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

wotzgoingon

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Traveled on a stretch of National road (100km speed limit) this evening from 8:20 to 9:00 and met a grand total of 3 cars. It's great to have the road to yourself!

What road is that? Castlebar to Newport? Westport-Newport?

Noccy_Mondy

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What road is that? Castlebar to Newport? Westport-Newport?

Clifden - Westport. Fastest I ever done it!

Foxhole Norman

Where's the best place to get pressed Irish plates lads?

String

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Where's the best place to get pressed Irish plates lads?

eireplates.com

quadrifoglio verde

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Does a back box like this offer any performance increase or just make the car louder?

No noticeable performance difference, but the right exhaust will make it sound better, the wrong one will make it sound farty

CianRyan

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Does a back box like this offer any performance increase or just make the car louder?

On a naturally asserted car it may cause you to lose power.
Just a back box on anything will do SFA really.

What you planning on sticking it onto?

The more we know, the more we can help.
(And I have a terrible memory for what everyone drives)

Chris_Heilong

CianRyan wrote: »

On a naturally asserted car it may cause you to lose power.
Just a back box on anything will do SFA really.

What you planning on sticking it onto?

The more we know, the more we can help.
(And I have a terrible memory for what everyone drives)

ha, auto correct got you? It should read naturally aspirated.

CianRyan

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

ha, auto correct got you? It should read naturally aspirated.

Balls, yes it did.

YbFocus

So I've been asking around and found that I can get the 530d mapped to adjust the parameters on the turbo's boosting.
This will allowing my slight overboost problem to be fixed and stop the car going into limp the whole time!
Its at for 1.6 bar at the minute and we reckon moving the goalposts will fix the problem, well not fix but tell it that's fine

Dord

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Where's the best place to get pressed Irish plates lads?

+1 on eireplates.com I got a set of pressed plates recently for my car. They look great!

Foxhole Norman

Looks like we have our first problem on the e39, overheating

nd

Be very careful. Don't continue driving it until you know what is the cause. The sister did on her avensis and even a short journey with it overheating blew the head gasket.

Are you low on coolant? If not is it overheating when are stationary or while driving?

Foxhole Norman

nd wrote: »

Be very carefull. Don't continue driving it until you know what is the cause. The sister did on her avensis and even a short journey with it overheating blew the head gasket.

Yup, lucky I was just pulling in to park in college, the previous owner is coming down around 11 to look at it/take it away, was supposed to be going to Dublin in her tomorrow

MetzgerMeister

Previous owner looking at it? That's unheard of!

Foxhole Norman

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Previous owner looking at it? That's unheard of!

He's a mechanic himself with his own place, he specifically told me if there's any problems then get on to him

Right now it's looking like it might need a cooling system overhaul I think.

Sobanek

Told you to replace the thermostat, ya bloody tick!

If that doesn't help, then the head might be gone.

Speaking from experience.

Foxhole Norman

Sobanek wrote: »

Told you to replace the thermostat, ya bloody tick!

If that doesn't help, then the head might be gone.

Speaking from experience.

That was in relation to the 7mpg, which wasn't a thing :pac:

No point replacing the system piece by piece, all or nothing really.

YbFocus

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

No point replacing the system piece by piece, all or nothing really.

But sure if it's only a thermostat there's no need to rip the head man.
Worth a shot rather than skimming heads etc.

goodfin

Hi I hope I'm.posting in the right place here. My car is quit bad on petrol can anyone tell me if its extremely bad pls. With mainly school run driving so plenty of short trips I'm getting 180miles for €60 petrol. And the petrol I'm getting is not an overly priced garag . Thanks

YbFocus

goodfin wrote: »

Hi I hope I'm.posting in the right place here. My car is quit bad on petrol can anyone tell me if its extremely bad pls. With mainly school run driving so plenty of short trips I'm getting 180miles for €60 petrol. And the petrol I'm getting is not an overly priced garag . Thanks

Are you in a town? What car are you driving?

If you're in a town 20mpg (what I calculated) ain't bad.

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

But sure if it's only a thermostat there's no need to rip the head man.
Worth a shot rather than skimming heads etc.

Ah I know, we'll see what he says anyway, I'd say an overhaul is due anyway on it as they tend to need them around 100k miles.

Sobanek

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Ah I know, we'll see what he says anyway, I'd say an overhaul is due anyway on it as they tend to need them around 100k miles.

Mine had its gearbox rebuilt, but nothing done with the cooling system.

Doesn't overheat at 187k miles.

Foxhole Norman

Sobanek wrote: »

Mine had its gearbox rebuilt, but nothing done with the cooling system.

Doesn't overheat at 187k miles.

E39's had famously weak cooling, not sure if it's the same on E46's.

Eric Cartman

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

E39's had famously weak cooling, not sure if it's the same on E46's.

If the rad is good , leave that for now as its an easy one to change. However doing the upper and lower rad hose, thermostat and expansion bottle is recommended. Check to see is there any play in your water pump pulley, shouldnt move at all

Foxhole Norman

Eric Cartman wrote: »

If the rad is good , leave that for now as its an easy one to change. However doing the upper and lower rad hose, thermostat and expansion bottle is recommended. Check to see is there any play in your water pump pulley, shouldnt move at all

The previous owner came a minute ago and found the problem to be a crack on the rad, he's going to replace it with a second hand unit until we sort a new one.

Eric Cartman

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

The previous owner came a minute ago and found the problem to be a crack on the rad, he's going to replace it with a second hand unit until we sort a new one.

I got a nissens one for the e38 and the rolling of the metal over the plastic looks a lot more solid than the behr/bmw one. Get the thermostat and hoses done at the same time and youll be grand.

Foxhole Norman

Eric Cartman wrote: »

I got a nissens one for the e38 and the rolling of the metal over the plastic looks a lot more solid than the behr/bmw one. Get the thermostat and hoses done at the same time and youll be grand.

Yeah, this repair should do for a while and then I can get to revamping the whole system.

wotzgoingon

CianRyan wrote: »

On a naturally asserted car it may cause you to lose power.
Just a back box on anything will do SFA really.

What you planning on sticking it onto?

The more we know, the more we can help.
(And I have a terrible memory for what everyone drives)

I'm thinking of putting it on my Mitsubishi Mirage asti. 1.6 mivec. It is de-catted and also has a cat back exhaust done by souhans. It sounds good now but I see a lot of car's with exhausts similar to the one I showed above, so was just wondering if they have any performance increase.

YbFocus

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I'm thinking of putting it on my Mitsubishi Mirage asti. 1.6 mivec. It is de-catted and also has a cat back exhaust done by souhans. It sounds good now but I see a lot of car's with exhausts similar to the one I showed above, so was just wondering if they have any performance increase.

None absolutely whatsoever.

CianRyan

You're already set up and YB covered the back box issue.