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

Mycroft H

morritty wrote: »

That B*starding train strike, an hour and a half to get from Phibsboro to the IFSC

On yer bike!

beertons

I think the traffic is fairly light today tbh. Flew up to Ballymun, over to cabra, now in chapelizod. I won't hit bad traffic till I'm trying to get into Maynooth, as per usual.

morritty

Special Circumstances wrote: »

Come to Limerick, nobody else wants to so the traffic isn't bad at all!

Tis a bit far to just not be in traffic....

Mycroft H wrote: »

On yer bike!

Never!! Horsepower, not Legpower :pac:

beertons wrote: »

I think the traffic is fairly light today tbh. Flew up to Ballymun, over to cabra, now in chapelizod. I won't hit bad traffic till I'm trying to get into Maynooth, as per usual.

In fairness its always fine when you're heading away from town in the morning.

ba_barabus

beertons wrote: »

I think the traffic is fairly light today tbh. Flew up to Ballymun, over to cabra, now in chapelizod. I won't hit bad traffic till I'm trying to get into Maynooth, as per usual.

I drove today and found the traffic lighter tahn usual. Naturally every news station was predicting Armageddon.

beertons

ba_barabus wrote: »

I drove today and found the traffic lighter tahn usual. Naturally every news station was predicting Armageddon.

Judging by the facebook feed, it seems a lot of people took today off work to dress up their kids for school and take loads of photo's of them.

ba_barabus

beertons wrote: »

Judging by the facebook feed, it seems a lot of people took today off work to dress up their kids for school and take loads of photo's of them.

Great, I'm already looking forward to pictures of my friends dinners tonight on facebook. I'm also hoping someone has an inciteful thought about halloween that makes me think. The EXCITMENT is unbearable

Interslice

Feckin front drivers side shock snapped in half. The shock and spring assembly were the only front suspension bits left from the original car. Have had no camera through all of this episode, my phone is off getting fixed so running an old non camera nokia atm. I'll have a look for something to get a pic of this shock. Mad looking. Jacked up the wheel and everything looked normal, thought I might have done something stupid like not tightened a ball joint. A few minutes of head scratching later there was a pop and a smell of hydraulic oil pissing out of the shock.

Skylinehead

I love my commute. Glasnevin - fly up the River Road (best road in North Dublin, at least inside the M50), quick run up the N3 to Damastown and I'm in work within 20 minutes.

morritty

Skylinehead wrote: »

I love my commute. Glasnevin - fly up the River Road (best road in North Dublin, at least inside the M50), quick run up the N3 to Damastown and I'm in work within 20 minutes.

I used to hate the River Road before they stuck the ramps, just gob****es in 1.4 fartcan civics racing up and down it

GvidoR

morritty wrote: »

That B*starding train strike, an hour and a half to get from Phibsboro to the IFSC

That's what cars are for. :pac:

TBH, can't really get anywhere with a train anyway.

jimgoose

Skylinehead wrote: »

I love my commute. Glasnevin - fly up the River Road (best road in North Dublin, at least inside the M50), quick run up the N3 to Damastown and I'm in work within 20 minutes.

Mine takes about twelve minutes, each way, mostly on a HQDC that skirts the entire Southside of the city and goes right over most of the awkward bits, with a ramp right into the suburb/village I live in. It's like they built the whole thing just for me!

morritty

GvidoR wrote: »

That's what cars are for. :pac:

TBH, can't really get anywhere with a train anyway.

I fully agree, but i enjoy trains, they cause less traffic.

dr.fuzzenstein

ba_barabus wrote: »

Great, I'm already looking forward to pictures of my friends dinners tonight on facebook. I'm also hoping someone has an inciteful thought about halloween that makes me think. The EXCITMENT is unbearable

Careful, you don't want to get done for incetement to Halloween.

Skylinehead

morritty wrote: »

I used to hate the River Road before they stuck the ramps, just gob****es in 1.4 fartcan civics racing up and down it

Ramps are only in the Ashtown bit where there's apartments.

Coincidentally, I might have a 1.4 civic :pac:

dr.fuzzenstein

jimgoose wrote: »

Mine takes about twelve minutes, each way, mostly on a HQDC that skirts the entire Southside of the city and goes right over most of the awkward bits, with a ramp right into the suburb/village I live in. It's like they built the whole thing just for me!

When I drive home, the motorway segment is timed almost to the second for Autobahn. Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn!

jimgoose

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

When I drive home, the motorway segment is timed almost to the second for Autobahn. Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn!

If only a Mercedes-Benz S500 could sing. Au... to... baaaaahhn...

ba_barabus

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Careful, you don't want to get done for incetement to Halloween.

:D

MetzgerMeister

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

When I drive home, the motorway segment is timed almost to the second for Autobahn. Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn!

Tscher.....no......byl.......

Mycroft H

jimgoose wrote: »

If only a Mercedes-Benz S500 could sing. Au... to... baaaaahhn...

Used to time starting the car with song.

Interslice

over 2 hours to get that hoors abortion of a yolk out. Just glad to be done all fingers intact :pac:. Had to cut the shock in half in the end.

dr.fuzzenstein

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

You'll be grateful for the motorway then, imagine doing that without it.

Won't be using it much after next week. Think of every train station in Munster (except Cork) and the roads between em. That's where I'll be driving everyday. Still vanless because it has a cracked window. Will be a luas wanker till next Wednesday

Mycroft H

Got two new Hankook Optimo 4 Seasons. Not a bad price; 100 each.

They're a lot quiter than the contis on before it and not too soon with the rain coming the weekend.

Next job is to get the timing belt sorted.

Car is almost winter ready however, I'll get the two rears next week after I get paid.

Special Circumstances

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Won't be using it much after next week. Think of every train station in Munster (except Cork) and the roads between em. That's where I'll be driving everyday. Still vanless because it has a cracked window. Will be a luas wanker till next Wednesday

You're gonna use roads to go between train stations? Jesus, buy into the thing or don't like...

morritty

Skylinehead wrote: »

Ramps are only in the Ashtown bit where there's apartments.

Coincidentally, I might have a 1.4 civic :pac:

Ah i meant, further down, along side the Tolka Pitch and Putt course.

oh...and eh whoops,

Special Circumstances

Special Circumstances wrote: »

You're gonna use roads to go between train stations? Jesus, buy into the thing or don't like...

No cup holders on that I'm afraid. Everyone knows man in van needs several cup holders :P

Special Circumstances

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

No cup holders on that I'm afraid. Everyone knows man in van needs several cup holders :P

And a dash designed to "file" every scrap of paper since 2005 between the top of the dash and the windscreen. Yeah I can see the problem there.

Autosport

On Top Gear now I've learned that Jeremy immensely disliked the Vectra but as come around as it's faster than a M5 or AMG . I love classic top gear

CIP4

Why do people do this to their cars if you look really close you can still see 2001 written on the taillight from the breaker. I didn't even think the connector would be the same.

dr.fuzzenstein

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

No cup holders on that I'm afraid. Everyone knows man in van needs several cup holders :P

Several cup holders, a phone holder, an AUX into the radio for the phone or Bluetooth, somewhere to keep a bit of small change, a spare pair of sunglasses, some handy tools or at least swiss army knife, phonecharger, USB power point, pen and paper, ice scraper, if the alloys have a locking nut, the key nut (so as to render this safety feature pointless) and on the same point the radio code written on the car stereo manual, black electricians tape, (in my case) Bluetooth headset and charger, some emergency CD's, an emergency map and there's a hole pile of crap in the glove box.
And tons of discarded fast food wrappers.
I just loved to get a bottle of Boost and a packet of Hamlets on the way home on a Friday. Especially since it was technically illegal.

GvidoR

CIP4 wrote: »

Why do people do this to their cars if you look really close you can still see 2001 written on the taillight from the breaker. I didn't even think the connector would be the same.

Can't see it in that pic, tbh, but I would clean that off asap.