***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

pajor

I doubt they'll take 4k for it.. but..



http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volkswagen-polo-gti-1-8-turbo-150bhp/5083237

Ardennes1944

cant get insured on the 182 i rang liberty.
i saw that polo gti, no way will they agree to 4.5k :pac:

MetzgerMeister

Ah will ya try other insurers for feck sake!

Ardennes1944

ill have to cancel with liberty then and lose a years ncb? No thanks!

Scortho

h3000 wrote: »

So you drove for nearly three years with no tax?

God no I taxed it when I bought it during the summer.
What I was saying was that the fact it'd not been taxed by the previous owner/owners didn't put me off buying the car.
The fact that it didn't have any service history didn't put me off buying the car.
What made me buy the car?
1. It was for sale by someone who is well regarded by alfa enthusiasts in this country
2. The way it drive and handled.

h3000

Scortho wrote: »

God no I taxed it when I bought it during the summer.
What I was saying was that the fact it'd not been taxed by the previous owner/owners didn't put me off buying the car.
The fact that it didn't have any service history didn't put me off buying the car.
What made me buy the car?
1. It was for sale by someone who is well regarded by alfa enthusiasts in this country
2. The way it drive and handled.

Oh fair enough, I just picked you up wrong.

Scortho

h3000 wrote: »

Oh fair enough, I just picked you up wrong.

No problem.

pred racer

I just went out to 'check my handbrake' in the snow.
Seems to be working fine:D
Snow is melting now, glad I got that checked out:pac:

pred racer

OSI wrote: »

I tried a little handbrake action in the GTI last winter. I've never seen or heard so many lights and alarms in a car.

I turned off the traction control first

Otherwise it doesnt allow handbrake and powahh;)
I just get a resigned beep!

pred racer

OSI wrote: »

Oh I turned off the ESP (Traction control is tied into the stability program), made no difference.

Bloody german overlords!

The Italians obviously dont give a ****.

Supergurrier

Ardennes1944 wrote: »

ill have to cancel with liberty then and lose a years ncb? No thanks!

How much ncb do you have as most companies dont count after 5 years

dgt

Handbrakes? Pffffft..... A set of mauldy tyres, traction controll off, clutch kicking and an empty crossroads/industrial estate is where its at not diffin :pac:

Ardennes, cars a cat c? Don't do it seriously. I've had to repair crashed cars before, a pain in the arse..... Find something else.

About the only free time I have this week! While everyone else was prob inside all nice and toasty, I was outside welding a van till about 12 am..... Now that was a little bit cold, unlike the other wimpy wimps complaining that a miserable 7 degrees was cold earlier this year

My motto of the week is asking people if they have a club card.... Well do any of you lot have one?

Ardennes1944

Supergurrier wrote: »

How much ncb do you have as most companies dont count after 5 years

This will be my third

toastedpickles

dgt wrote: »

Handbrakes? Pffffft..... A set of mauldy tyres, traction controll off, clutch kicking and an empty crossroads/industrial estate is where its at not diffin :pac:

Ardennes, cars a cat c? Don't do it seriously. I've had to repair crashed cars before, a pain in the arse..... Find something else.

About the only free time I have this week! While everyone else was prob inside all nice and toasty, I was outside welding a van till about 12 am..... Now that was a little bit cold, unlike the other wimpy wimps complaining that a miserable 7 degrees was cold earlier this year

My motto of the week is asking people if they have a club card.... Well do any of you lot have one?

I've one! :P Also I've not been at all toasty and inside this week, imagine spending roughly 12/13 hours each day outside on an unloading platform, unloading artics full to the ceiling with parcels and all that christmas sh!te :pac: I'm dreaming of giant blue an post bags attacking me :pac: However, I'm soon to be as they say "loaded"

pajor

dgt wrote: »

My motto of the week is asking people if they have a club card.... Well do any of you lot have one?

I do indeed. :cool:

Cleveland Hot Pocket

dgt wrote: »

Handbrakes? Pffffft..... A set of mauldy tyres, traction controll off, clutch kicking and an empty crossroads/industrial estate is where its at not diffin :pac:

Or if you have an auto with a parking foot-brake and no handbrake?
And 5.7 liters of v8 powaaaah

challengemaster

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

Or if you have an auto with a parking foot-brake and no handbrake?
And 5.7 liters of v8 powaaaah

Sure those yokes don't turn anyway, nevermind go in circles :pac:

Chris_Heilong

Almost taken out by a white coach about 15 minutes ago, Was on East wall road heading towards the O2, I was third in line waiting for the filter light to turn right, lights change and we all start driving. Then suddenly from my right a Coach is heading towards me at full speed, I hit the accelerator and he misses me by less than a meter. There was no excuse for this, the lights had changed a while and it is obvious that the bus just broke a red light, very dangerous, closest I have been to death. Here is a map to illustrate. The X is where the bus almost crashed into me.

Big Nasty

'Full speed'?

(Glad you're ok dude)

Chris_Heilong

Big Nasty wrote: »

'Full speed'?

(Glad you're ok dude)

Yeah, well 50kmh to be exact, when someone makes a mistake they usually start to slow down, a second slower and I would be jam. I take this road almost everyday, there is just so much wrong with what happened I cant get my head around what the coach driver was thinking.

tossy

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Almost taken out by a white coach about 15 minutes ago, Was on East wall road heading towards the O2, I was third in line waiting for the filter light to turn right, lights change and we all start driving. Then suddenly from my right a Coach is heading towards me at full speed, I hit the accelerator and he misses me by less than a meter. There was no excuse for this, the lights had changed a while and it is obvious that the bus just broke a red light, very dangerous, closest I have been to death. Here is a map to illustrate. The X is where the bus almost crashed into me.

Looks like a 2-D lifesize cardboard cut out of a bus, areyou sure it was real ?

pred racer

I've got a new job.....:D (it was provisional before, its official now)
Ill be off the live register before them useless cnuts in the dole office actually, give me anything.

Only bad part is I'll have to actually get off my arse and go in to work :eek:

Must start planning some big shiny for the new year:D

I might buy myself another car as a little present to myself;)

Ardennes1944

Axa offered me 2500, then I got them up to 3000, if I can get them to come up another 200 ill settle

Cleveland Hot Pocket

challengemaster wrote: »

Sure those yokes don't turn anyway, nevermind go in circles :pac:

ROTFL...
Unfortunately I didn't youtube it but there are certainly a couple of boardsies that can testify to the opposite!

dgt

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

ROTFL...
Unfortunately I didn't youtube it but there are certainly a couple of boardsies that can testify to the opposite!

I can testify to the opposite lock, that was feckin hillarious :pac::pac::pac::pac:

CianRyan

The truck can go round.

Stheno

dgt wrote: »

My motto of the week is asking people if they have a club card.... Well do any of you lot have one?

I have one of those temporary paper ones? Hardly ever shop in Tesco apart from getting contact lenses

pred racer wrote: »

I've got a new job.....:D (it was provisional before, its official now)
Ill be off the live register before them useless cnuts in the dole office actually, give me anything.

Only bad part is I'll have to actually get off my arse and go in to work :eek:

Must start planning some big shiny for the new year:D

I might buy myself another car as a little present to myself;)

Congratulations The dole people will probably approve your claim after you start work and then you will have loads of dole money to spend

What car might you be buying?

@ Chris, glad you are ok, today appeared to be driving madness day, three times I got cut up by people in the wrong lanes in town

And I have the trauma of the work Christmas party this evening

TestTransmission

pred racer wrote: »

Ill be off the live register before them useless cnuts in the dole office actually, give me anything.
)

Eugh, I joined it last week.

ednwireland

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skoda-Octavia-Estate-20TDI-CR-170-DSG-vRS-2009-59-plate-Ex-Police-Dog-Van-/161173605684?clk_rvr_id=562682229168&afsrc=1

Skoda Octavia Estate 2.0TDI CR 170 DSG vRS 2009 59 plate Ex Police Dog Van

lol

apologies if posted before

Mycroft H

TestTransmission wrote: »

Eugh, I joined it last week.

There is nothing more sole destroying than collecting dole. I hated my time on it.