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

I have the local free newspaper opened here in front of me. I think its mad that people still advertise their cars in the classifieds. Its 55c PER WORD. No pics obviously.

Here's an example:

1999 Avensis 4 door, Blue, NCT July 2016. 087 1234567

No price listed. So that's 10 words which would have cost €5.50 to print and would probably be in the paper for 1 week. I'd imagine the person advertising is a middle aged/elderly farmer (stereotypical much?) who thinks the computer box and interweb is the work of the devil but still! There's a 99 Almera here too. Its like a printed bangernomics section :pac:

colm_mcm

Can only find 2 photos of a mondeo convertible online....

Shenanigans?

pred racer

colm_mcm wrote: »

Can only find 2 photos of a mondeo convertible online....

It's a horrible megane type beige colour.

Edit: no shenanigans I asked her to ask him what it was , I thought it was a megane cc

Duke O Smiley

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

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

I had to look this up and I'm impressed! This also popped up in google images. I think toastedpickles should reconsider his plans for the 900.

toastedpickles

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

I had to look this up and I'm impressed! This also popped up in google images. I think toastedpickles should reconsider his plans for the 900.

I've actually seen one of them, they're hilarious, I'd be better off finding hens teeth though, Id find those sooner

job seeker

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

I have the local free newspaper opened here in front of me. I think its mad that people still advertise their cars in the classifieds. Its 55c PER WORD. No pics obviously.

I remember I enquired about a death notice before once after my dear old granny died.

it was a good few years back when I was still a teenager.
walked into the local paper's office, and basically asked if I could put her death in the paper, "certainly" said the secretary, "it's a pound a word" she said.

I only had three pounds on me, so asked her to just write 'Maggie is dead'

She obviously felt a bit sorry for me, as she then looked at me with pity, and told me I could have another three words for free.

Thanks! I said, also write 'Fiesta for sale'

Dartz

Joining the M1 at 120kph around a corner is not the time to meet a stopped car facing the other direction - clearly trying to turn around and go back up the slip-road.



On a related note. Anyone know how to get a slight stain out of leather.

Bpmull

You'd have to wounder about fuel gauges accuracy I know they are not suppose to be bang on but my car has a 55 litre tank in it fine the most I ever put in it was about 52.5 litres and that was driving with the light on from clonmel to kilkenny. Anyway I filled up today the gauge read exactly 3/4 of a tank so quater used or roughly 13.75 litres ish it took 20.18 litres.


So know wounder everyone always says the second half of a tank doesn't last as long probably because it's closer to about 40% of a tank. Either way I can't complain 28 euro covered exactly a week of driving to work, to carlow and back and tipping around too.

toastedpickles

Bpmull wrote: »

You'd have to wounder about fuel gauges accuracy I know they are not suppose to be bang on but my car has a 55 litre tank in it fine the most I ever put in it was about 52.5 litres and that was driving with the light on from clonmel to kilkenny. Anyway I filled up today the gauge read exactly 3/4 of a tank so quater used or roughly 13.75 litres ish it took 20.18 litres.


So know wounder everyone always says the second half of a tank doesn't last as long probably because it's closer to about 40% of a tank. Either way I can't complain 28 euro covered exactly a week of driving to work, to carlow and back and tipping around too.

28 euro? That'd get me to dublin and back :pac:

Bpmull

toastedpickles wrote: »

28 euro? That'd get me to dublin and back :pac:

Well I did 380km to the tank so 50mpg which is not its best but not bad for no long trips on the tank either. I am 21km away from work back roads so it's not really much of a drive.

toastedpickles

I'm twice that from dublin so i suppose

CianRyan

So the ever economical 1.0 Micra, I put €40 in an almost empty tank this time last week and it's back in the red, about 170 miles later.
****ing economy my hole but to be fair, I absolutely rag the yoke.

Bpmull

CianRyan wrote: »

So the ever economical 1.0 Micra, I put €40 in an almost empty tank this time last week and it's back in the red, about 170 miles later.
****ing economy my hole but to be fair, I absolutely rag the yoke.

It that auto though iirc they probably don't have the most economical auto box.

Dord

CianRyan wrote: »

I absolutely rag the yoke.

This.

My Panda is heaps of fun with the right driving, but it comes at a price. I prefer to conserve the fuel most of the time.

Bpmull

Completely unrelated but does anyone actually buy michelin tyres anymore in Ireland. I was walking past a mk2.5 focus today and noticed it had michelin tyres all around but you rarely see them on cars or even hear much about them.

Where as at one time they really were considered to be the sh!t and the tyres to have superior to everything. Maybe I'm wrong though.

dgt

Bpmull wrote: »

You'd have to wounder about fuel gauges accuracy I know they are not suppose to be bang on but my car has a 55 litre tank in it fine the most I ever put in it was about 52.5 litres and that was driving with the light on from clonmel to kilkenny. Anyway I filled up today the gauge read exactly 3/4 of a tank so quater used or roughly 13.75 litres ish it took 20.18 litres.


So know wounder everyone always says the second half of a tank doesn't last as long probably because it's closer to about 40% of a tank. Either way I can't complain 28 euro covered exactly a week of driving to work, to carlow and back and tipping around too.

Jaypers thats a quare bit of spinnin! You runnin on agri?

Bpmull

dgt wrote: »

Jaypers thats a quare bit of spinnin! You runnin on agri?

Not at 1.339 euro per litre anyway :pac: actually fuel is seriously creeping up again in kilkenny anyway

Alanstrainor

CianRyan wrote: »

So the ever economical 1.0 Micra, I put €40 in an almost empty tank this time last week and it's back in the red, about 170 miles later.
****ing economy my hole but to be fair, I absolutely rag the yoke.

Jaysis that's atrocious!

Dartz

CianRyan wrote: »

So the ever economical 1.0 Micra, I put €40 in an almost empty tank this time last week and it's back in the red, about 170 miles later.
****ing economy my hole but to be fair, I absolutely rag the yoke.

That's nuts. I manage to get better than that. I do not drive a car noted for its fuel efficiency.

CianRyan

Well to be fair, I use "L" which just holds 1st most of the time. It's the only way to make the car move. :pac:

dgt

Dartz wrote: »

That's nuts. I manage to get better than that. I do not drive a car noted for its fuel efficiency.

I've meant to ask you, and you specifically.

You weren't on the dunboyne to summerhill road on Wednesday night by any chance, there can't be that many black RX8's in that neck of the woods....

Noccy_Mondy

Anybody happen to know off hand how long phone credit is valid for once it's printed. I have 35 euro left from a 100 voucher for a grocery shop that has to be spent this week. They don't do petrol unfortunately.

toastedpickles

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

Anybody happen to know off hand how long phone credit is valid for once it's printed. I have 35 euro left from a 100 voucher for a grocery shop that has to be spent this week. They don't do petrol unfortunately.

A year from the day you bought it i think!

Noccy_Mondy

toastedpickles wrote:

A year from the day you bought it i think!

Now to remember where I put the voucher

Mycroft H

It's like the Jimny. You've to up to 6,000 in 3rd to overtake anything. Little engine loves to rev.

CianRyan

Mycroft H wrote: »

It's like the Jimny. You've to up to 6,000 in 3rd to overtake anything. Little engine loves to rev.

I had a Jimny for a few days on holidays, such a fun car with a surprisingly great engine.
The Micra... The engine is probably decent but I can't get over how bad the auto CVT gearbox is!

Special Circumstances

Bpmull wrote: »

Completely unrelated but does anyone actually buy michelin tyres anymore in Ireland. I was walking past a mk2.5 focus today and noticed it had michelin tyres all around but you rarely see them on cars or even hear much about them.

Where as at one time they really were considered to be the sh!t and the tyres to have superior to everything. Maybe I'm wrong though.

2 full sets of michelin here. Budget michelin, energy savers, but still 10 times better than the accelera ditchfinders one set replaced.

realdanbreen

Just a question. I see a lot of Volkswagon passats on the road and some have TDI on the back with silver lettering. Others have the 'I' in red and others have the 'DI' in red. ?

Foxhole Norman

realdanbreen wrote: »

Just a question. I see a lot of Volkswagon passats on the road and some have TDI on the back with silver lettering. Others have the 'I' in red and others have the 'DI' in red. ?

They each signify different power levels. I think all Silver is 90, red I is 105, red DI is 130 and red TDI is 150. I think anyway.

realdanbreen

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

They each signify different power levels. I think all Silver is 90, red I is 105, red DI is 130 and red TDI is 150. I think anyway.

I take i that's BHP foxy?