*******Motors Chat - Round 7*******

People throwing a few quid in the window when you're at traffic lights?


(Speaking of which, yesterday I was stopped in traffic in the 407 and someone that was walking past, tapped the window. I put it down and they looked in and "Fcuking lovely car man! Nice one!" and gave a smile and a thumbs up. Never experienced that before! Needless to say I was smiling from ear to ear.

toastedpickles

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

An Accord would be the polar opposite of a money pit.

I think bear would say other wise

MetzgerMeister

colm_mcm wrote: »

Ratchet spanner might be an idea unless you need an open spanner.

Yep, that's what I was thinking! Dunno if I want to fork out for something I'm only going to be using once though.

colm_mcm

Depends how tight access is.

MetzgerMeister

colm_mcm wrote: »

Depends how tight access is.

Fairly. I can't even get a socket over it because the ratchet is hitting off the exhaust manifold and won't let it go further down if you get me. Once I have the seal broken it's just a matter of screwing it out by hand, screwing in the new one and tightening it up.

Gavman84

toastedpickles wrote: »

I think bear would say other wise

His is a diesel I think but the petrol is about as reliable car as you can get. I only had mine just over a year but it was faultless. Glad I got the St instead mind! :pac:

coolisin

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I installed a new battery yesterday. By feck they didn't make it easy with all the crap that has to be disconnected and moved out of the way!
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I know the e90 much be slightly different but I have to agree never before have I looked at a battery and went nope I need help with this!

Glad I did as the car needed a so programming after that so I had bmstuff on hand to help!!

One simple job turned into a nightmare!

MetzgerMeister

coolisin wrote: »

I know the e90 much be slightly different but I have to agree never before have I looked at a battery and went nope I need help with this!

Glad I did as the car needed a so programming after that so I had bmstuff on hand to help!!

One simple job turned into a nightmare!

It's the exact same thing in the e90/e91/e92/e93 as far as I know.

The car only needs the battery registered if you're upgrading from the white battery to the black one. I didn't need to do anything like that and all's fine. Even the seatbelt handover arms are working much faster now too!

dgt

Absolutely raging I missed out on these!


Anybody here avail of those bargains? It was in the November edition of Car Mechanics, the miserable fecker clapped on a few extra pence on the price!!! :mad:

Big Nasty

Marcusm wrote: »

That 80 is presumably mph. The one I saw had 50 and 80 stickers.

50mph / 80kmph

No space saver is gonna recommend 80mph.

colm_mcm

Yep, would be 80kmph

dgt

Oh dear, another picture from me

Anyone else having bother with the TIDSTMC(VT) thread?

I'm getting this message

Screenshot from 2015-01-25 21:59:40.png

Dartz

Probably an ad on photobucket, which hosts one of the images. There's a reason I run adblock.


In unrelated news, it was while running at a really silly that I realised I was doing it for the exact same reasons that I used to snack so much during the day, and that maybe depressions and performance cars are things that probably shouldn't mix. I didn't especially want to go that fast, but i did it anyway because it was just..... stimulating. Even if that stimulation was a puckered sphincter....

So the car's been sitting parked for a week because I'm afraid I'll do something stupid in it.

Maybe this is the sort of thing that goes beyond chat.

ba_barabus

Dartz wrote: »

Probably an ad on photobucket, which hosts one of the images. There's a reason I run adblock.


In unrelated news, it was while running at a really silly that I realised I was doing it for the exact same reasons that I used to snack so much during the day, and that maybe depressions and performance cars are things that probably shouldn't mix. I didn't especially want to go that fast, but i did it anyway because it was just..... stimulating. Even if that stimulation was a puckered sphincter....

So the car's been sitting parked for a week because I'm afraid I'll do something stupid in it.

Maybe this is the sort of thing that goes beyond chat.

Huh?

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong but you're saying you are depressed and you drove fast and found it exhilarating and now you're afraid to drive again in case you find driving fast exhilarating and have an accident?

Relax, most people find it stimulating.

dgt

Dartz wrote: »

Probably an ad on photobucket, which hosts one of the images. There's a reason I run adblock.

If you looked carefully, you'd see adblock running. Top right, under my name. Have a look

YbFocus

ba_barabus wrote: »

Huh?

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong but you're saying you are depressed and you drove fast and found it exhilarating and now you're afraid to drive again in case you find driving fast exhilarating and have an accident?

Relax, most people find it stimulating.

No its just the Dartz weekly Sunday night post nobody can understand!
Nobody can ever doggie them out and he's gone for the week before he can say what he's on about!
Just accept it BA

Dartz

ba_barabus wrote: »

Huh?

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong but you're saying you are depressed and you drove fast and found it exhilarating and now you're afraid to drive again in case you find driving fast exhilarating and have an accident?

Relax, most people find it stimulating.

Maybe I'm just a worry wort. It's not just about having an accident.

dgt wrote: »

If you looked carefully, you'd see adblock running. Top right, under my name. Have a look

Won't make a difference. It's google that's flagged the site for malware, the browser that's reading that flag. And google will flag for malware served by advertisements.

YbFocus wrote: »

No its just the Dartz weekly Sunday night post nobody can understand!
Nobody can ever doggie them out and he's gone for the week before he can say what he's on about!
Just accept it BA

Last week was Saturday. And it's usually right before I go to bed. So by the time I wake up, the topic's moved on elsewhere, especially if I'm in work, so it'd be disruptive.

dgt

Dartz wrote: »

Probably an ad on photobucket, which hosts one of the images. There's a reason I run adblock.

Dartz wrote: »

Won't make a difference. It's google that's flagged the site for malware, the browser that's reading that flag. And google will flag for malware served by advertisements.

One completely contradicts the other

Dartz

dgt wrote: »

One completely contradicts the other

Not really.

Google spiders the site on it's own when its building its index, along with the advertisements, then sets the flag that it's got malware if one of the ad's tries to serve a virus to google's own bot, or if anything it detect matches known malware.

Your browser reads the flag when you try to go there since Firefox uses google's list. Whether you block ad's or scripts makes no difference.....

dgt

Dartz wrote: »

Not really.

Google spiders the site on it's own when its building its index, along with the advertisements, then sets the flag that it's got malware if one of the ad's tries to serve a virus to google's own bot, or if anything it detect matches known malware.

Your browser reads the flag when you try to go there since Firefox uses google's list. Whether you block ad's or scripts makes no difference.....

I'm using chromium

I'll get around it anyway

Noccy_Mondy

Oh on incognito mode are we dgt huh :pac:

dgt

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Oh on incognito mode are we dgt huh :pac:

I'm not all there and I'm not all here

Hal1

Ah a regular scan with malware bytes be grand .

Noccy_Mondy

Me focus is saturated inside. Seemingly there was a pipe leaking at the back window washer for some time, as the boot carpet is wet. The water then travelled forward under the back seats, which have mould in one part and came to settle in the rear 2 footwells. Don't know how I didn't notice it before now! Anyway I tackled the source of the leak and put the pipe back together. A lot of the carpets inside are out drying, and I took a hair dryer to the rear footwells, which will take a good bit more drying!

Noccy_Mondy

Can't be worse then the neighbours car which I tackled yesterday. Gave it a good clean outside, and hoover inside. The boot was where the trouble was. He's been recently been storing nuts in there because of a mouse problem in his shed. Ironically when I went to clean it, there was spilt nuts all over the boot, mould growing, and yes, mouse droppings! Quite disgusting. They obviously are getting in and out somewhere, and I pointed out how they could cause major wiring damage. Not only that but in the footwell, the spare wheel was partially submerged in about 6 inches of dirty stale water which I drained out. This is coming in the boot door, due to a botched repair job last year, the door is misaligned and so rain can get in.... I love my Saturdays off.

Bpmull

Going up the motorway this morning a car was coming up behind me and the headlights looked properly purple in the side mirrors and centre mirror I figured it was some car the was retrofitted with these coloured bulbs. It passed me 151 mondeo. They were led dipped lights but I've never seen a car where they looked that colour when behind you. It's probably the first and last one ill see I'm fairly sure the paddy spec one won't have dipped led lights.

Chris_Heilong

Strange, someone is sitting in their car in the middle of the road with their lights off, they have been this way for 10 minutes so far.

colm_mcm

Go out, walk across the road, note the reg number, that CCTV isn't worth a shoite if you want to catch them after doing something

quadrifoglio verde

Nothing better than to come home from a hard day of work and find you shocks have arrived from Germany

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Chris_Heilong

colm_mcm wrote: »

Go out, walk across the road, note the reg number, that CCTV isn't worth a shoite if you want to catch them after doing something

I am not worried, They found somewhere to park after a car came the other way, I think someone had taken their usual parking spot and they are waiting for them to come out or some thing. I just thought it strange.