Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

tossy

Eoin wrote: »

I might have a look on fleabay/breakers yards and see what's available, but first up is to see can I get new buttons for the centre console. Every single one I looked at had worn buttons - not great quality plastics by the looks of things.

Cruise control is a good retrofit for MPG and motorway cruising.

I just covered the wood trim in my old A4 with faux carbon fibre wrap from Ebay, looked a lot better than the wood trim.

ednwireland

my boring 05 octavia motor, stuck new to me alloys on at the weekend old ones were pretty corroded.



quite chuffed with skoda badges on the centre caps

Ded_Zebra

Here's the new motor :cool::cool:




Wonder if anyone recognizes it……

Ded_Zebra

OSI wrote: »

Rip the engine out and post a picture of the empty engine bay, might recognise it then :P

Looks well. Well wear!

Lol

Cheers. Better than my ****ty oul Primera anyway!:D:D

YbFocus

Wahey nice one deb

Well wear!

Toyotafanboi

Great to see it on the road :-)

MetzgerMeister

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Great to see it on the road :-)

...for now :pac:

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

...for now :pac:

In fairness its more solid looking than most of them

MetzgerMeister

toastedpickles wrote: »

In fairness its more solid looking than most of them

Yeah, the Titanic was incredibly solid looking when it left Belfast and look what happened that :P

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Yeah, the Titanic was incredibly solid looking when it left Belfast and look what happened that :P

Lets not talk about that we didn't build that it was the nordies! :pac: Had it left dublin it'd be a different story :P

Slicemeister

That 166 looks like it's ready to cry.

Ded_Zebra

Slicemeister wrote: »

That 166 looks like it's ready to cry.

Thanks

Big Nasty

Congrats DZ

Sobanek

Forgot to put this up yesterday

Nice 166! Congrats!

Chris_Heilong

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Thanks

About time:D

jprboy

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Here's the new motor :cool::cool:
Wonder if anyone recognizes it……

Nice, well wear.

One suggestion: put the disk holders on the vertical, better visually that way IMO (this applies to all cars).

Ded_Zebra

jprboy wrote: »

Nice, well wear.

One suggestion: put the disk holders on the vertical, better visually that way IMO (this applies to all cars).

Thanks

You mean swap it to be horizontal? Yeah I agree, they look better the "normal" way.

jprboy

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

Thanks

You mean swap it to be horizontal? Yeah I agree, they look better the "normal" way.

Yes !

What was in my head when I posted was "They're vertical, put 'em horizontal"

Frankly my dear

Loved alpha's when I was a young 'un, nice DZ

bear1

Frankly my dear wrote: »

Loved alpha's when I was a young 'un, nice DZ

Males was it?

Toyotafanboi

out on site at hook lighthouse today (and the last few Thursdays). Car ferry is the handiest way there, it's a somewhat unusual experience.

bear1

Finally got some pictures together of our new family bus

Still trying to figure out how to remove that piece of metal in the interior shot

Interslice

bear1 wrote: »

Still trying to figure out how to remove that piece of metal in the interior shot

9 inch grinder :pac:. Looks like you'l have to take the radio out.


Nice motor. 2.2 diesel?

bear1

Interslice wrote: »

9 inch grinder :pac:. Looks like you'l have to take the radio out.


Nice motor. 2.2 diesel?

The seller said the previous owner had a handsfree installed and that that is the remnants of it. So I'm thinking of either leaving it and maybe buy a phone holder or destroy the car so I can get rid of it
Yep the 2.2, 117k on it and no signs of chain or manifold problems (yet) only issue for now is the EML coming on at certain times. Keep forgetting to get the codes read.

bear1

bear1 wrote: »

The seller said the previous owner had a handsfree installed and that that is the remnants of it. So I'm thinking of either leaving it and maybe buy a phone holder or destroy the car so I can get rid of it
Yep the 2.2, 117k on it and no signs of chain or manifold problems (yet) only issue for now is the EML coming on at certain times. Keep forgetting to get the codes read.

Nice car.

At least the previous owner didn't have the dash butchered for the sake of a car kit. Or in my case, twice! :mad:

D16TURBO

Here's my GTI. I have it since March and love it. Probably the cleanest it will be for a while now the weather has changed

Hachiko

Them 2.2 Accords can be troublesome, the 2.4 petrols were very good themselves but tax on them in Ireland like everything over a 1.8 is nuts.

bear1

Hachiko wrote: »

Them 2.2 Accords can be troublesome, the 2.4 petrols were very good themselves but tax on them in Ireland like everything over a 1.8 is nuts.

Can be doesn't mean it will be. If the infamous problems arise then I will take care of them.
I went in with eyes open and I read many many reviews and threads on here about them and decided to go for it anyway.
If I could justify having a 2.4 petrol then I'd have gone for a S Class

Hachiko

the 2.4 petrol is not as bad for economy as people make out, its more frugal than a 1.8 mondeo. on the other hand running costs between that and a S class are worlds apart. Has your Honda a documented service history?, i believe they are fickle on bosch filters etc.

Speaking of economy i can get well over 400 miles on normal driving and onto 500miles on a full tank on my 2.5 lexus on long runs, people need to banish the notion that any car over a 1.8 is a gas guzzler.!

bear1

Hachiko wrote: »

the 2.4 petrol is not as bad for economy as people make out, its more frugal than a 1.8 mondeo. on the other hand running costs between that and a S class are worlds apart. Has your Honda a documented service history?, i believe they are fickle on bosch filters etc.

Speaking of economy i can get well over 400 miles on normal driving and onto 500miles on a full tank on my 2.5 lexus on long runs, people need to banish the notion that any car over a 1.8 is a gas guzzler.!

Way to kill my buzz
It doesn't have a documentated service history no but I'll be doing a full service on it next week so at least I know genuine oil and filters have been used.
My point about the S Class was that if I could afford to drive around in a 2.4 petrol car then I may as well go for a 2.8 or 3.2 S Class. In other words if I ever go back to petrol then it would be a nice big engine.