********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********

Foxhole Norman

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

If I had known before hand I would have hit Limerick on my way back from Kerry :pac:

And I'll be in Kerry tomorrow night!

Foxhole Norman

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

And I'll be in Kerry tomorrow night!

Feck sake!

Special Circumstances

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Feck sake!

I got that socket recently in halfords. Worked fine. Dunno what people would be doing with them to round them.

Special Circumstances

Special Circumstances wrote: »

I got that socket recently in halfords. Worked fine. Dunno what people would be doing with them to round them.

Used adjustables/pipe grips/vice grips etc. Anything that can grip something. Done it myself plenty of times

challengemaster

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

If I had known before hand I would have hit Limerick on my way back from Kerry :pac:

At least you copped while all your oil was still in the engine :pac:

Thankfully we've a few cars at the house!

Dartz

The Ressession is over. Joe Duffy Mazda offered me a new Mazda 3 for about 230 a month. I'm almost tempted.

Foxhole Norman

challengemaster wrote: »

At least you copped while all your oil was still in the engine :pac:

Thankfully we've a few cars at the house!

Only finished it half an hour ago, managed to pick up an adjustable spanner off my brothers buddy which sorted us. All running well now!

GvidoR

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

About to do the oil change on the E39 and of course I don't have a 36mm socket or strap wrench. Woe is me :pac:

Just take some sandpaper. It will give you plenty of grip and you'll be able to unscrew the filter easily.

Foxhole Norman

GvidoR wrote: »

Just take some sandpaper. It will give you plenty of grip and you'll be able to unscrew the filter easily.

Tis all sorted now, I'll have a tool for it in the future!

GvidoR

GvidoR wrote: »

Just take some sandpaper. It will give you plenty of grip and you'll be able to unscrew the filter easily.

You mentioned your sandpaper method to one of us not so long ago (CianRyan maybe). I've passed it on to two of my friends since (never tried it myself) and all positive results. You sir are a genius.

GvidoR

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

You mentioned your sandpaper method to one of us not so long ago (CianRyan maybe). I've passed it on to two of my friends since (never tried it myself) and all positive results. You sir are a genius.

Thank you very much sir, and yes it was indeed CianRyan.


In other news, I saw the adverts car valuation tool so I decided to give a try and see what my Astra is worth. It came back with a value of €498, but when I change the "Tax valid" to "No", the value went up to €531. Weird.

Anyways, I'd be happy enough to get €350 for it.

Dord

Its a load of crap, says my Panda is worth almost 9K, which is wayyy too much.

YbFocus

I done it there and it came in at €1295, a fiver off what i paid

€1426 or something. Over double what I paid!

Toyotafanboi

I got €1800, pretty much spot on.

Do what Gvidor did and leave out the tax part and see what ye get. My car is worth €100 more without tax. I think the system is broken.

GvidoR

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Do what Gvidor did and leave out the tax part and see what ye get. My car is worth €100 more without tax. I think the system is broken.

Yeah, that's what I meant. So far, every car I tried was worth more without tax.

GvidoR

GvidoR wrote: »

Yeah, that's what I meant. So far, every car I tried was worth more without tax.

I'd imagine whatever is added on without tax was actually meant to be subtracted.

Eric Cartman

It gave me 20k for the d-max. I will gladly sell it for that if anyones offering

ba_barabus

I had a fun morning

ShaunieVW

Just a heads up, there is a VW show on tomorrow in mullingar. Looks like it's going to be a great show!

https://www.facebook.com/events/904708529573360/

GvidoR

ShaunieVW wrote: »

Just a heads up, there is a VW show on tomorrow in mullingar. Looks like it's going to be a great show!

https://www.facebook.com/events/904708529573360/

I'll be there. :P

ShaunieVW

Good stuff! I'll be in a grey a3 8l on s3 wheels. If you see me in it don't be afraid to come over and say hello!

GvidoR

ShaunieVW wrote: »

Good stuff! I'll be in a grey a3 8l on s3 wheels. If you see me in it don't be afraid to come over and say hello!

I know what your car looks like.

Sadly I will be going up there in the Punto, not a VW.

ShadowHearth

Ah, it's so easy to get us petrol heads from bad mood, to good mood.
After Work I was tired as a dog, so went in to local shop to get few things on my way home. When i came out some fella was around my car, looking at it. So I just walked up and opened it.
He imidiatly went: oh, I am so sorry, I was just admiring your car. It is really lovely! Dont these have spoilers out of factory?!
So had a wee chat, showed car around and he really liked it. So here's me going back home in a great mood and like 3 days of pure slavery at work never happened.

challengemaster

ba_barabus wrote: »

I had a fun morning

Nutts corner?

Asmooh

I'm actually thinking of leaving my mx5 in Holland and buy a S40 in Ireland.

GvidoR

Asmooh wrote: »

I'm actually thinking of leaving my mx5 in Holland and buy a S40 in Ireland.

Interesting transition.

Asmooh

GvidoR wrote:

Interesting transition.

Mostly because of the 1700 worth of export/import costs, and the mx5 is more expensive in insurance compare to the S40

CianRyan

Asmooh wrote: »

Mostly because of the 1700 worth of export/import costs, and the mx5 is more expensive in insurance compare to the S40

Drive it back, VRT can't be that expensive on a €1500 car.