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

Old diesel

Whats frustrating is when NON car enthusiasts have enough space out the back to fit a Scania artic into - for ONE car.

Lifes not fair lol.

Just back from a local car boot sale. Gone are the days when they had some decent tools for sale Got good quality axle stands there once.

Although if you're after a single shock from a VW Vento, 3 Toyota hubcaps, a Daniel O Donnell VHS and a few hens its the place to be

Duke O Smiley

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Just back from a local car boot sale. Gone are the days when they had some decent tools for sale Got good quality axle stands there once.

Although if you're after a single shock from a VW Vento, 3 Toyota hubcaps, a Daniel O Donnell VHS and a few hens its the place to be

Theres a fairly decnet one out by my way, got a good trolley jack and ratchet spanner set there last week for mad cheap

People would sell you their granny at those yokes though

pred racer

Old diesel wrote: »

Whats frustrating is when NON car enthusiasts have enough space out the back to fit a Scania artic into - for ONE car.

Lifes not fair lol.

I've enough room for eleventy million cars.........and no money:(

Duke O Smiley

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Theres a fairly decnet one out by my way, got a good trolley jack and ratchet spanner set there last week for mad cheap

People would sell you their granny at those yokes though

Its probably like the Saturday market in Limerick. You can get anything you want there. Anything!

pred racer

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Its probably like the Saturday market in Limerick. You can get anything you want there. Anything!

I used to go to that, its brilliant!

pred racer

pred racer wrote: »

I used to go to that, its brilliant!

When I was working on sites, the site boxes used to get broken into and cleaned out regularly. The boss man of the company used to go down to the market of a Saturday to get his tools back. They ended up there 90% of the time.

It is a great market though. Love going for a wonder around on a nice Saturday morning.

Cantona's Collars

This is interesting,drivers not getting enough fluids are making the same mistakes on the road as drink drivers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11547199/Not-drinking-enough-water-has-same-effect-as-drink-driving.html

Having as few as five sips of water an hour while driving is equivalent to being over the drink drive limit.

Drivers make more than twice as many mistakes when they are just mildly dehydrated, according to new research.

The study revealed that drivers who had only had 25ml of water an hour made more than double the number of mistakes on the road than those who were hydrated - the same amount as those who have been drink driving.

Professor Ron Maughan, Emeritus Professor of Sport and Exercise Nutrition, who led the study at Loughborough University, said: "We all deplore drink driving, but we don't usually think about the effects of other things that affect our driving skills, and one of those is not drinking and dehydration.

colm_mcm

Looks like nonsense, you can be properly hydrated for a period without drinking water during that period.

Foxhole Norman

Just had some auld lads in work admiring my car, reminiscing on the day when they had one :pac:

Gavman84

Went to Ballycotton today for spin was lovely there. Any excuse for a spin really!:pac:

challengemaster

They found that a two per cent drop in weight due to insufficient hydration can impair mental functioning and the researchers say these changes in mood and cognition help to explain the drop in performance they found.

A 2% drop in body weight due to water loss in a 75kg person is around 1.5kg of water loss. F1 drivers lose ~3kg over the course of a race. That's not normal circumstances.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938415002358

Eleven healthy males (age 22 ± 4 y) were instructed to consume a volume of fluid in line with published guidelines (HYD trial) or 25% of this intake (FR trial) in a crossover manner. Participants came to the laboratory the following morning after an overnight fast. One hour following a standard breakfast, a 120 min driving simulation task began. Driver errors, including instances of lane drifting or late breaking, EEG and heart rate were recorded throughout the driving task

toastedpickles

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Just had some auld lads in work admiring my car, reminiscing on the day when they had one :pac:

I'm getting an awful lot of that lately too and handshakes for driving "a proper car"

that's questionable i think

Foxhole Norman

toastedpickles wrote: »

I'm getting an awful lot of that lately too and handshakes for driving "a proper car"

that's questionable i think

If only it was fast :pac::pac::pac:

toastedpickles

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

If only it was fast :pac::pac::pac:

Hur hur :P

toastedpickles

Here, any fancy for a meet anytime soon at all?

Foxhole Norman

I can do any Saturday as I have those all off, will need prior notice for a Sunday one. Pretty much any day/month suits me anyway.

Supergurrier

Down for whateva

xoxo

Bpmull

Anyone go to the durrow vintage show today I was there a few years ago and it was very good. I was in work till 7pm so couldn't go but it was suppose to be very busy this year.

toastedpickles

Supergurrier wrote: »

Down for whateva

xoxo

k hun

exohexoh

Supergurrier

Supergurrier wrote: »

Down for whateva

xoxo

toastedpickles wrote: »

k hun

exohexoh

Duke O Smiley

Bpmull wrote: »

Anyone go to the durrow vintage show today I was there a few years ago and it was very good. I was in work till 7pm so couldn't go but it was suppose to be very busy this year.

Bloody gutted I missed it, forgot it was this weekend, some serious good turn out this year including a 1914 Napier 35 hp truck :cool:

Bpmull

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Bloody gutted I missed it, forgot it was this weekend, some serious good turn out this year including a 1914 Napier 35 hp truck :cool:

I was kind of disappointed when they said it was on today in work. For some reason I thought it was on in July and I was going to go to it. To make it worse I only work 10 mins away from it but figured it was pointless going over at 7pm as it would be over. I suppose there is always next year.

pred racer

I just found out my friends father has a convertible mondeo:eek:
I didn't even know such a thing existed!!

Duke O Smiley

pred racer wrote: »

I just found out my friends father has a convertible mondeo:eek:
I didn't even know such a thing existed!!

Ehhh

I demand pics!

Tbh when I saw that the Mk1 Clio camper exists I now just accept it that any car can have any bodystyle

Supergurrier

pred racer

That's the one SG

Only it being a ford, the roof doesn't work anymore :P


Edit. So at the moment it's a coupe!

colm_mcm

That's not that bad to be fair.

MuppetCheck

Never knew they existed. That's actually alright.

colm_mcm

Better than