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

Noccy_Mondy

CIP4 wrote:

/runs away.

You'd better run away! I did no arts degree thank you very much!!! :P I'd be totally against the whole arts/dip idea. Simply not enough education theory/practice built up.

I'm not gonna disclose my wages, but I can tell you they aren't great. NQT's, which I qualify as, are on a much lower pay scale then the older teachers. I know of some older teachers who are on 60k plus a year, dress in all nice expensive clothes, and buy a new car every year (not on pcp or any finance, straight out of their savings).

I couldn't be further then that. You think if I was earning anywhere near that I'd be driving 7/11 year old cars? Not a fear of it. Max 2/3 year old.

dr.fuzzenstein

It's not all rosy anywhere else. IT and mid 30's. Not me, I'm mid 40's. I wish the situation were reversed.

CIP4

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

You'd better run away! I did no arts degree thank you very much!!! :P I'd be totally against the whole arts/dip idea. Simply not enough education theory/practice built up.

I'm not gonna disclose my wages, but I can tell you they aren't great. NQT's, which I qualify as, are on a much lower pay scale then the older teachers. I know of some older teachers who are on 60k plus a year, dress in all nice expensive clothes, and buy a new car every year (not on pcp or any finance, straight out of their savings).

I couldn't be further then that. You think if I was earning anywhere near that I'd be driving 7/11 year old cars? Not a fear of it. Max 2/3 year old.

Ye I just googled the payscale thing that's as much as I know about it. Ah I know what you mean not massive money but I suppose if you could get something to make money during the 3 months off then you wouldn't be too bad. Infairness 60k euro is not massive money for someone with 25 plus years experience to get to that money. I know I could do a dip after my course and then teach maths and chemistry but it's not something I'd ever have any interest in doing nor would I think I'd be any good at it.

My mother seems to be flat out nominating me for free grinds to anyone she knows so I've ended up doing Lc method, applied maths, physics, Chemistry and business grinds in the last few years and it can be hard going to try to get people to understand the stuff even though I'd know it myself it can be difficult to explain it in a basic enough way.

CIP4

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

It's not all rosy anywhere else. IT and mid 30's. Not me, I'm mid 40's. I wish the situation were reversed.

It has to be about what you like doing too. The graduate programme I was offered / picked to do is easily 10k euro less than the top ones which I could have got if I wanted due to short numbers of graduates to fill the positions. But at the end of the day I'm probably one of the happiest with what I've picked as it's the place I want to work and they genuinely want me there too not just hiring up as many grads as they can. It also has more opportunities for promotions within 2 years due to large amounts of positions becoming vacant and no one to fill them.

People thing I'm mad not aiming for the higher paid one because more money but the one I picked is the one I actually wanted and it's still a lot of money to me.

ba_barabus

colm_mcm wrote: »

You have to factor the dealer network - or lack of.

Aye true but I don't live too far from one!

I've been reading up on it, built on a modified chassis from 10 years . Seems Fiat are going to push it as a budget car

colm_mcm

That's always where they did it best tbh.

Autosport

Is this true?

bear1

I'm not sure tbh, for eg my cruise control switches off automatically if any sort of speed related change happens without my input. What does happen automatically though is if I'm going up a hill with it set on then the car will accelerate to maintain a constant speed.

YbFocus

Well the undriven wheels will react the same, the driven wheels wont speed up but will maintain the speed they are supposed to or switch off totally depending on the cruise system.
It wont just randomly accelerate when it hits water and "take off"...

I doubt its true!

Special Circumstances

Autosport wrote: »

Is this true?

Yes, if your cruise control is a brick on the pedal.. otherwise cc should pick up on sudden unexpected wheel speed like on ice or hydroplaning and disengage afaik.


The real clue that this is Facebook science rather than real world science is the idea that hydroplaning causes your car to soar through the air, literally like a plane.

colm_mcm

Same here. VSC would interrupt it anyway.

bear1

Whilst doing some more research about the Audi I'm hoping to buy, I decided to see how much the same car would cost me in Italy and keep it registered on Italian plates as I have a family home there.
So, if I wanted to buy a car I would need to go with the former owner to an office where a declaration of new ownership is done. This I need to pay for and the cost is based on the KW of the car plus a bunch of other taxes.
I would have to pay over 700e JUST to register the car in my name!! Madness.
Then you are also liable for any back tax of the previous owner so you need to make sure the tax is fully up to date. On the other side though the annual tax bill would be 582e.
You also need to have the insurance done BEFORE when you are transfering the ownership, tad risky imo.
Thank christ we don't need to pay to transfer ownership even though our tax rates are terrible.

Chris_Heilong

Wheeler Dealer finally done a Japanese car right, no stupid paint jobs or mods, they got an S2000 and fixed it up and showed some respect for the car, about time.

Autosport

I was just wondering that's all. It was on a uk police Facebook page.

bear1

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Yes, if your cruise control is a brick on the pedal.. otherwise cc should pick up on sudden unexpected wheel speed like on ice or hydroplaning and disengage afaik.


The real clue that this is Facebook science rather than real world science is the idea that hydroplaning causes your car to soar through the air, literally like a plane.

Unless she is on a bridge with no barriers

Stereomaniac

Ignore the traffic calming signs coming to the bridges between Clonmel and Limerick, then fly.

jimgoose

Autosport wrote: »

Is this true?

Happened a couple of times in America, with old rear-drive saloons with cruise control but no traction control - the front wheels slow when drive traction breaks, and the dumb computer gives it boot. Can't really happen on anything vaguely modern.

Special Circumstances

Autosport wrote: »

I was just wondering that's all. It was on a uk police Facebook page.

Link for the lols. It reads just like every fakey wake "OMG mind blown!" Internet myth ever. Is there just one person coming out with these or do they just all have the same writing style?

Tires rather than tyres suggests US origin, but then spelling means nothing on facebook or donedeal

CIP4

If there is very heavy rain id knock of the cc just I feel I have more control over the car going through surface water on the motorway etc at least you can just lift of the accelerator when cc is off. But as said with the likes of traction control the cc should be able to deal with the surface water. It's just a preference I have really. And it's rare enough as for light rain is leave it on on the motorway I'm a big fan of cc for motorways used to hate not having it I don't think I'd ever buy another car that doesn't have it.

GvidoR

Better off having a car with just the original cruise control - your right foot. :P

Foxhole Norman

:pac::pac::D

YbFocus

Lyk if u creyed evry tym..

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

Lyk if u creyed evry tym..

Hits home hard

Big Nasty

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Link for the lols. It reads just like every fakey wake "OMG mind blown!" Internet myth ever. Is there just one person coming out with these or do they just all have the same writing style?

Tires rather than tyres suggests US origin, but then spelling means nothing on facebook or donedeal

'You'll never guess what happens next'

fancy pigeon

A loud clang was heard yesterday over a speed bump, then the car suddenly got louder.... That was a relatively new souhans exhaust. Burned off the backbox :eek:

Still, all clouds have their silver lining. Car has all its power back, back is completely black with soot and because it's now a straight piped D-Turbo...... COOOOOOOOOO a sound to blow any TDI scrap away

Choke on my smoke Oooooooh yeah :cool: :cool: :cool:

GvidoR

This is a special kind of stupid. Live streaming while driving drunk.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/police-woman-live-streams-herself-while-driving-dr/nnzz8/

Chris_Heilong

^^^What an absolute dope.

bear1

These are the idiots who decide to drive drunk, more than likely crash into an innocent family killing most of them and these ****ing dickheads get out with merely a scratch.
This prick should be sent away for a few years just for her absolute stupidity alone. Banned for life as well.

GvidoR

That's the problem, yeah. If they could only hurt themselves it wouldn't be so bad. It would be just their own risk and consequences, just like going on a roof to take a selfie and then fall from it.

jimgoose

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

...You think if I was earning anywhere near that I'd be driving 7/11 year old cars? Not a fear of it. Max 2/3 year old.

I could fill the yard with new cars in the morning. But for what? Who needs that crap? Too many mind. Sixteen-year-old shítheapery is truly the Tao. :cool: