Uk Cars vs Irish Cars

cena

So I have been ink many Cars while in England and i find the Cars over are well looked After and Run much Smooter compaired to Cars back home.

I,m i the only One that See this

dgt

No you ain't the only one that sees that!

BigEejit

But UK cars get a good coating of salt every winter....

Yearly MOT helps keep the mileage on most cars legit and the cars are generally a better spec. Still have muppets who dont service properly etc

cena

Is there a difference in the fuel in the uk to here

testicle

cena wrote: »

Is there a difference in the fuel in the uk to here

Yeah, our diesel is washed!

YouTookMyName

cena wrote: »

Is there a difference in the fuel in the uk to here

most stations have premium and regular petrol and diesel.

cena

YouTookMyName wrote: »

most stations have premium and regular petrol and diesel.

Do we not have that in ireland

YouTookMyName

cena wrote: »

Do we not have that in ireland

rarely, nearly all stations in the uk carry both.

it's very rare in ireland to see both. theres a 7p-11p difference in reg and premium.

Chriscl1

I get better miles to a full tank on regular 95 Ron fuel when driving on uk roads than this e5 stuff we have here, also I find road noise is quieter there too, maybe they use a less resistive material when laying the roads so car's actually uses less effort??? Is that possible??

tossy

Chriscl1 wrote: »

I get better miles to a full tank on regular 95 Ron fuel when driving on uk roads than this e5 stuff we have here, also I find road noise is quieter there too, maybe they use a less resistive material when laying the roads so car's actually uses less effort??? Is that possible??

I've never seen "loose chippings" in the UK,the romans didn't use loose chippings FFS

colm_mcm

I put super diesel in the i30 coming back from the uk for the craic. No idea if it was any good though.

Popoutman

BigEejit wrote: »

But UK cars get a good coating of salt every winter....

So do we for the last few years. At least in the UK a lot of the car wash places have an underbody spray, that i don't see as often over here. Then again I haven't brought my car to a carwash in over six years. Handwash all the way.. (and spray underneath!)

Figerty

BigEejit wrote: »

But UK cars get a good coating of salt every winter....

Yearly MOT helps keep the mileage on most cars legit and the cars are generally a better spec. Still have muppets who dont service properly etc

So did we get the dose of salts for the last few winters!

Most cars won't perform any better with the 95 ron, except some French cars, the are tuned to like it.
The newer type Jap engines don't do any better on the higher RON. I remember reading this somewhere.

Nonoperational

Completely overstated in my opinion. There are many more cars in the UK and obviously if you go to the trouble of importing one then you'll look for a good one. There are plenty unmaintained cars in the UK too.

bob50

One Thing I would prefer UK Car

Have just recently bought toyota avensis 07 nice car except the speedo is in kms for which i dont like give me MPH anytime,

mgbgt1978

Sorry bob, that's the law here. If you imported an '07 car with a digital speedo that only read in mph you would probably fail the NCT.

DylanII

Is there not usually a button to switch between mph abduction kmh

Seanchai

DylanII wrote: »

Is there not usually a button to switch between mph abduction kmh

Why would anybody want to be that backward? It's 2012, not 1812. Metric is the only sane, rational system. It's much easier to understand, follow and calculate. And our signs are all in metric!

The government should have changed us over in 1922, not 2005.

L1011

cena wrote: »

Do we not have that in ireland

Don't believe there is even a single station still offering superunleaded here (seeing as E5, which is effectively the only petrol sold here, is generally >95 and as high as 99 octane depending on blend, its quite pointless) and there are definitely no station selling a "premium" diesel

Whereas in the UK, its rare to find a non-supermarket station without superunleaded, BP sells a premium diesel at nearly all their sites and some BPs had *five* pumps until recently (three grades of unleaded, two diesel).

Jimbob 83

I would love a UK spec ST3 tbh better spec but paddy spec will have to do.

Only in Ireland would no LSD/Traction control on a 220+bhp car seem sane

bop1977

Seanchai wrote: »

DylanII wrote: »

Is there not usually a button to switch between mph abduction kmh

Why would anybody want to be that backward? It's 2012, not 1812. Metric is the only sane, rational system. It's much easier to understand, follow and calculate. And our signs are all in metric!

The government should have changed us over in 1922, not 2005.

We went metric in 97 but our speedos changed in 2004.

L1011

bop1977 wrote: »

We went metric in 97 but our speedos changed in 2004.

We went metric a lot earlier than 1997. KM distance signage was introduced from 1977, pretty sure metric packaging was a legal requirement by the 80s.

DylanII

DylanII wrote: »

Is there not usually a button to switch between mph abduction kmh

That was supposed to say "mph AND kmh" don't know why autocorrect changed that

bob50

MYOB wrote: »

We went metric a lot earlier than 1997. KM distance signage was introduced from 1977, pretty sure metric packaging was a legal requirement by the 80s.

Probably was, But i much prefer the miles imperial i wasnt tought metric at school Anyways its not that we drive on right as the europeans do

DylanII

What's driving on the right got to do with anything?

I find miles ft inches etc very confusing. I think the metric system is much more straight forward.

bob50

Seanchai wrote: »

Why would anybody want to be that backward? It's 2012, not 1812. Metric is the only sane, rational system. It's much easier to understand, follow and calculate. And our signs are all in metric!

The government should have changed us over in 1922, not 2005.

Its not being backward The yanks, still use imperial measurments none of this metric rubbish imo

bob50

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Sorry bob, that's the law here. If you imported an '07 car with a digital speedo that only read in mph you would probably fail the NCT.

Thanks for your reply

L1011

bob50 wrote: »

Its not being backward The yanks, still use imperial measurments none of this metric rubbish imo

The US, the UK and Liberia use imperial. Not even the same system at that.

The rest of the world uses metric.

Imperial is chronically backward and completely unintuitive.

eqwjewoiujqorj

Metric is your only man

Seanchai

MYOB wrote: »

The US, the UK and Liberia use imperial. Not even the same system at that.

The rest of the world uses metric.

Imperial is chronically backward and completely unintuitive.

And it should be noted that aside from all US engineers, vast swathes of educated Americans use metric - most notably the US military, which seems to be nearly a crime of treason in the eyes of some of the remaining proponents of the imperial system.

BigEejit

Back in the day I used to do some printed circuit board design. All tracks are measured in <i>thous</i> that is thousands of an inch. What mad feckers came up with that bastard child of the imperial and metric systems.

stimpson

The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it!

YouTookMyName

colm_mcm wrote: »

I put super diesel in the i30 coming back from the uk for the craic. No idea if it was any good though.

During the fuel shenanigans that went on in the uk during april i had to buy 35litres of shell v-power diesel.

Cars running a little better since. It is a 02 avensis.

But i'd say it done more good than a bottle of addictive to tidy up the lines and shít from carbon.

Tea 1000

gpf101 wrote: »

Completely overstated in my opinion. There are many more cars in the UK and obviously if you go to the trouble of importing one then you'll look for a good one. There are plenty unmaintained cars in the UK too.

I'd disagree to a point, I know o many people who found a car they were looking for on auto trader, booked flights, ferry and insurance, had money in pocket and all going over to see it, and do you think they have any intention of walking away if it turns out to be less than perfect? Not a hope! Convince themselves that it's a mighty bargain no matter what.