's a tdi.

Them: Jesus it must be a quick yoke so.

I'm fairly sure you cant even get a mk5 sdi golf maybe you could with very early ones but I thought the whole sdi engine was phased out in the mk4 golf anyway I know caddys still had them. It's not even one person had said it to me at least 5.

colm_mcm · 23-09-2014 8:59pm

They had a 75PS 2.0 PD SDI in the Mk5, Similar to the caddy (which is 69PS)
You see them a bit in the UK

pred racer · 23-09-2014 9:00pm

Bpmull wrote: »

I've noticed this since I've got the golf I'm not sure if it's just a kilkenny thing or what. But this has happened with a few people I know and there not joking dead serious. Conversations kind of goes like this,

Them: that's a nice golf you have is it an sdi ?

Me: no it's a tdi.

Them: Jesus it must be a quick yoke so.

I'm fairly sure you cant even get a mk5 sdi golf maybe you could with very early ones but I thought the whole sdi engine was phased out in the mk4 golf anyway I know caddys still had them. It's not even one person had said it to me at least 5.

All I know is that every golf in north Tipp was out today, and not one of them was going anywhere quickly.

Ded_Zebra · 23-09-2014 9:02pm

Another good reason to avoid busses :eek::eek:

Stolen from the gif thread.

colm_mcm · 23-09-2014 9:03pm

Woop, eBaying!

Bpmull · 23-09-2014 9:08pm

pred racer wrote: »

All I know is that every golf in north Tipp was out today, and not one of them was going anywhere quickly.

None of them were me anyway. The 1.4 petrol ones are not suppose to be too quick and they were the main one that sold here I'd say.

Bpmull · 23-09-2014 9:12pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

They had a 75PS 2.0 PD SDI in the Mk5, Similar to the caddy (which is 69PS)
You see them a bit in the UK

Aright I did have a feeling about them in the uk. The sdi in the caddys are not too bad having been in them over the summer there well able to keep up with flow of traffic and ok acceleration until about 60 mph after that forget it. They are ridiculously lowly geared in every gear though going down the motorway anyway where near the 120kmh and your sitting between 3500 and 4000 revs which is high I don't know how it doesn't harm the engines.

pred racer · 23-09-2014 9:15pm

Bpmull wrote: »

None of them were me anyway. The 1.4 petrol ones are not suppose to be too quick and they were the main one that sold here I'd say.

All silver Tdi's here, not a red letter to be seen

Driven by birds on the phone and auld wans.

Marcusm · 23-09-2014 9:29pm

pred racer wrote: »

All I know is that every golf in north Tipp was out today, and not one of them was going anywhere quickly.

It's all the Ryder Cup publicity; all the Golfs are trying to self-drive to Hollywood to pay tribute to Roareeeee.

Bpmull · 23-09-2014 9:52pm

pred racer wrote: »

All silver Tdi's here, not a red letter to be seen
Driven by birds on the phone and auld wans.

Silver is the one colour I don't like in them. I was in a basic one a while back and couldn't believe how horrible the basic mk5 is inside. So much black plastic not even a trip computer on them.

dgt · 23-09-2014 11:01pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

They had a 75PS 2.0 PD SDI in the Mk5, Similar to the caddy (which is 69PS)
You see them a bit in the UK

A close friend of mine had one a few years ago, 2005 5 door import. Was nowhere near as rough as the 1.9 SDI, quite a nice driver, I didn't find it overly slow at the time either

Round 7 already :eek:

Sobanek · 23-09-2014 11:07pm

dgt wrote: »

A close friend of mine had one a few years ago, 2005 5 door import. Was nowhere near as rough as the 1.9 SDI, quite a nice driver, I didn't find it overly slow at the time either

Round 7 already :eek:

14Nm makes all the difference :pac:

Stheno · 23-09-2014 11:40pm

The alfa love is reborn after a day of driving a 156 2.5 V6

Sobanek · 24-09-2014 2:10am

Just found out I can insure a 2004 E61 545i!

€6,824.05 for Third Party, Fire and Theft and €8,193.06 for Fully Comprehensive.

Ouch :pac:

But an E61 545i with LPG would be a yummy car to own.

YbFocus · 24-09-2014 6:53am

Sobanek wrote: »

Just found out I can insure a 2004 E61 545i!

€6,824.05 for Third Party, Fire and Theft and €8,193.06 for Fully Comprehensive.

Ouch :pac:

But an E61 545i with LPG would be a yummy car to own.

Reasonable quote i would think you'll all agree

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 24-09-2014 8:14am

If anyone happens to see a young lad driving a dublin bus around town today, please take her handy

It'll probably be me on the driving test and i want to get the job !

pred racer · 24-09-2014 8:31am

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

If anyone happens to see a young lad driving a dublin bus around town today, please take her handy

It'll probably be me on the driving test and i want to get the job !

Ok for today only I will be nice to Dublin bus drivers:p

You do realise, if you get the job........it's game on

tossy · 24-09-2014 8:38am

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

If anyone happens to see a young lad driving a dublin bus around town today, please take her handy

It'll probably be me on the driving test and i want to get the job !

best of luck.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 24-09-2014 8:48am

pred racer wrote: »

Ok for today only I will be nice to Dublin bus drivers:p

You do realise, if you get the job........it's game on

Haha i can only guess you work for a competitor ! ?

Cheers lads. This is the big one i suppose that if i got it id be set up now for retirement !

pred racer · 24-09-2014 8:56am

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Haha i can only guess you work for a competitor ! ?

Cheers lads. This is the big one i suppose that if i got it id be set up now for retirement !

Nope, I just hate Dublin bus drivers and I will go out of my way to cut them off,
Nearly as much as Dublin Taxi drivers:pac:

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 24-09-2014 9:35am

OSI wrote: »

I look forward to the day you gain infamy via a YouTube video of your interaction with an irate cyclist :P

I could imagine the driving test alright

*fecking poxy cyclists. Lets see how many of the bolloxs we can run over in an hour !*

Waves middle finger

Chris_Heilong · 24-09-2014 9:38am

I had a dream were I was driving a Dublin Bus but it was from the upper deck, scary as fúck.

CianRyan · 24-09-2014 10:09am

Haha, scooter.

Stheno · 24-09-2014 11:28am

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

If anyone happens to see a young lad driving a dublin bus around town today, please take her handy

It'll probably be me on the driving test and i want to get the job !

Good luck

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