***Motors Chat Thread*** Round 1

dar83

We're you running passed the car taking those pics? :P

L-M

Why didn't he wait for the Rapid?

-Corkie-

Limerick man wrote: »

Why didn't he wait for the Rapid?

He was driving the rapid takin the pics.....:D

dgt

What the hell is going on the M1? Big big feck off jam....

dgt

If anyone else is in this jam, I'm behind an ulsterbus bus, on the roof of an Iveco Daily :pac:

BUBBLE WRAP

dar83 wrote: »

We're you running passed the car taking those pics? :P

Lol

Ya, I was actually, it was raining so I had to take them quick.

Limerick man wrote: »

Why didn't he wait for the Rapid?

I think he wanted an octavio from the start.

dgt

Moving at last. I actually walked up.... There was a car across both lanes and a forklift? I never thought I'd walk up the motorway, ever :pac:

Drummerboy08

I came across an accident on the M50 yesterday evening, just before the N11 merge.

There was a Focus in the Cheese grater backwards, with it's front axle under the car. No other damage.

Oddly, the Dublin/Wicklow Mountain rescue were at the scene, with no other ES?!

Mr Simpson

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

I came across an accident on the M50 yesterday evening, just before the N11 merge.

There was a Focus in the Cheese grater backwards, with it's front axle under the car. No other damage.

Oddly, the Dublin/Wicklow Mountain rescue were at the scene, with no other ES?!

They were probably just driving past and lent a hand until other ES arrived.

Mar4ix

how do they work those VRT calculators at revenue website ??? i put details in it, and it show ....



grrr.... drives me mad.... is something wrong with their website, or i input wrong info ?

dar83

Everyone knows the civil servants barely work during the week. Good luck to getting any work out of them on a weekend! :pac:

Mr Simpson

dar83 wrote: »

Everyone knows the civil servants barely work during the week. Good luck to getting any work out of them on a weekend! :pac:

Thats a bit mean, civil servants do work occasionally :P

Drummerboy08

mmcn90 wrote: »

Thats a bit mean, civil servants do work occasionally :P

Yeah, usually online trying to book holidays for their 6 weeks a year off.

dar83

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Yeah, usually online trying to book holidays for their 6 weeks a year off.

Tough business that, many a furrowed brow to be had!

Drummerboy08

dar83 wrote: »

Tough business that, many a furrowed brow to be had!

Do I go to South of France or Florida....decisions decisions.....:rolleyes:

166man

RoverJames wrote: »

... Doubt it would be awful on petrol too

If its anywhere near the same as the Spider 2.2, well it would be fairly awful actually.

Mr Simpson

Drummerboy08 wrote: »

Do I go to South of France or Florida....decisions decisions.....:rolleyes:

I wish when I was a civil servant I had the choice of those places. But alas €320 a week doesn't get you very far.

On a motor related note, the breather tubes in my engine have burst and the main stealer is quoting nearly €100, does that sound pricey to anyone. 08 Corsa D, 1.2

166man

166man wrote: »

If its anywhere near the same as the Spider 2.2, well it would be fairly awful actually.

Define awful in mpg or l per 100 km :)r

kupus

Would you believe that this car 2003 Volvo s40 1.8 has only 144,000KM ???

interior looks ok pedals, footwell, gearknob, handbrake, seats all look in decent shape and does not seem to have excessive wear....... but the steering wheel......??? and its garaged.

I wouldn't take too much notice of the steering wheel in that as an indicator of mileage tbh.

MetzgerMeister

RoverJames wrote: »

I wouldn't take too much notice of the steering wheel in that as an indicator of mileage tbh.

This.

The interior could do with a clean but the steering wheel is damaged due to it being plastic. The chemicals in a lot of oily hand creams break down the plastic and that's what I think happened here.

ShadowHearth

for me its a bit scary... people put something on their hands, which rots away plastic....

kupus

sound so, I'll go for a look at it, I didnt know that hand cream could cause that....learn something new everyday.

Is there any definite way of checking miles, like going to a volvo garage and plugging into the ecu or reading the key?

MetzgerMeister

Apart from service history, you could ask for the NCT certs as they have the milage at the time the car is tested.

MuppetCheck

Anyone here ever have Toyo PX4's (also known as Proxy 4s) on their car? They are working out at €65 per tyre cheaper than Dunlop SP01's or Continental Sport Contacts so pretty tempted by them if they are decent.

TestTransmission

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Anyone here ever have Toyo PX4's (also known as Proxy 4s) on their car? They are working out at €65 per tyre cheaper than Dunlop SP01's or Continental Sport Contacts so pretty tempted by them if they are decent.

I use Toyo Proxes T1R's, get about 6000 miles out of them...

Mar4ix

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Anyone here ever have Toyo PX4's (also known as Proxy 4s) on their car? They are working out at €65 per tyre cheaper than Dunlop SP01's or Continental Sport Contacts so pretty tempted by them if they are decent.

I had / have all of them ... found exelent .... proxes was good on dry, in wet a bit slippy... but controllable ..... now i have dunlop sport ones.. had on skyline , now on avensis .... very good tyre any condition.... continental sport contacts on wifes vw polo .... very good any condition... id say the best.. bit laud ... but if dont know, will not notice... dunlops my favorite

MuppetCheck

Mar4ix wrote: »

I had / have all of them ... found exelent .... proxes was good on dry, in wet a bit slippy... but controllable ..... now i have dunlop sport ones.. had on skyline , now on avensis .... very good tyre any condition.... continental sport contacts on wifes vw polo .... very good any condition... id say the best.. bit laud ... but if dont know, will not notice... dunlops my favorite

Slippy in the wet is what is what I don't want. Finding it hard to get tyres in the size i need. I might have to go with bridgestones on it. Some tyre places are slow to order them too.

MuppetCheck

TestTransmission wrote: »

I use Toyo Proxes T1R's, get about 6000 miles out of them...

Another reason not to for them. I had heard they were soft enough.

Mar4ix

MuppetCheck wrote: »

Another reason not to for them. I had heard they were soft enough.

i dont know about how soft they are, as i sold car with them.... but found them very good.... well .. yes, bit slippy in rain.... but it wasnt like slip and slide ... it was - you could feel when it loosing grip, but you could control car any way.... i wouldnt say it was bad in rain. .... bit worse than dunlop or bridgestone .... but minimal difference.... but price wise .. pretty noticeable difference ...

i ordered all them from eiretyres.com ... around 5 to - 7 business days to get them.