*********Motors Chat - Round 9 *********

wotzgoingon

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Well my front left wheel decided to do a runner while I was driving back from Galway today.

Cue sparks galore.

I'd bet that when it happened you asked yourself "wotzgoingon"

wotzgoingon

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I'd bet that when it happened you asked yourself "wotzgoingon"

Trust me you get some shock when it happens driving along next thing the whole front left side is way down low with lots of noise.

Hope no one was hurt!

wotzgoingon

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Hope no one was hurt!

Good thing it happened on a back road and not when I was on the busy main road with lots of traffic. There was nobody around when it happened so wasn't too bad.

MiskyBoyy

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Well my front left wheel decided to do a runner while I was driving back from Galway today.

Cue sparks galore.

Not a nice experience at all! Happened myself in a Mitsubishi Colt a few years back, it was on a main National road too, front left wheel came off and the car veered across the road luckily came to a stop in the hard shoulder on the other side of the road ha.

Would have been done for if a lorry had of been coming my way, unusually quite that road was too luckily.

I never did find the wheel :P (& some fúcker helped himself to another wheel off the car as I had to leave it overnight until I sorted something out)

FBD sent my renewal. BAHA!

CIP4

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

FBD sent my renewal. BAHA!

I got a quote of them for 2700 this year your man said he could knock 50 euro of if they were close to the cheapest quote I said to him you'd be close if you knocked 1650 euro off. Such sh!t they told me straight out that they lost a fortune last year and had to up premiums this year.

RobTheLad

CIP4 wrote: »

I got a quote of them for 2700 this year your man said he could knock 50 euro of if they were close to the cheapest quote I said to him you'd be close if you knocked 1650 euro off. Such sh!t they told me straight out that they lost a fortune last year and had to up premiums this year.

Funnily enough, FBD were the cheapest for me a few weeks ago when renewing my insurance, by 100 quid too!

GvidoR

FBD wouldn't quote me on my 01 Punto as it was too old. I think someone here said that they only insure 03 and up!?

jimgoose

It just occurred to me that I do not own anything made by Sykes-Pickavant. This upsets me, and must be rectified.

fancy pigeon

jimgoose wrote: »

It just occurred to me that I do not own anything made by Sykes-Pickavant. This upsets me, and must be rectified.

Start with a valve spring compressor, i find our one a joy to use

jimgoose

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Start with a valve spring compressor, i find our one a joy to use

This pleases me so much that a little bit of wee-wee has egressed. :cool:

CIP4

GvidoR wrote: »

FBD wouldn't quote me on my 01 Punto as it was too old. I think someone here said that they only insure 03 and up!?

I was told by 2 insurers that my car was too new for them to insure (as I am 21 I'm sure if I was older it wouldn't be an issue) what the fcuk do they want from us :pac:

Dartz

How did I burn a litre of oil in a week?

At this rate I'll have a full oil change in a month

Special Circumstances

Dan75 wrote: »

Does anyone know if there is any reduction on road tax if the vehicle is run on LPG?

No the greens wanted you to drive a diesel instead.

polan

Dartz wrote: »

How did I burn a litre of oil in a week?

At this rate I'll have a full oil change in a month

BMW N42/N46/M54 engine?

Special Circumstances

polan wrote: »

BMW N42/N46/M54 engine?

Fuppin wankel

Dartz

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Fuppin wankel

Welp. But 1 litre per 300km is unusual.
It's noormally no worse than any other car.

polan

Two words: Engine rebuild :pac:

Dartz

polan wrote: »

Two words: Engine rebuild :pac:

Normally it's the other way around. When it stops using oil, something has gone wrong....

The other way around? Same thing: Rebuild engine :pac:

Noccy_Mondy

Bit of a problem here. Mondeo was left up nearly all week, I got into it this evening and go for a drive. Came out of a blind junction, got onto the road, and a car was coming quick behind me, so I put the shoe down to avoid them having to slow too much (considerate, I know!). Anyway, I put the shoe down, and looked in my rear mirror, I could just about make out the car, a ploom of black smoke separated us. I did it again, and a load of black smoke came out.

Not sure if related, but I think it is - whenever the car is started and driven from cold you can hear a distinct ringing noise, that lasts for about 10 seconds, until today. It was well warmed up, yet this ringing continued whenever you accelerate. Kind of a mix between a ringing noise, and if you hit a spoon or something off a hollow metal bar - if that makes sense? Injector issue was my initial thinking?

CIP4

CIP4 wrote: »

I got a quote of them for 2700 this year your man said he could knock 50 euro of if they were close to the cheapest quote I said to him you'd be close if you knocked 1650 euro off. Such sh!t they told me straight out that they lost a fortune last year and had to up premiums this year.

They'd want to scrape the 1 off my quote for me to consider them. Gowls

Hal1

@Noccy: Maybe it's worn valve springs . They make noises as they wear down. My own will do it too from a cold start cause the oil isn't up to temp.

Dartz

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

The other way around? Same thing: Rebuild engine :pac:

Right so. Anyone wanna buy an RX8?

Full history. Remapped. 1.3 Petrol 4-door.

Starts fine and happy.

( I have 30 quid in the bank...)

Autosport

Driving behind a caddy van this evening and all I got was black smoke something was definitely wrong with it, no matter what gear he was in all I got was black smoke, didn't stay behind him for too long

Toyotafanboi

CV joint clicking like mad in the Astra. 4 months manufacturers warranty remaining, going to try get to an Opel dealer next week. hopefully it's covered, i don't know if the warranted items are reduced after a certain point. only 50k kms on the car.

Ded_Zebra

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

CV joint clicking like mad in the Astra. 4 months manufacturers warranty remaining, going to try get to an Opel dealer next week. hopefully it's covered, i don't know if the warranted items are reduced after a certain point. only 50k kms on the car.

I would be amazed if they didn't cover it. Very very low milage for it to fail, must have been defective from manufacture.

CIP4

Autosport wrote: »

Driving behind a caddy van this evening and all I got was black smoke something was definitely wrong with it, no matter what gear he was in all I got was black smoke, didn't stay behind him for too long

Alot of the time it's down to servicing if you don't service a Diesel engine it will eventually get smokey. Obviously in noccys case that would be it as its all of a sudden it's gotten very bad. I hate driving behind a smokey car or van and it happens a good bit of the time. I wouldn't own anything that was smokey none of my cars have been even when cold I have a thing about it.

Toyotafanboi

Ded_Zebra wrote: »

I would be amazed if they didn't cover it. Very very low milage for it to fail, must have been defective from manufacture.

or from Mrs. fanboi hurtling down country roads :pac: but yeah, very low mileage for a failure like that imo.