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***Motors Chat Thread*** Round 1

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  • #52
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Hey again lads!!! Which ever mod took ban off - thank you!

    Anyway, motor related: my skyline went in donedeal tonight and fella is coming to have a look at it tommorow. I have mixed feeling, sort of happy and sad at the same time :(


  • #53
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Hey again lads!!! Which ever mod took ban off - thank you!

    Anyway, motor related: my skyline went in donedeal tonight and fella is coming to have a look at it tommorow. I have mixed feeling, sort of happy and sad at the same time :(


    I understand your pain:(


  • #54
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    I understand your pain:(

    When my friend took it from my home in to garage I almost cried. Watching it go away was painfull to watch. Now I look at the spot where it was and it looks so empty now. :(

    No chance it will come back too. If it won't be sold as it is, then it will be broken apart and sold. I really would hate to see it happen as I would love to know it is still raring on roads :(.


  • #55
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Hey again lads!!! Which ever mod took ban off - thank you!

    Anyway, motor related: my skyline went in donedeal tonight and fella is coming to have a look at it tommorow. I have mixed feeling, sort of happy and sad at the same time :(
    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    I understand your pain:(

    Would ye not tell the wives to feck off?

    It's hard to sell a performance car when it's being replaced with something 'normal'


  • #56
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    Would ye not tell the wives to feck off?

    It's hard to sell a performance car when it's being replaced with something 'normal'


    To be fair, I certainly couldn't blame her for making me sell mine.

    Its strange, when you've had modified/show/performance cars for years, it's almost refreshing to have a normal car that you don't panic about getting dirty, speed ramps, stone chips etc etc


  • #57
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    BTW, anyone watching Ireland's worst roads on tv3?


  • #58
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    BTW, anyone watching Ireland's worst roads on tv3?

    Blue Bloods is on.. Feck. It will be up on 3player soon enough I would imagine.


  • #59
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Transmission starts to slip (flare), there is a low "boom" from the tranny, and a "bing" from the dash.
    Transmission locks in "limp" mode - 3rd gear so you can "limp" home or to your nearest dealer.
    Message on Dash "TRANS PROGRAM - Consult Owners handbook".
    NOTE: This only happens once the car has warmed up - usually after 15-30 minutes of good driving.

    Ah but this is from cold, in 3rd an aggressively goes into reverse...

    Anyone know a common cause?

    If all else fails, we might be saying hello to a manual 525i in the future.... :D


  • #60
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    To be fair, I certainly couldn't blame her for making me mine.

    Its strange, when you've had modified/show/performance cars for years, as I have, it's almost refreshing to have a normal car that you don't panic about getting dirty, speed ramps, stone chips etc etc

    I actually loved my being ruff, if that makes any sence. My front bumper was quit bad shape with chips and cracks in it. I put a sticker on it "every now and them I fall apart". It looked quite funny ( for me ), got good few smiles at lights or petrol station too.

    As much as I don't want to air, she is right. I just can't justify spending so much on car. We are planing to get back I to buying house again ( failed twice last year, thanks to time wasting sellers ). So every penny counts. After its sold I will be able to find something sensible. There is nothing worse to drive to work in 500eu mondeo knowing you got a 400hp monster sitting idle. I will try to get some middle ground now.

    Edit: sorry, damn iPhone spellchecker is worse then grammar nazi.


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  • #61
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    dgt wrote: »
    Ah but this is from cold, in 3rd an aggressively goes into reverse...

    Anyone know a common cause?

    If all else fails, we might be saying hello to a manual 525i in the future.... :D

    Thats what I got off google. Its all japanise to me. :o


  • #62
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    BTW, anyone watching Ireland's worst roads on tv3?

    My dad was on that. :o


  • #63
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    BTW, anyone watching Ireland's worst roads on tv3?

    Did they dedicate an entire day to that show or what? I don't think they could do an adequate job otherwise...

    :pac:


  • #64
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Thats what I got off google. Its all japanise to me. :o

    I was wondering how we got a technical reply from you :D


  • #65
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    superstoner90 wrote: »
    Thats what I got off google. Its all japanise to me. :o

    Did that too but no one has a generic "I was driving along and... I think it was caused by.... In by doing this..."

    It's all from simple earthing issues all the way to bands in the gearbox coming apart, hard to know what to listen to, different cars different situations! :eek:


  • #66
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,790 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    Gary ITR wrote: »
    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    Hey again lads!!! Which ever mod took ban off - thank you!

    Anyway, motor related: my skyline went in donedeal tonight and fella is coming to have a look at it tommorow. I have mixed feeling, sort of happy and sad at the same time :(
    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    I understand your pain:(

    Would ye not tell the wives to feck off?

    It's hard to sell a performance car when it's being replaced with something 'normal'

    Well my SO didn't want to sell either of ours, either. But there's no fuggin way I was paying the cartax they wanted (1400). Thieving B'stards.

    No, a spell in a plain Jane is cleansing, sometimes.

    Ode To The Motorist

    “And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, generates funds to the exchequer. You don't want to acknowledge that as truth because, deep down in places you don't talk about at the Green Party, you want me on that road, you need me on that road. We use words like freedom, enjoyment, sport and community. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent instilling those values in our families and loved ones. You use them as a punch line. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the tax revenue and the very freedom to spend it that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise I suggest you pick up a bus pass and get the ********* ********* off the road” 



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  • #67
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Ireland's most dangerous roads....

    Fecking TV3. Rakes of adverts even on the web...


  • #68
    Jemmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭Jemmy


    galwaytt wrote: »
    Well my SO didn't want to sell either of ours, either. But there's no fuggin way I was paying the cartax they wanted (1400). Thieving B'stards.

    No, a spell in a plain Jane is cleansing, sometimes.

    Not sure I could go back to a plain car now :-/

    Off out for a good long spin now, its been awhile :)


  • #69
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    BX 19 wrote: »
    Ireland's most dangerous roads....

    Fecking TV3. Rakes of adverts even on the web...

    Look out for a funny looking buck, called gerald mullaney. He will be talking about the N4.
    Thats my dad. :o. But his name is gerard, they spelt his name wrong. :D


  • #70
    unkel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,717 ✭✭✭✭unkel
    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    conzymaher wrote: »
    That Maserati Club meet stopped in Kilkenny over the weekend

    There's a thread dedicated to it in Classic Cars. Would you mind adding your pics there too?

    It was the Maserati UK Club celebrating their 40th anniversary. The cars were on display in Wexford. Would have loved to see them!
    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    I've an overwhelming urge to get a Quattroporte as my next car.

    Go on, go for it! A 7-series is a car for a boss, a Quattroporte is a car for a king :D

    My ads on adverts.ie

    https://www.adverts.ie/member/5856/ads



  • #71
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    Tomorrow was going to my chance to finish cleaning my car, now it looks like it'll be pissing rain.
    I might just get the rain gear out at this stage...

    I've also got to respray the wiper arms, I might just do that instead. :rolleyes:


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  • #72
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,660 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    Got a parking ticket today, hands up, deserved it, I never put money in the machine for 5 minutes or less, got caught out today.

    Got it at 15.36, went straight in at 15.55 to pay it, it hadn't even shown up on the system yet, your wan thought it was quite funny. Thought i'd get off, no such luck. :(


  • #73
    166man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,575 ✭✭✭166man


    Voodoomelon wrote: »
    Got a parking ticket today, hands up, deserved it, I never put money in the machine for 5 minutes or less, got caught out today.

    Got it at 15.36, went straight in at 15.55 to pay it, it hadn't even shown up on the system yet, your wan thought it was quite funny. Thought i'd get off, no such luck. :(

    It was probably the ridiculously clean 7-Series that caught their attention...:p


  • #74
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Tomorrow was going to my chance to finish cleaning my car, now it looks like it'll be pissing rain.
    I might just get the rain gear out at this stage...

    I've also got to respray the wiper arms, I might just do that instead. :rolleyes:

    Wednesday onwards is supposed to be good weather-wise, at least I hope so because I want to get correcting again :)


  • #75
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Wednesday onwards is supposed to be good weather-wise, at least I hope so because I want to get correcting again :)

    I might have to get in on this correcting business, my girlfriend told me today that her brother use to wash the car with a sponge every other week and she never saw him put a hose near it.
    Might be a lost cause but I'm going to try get it to sparkle! :o


  • #76
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    CianRyan wrote: »
    I might have to get in on this correcting business, my girlfriend told me today that her brother use to wash the car with a sponge every other week and she never saw him put a hose near it.
    Might be a lost cause but I'm going to try get it to sparkle! :o

    Well it's your car now so you should look after it ;) What colour is it?


  • #77
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    For all you car cleaning freaks:P

    Red paintwork that is severely faded and gone pink.....and covered in dried bird sh1te......recommendations?


  • #78
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    For all you car cleaning freaks:P

    Red paintwork that is severely faded and gone pink.....and covered in dried bird sh1te......recommendations?

    A good D/A will bring it right back up. I haven't used any of those paint restoration or "colour back" products so I can't comment on them.

    With regard to the bird crap, tar remover followed by APC will get rid of it. Be aware though, since the paintis faded it obviously has no protective layer of wax on it, the sh!te will leave a mark and since it's dried, more than likely etching from the alkaline.


  • #79
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Autoglym super resin polish turned a pinkish prelude I bought redagain, a wax on top is required and it won't last too many months either, cheap and easy though.


  • #80
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    A good D/A will bring it right back up. I haven't used any of those paint restoration or "colour back" products so I can't comment on them.

    With regard to the bird crap, tar remover followed by APC will get rid of it. Be aware though, since the paintis faded it obviously has no protective layer of wax on it, the sh!te will leave a mark and since it's dried, more than likely etching from the alkaline.


    Yeah the faded side of the car(other side is fine) is gone completely matt so I recon its gonna need a lot of work...if its salvageable at all as when I say pink...its actually gone almost white in places.

    Thats the side that has most of the sh1te too.:eek:


  • #81
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Well it's your car now so you should look after it ;) What colour is it?

    Cian car is a silver almera.


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  • #82
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    Yeah the faded side of the car(other side is fine) is gone completely matt so I recon its gonna need a lot of work...if its salvageable at all:(

    Thats the side that has most of the sh1te too.:eek:

    Could you "post a picture of your faded car here"? :pac: Id say it's either an Alfa or a Nissan Almera/Primera?

    Cian - since it's silver you won't notice that much difference when it's corrected. With a black/red/dark coloured car it's very noticable because the swirl marks make the paint cloudy and whiteish.

    With that said, corrected paintwork is a LOT easier to wash, dry, apply wax to, buff it off etc.


  • #83
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Could you "post a picture of your faded car here"? :pac: Id say it's either an Alfa or a Nissan Almera/Primera?


    A lot closer with the Alfa guess..... :)


    I'll get some pics tomorrow.


  • #84
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    A lot closer with the Alfa guess.....


    I'll get some pics tomorrow.

    A red Alfa? :pac:

    147 or 156?


  • #85
    sean1141
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,088 ✭✭✭sean1141


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Could you "post a picture of your faded car here"? :pac: Id say it's either an Alfa or a Nissan Almera/Primera?

    Red opels/vauxhauls were prone to fading too. There is a 04, I think, around there that some panels have turned pink on.. looks horrid.

    If you dont have access to a DA, autoglym paint renavator should bring it back up fairly good by hand


  • #86
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    A red Alfa? :pac:

    147 or 156?


    :P Nah, Its one of these bad boys....

    fiat-cinquecento-1993-17809-c2.jpg


  • #87
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    :P Nah, Its one of these bad boys....

    fiat-cinquecento-1993-17809-c2.jpg

    Inbetweeners style.


  • #88
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Nissan doctor wrote: »
    :P Nah, Its one of these bad boys....

    fiat-cinquecento-1993-17809-c2.jpg

    Your car for the next meet:D


  • #89
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Could you "post a picture of your faded car here"? :pac: Id say it's either an Alfa or a Nissan Almera/Primera?

    Cian - since it's silver you won't notice that much difference when it's corrected. With a black/red/dark coloured car it's very noticable because the swirl marks make the paint cloudy and whiteish.

    With that said, corrected paintwork is a LOT easier to wash, dry, apply wax to, buff it off etc.

    Well put it this way, bar a few dents I want the body work to look like it came out of the factory.
    There's dreaming, with my will power anyway. :p


  • #90
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    CianRyan wrote: »
    Well put it this way, bar a few dents I want the body work to look like it came out of the factory.
    There's dreaming, with my will power anyway. :p

    If that's what you want, the best thing you can do is correct the paint. It makes a HUGE difference.


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  • #91
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    Your car for the next meet:D


    Could be;)

    More likely the second car in my huge personal collection of cars*




    *subject to winning the Euromillions


  • #92
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    After you have spent countless hours ringing rusty bolts on my classic Porsche you prob wont ever want to see another car :pac:


    hmmm..good point:P


  • #93
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Happy Birthday Challengemaster - hope you have a good one dude! :)


  • #94
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    ^^^^^
    Happy birthday, dude.


  • #95
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭Jimdagym


    Have the Saab a couple of weeks now, and the tax expired an hour ago. How do I first tax it again? Its been a while.
    I have the log book. Do I just fill in the blank form (think its rf100b) like when you cant find your renewal and just proceed as normal?


  • #96
    robbie_998
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭robbie_998


    Made a decision.

    Next vehicle I shall own (along side the civic ofcourse) either a old Honda cr-v diesel automagic or a discovery 3 diesel !


    And yay for not getting caught speeding by the white van on the side of the road on Griffith avenue !

    Funny that it had no markings what so ever but was a speed camera van... Lady in front (a lot in front) was flashed. Rolled up next to her at the lights and she was nearly in tears- wasn't speeding by much at all


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  • #97
    Kintarō Hattori
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,009 ✭✭✭✭Kintarō Hattori


    203019.jpg

    Spotted this yesterday in Kings Inns Street and it made me smile. I've never actually seen a clamp that didn't fit. I was left thinking as to what the owner would do as it seemed to be held on with a simple lock.


  • #98
    TestTransmission
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    MetzgerMeister wrote: »
    Wednesday onwards is supposed to be good weather-wise, at least I hope so because I want to get correcting again :)

    :pac:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78436314&postcount=2473
    M.T. Cranium wrote: »



    WEDNESDAY ... Showers and possibly one or two thunderstorms, moderate east winds and warmer in the north again, highs 13-17 C. Some persistent low cloud and fog in parts of south and east.

    THURSDAY ... Showers near the south coast, some sunshine further north, not quite as breezy but still east 10-25 mph, lows 7-10 C and highs 13-17 C.

    FRIDAY ... Turning colder in Ulster with showers, winds northeast 10-20 mph, otherwise variable cloud, some showers, staying rather mild in the south, highs 10-12 C north, 14-17 C south and central.

    WEEKEND OUTLOOK ... Including Monday, the weekend looks rather unpleasant with outbreaks of light rain at times, chilly temperatures, and a northeast wind that shouldn't be too strong or gusty but steady at 10-20 mph in most places. Highs each day in the 8-11 C range and lows 3-5 C but could be slight frost central counties with any clearing.


  • #99
    superstoner90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,076 ✭✭✭superstoner90


    ^^ Thats MMs plans out the window. :D





    :EDIT- happy birthday Challengmister. :)


  • #100
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    TT - Those showers aren't confirmed for my area ;)


  • #101
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,854 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    Happy birthday dickhead :p


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