****Motors Chat Thread Round 4****

Scortho

166man wrote: »

Well that was an interesting day! Got to experience savage, and I mean savage power from something that has no right to move that fast, it's ridiculous, and I loved it!

And oil change and coolant flush were done to my own yoke too thanks to our very own Corsa Fanboi...:v

Finally I got to work on something that relates to my own username, a V6 Alfa 166! The interior is in need of a serious overhaul, every inch of it needs to be scrubbed clean and the leather needs major reconditioning. Made a start on it today and boy did it make a difference, all for the price of €3.99. I have some pics I'll try put 'em up later!

There's no car cleaning like bargain car cleaning...:D

Did you get the arb fixed.
Also any word on the lights?

CianRyan

Terrifying high beam situation?

Gonna head out and buy this Nilfisk in a bit. :cool:

colm_mcm

CianRyan wrote: »

Terrifying high beam situation?

Gonna head out and buy this Nilfisk in a bit. :cool:

Think you have to order it through the website

CianRyan

colm_mcm wrote: »

Think you have to order it through the website

I think not.

Remember my brothers XJ6? He had his fun with it and sold it on last week in a local auction. Here it is up for sale again.

Few problems,

1) My brother was not a lady owner.

2) Showroom condition? He forgot to mention the many dents and scrapes, some of which are still visible in the pics.

3) You can bet the idling problem wasn't sorted in it.

4) The LED screen with the mileage is faulty and so is the stereo screen.

5) The passenger wing mirror motor was fecked and I bet it still is.

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toastedpickles

shaaane wrote: »

Remember my brothers XJ6? He had his fun with it and sold it on last week in a local auction. Here it is up for sale again.

Few problems,

1) My brother was not a lady owner.

2) Showroom condition? He forgot to mention the many dents and scrapes, some of which are still visible in the pics.

3) You can bet the idling problem wasn't sorted in it.

4) The LED screen with the mileage is faulty and so is the stereo screen.

5) The passenger wing mirror motor was fecked and I bet it still is.

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Report it maybe? False and misleading info?

joujoujou

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Feck, Mazda failed nct this morning. On emisions... [...]

New air filter, clean up MAF sensor, add Dipethane and run if flatout on your way to retest.

Will be alright.

toastedpickles

This damn rain has my heart broken, I get one thing done and it starts lashing, go back out when it stops and get one tiny thing done and it starts again I need a marquee

dgt

toastedpickles wrote: »

This damn rain has my heart broken, I get one thing done and it starts lashing, go back out when it stops and get one tiny thing done and it starts again I need a marquee

Anyone that wished for this sh*te ought to drown in it. I hope it rains in their houses :mad:

toastedpickles

dgt wrote: »

Anyone that wished for this sh*te ought to drown in it. I hope it rains in their houses :mad:

My neighbors are some of these people, i can't stand it anymore it's driving me insane, there's a big marquee for sale in a pound shop thing out where i live for 100 quid, could easily fit your car and mine in it so I'm gona make a worth while investment soon

RandomAccess

Was on the M11/M50 back from Bray and saw some broken plasterboard on the road, a little further on there was a van with a roof rack pulled into the hard shoulder, with a blue Corsa behind it that seemed to have some white markings on the front. Seems the board may have flown off the van and hit the car.

That would be a brown pants moment!

Voodoomelon

Rear brake line replaced in Perfect Car Dundalk, €70 which I thought was bang on. Had the car back in two hours too. A job I just could not be arsed doing meself.

Stheno

GTV went off for her respray today, first time in two months I've driven it, can't wait to get her back

Took pics of the damage to compare the result to

Supergurrier

Whats the damage on the respray ?

CianRyan

I'd say any thought of the a sale have been swiftly wiped away after the spin out.

dgt

CianRyan wrote: »

I'd say any thought of the a sale have been swiftly wiped away after the spin out.

Que?

YbFocus

dgt wrote: »

Que?

Stheno's GTV

Stheno

Supergurrier wrote: »

Whats the damage on the respray ?

It's mirror to mirror and under the windows on each side, it's very very cheap to be honest, as it's a guy my mechanic works with and who refuses to take jobs unless its referred by a mate.

Overall it will be about €600 when you see the before and after pics you will die at how little it cost. The guy doing it is in the middle of nowhere,€works purely off industry referrals, and does it for the love of the job. I was expecting to pay €1500 plus

dgt wrote: »

Que?

Same here

Bpmull

It's funny at the start of the summer I had no job and couldn't find find one thought I would never get one. Now I'm about 8 weeks into the job I got and its quite the opposite nearly have to beg for time off worked about 60 hours this week which feels alot to me anyway. I'm off next week to study for my exam and then back again. I'm enjoying it anyway so its good and learning loads too

The focus is still struggling on needs to be serviced now so I'm hoping to do that in the next few weeks just oil + filter this time round. I'm thinking of getting some new tyres too for it. Theres only 15k km on the ones on it but there some sh!t make winda or something and I was never that keen on them. Hoping to get turanzas or possibly hankook if there much cheaper I don't even know what price I would be looking at 205/55/16 ill have to get a quote.


On another note my dad is in the uk doing courses and he's doing alot of driving over there he has the 1.6 octavia told me this evening he has 750 km done and there's half a tank left which I'm shocked over ( small 55litre tank too) interesting to see what it'll do to the tank I've asked for photographic evidence ill post up the pic when he gets back.

dgt

dgt wrote: »

Good ridance to bad sh*te, the hape is going to the yard today unfortunately I don't get the enjoyment of seeing it getting crushed as I'm away playing soldier for the week

But if I remember I'll post pics of it on the trailer.....

Amazing that I bought it April last year, treasured it, tried to save it.... Alas, too much work and effort was needed to save it. Farewell hape :cool:




And the last time I'll ever see it

Katunga

^^^^^^
I'm surprised you didn't take off the tow bar.

dgt

Katunga wrote: »

^^^^^^
I'm surprised you didn't take off the tow bar.

I really did want to! Until I saw how rotten it was where no one would see normally.....

CianRyan

I'll be ordering this in the next day or two I think. I can't wait to cover my cars in foam. :pac:

Mister Jingles

Just did an online quote there on Brittons, and as it turns out it is over 100 quid cheaper to go on a mk4 1.9 golf as a unemployed student then working in a shop. Strange all the same.

Toyotafanboi

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Just did an online quote there on Brittons, and as it turns out it is over 100 quid cheaper to go on a mk4 1.9 golf as a unemployed student then working in a shop. Strange all the same.

i found the opposite. when i called brokers and told them i was a student they asked did i have a part time job as it looked much more favourable to companies if i were "employed" and not a student.

presumably because all students do mad stuff. :rolleyes:

Mister Jingles

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

i found the opposite. when i called brokers and told them i was a student they asked did i have a part time job as it looked much more favourable to companies if i were "employed" and not a student.

presumably because all students do mad stuff. :rolleyes:

Maybe its different when you ring although online quotes and phone quotes from Britton are very similar I find. Just testing the water though, it will be a while before I'll be changing over and even at that, to a diesel ?

Veloce

Anyone heading to cherrywood cars and coffee this morning?

Autosport

No I'm heading down to Tipp so god bless ye all there

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

Wonder how stuck people are today without buses,

The likes of oxegen and so on etc.

Well tbh for Oxegen they can all stay there .. dont want them back thanks !

possible for Dublin bus strike to move over to next week too ?

CianRyan

They can stay like that really.
My commute was cut in half today.