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

dgt

dgt wrote: »

horns a blaze

:pac:

Matt Simis

Picked up that E34 540i I mentioned, plan to get a Supercharger kit for it to push it to 411bhp.

Car is fine though I already fixed the Windscreen washer pump, Fog light and found most of the groaning and weirdness on the steering is as some tool put in ATF instead of CHF in the power steering reservoir.

The exhaust is some generic piece of crap, basically straight through, sounds terrible and deafening. Had to drive most of the way with the windows down, sunroof opening (so wasnt booming inside the car) and in Sports mode (to keep the RPM high to get above the low RPM drone. Burnt my scalp a bit as the day was a scorcher!

Photos here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=314368&page=562

pajor

I can sense faces turning green at the car, the weather and the scenery!

Bpmull

dgt wrote: »

Carpark was fun....

I lost the focus in the car park today :pac: the shopping centre in Kilkenny has a ground level and basement level. Basement is always closed as it's never busy enough but today they opened the basement parked down there thought nothing of it done my shopping came out to look for the car and it literally took me 15 minutes to find it. I was around like an idiot trying to find it It's the first time it's ever happened.

Also was out on my work Christmas party last night. It was the first one I was ever at and I was expecting it too be boring out but was great fun.

pajor

That Market Cross?

Bpmull

pajor wrote: »

That Market Cross?

No macdonagh station. They literally never open the basement unless the ground floor is full. Never forgot where I parked when in there before.

pajor

Bpmull wrote: »

No macdonagh station. They literally never open the basement unless the ground floor is full. Never forgot where I parked when in there before.

I guessed as much. Really didn't think Market Cross had a basement!

Ded_Zebra

I lost the passat in the Dundrum carpark once, just had no idea where I left it. Found it after about 30 mins :o Thank god for remote central locking!!!

Scortho

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I lost the passat in the Dundrum carpark once, just had no idea where I left it. Found it after about 30 mins :o Thank god for remote central locking!!!

Gf asked me to go to the polo to drop of bags one day two years ago, half an hour later I get a phone call wondering where the feck had I gone too?
Turns out I was on the wrong floor of the car park looking for the car! :pac:

Interslice

Passed some braindead muppet on the M6, halfway to athlone from the toll bridge, doing 5-10mph in the left lane with his hazards on. Because of the bend in the road I thought he was in the hard shoulder until my lights hit the cats eyes and I was about 100m away. Think it was an Audi A4/A6 estate.

CianRyan

Interslice wrote: »

Passed some braindead muppet on the M6, halfway to athlone from the toll bridge, doing 5-10mph in the left lane with his hazards on. Because of the bend in the road I thought he was in the hard shoulder until my lights hit the cats eyes and I was about 100m away. Think it was an Audi A4/A6 estate.

Few pints after work... Don't want to pay for a hotel for the night so I'll just drive home with the hazards on.
I'm sick if seeing obviously drunk people on the road, it seems really bad this year.

Interslice

CianRyan wrote: »

Few pints after work... Don't want to pay for a hotel for the night so I'll just drive home with the hazards on.
I'm sick if seeing obviously drunk people on the road, it seems really bad this year.

Might has well of been stopped there, just crawling along. They were around a bend at the bottom of a long hill and had there left indicator as an ambulance passed them, then they put there hazards on so I really expected them to be in the hard shoulder. Not sure if they were drunk or had a problem with the car or what.

dgt

CianRyan wrote: »

Few pints after work...

Ahhhh the best way to forget about miserable f*cks :D:D

YbFocus

Was up planespotting last night ( yes I'm a sad sad guy ) and a guy in a mk1 focus went to pull in. He did that and proceeded to reverse back without looking and slapped into the car beside me!
Never witnessed anything like that before, your man let him go saying there was no damage but I can't understand how when he literally moved the other guys car sideways!

Anyway I left my lights on from that point on

pred racer

YbFocus wrote: »

Was up planespotting last night ( yes I'm a sad sad guy ) and a guy in a mk1 focus went to pull in. He did that and proceeded to reverse back without looking and slapped into the car beside me!
Never witnessed anything like that before, your man let him go saying there was no damage but I can't understand how when he literally moved the other guys car sideways!

Anyway I left my lights on from that point on

Taking photos in the dark again

YbFocus

pred racer wrote: »

Taking photos in the dark again

I just gave that up

Supergurrier

Why is it always after my sunday morning car wash i find a big nasty screw in one of my tyres every 2-3 months w/o fail thats 3rd time on the 2 back tyres in under 8 months

Atleast it's holding at 20-25psi, a job for tomorrow

Chris_Heilong

Supergurrier wrote: »

Why is it always after my sunday morning car wash i find a big nasty screw in one of my tyres every 2-3 months w/o fail thats 3rd time on the 2 back tyres in under 8 months

Atleast it's holding at 20-25psi, a job for tomorrow

Maybe you just live near a screw factory.

Supergurrier

Careful out there folks sleet snow icy patches of slush and lightning in galway.

Cleveland Hot Pocket

Supergurrier wrote: »

Careful out there folks sleet snow icy patches of slush and lightning in galway.

perfect truck driftin' weather :P

CianRyan

Cleveland Hot Pocket wrote: »

perfect truck driftin' weather :P

To the pigeon house!

YbFocus

I'm up the slieve blooms allowing the e60 to stretch it's legs great weather!

CianRyan

Even my Dad's Megane I getting it's tail out these days.
My girlfriend was curious why I was so open to going to the shops for her... Big open carpark. :pac:

YbFocus

CianRyan wrote: »

Even my Dad's Megane I getting it's tail out these days.
My girlfriend was curious why I was so open to going to the shops for her... Big open carpark. :pac:

Mine was "I'm just going up the mountain to see if there's much snow"

ba_barabus

Wheel spin in 3rd gear in the Vectra. POWERRRRRRRRR

Mycroft H

Still some dodgy roads out there. Tipping along out in the Discovery and a touch of the brakes resulted in the ABS kicking straight in. Still some slush about.

dgt

Supergurrier wrote: »

Careful out there folks sleet snow icy patches of slush and lightning in galway.

Shnowin heavily out heyor in boggerville

I'm leaving my haus at 4 to go to work

I start at 6

Have many backroads with wide crossroads to encounter

And in a manual E39

ba_barabus

I've to drive from newry to Meath to South Dublin to Kilkenny to Thurles and finally to Nenagh tomorrow.

This could be fun*

Chris_Heilong

dgt wrote: »

Shnowin heavily out heyor in boggerville

I'm leaving my haus at 4 to go to work

I start at 6

Have many backroads with wide crossroads to encounter

And in a manual E39

With no ABS?

dgt

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

With no ABS?

It decided to work again :rolleyes:

Don't need abs anyway, have done without it for years