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

dgt

toastedpickles wrote: »

Fbd or carol nash are supposedly good so give em a go!

I will try!

dgt

Bpmull wrote: »

Oh yep you get them alright. It gets difficult to suss out whether someone is actually interested or just ringing for a chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGcE7IvCTs

toastedpickles

dgt wrote: »

I will try!

Good mang!

colm_mcm

What kind of leak is in the jag dgt?

Duke O Smiley

@dgt, I'd recommend carole nash. Axa are my norm but you need a non classic policy with them. When I get the Wolseley on the road I will be going with them. Friend of mine only insured a Mk2 Golf GTI with them recently for buttons

jimgoose

dgt wrote: »

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What kind of Jaaaaag is it, mistah??

dgt

colm_mcm wrote: »

What kind of leak is in the jag dgt?

What I first thought it was, weeping water pump. Thankfully not the pipework I was dreading! Needs a headlight too (reflector bracket on the left headlamp broke allowing it to flop about, bumper off job)

Been the first time in a long time I got to do something with the car and it felt good

jimgoose wrote: »

What kind of Jaaaaag is it, mistah??

This one :cool: Ironically, I can't keep stealing that car in the background whenever my daily driver goes bananas!

jimgoose

dgt wrote: »

...This one :cool: Ironically, I can't keep stealing that car in the background whenever my daily driver goes bananas!

S-Type AJ-V6. Should be built like a brick shat-hoose, mon. She givin' you trouble?

EDIT: Ah, I see you'll be dropping the front-bumper skin. There are four retaining bolts near the radiator, nothing too tricky but IIRC at least one is tricky to reach. A magnetic socket or, failing that, a dab of superglue, is in order. Know ye that there are two more retaining bolts at the side of the car's nose, just forward of the front wheel-arch liners. You can locate them by feel, and I find a 10mm ratchet-spanner is the best way to handle them. Working "backwards" as 'twere can be a little tricky, so don't be like a certain idiot I know <harrumph> who spent fifteen minutes trying thread one of them back in by turning it anti-clockwise.

Also, be careful of the foglamp connector box, there isn't an awful lot of rope spare when pulling the bumper-skin off.

Chris_Heilong

Is that Colms old one?

dgt

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

Is that Colms old one?

It is indeed seeing about getting it ready for the summer :cool:

Which brings me onto todays bit of fun, I saw where one gentleman attempted to lower his bora... By Putting on 195/50r15 tyres.... BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

UnknownSpecies

Cesit for ye lads. Fella I know is looking at buying a UK reg car that's been in Ireland for a while, like more than a year I'd imagine. What's the story with paying VRT on this since it wasn't sold in the UK and obviously the original sale was more than 7 days ago?

Bpmull

It's been a long day of looking at cars I think I test drove 9 cars :pac: but I think this evening I've finally made some progress. I drove an i30 petrol today not to bad drive very pokey for a 1.4. Pity the previous owner abused the sh!t out of it and must of washed it with sand paper. Salesman was like them marks will buff out i was like the paint would still have to be there for them to buff out.

As much as I love cars I hate the part with buying and selling them I just don't like it at all.

Stheno

My Alfa has gone to another Alfa lover so I will be buying something else

quadrifoglio verde

Bpmull wrote: »

It's been a long day of looking at cars I think I test drove 9 cars :pac: but I think this evening I've finally made some progress. I drove an i30 petrol today not to bad drive very pokey for a 1.4. Pity the previous owner abused the sh!t out of it and must of washed it with sand paper. Salesman was like them marks will buff out i was like the paint would still have to be there for them to buff out.

As much as I love cars I hate the part with buying and selling them I just don't like it at all.

The best time to buy is when you dont need to buy. You can take your time until something that you really like comes along.

On a side note I'm somehow in town in rush hour traffic. What the **** was I thinking. :mad:

Bpmull

Stheno wrote: »

My Alfa has gone to another Alfa lover so I will be buying something else

What are you thinking of getting? Also my leg is actually sore after driving the i30 the clutch was like standing on a rock surly they shouldn't be that hard.

Stheno

Bpmull wrote: »

What are you thinking of getting? Also my leg is actually sore after driving the i30 the clutch was like standing on a rock surly they shouldn't be that hard.

I'm thinking of an auto accord

The oh has been saying for months that he wants a newer car so if he upgrades I'll take his current car

Stheno

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

On a side note I'm somehow in town in rush hour traffic. What the **** was I thinking. :mad:

Yuck

Bpmull

Stheno wrote: »

I'm thinking of an auto accord

The oh has been saying for months that he wants a newer car so if he upgrades I'll take his current car

Does he still have the merc that's auto isn't it iirc ?

Stheno

Bpmull wrote: »

Does he still have the merc that's auto isn't it iirc ?

He does

Bpmull

Stheno wrote: »

He does

Nice yoke for cruising around the place Id say

Stheno

Bpmull wrote: »

Nice yoke for cruising around the place Id say

Yep I'd to go to the arsenal end of Cavan yesterday it was very comfy

It returns decent mpg too

Bpmull

Also another car (don't want to give anymore away ) I'm looking at is 2011 would have factory security system alarm immobiliser fine. But it has a Clifford alarm fitted which apparently cost 500 euro. Now it seems well fitted no extra fob all integrated but I don't know is it necessarily a good or bad thing can they cause trouble.

Bpmull

OSI wrote: »

Had it air vents? I hear they can cause trouble.

You think it's bad on here. I have 3 uncles that are mechanics and everytime you ring up to ask them about what a car is like it a no I would touch one absolute piece sh!t that's the response to almost every car you ask them about. The things that were said by them when I mentioned 1.4 and 1.6 golds :pac:

Actually one thing I noticed after driving so many petrols today, this is my first day ever to drive petrol cars on the roads it's sad really but I've only ever driven diesel and they are a bit different although I could drive them fine it's not like I was jerking them or anything but one thing I noticed I naturally do is change gear to quickly in them and they end up bogged down in to high of a gear it's just I'm so used to changing at lower revs for diesels.

toastedpickles

So after the events or horrors of a certain few seeing the state my exhaust on the 900 was in the other night i decided to go do something about it

Go bigger!

I rang the lovely people at souhans about getting a 3" straight pipe with the cat in there today and I'll hear back about a price before friday

How much do you think yerselves? Basically it's coming from a 2.5" turbo elbow, to a 3" pipe, to a cat and 3" all the way out with a tip on the end

Dord

Ohhhmagerdddd! I just saw a KITT replica drive by my apartment! It had the lights on and all.

toastedpickles

Dord wrote: »

Ohhhmagerdddd! I just saw a KITT replica drive by my apartment! It had the lights on and all.

Haha awesome! its a pity he didnt have the music playing :pac:

challengemaster

toastedpickles wrote: »

How much do you think yerselves? Basically it's coming from a 2.5" turbo elbow, to a 3" pipe, to a cat and 3" all the way out with a tip on the end

Tree fiddy?

dgt

jimgoose wrote: »

S-Type AJ-V6. Should be built like a brick shat-hoose, mon. She givin' you trouble?

EDIT: Ah, I see you'll be dropping the front-bumper skin. There are four retaining bolts near the radiator, nothing too tricky but IIRC at least one is tricky to reach. A magnetic socket or, failing that, a dab of superglue, is in order. Know ye that there are two more retaining bolts at the side of the car's nose, just forward of the front wheel-arch liners. You can locate them by feel, and I find a 10mm ratchet-spanner is the best way to handle them. Working "backwards" as 'twere can be a little tricky, so don't be like a certain idiot I know <harrumph> who spent fifteen minutes trying thread one of them back in by turning it anti-clockwise.

Also, be careful of the foglamp connector box, there isn't an awful lot of rope spare when pulling the bumper-skin off.

I shall take that all on board, thank you

Thinking of doing the lot in one swoop, have the belt got anyway. Just the pump, I can source a light handyish

Stheno

toastedpickles wrote: »

So after the events or horrors of a certain few seeing the state my exhaust on the 900 was in the other night i decided to go do something about it

Go bigger!

I rang the lovely people at souhans about getting a 3" straight pipe with the cat in there today and I'll hear back about a price before friday

How much do you think yerselves? Basically it's coming from a 2.5" turbo elbow, to a 3" pipe, to a cat and 3" all the way out with a tip on the end

Couple of hundred?

toastedpickles

Stheno wrote: »

Couple of hundred?

I'm not sure myself