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

Foxhole Norman

Lads, visual retests, can you just show up and ask them to check it or do you have to book ahead? Yaris failed on visual items on Saturday.

Supergurrier

Just show up. Can do in any test centre

From my reading of it online.. it's supposed to be a dire, soul-destroying, thirstier-than-thirsty, painfully sluggish contraption that takes years off your life...


But I'm itching to ring this chap!!


http://www.donedeal.ie/commercials-for-sale/pajero-sport-warrior/9004968?offset=21

Noccy_Mondy

Thirsty, hell yeah. Father has the 2.8 engine, never seen a fuel pin drop as fast in all my life.

EmptyTree

Just want to throw out a quick (possibly stupid) question; am shopping around for a car at the moment (2nd hand type) this evening I called into a garage just for a look around the forecourt and I noticed all the cars had registrations that displayed the year, where the car was registered and a made up number e.g. 12-D-123, 09-L-123 etc I then noticed that all the cars had the tax discs and nct discs removed. I hadn't seen this been done in any other garages before. Is this normal practice? What's the reason behind it?

Noccy_Mondy

That's because all them cars are more than likely imports that aren't registered yet. Dealers just stick on demo plates to tell the customer what year the car is. Nothing on the windows either, because they haven't been taxed yet/had their first NCT here.

Duke O Smiley

EmptyTree wrote: »

Just want to throw out a quick (possibly stupid) question; am shopping around for a car at the moment (2nd hand type) this evening I called into a garage just for a look around the forecourt and I noticed all the cars had registrations that displayed the year, where the car was registered and a made up number e.g. 12-D-123, 09-L-123 etc I then noticed that all the cars had the tax discs and nct discs removed. I hadn't seen this been done in any other garages before. Is this normal practice? What's the reason behind it?

If I were to have an educated guess - the cars are imports not yet registered and the dealer has some Irish-looking plates made up and stuck on, as they'll look better than Uk plates, and being imports they won't yet have discs.

Noccy_Mondy

Snap :P

colm_mcm

Deleted User wrote: »

From my reading of it online.. it's supposed to be a dire, soul-destroying, thirstier-than-thirsty, painfully sluggish contraption that takes years off your life...


But I'm itching to ring this chap!!


http://www.donedeal.ie/commercials-for-sale/pajero-sport-warrior/9004968?offset=21

No redeeming features whatsoever.

Duke O Smiley

Deleted User wrote: »

From my reading of it online.. it's supposed to be a dire, soul-destroying, thirstier-than-thirsty, painfully sluggish contraption that takes years off your life...


But I'm itching to ring this chap!!


http://www.donedeal.ie/commercials-for-sale/pajero-sport-warrior/9004968?offset=21

Interested in getting into the tarmacadam contracting trade?

Big Nasty

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Interested in getting into the tarmacadam contracting trade?

Or 'Highway Maintenance'

Old diesel

EmptyTree wrote: »

Just want to throw out a quick (possibly stupid) question; am shopping around for a car at the moment (2nd hand type) this evening I called into a garage just for a look around the forecourt and I noticed all the cars had registrations that displayed the year, where the car was registered and a made up number e.g. 12-D-123, 09-L-123 etc I then noticed that all the cars had the tax discs and nct discs removed. I hadn't seen this been done in any other garages before. Is this normal practice? What's the reason behind it?

Could be that they are 2nd hand imports - from say the UK - they would only get a new Irish plate when they are registered to an owner - the customer who buys the car from the dealer usually from what I can see.

Theres no issue with the car being a Uk import in itself - once the cars in good order and all legit - some will be scared off by a Uk import - I wouldn't - just get the car checked out like ANY OTHER 2nd hand car.

Simonigs1.0

"Mr H your upgrade is waiting for you in the pick up bay"

Was supposed to get an Xf and ended up with this, seriously nice yoke for a 3.0d

Old diesel

A/C may not strictly speaking be a necessity in Ireland.

But by god - its nice to have.

Foxhole Norman

All this talk of A/C, I must get mine inspected and regased.

ShaunieVW

Mine is cold but no info in my SH about it being regassed and the car is 14 years old, I should probably get it done! Anywhere in Westmeath? Mullingar preferably do it? I'm out in the sticks so could easily go to trim or navan but it means crossing the border and onto Meaths ****e roads.

Noccy_Mondy

Neighbours car broke down on the side of the road on Sunday. I was passing today and this greeted me. Scum, utter scum. Nothing taken, nothing in it to take mind.
Even though it's not my car and it probably won't go back on the road again I was still livid.
There are such degenerates out there!

Duke O Smiley

Said it before and I'll say it again, theft of someone's car needs to be bumped up to capital punishment. There is literally nothing scummier

jimgoose

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

All this talk of A/C, I must get mine inspected and regased.

Well worth it. I leave the climate control on automatic, which runs the aircon most of the time. When I got the car in 2006, guess what, the A/C was furked because the guy who bought the thing new decided to save de peteral by leaving it off. Naturally the refrigerant perished part of the plumbing and pissed out. I've seen it a hundred times, it's the most expensive cost-saving ever! :pac:

Alanstrainor

jimgoose wrote: »

Well worth it. I leave the climate control on automatic, which runs the aircon most of the time. When I got the car in 2006, guess what, the A/C was furked because the guy who bought the thing new decided to save de peteral by leaving it off. Naturally the refrigerant perished part of the plumbing and pissed out. I've seen it a hundred times, it's the most expensive cost-saving ever! :pac:

Interesting...i tend not to use mine that often either...

jimgoose

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Interesting...i tend not to use mine that often either...

It would be well worth giving it a gallop for a half-hour once a week or so.

Alanstrainor

jimgoose wrote: »

It would be well worth giving it a gallop for a half-hour once a week or so.

Any benefit to getting it regassed if it seems to be working well? Sure I tend not to drive mine until the weekends anyway, so I may as well leave it on the whole time. I wonder what real impact it has on fuel consumption.

jimgoose

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Any benefit to getting it regassed if it seems to be working well? Sure I tend not to drive mine until the weekends anyway, so I may as well leave it on the whole time. I wonder what real impact it has on fuel consumption.

I'd leave well enough alone, to be perfectly straight with you. It doesn't make much difference to fuel consumption on big engines, anyway.

mhackett102

jimgoose wrote: »

I'd leave well enough alone, to be perfectly straight with you. It doesn't make much difference to fuel consumption on big engines, anyway.

We leave it on the whole time on the Mondeo anyways. We had it turned off for one week to see would it have an effect on the fuel, but we didnt notice any.
(Bare in mind, there are 4 of us insured on the Mondeo and we all undergo various driving styles!)

colm_mcm

colm_mcm wrote: »

No redeeming features whatsoever.

But look how tall it is :eek::D

pred racer

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Any benefit to getting it regassed if it seems to be working well? Sure I tend not to drive mine until the weekends anyway, so I may as well leave it on the whole time. I wonder what real impact it has on fuel consumption.

Mine is on pretty much all the time (climate control) I tried switching it off for a couple of weeks and I couldn't see any difference.

Edit: if it's working well it doesn't need regassing!

Dord

Dord wrote: »

My little Panda is going in for it's first NCT tomorrow.

Passed!

I tend not to use air con except for higher speeds but I certainly don't avoid it entirely. Twas great yesterday though, the car was boiling inside when I got in.

Duke O Smiley

They haven't made a Nissan Juke van and called it the Nissan Juke Box?

Supergurrier

Went down to Kinvarra for a shpin. Some day out there.

MuppetCheck

Spent the afternoon car shopping and after each car I'm happier in my own leaving the lot:mad: