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*******Motors Chat - Round 7*******

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  • #52
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    But of course ;)

    I've a bet on with my brother it'l start on the first go, I've complete faith in it, just need to bleed the brakes now and its a go! :)

    Was it actually when you bought it. I can't remember was it driveable before you done all the work to it.


  • #53
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    But of course ;)

    I've a bet on with my brother it'l start on the first go, I've complete faith in it, just need to bleed the brakes now and its a go! :)

    I'm working tomorrow till bout 3 ... when you do plan to start it ?

    Have a feeling i should be there for the cloud of smoke :P


  • #54
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Bpmull wrote: »
    Was it actually when you bought it. I can't remember was it driveable before you done all the work to it.

    It was driveable but with a bit of difficulty
    Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »
    I'm working tomorrow till bout 3 ... when you do plan to start it ?

    Have a feeling i should be there for the cloud of smoke :P

    :pac: drop by if you want! I can always start it again sure :P


  • #55
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I'll give it a good look over :) if i see burning well.....crap :pac:

    I'm sure it'll be fine but keep an extinguisher handy just in case.

    Be an awful pity to see all your hard work go up in smoke.


  • #56
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    I'm sure it'll be fine but keep an extinguisher handy just in case.

    Be an awful pity to see all your hard work go up in smoke.

    Good thing i have one in the 9-5 so! :pac:

    But yeah it would be a pity :( I'm rather proud of even getting this far


  • #57
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Good thing i have one in the 9-5 so! :pac:

    But yeah it would be a pity :( I'm rather proud of even getting this far

    Serious kudos dude. ;)


  • #58
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Serious kudos dude. ;)

    Oh_stop_it_you.png


  • #59
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    The closest I've ever cut it with the golf never let go under 1/4 almost all the time. Still no light though.

    0EE14E48-A90B-4D87-8C49-AAD56F8AA120_zps3gy02zbb.jpg


  • #60
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    Wow, such level, much adrenaline :pac:

    I went down to 4km range on my 320Ci :pac: never again


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  • #61
    Bpmull
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,042 ✭✭✭Bpmull


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Wow, such level, much adrenaline :pac:

    I went down to 4km range on my 320Ci :pac: never again

    No I just couldn't do that I'd be a nervous wreck :pac: I just always fill it and keep it fairly full just habit I suppose really. You'd get into some peoples cars relations and they never have a drain of fuel in them some id say never see over 1/4 tank.


  • #62
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Today I learned about turbo failure and the effects it has on said veeehickle from the non catastrophic kind of ones, to the absolutely holy sh1t my engine!! kind of ones :o

    Regular oil changes and maintenance lads does wonders


  • #63
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    A recent drive of a 1 series 2 hours ago surprised me how fantastic it is to drive.... I especially like the bolsters ability to move in and out, I like to think you somehow could use that to enhance a lady's bust :D

    Stop start nearly caused me to jump out of the window for fear of breaking something expensive, German electrics and all that. Dipping and putting on the full beams also left me bewildered initially, I was pulling the stalk furiously like I'd be pulling me dic...ed peaches out of my face after a disagreement with some ladies at a cocktail bar

    Now, for my sins, I must sit in, couped up, wishing I was out on the razz rather than being a Saturday night saddo. Like I do every Saturday. Help me


  • #64
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,395 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Sobanek wrote: »
    Wow, such level, much adrenaline :pac:

    I went down to 4km range on my 320Ci :pac: never again

    Nothing like driving on 0km for a few dozen kilometres to pucker the sphincter. Coming up out of Cork last year I decided to gamble on fuel range and came up very, very short after diesel 'economy' proved to be anything but at 130kph.


    In other news, caught the local scrotes trying the doorhandles on the cars again. Got into one of the neighbours and ransacked the thing...


  • #65
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Bpmull wrote: »
    No I just couldn't do that I'd be a nervous wreck :pac: I just always fill it and keep it fairly full just habit I suppose really. You'd get into some peoples cars relations and they never have a drain of fuel in them some id say never see over 1/4 tank.

    I have some sort of OCD... I cannot have my tank go below half. Half is the bare minimum I can have in my car. If I see going near half - off to petrol station!


  • #66
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    I usually let it go right down to the point where the needle doesnt move when the car is started up. Then drive a bit further and then fill up.

    I mean the normal range of most of my cars is between 200-350 miles.


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  • #67
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    I used to to fill up when I got down to a quarter tank, with the Chaser thats a much harder thing to do so I now fill Just before the low fuel light comes on.


  • #68
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    I get paranoid if it's less than a quarter tank full :D


  • #69
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    I don't think I've ever even seen the low light come on, in the e46, I generally fill once it hits the half way point, which is once every 2 weeks or so. This is the closest I've ever gotten, in a Ford B-Max 1.0, 3 cylinder turbo:

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  • #70
    Simonigs1.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 712 ✭✭✭Simonigs1.0


    I seldom let mine go down past a quarter tank, just out of principal, and the fact that I have a fuel card for work :pac:

    I'll never forget my unemployment days, trying to ration a tenners worth of fuel over a weekend until I got paid, and repeat...


  • #71
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Soooo this happened today :)


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  • #72
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    Yes! Well done, man!


  • #73
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    Yes! Well done, man!

    Just need to bleed the brakes and slave cylinder now and its a goer :D


  • #74
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Just need to bleed the brakes and slave cylinder now and its a goer :D

    Fully expect to see this at least at the next meet!


  • #75
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Nice work tp! :)


  • #76
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    Fully expect to see this at least at the next meet!

    I need to insure it first! which i can't really afford to :(
    Big Nasty wrote: »
    Nice work tp! :)

    Thanks dude :) No wires on fire either :D


  • #77
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Thanks dude :) No wires on fire either :D

    Yet ;)


  • #78
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Yet ;)

    Well it's been running for about 2 hours now and its still there ;) :P


  • #79
    Cleveland Hot Pocket
    Registered Users Posts: 5,193 ✭✭✭Cleveland Hot Pocket


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    I need to insure it first! which i can't really afford to :(
    Grand well, then I'll have to drop out to see it I suppose!
    Will be collecting big bird next saturday, if you're around that day I could drop by with big bird for a few mins?


  • #80
    Noccy_Mondy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,845 ✭✭✭Noccy_Mondy


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Well it's been running for about 2 hours now and its still there ;) :P

    Ah no I have faith in you! Fair play on getting it going again. :)


  • #81
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »
    Grand well, then I'll have to drop out to see it I suppose!
    Will be collecting big bird next saturday, if you're around that day I could drop by with big bird for a few mins?

    If I'm not working I will be, I'll know on friday :)
    Noccy_Mondy wrote: »
    Ah no I have faith in you! Fair play on getting it going again. :)

    Thank ya :)


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  • #82
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,395 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Impressed that it started first time...

    Might've been worth waiting for the oil to get around though before revving it.... that sounded a fair bit clattery for a while


  • #83
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Dartz wrote: »
    Impressed that it started first time...

    Might've been worth waiting for the oil to get around though before revving it.... that sounded a fair bit clattery for a while

    I had a feeling it would ;)

    Yeah it might have, it's all good now though, I let it idle for about an hour, put in the power steering fluid, let that do its thing, all that's left is the brakes and clutch


  • #84
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Just need to bleed the brakes and slave cylinder now and its a goer :D

    Brakes are for quitters:D
    Dartz wrote: »
    Impressed that it started first time...

    Might've been worth waiting for the oil to get around though before revving it.... that sounded a fair bit clattery for a while

    He didn't exactly rev the nuts off it, you have to give anything a couple of blips to make sure it's working properly.


  • #85
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    The little Merc is up on DoneDeal now. Just had one call with my potato-quality pictures, so I've taken some shiney ones with my slr. Here goes nothin'! :)


  • #86
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    pred racer wrote: »
    Brakes are for quitters:D

    Well sir consider me the biggest quitter of them all! :pac:


  • #87
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Congrats man that is brilliant to see her starting so well!

    Pickles was right to give her a few revs :)
    The thing I'd be worried about is letting it idle for an hour, talking about glazing over the cylinders :eek:


  • #88
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    YbFocus wrote: »
    Congrats man that is brilliant to see her starting so well!

    Pickles was right to give her a few revs :)
    The thing I'd be worried about is letting it idle for an hour, talking about glazing over the cylinders :eek:


    Thank you :D I was well impressed haha
    Well it was revved here and there too! wasn't completely idle, I couldn't help it :pac:

    Totally different machine to the 9-5


  • #89
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Sounded a bit like a tractor. How's the turbo?


  • #90
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Dord wrote: »
    Sounded a bit like a tractor. How's the turbo?

    Turbo was fine when i had the pipes off, no play at all in it :)


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  • #91
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    toastedpickles wrote: »
    Thank you :D I was well impressed haha
    Well it was revved here and there too! wasn't completely idle, I couldn't help it :pac:

    Totally different machine to the 9-5

    You're better off, long stints of idling is very bad!


  • #92
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    YbFocus wrote: »
    You're better off, long stints of idling is very bad!

    Lesson learned! :)


  • #93
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Got 36mpg out of the primera on a return trip from clonard in meath through galway city and out to connemara. 140km/hr all the way on the m6 and took it handy on the road out to connemara, 70/80km/hr due to traffic. Poor for a 2.0td?


  • #94
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Higher speeds = lower mpg.


  • #95
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    They the old Primeras?

    Suppose it's not too bad for a 90bhp at 140km/h.


  • #96
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    That was tipping it on for trying for mpg :)
    Still would have expected 43-45 though, does seem low!


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  • #97
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Dord wrote: »
    Higher speeds = lower mpg.

    I'll measure it again at 110-120 on the motorway and see if it makes much difference.

    Got 34mpg going to cork and back on tuesday. Same motorway speed but a spirited drive across the back roads to straffan and the traffic in cork city must have dropped it further.


  • #98
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    What's going on with the thread??


  • #99
    Dord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    YbFocus wrote: »
    What's going on with the thread??

    We're now on Motors Chat 7! :D


  • #100
    Interslice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Interslice


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    They the old Primeras?

    Suppose it's not too bad for a 90bhp at 140km/h.

    YbFocus wrote: »
    That was tipping it on for trying for mpg :)
    Still would have expected 43-45 though, does seem low!

    Ye it's an old p11 estate. I was trying to see how bad it could get! I was hoping for low 40's. Would expect high 40's then taking it handy.

    Think I might have problems with vacuum to the wastegate or fuel pump timing. Feels underpowered even for 90hp. If that doesn't work it'll be going on done deal!


  • #101
    YbFocus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,480 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    Dord wrote: »
    We're now on Motors Chat 7! :D

    Wahey :)
    Starting on the note of tp getting his car going :)


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