Motors Chat - Round 7

Foxhole Norman · 30-01-2015 11:06pm

Gavman84 wrote: »

Ah that's ok so hopefully its be sorted quick enough! You were getting the bumpers done weren't you can do it all now maybe at same time like.

Yeah I wanted to get the front done anyway along with the boot rust so it's not overly terrible timing

Gavman84 · 30-01-2015 11:28pm

Let me know where you get it done and what they like etc too as looking to do my front bumper some stage too!!

Foxhole Norman · 30-01-2015 11:59pm

Gavman84 wrote: »

Let me know where you get it done and what they like etc too as looking to do my front bumper some stage too!!

Will do, but I am slow to move on things

MuppetCheck, clear your inbox :P

Gavman84 · 31-01-2015 12:06am

Owen hodder and John Harrington are both meant to be very good on tramore road! Last place I had body work was Waterford after a ""work colleague" hit my car and drove off! Luckily caught the git on cameras! Was good job too and reasonable

Bpmull · 31-01-2015 12:06am

Would mobil one oil be as good as castrol edge or has anyone used Mobil one used Mobil 3000 in my focus before and found it good.

toastedpickles · 31-01-2015 12:07am

Bpmull wrote: »

Would mobil one oil be as good as castrol edge or has anyone used Mobil one used Mobil 3000 in my focus before and found it good.

I use it in my car, seems grand!

Foxhole Norman · 31-01-2015 12:09am

Gavman84 wrote: »

Owen hodder and John Harrington are both meant to be very good on tramore road! Last place I had body work was Waterford after a ""work colleague" hit my car and drove off! Luckily caught the git on cameras! Was good job too and reasonable

Our family use Kenny brothers usually as he's my dad's best friend so it's handy out, all their stuff has been great.

Gavman84 · 31-01-2015 12:18am

Might call to a few places tomorrow if there open get a few quotes on tramore road so!

nd · 31-01-2015 12:30am

If either of you are near Charleville a fellow local to me is very good and not expensive.

Gavman84 · 31-01-2015 12:33am

nd wrote: »

If either of you are near Charleville a fellow local to me is very good and not expensive.

Cheers but no where near there unfortunately!

Foxhole Norman · 31-01-2015 12:38am

nd wrote: »

If either of you are near Charleville a fellow local to me is very good and not expensive.

Shure that's the Shticks, what would I be doing down there :pac:

It would also require traversing the hell that is Buttevant or Donneraile, feck that!

nd · 31-01-2015 12:53am

And the fellow I know is actually a few miles inside the Limerick border, so wild country!

CianRyan · 31-01-2015 1:56am

So yeah, that's broken.
Link to pic, it's a bit graphic.
SNAP

Surgery tomorrow, could certainly use an auto for a few months.

toastedpickles · 31-01-2015 1:59am

CianRyan wrote: »

So yeah, that's broken.
Link to pic, it's a bit graphic.
SNAP

Surgery tomorrow, could certainly use an auto for a few months.

Jaysis you rightly wrote that off!

Hope it heals as quick as it can!

wotzgoingon · 31-01-2015 2:20am

CianRyan wrote: »

So yeah, that's broken.
Link to pic, it's a bit graphic.
SNAP

Surgery tomorrow, could certainly use an auto for a few months.

Jesus that's a clean break. What you do punch the wall or fall over skipping or something?

CianRyan · 31-01-2015 3:20am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Jesus that's a clean break. What you do punch the wall or fall over skipping or something?

Threw a big hook to the body, lad I was sparring with threw his elbow up to block, my forearm hit smack dead centre on his elbow... He is a BIG guy. Anyone else I'd say is have been grand. Haha

Waiting to talk to the doctors one last time I think and then I'll be off to sleep.
Had a quick nap but jaysus I'm wrecked.

Chris_Heilong · 31-01-2015 3:27am

ouch!

31-01-2015 4:37am

Gavman84 wrote: »

Let me know where you get it done and what they like etc too as looking to do my front bumper some stage too!!

Worth calling into Forge Hill Motors, great outfit and won't rip you off.

Special Circumstances · 31-01-2015 9:35am

nd wrote: »

And the fellow I know is actually a few miles inside the Limerick border, so wild country!

I may have had work done by him before, through somebody else. Far better than the donkeys in limerick city that did a similar job recently. Pm on its way...

Noccy_Mondy · 31-01-2015 12:29pm

Ok, i'll put this in the right place this time!!

Had the experience of driving my mates dads 2009 s320 merc. 3.2 diesel, oh mah gurd. 0-60 in no time. Completely different animal to any other car I've driven.

Supergurrier · 31-01-2015 12:58pm

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Ok, i'll put this in the right place this time!!

Had the experience of driving my mates dads 2009 s320 merc. 3.2 diesel, oh mah gurd. 0-60 in no time. Completely different animal to any other car I've driven.

Torque and a smooth autobox can make any car feel fast

But not (no time) fast

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 31-01-2015 2:26pm

Supergurrier wrote: »

Torque and a smooth autobox can make any car feel fast

But not (no time) fast

+1
It's a big lazy executive car with a torquey engine, most certainly not "no time" fast!

Stheno · 31-01-2015 2:31pm

CianRyan wrote: »

So yeah, that's broken.
Link to pic, it's a bit graphic.
SNAP

Surgery tomorrow, could certainly use an auto for a few months.

Ouch hope it heals fast

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 31-01-2015 3:45pm

Noccy_Mondy · 31-01-2015 3:52pm

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote:

+1 It's a big lazy executive car with a torquey engine, most certainly not "no time" fast!

Ah ya, but compared to what I drive day to day, 1.8 diesels with 125bhp... it's fast. Leave me alone, I hadn't the privilege of driving a 535d daily :pac:

31-01-2015 6:04pm

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Ok, i'll put this in the right place this time!!

Had the experience of driving my mates dads 2009 s320 merc. 3.2 diesel, oh mah gurd. 0-60 in no time. Completely different animal to any other car I've driven.

3.0 OM642 powered presumably?

Noccy_Mondy · 31-01-2015 7:50pm

Augeo wrote:

3.0 OM642 powered presumably?

That's what I thought, but he was sure it's a 3.2. Still on english plates (has beem for the last 2 years!) so can't remember the reg to check!

Cleveland Hot Pocket · 31-01-2015 7:53pm

Sure from the introduction of the w221 there was no 3.2 diesel!
It only came with a 3.0 diesel

If it's a 2009 and a 3.2 diesel I'll eat my hat.
And post photos of it, with a custard pot or whatever.

Noccy_Mondy · 31-01-2015 8:01pm

I tried saying that very point, but he's the sort of old fella that his way is right, and no one else could possibly be right. It's a 3.2 and that's that! I'll take a few snaps next time I'm near it.

dgt · 31-01-2015 9:05pm

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

I tried saying that very point, but he's the sort of old fella that his way is right, and no one else could possibly be right. It's a 3.2 and that's that! I'll take a few snaps next time I'm near it.

No such a thing. OM642 was a 3.0

I should know, was on for buying a set of turbos from one. Untill I saw how much they were!!!

MuppetCheck · 31-01-2015 9:10pm

Just throw the plate into a site and find out!

bear1 · 31-01-2015 10:16pm

Old diesel wrote: »

Best of luck with the new job.

But you don't have to leave us :eek: (the forum)

Ah I'm not leaving at all

Sure who would be here to tell ye nothing but bad luck stories?

toastedpickles · 31-01-2015 11:21pm

So I'm selling my 9-5 and getting one of these utter beasts

Bpmull · 01-02-2015 12:24am

toastedpickles wrote: »

So I'm selling my 9-5 and getting one of these utter beasts

Set off alloys, cut springs, sun strip, tinted windows, Nuremberg sticker, big exhaust pipe hanging out the back, wind deflectors and ridiculously blue bulbs.

She'd be some yoke then :pac:

nd · 01-02-2015 12:32am

I've been having strange dreams of tiny 4 wheel drive hatchbacks with huge engines lately for some reason.

Just a reminder to folks that c+c various places is on tomorrow.

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 12:33am

Bpmull wrote: »

Set off alloys, cut springs, sun strip, tinted windows, Nuremberg sticker, big exhaust pipe hanging out the back, wind deflectors and ridiculously blue bulbs.

She'd be some yoke then :pac:

She'd go like the clappers lawd! :pac:

I've been offered one for 150ish, needs a head gasket, but from looking at the workshop manuals online its as easy as changing a tyre it seems!

Bpmull · 01-02-2015 12:38am

toastedpickles wrote: »

She'd go like the clappers lawd! :pac:

I've been offered one for 150ish, needs a head gasket, but from looking at the workshop manuals online its as easy as changing a tyre it seems!

Sure the whole engine probably weighs about the same as a bag of flour :pac: ah no seriously I'd imagine they would be straight forward enough to do a hg on and most mechanical work in general. Are you thinking of fixing it up testing it and flogging it on ?

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 12:42am

Bpmull wrote: »

Sure the whole engine probably weighs about the same as a bag of flour :pac: ah no seriously I'd imagine they would be straight forward enough to do a hg on and most mechanical work in general. Are you thinking of fixing it up testing it and flogging it on ?

Pretty much yeah! parts are cheap as chips, the most expensive thing seems to be getting the had skimmed like, 70 euro all in!

Bpmull · 01-02-2015 12:44am

toastedpickles wrote: »

Pretty much yeah! parts are cheap as chips, the most expensive thing seems to be getting the had skimmed like, 70 euro all in!

Sure why not even if everything went wrong you could still scrap it and wouldn't loss much. And it will give you a bit of experience on doing a head gasket and working on something different.

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 12:44am

Bpmull wrote: »

Sure why not even if everything went wrong you could still scrap it and wouldn't loss much. And it will give you a bit of experience on doing a head gasket and working on something different.

Exactly my thinking!

Dartz · 01-02-2015 2:24pm

Cars and Coffee was interesting.

Some nice cars.

****e Coffee though.

01-02-2015 3:49pm

toastedpickles wrote: »

So I'm selling my 9-5 and getting one of these utter beasts

My sisters first car. I still have nightmares about it 15 years later. A pipe somehow managed to burst and leak into the passenger footwell destroying a brand new pair of shoes I was wearing.

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 3:50pm

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

My sisters first car. I still have nightmares about it 15 years later. A pipe somehow managed to burst and leak into the passenger footwell destroying a brand new pair of shoes I was wearing.

How ghastly was the experience? I sat in it the other day and thought "my god"

01-02-2015 3:54pm

toastedpickles wrote: »

How ghastly was the experience? I sat in it the other day and thought "my god"

Horrific is an understatement. The thing would tend to brake down in the worst possible places. The Conor pass, the m7, tarbert to killimer car ferry etc

toastedpickles · 01-02-2015 3:55pm

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Horrific is an understatement. The think would tend to brake down in the worst possible places. The Conor pass, the m7, tarbert to killimer car ferry etc

Nothing im not used to so! :pac:

ShadowHearth · 01-02-2015 4:01pm

I wonder if we will have meet any time soon. I can actually afford petrol and get someone to fully clean my car now.

Dia1988 · 01-02-2015 4:21pm

toastedpickles wrote: »

How ghastly was the experience? I sat in it the other day and thought "my god"

I wouldn't recommend crashing one either! :eek:

MetzgerMeister · 01-02-2015 5:13pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I wonder if we will have meet any time soon. I can actually afford petrol and get someone to fully clean my car now.

I think we are due one alright but when people constantly pull out, it ends up being 2 or 3 people left and that's just sh!te.

This forum used have a great buzz about it and that was normally down to loads of people going to the meets and putting faces to names etc. The last couple that have been organised at Midway at least, have been utter washouts.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime · 01-02-2015 5:22pm

It's been 3 years and a week since the first major motors meet in midway with the largest turnout.

I remember because the penalty points i got on the way down to it are coming off the licence in the next few weeks.

Also is my car advert reasonable ?

ShadowHearth · 01-02-2015 6:18pm

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I think we are due one alright but when people constantly pull out, it ends up being 2 or 3 people left and that's just sh!te.

This forum used have a great buzz about it and that was normally down to loads of people going to the meets and putting faces to names etc. The last couple that have been organised at Midway at least, have been utter washouts.

Well, we had a lot of fun that time. I dont know about other meets as I just pretty much could not afford it.

Worth giving it a shot again though.

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