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

Mycroft H

Stheno wrote: »

It's practice tbh, I nearly died of nerves doing my first presentation to 50 odd people, now I regularly do them to three times that.

I had my future MSc supervisor and a load of postdocs in front of me hahah. I was blathering and repeating myself like a gob****e...

Supergurrier

Nice, would be a hell of an upgrade

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/nissan-350z/5868530

dgt

BX 19 wrote: »

Okay, okay you win (you were always going to)

The tbelt on the clio was a piece of piss. Simple job, even for a gob****e like me with the haynes manual.

I usually do

XUD is an arse without a beefy air gun and puller, 1.1 and 1.2 16v I can do with my eyes shut (I'll try that next time it needs a belt change :pac:), the Daily requires the rad out, inch gun and a strange half nut/tool to lock the tensioner.... Easy to jump a tooth on it too! It's not too bad but time consuming and bloody expensive

Scortho

dgt wrote: »

I usually do

XUD is an arse without a beefy air gun and puller, 1.1 and 1.2 16v I can do with my eyes shut (I'll try that next time it needs a belt change :pac:), the Daily requires the rad out, inch gun and a strange half nut/tool to lock the tensioner.... Easy to jump a tooth on it too! It's not too bad but time consuming and bloody expensive

What about the busso? It may as well be an engine out job theres so much to take off. And so little room. feckin italians and there small hands:pac:

Ded_Zebra

I'm heading to Mondello (well the car park at least :pac:) tomorrow to do a few test on the Formula Student car. It's only going to involve watching someone else drive it around in circles and doing brake and acceleration tests but I'm still pretty excited

On the timing belt front, I'm still a big timing belt virgin :pac::o

Chris_Heilong

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I'm heading to Mondello (well the car park at least :pac:) tomorrow to do a few test on the Formula Student car. It's only going to involve watching someone else drive it around in circles and doing brake and acceleration tests but I'm still pretty excited

On the timing belt front, I'm still a big timing belt virgin :pac::o

Have you ever gone to Mondello before?

Scortho

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I'm heading to Mondello (well the car park at least :pac:) tomorrow to do a few test on the Formula Student car. It's only going to involve watching someone else drive it around in circles and doing brake and acceleration tests but I'm still pretty excited

On the timing belt front, I'm still a big timing belt virgin :pac::o

Cianryan aint:pac:
Sorry cian:P

Mycroft H

dgt wrote: »

I usually do

XUD is an arse without a beefy air gun and puller, 1.1 and 1.2 16v I can do with my eyes shut (I'll try that next time it needs a belt change :pac:), the Daily requires the rad out, inch gun and a strange half nut/tool to lock the tensioner.... Easy to jump a tooth on it too! It's not too bad but time consuming and bloody expensive

I feel blessed. The clio you could tension the tensioner with a circlips in the middle of it. Slide the belt off. Make sure the marks are lined up again. Pop new belt on and away you go.

Set of torx was about the most complicated thing you needed.

Ded_Zebra

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Have you ever gone to Mondello before?

I have spectated but that's it.

Interslice

BX 19 wrote: »

I feel blessed. The clio you could tension the tensioner with a circlips in the middle of it. Slide the belt off. Make sure the marks are lined up again. Pop new belt on and away you go.

Set of torx was about the most complicated thing you needed.

A good two days work in doing mine on the van, seperate belt for the fuel pump, water pump and a hape of tensioners and bolts to be done aswell. Pain in the hole.

Doesn't need done for another 2.5 years but it's running off centre and rubbing on the lower cover a bit so might be a bit earlier.

Chris_Heilong

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I have spectated but that's it.

Should be an experience then, good luck.

Matt Simis

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

Saw a 98 dark green S8 in Cork today with German plates, Matt Simis old car maybe??

Mine was black!
http://s55.photobucket.com/user/mattsimis/library/Audi%20S8/AEZ%20Wheels%20on%20S8?sort=3&page=1

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Lovely first drive of the truck today into work. She's parked outside taking up two spaces.

Probably Definitely the most comfortable and relaxing vehicle I have ever driven. She is doing 45mph at about 1000 rpm.

coolisin

Matt Simis wrote: »

Mine was black!

Are you sure? I know you owned the car and everything but as this is boards I have to question what you looked at everyday!

It's funny I always thought yours was dark green after the meet where you showed off the LPG.
Or maybe I was mixing it up with ronin!

Chris_Heilong

Look what popped up outside my garden, how long do you think before I am blocked in?

Ardennes1944

Matt Simis wrote: »

Mine was black!
http://s55.photobucket.com/user/mattsimis/library/Audi%20S8/AEZ%20Wheels%20on%20S8?sort=3&page=1

I was feckin sure it was dark green! Least i was thinkin of ya :pac:

Toyotafanboi

is that a k10 micra in your neighbours garden :eek:

ba_barabus

OSI wrote: »

Saw a BMW i3 this morning. God it looks awkward. Also, the owner decided it needed no number plates it's so unique.

In Dublin? I must keep my eyes peeled.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Must be a demo model or something. No-one would be mad enough to buy one of them surely :eek:

Dave147

Can't understand these ads on DoneDeal that put up loads of pictures and nothing of the interior.

Also had a deal done with a fella for a 07 S Line and he rang me last night saying the clutch had gone, straight away my suspicions were raised and he's adamant that he hasn't sold the car, although it's going to take some time to get the car sorted, if true then I'm glad it went before I bought it. Not much else out there but not sure if I'll wait around for this, he doesn't seem interested enough.

challengemaster

We've all seen crazy manufacturer claims... but I think this one takes the biscuit

5000 bhp and 560km/h top speed, with 0-60 in 1.8s.

http://www.gtspirit.com/2013/11/06/5000hp-560kmh-v16-devel-sixteen-revealed-at-dubai/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kv2w0teSOE

There's a huge clue in the video why this is bullshít...

90 degree bends in the exhaust!

Mycroft H

lol. 560km/h me bollocks.

YbFocus

Nice spot on the restrictive exhausts

Total crap!

Oh and here's my actuator operating when the car is off

Can some genius diagnose that

Cleveland Hot Pocket

That is the oddest thing ever :eek:

YbFocus

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

That is the oddest thing ever :eek:

Stops after like two minutes, no effects on driving whatsoever! Also the second you unlock her off it goes, start it and it stops!
I've found a few people online where they said this was happening. Some wouldn't believe it as it made no sense, some said their's were doing it from the day they got it??

I'm at a loss with this now, I'm thinking because I found the turbo to be fine when checked, was it the actuator that was causing all the trouble all along

Chris_Heilong

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

is that a k10 micra in your neighbours garden :eek:

unfortunately its the 4 door version, the one no one wants.

YbFocus

OSI wrote: »

It's taking as many deep breathes of fresh air as it can before you go and suffocate it with those horrendous diesel fumes again :pac:

Jesus I nearly got sick laughing

Probably true

Cleveland Hot Pocket

YbFocus wrote: »

Jesus I nearly got sick laughing

Probably true

Nah that will be from all the carcinogens in the "cleaner" diesel car as promoted by the "greens" :P

Autosport

I thought dgt was in Kilkenny earlier as i was behind a car and all you could see was a cloud of smoke everytime he changed gears

challengemaster

Autosport wrote: »

I thought dgt was in Kilkenny earlier as i was behind a car and all you could see was a cloud of smoke everytime he changed gears

dgt is the opposite, the only time there's any change in the smoke cloud is when he changes gear