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

ba_barabus

What car is it?

dar83

Supergurrier wrote: »

The call me im out of credit texts and will you take XXXX for car texts will always happen unfortunately with any relatively sporty car.

Such is life.

All depends on the ad dude. I got one phone call the first night I had my ST advertised, chatted to the chap for about 20mins, arranged to meet him the following lunch time in Blanch. Car sold. He was a middle aged guy who was waiting for a clean example, mentioned specifically that he was watching for one for a while and that from the pics and details he knew it was What he was after.

Didn't get one shítty text from anyone and only got one donedeal message from another chap who also wanted to see it the evening on the day it was sold if it was still available. He also commented that my ad was "fantastic", so it really depends on how you present it what kind of buyer you'll attract!

I'd get rid of the stylised pics and even the multi-car pics and focus entirely on your own car. Highlight its good points, remove the bit about the driveshaft and give that info out when someone comes to look at the car! I'd also remove the repeated block mod section, there's no need to have that in there twice.

Alanstrainor

Trying to save money at the moment, and questioning my choice in car, just had a thought that in my 3.5 years of ownership, I've put almost €3.5k in tax alone into it, and there's another tax bill approaching. I guess the main thing is, that if i were to get rid, I wouldn't get that much money, and my cost to change would most likely outweigh any savings...

I need some motor heads to reaffirm my thinking!

jimgoose

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Trying to save money at the moment, and questioning my choice in car, just had a thought that in my 3.5 years of ownership, I've put almost €3.5k in tax alone into it, and there's another tax bill approaching. I guess the main thing is, that if i were to get rid, I wouldn't get that much money, and my cost to change would most likely outweigh any savings...

I need some motor heads to reaffirm my thinking!

I've paid some bowel-evacuating amount of tax in the nine years I've owned the General, and lots of clever people tell me I should chop the old brute in and get de chape tax, bah. To which I reply: what am I going to replace it with, without spending €40,000 and more??

dar83

A Dacia?



:pac:

Toyotafanboi

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Trying to save money at the moment, and questioning my choice in car, just had a thought that in my 3.5 years of ownership, I've put almost €3.5k in tax alone into it, and there's another tax bill approaching. I guess the main thing is, that if i were to get rid, I wouldn't get that much money, and my cost to change would most likely outweigh any savings...

I need some motor heads to reaffirm my thinking!

well you said it yourself.

3 years of tax, €3300? another years tax this year, €1100, €4.4k all in. what would that €4.4k really be doing for you now? realistically, even if you owned a more "sensible" car, a 1.6 something, you would still have a 4 year tax bill in excess of €2k. so it's all relative, what's an extra €500 a year to drive a nice car if you can afford it, it's the price of a weekend away.

i wouldn't be changing anyway, as you say, you'l be spending a few grand to "save" a few grand. the only way to save save, would be to get rid and just have no car.

that said, if you're going to sell for like €3k or some ****, pm me :pac:

MetzgerMeister

I was paying €1,494 on tax on the 335 and I got sick of it. the 330 is €270 a year to tax. My reasoning is that I would prefer to put the difference into the car loan and have the car to show for it at the end rather than nothing.

dar83

I kind of made a similar decision to MM. Was paying the guts of 1300 a year and my tax was due again the end of October, so I decided on somewhat of a whim to switch to something cheaper to run and cheaper to tax before this years 1300 was due. Now I pay 280 a year for tax and the other grand can go towards paying the car off spread over the year, which makes it less obvious you're sinking a large amount in one go (I'm ignore the deposit I paid :P ).

There were others factors for me as well, increasing my door capacity was one, upping the years so I didn't have to put potentially large amounts into maintenance over the next year or two also factored into it, plus I had a proper pain in my face every year with insurance and mods and to be honest I grew a bit weary of it.

Mycroft H

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I was paying €1,494 on tax on the 335 and I got sick of it. the 330 is €270 a year to tax. My reasoning is that I would prefer to put the difference into the car loan and have the car to show for it at the end rather than nothing.

I'd second that. Tried taxing a 2.5l for a while. Got sick of handing over near 400 quid a quarter to tax it.

They'res plenty of fast 2.0 petrols out there that can be picked up for peanuts. And the saving can pay for tyres/maintenance/pints and what have you.

MetzgerMeister

The thing is with me, I went for a 330d because I wanted a powerful car. I almost bought a 2008 e92 M3 for the same money but then the tax is €1,809 and my head really took over.

Someone else's "fast" 2.0T wouldn't be powerful enough for me due to the kind of cars I'm used to owning.

YbFocus

Go away all you good "head screwed on" types

jimgoose

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

...Someone else's "fast" 2.0T wouldn't be powerful enough for me due to the kind of cars I'm used to owning.

Exactly. Usually when I borrow cars I'm there like Clarkson, "It's broken!! Stupid thing!!" :pac:

Mycroft H

YbFocus wrote: »

Go away all you good "head screwed on" types

Try paying 1400 quid a year and come back to me

dar83

YbFocus wrote: »

Go away all you good "head screwed on" types

Haha, I'm not sure that's the case. We're losing our balls in depreciation! :P

YbFocus

dar83 wrote: »

Haha, I'm not sure that's the case. We're losing our balls in depreciation! :P

With my car only costing 1k, I have already paid the following...

- The same in tax.
- Twice it in parts, mods etc.
- Six times it in petrol

Cantona's Collars

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I was paying €1,494 on tax on the 335 and I got sick of it. the 330 is €270 a year to tax. My reasoning is that I would prefer to put the difference into the car loan and have the car to show for it at the end rather than nothing.

At least you didn't do like a colleague of mine who turned up proud as punch in a 1l 3 door Micra.He put a few bits in the back one evening and nearly blew the engine trying to go up a hill.
"Sure the tax is cheap" was the reasoning behind buying it despite having 2 growing kids to try to fit into it.

I can never understand people buying cars that are not suited to their needs to try to save a small few quid on tax.

Foxhole Norman

YbFocus wrote: »

With my car only costing 1k, I have already paid the following...

- The same in tax.
- Twice it in parts, mods etc.
- Six times it in petrol

Worth it I'm already planning my next car purchase...

Cantona's Collars

Honda should use this for their next ad campaign."Drive off a cliff and walk away".

The driver just suffered bruising and a broken rib.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3304874/Driver-20-airlifted-hospital-helicopter-car-plunges-cliff-Beachy-Head.html

vintagevrs

If it wasn't for the badge on the alloy, any manufacturer could make that claim, that things unrecognisable.

Toyotafanboi

zerks wrote: »

Honda should use this for their next ad campaign."Drive off a cliff and walk away".

The driver just suffered bruising and a broken rib.

as long as the brakes didn't fail causing them to go over :pac:

Mycroft H

Goes a long way to prove how safe modern cars have become in recent times.

Cantona's Collars

Mycroft H wrote: »

Goes a long way to prove how safe modern cars have become in recent times.

It went a long way - down.

166man

YbFocus wrote: »

That is some mileage for one day!! :eek:

Thats somewhere just shy of 30mpg doing it in my head, very impressive if I am right!

Was a long day alright! Car breezed through it though!

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Nearly 35mpg. Funny that the speedo is solely in mph but the trip computer reads in l/100km.

There mustn't have been much work done, 820 miles at 65mph is like 13 hours at the wheel? :pac:

Yeah I changed it in the settings. Well I was on the road from 6.30am until after 11pm, had two meetings in North Carolina and then onto Kentucky overnight.

OSI wrote: »

I did like the Dodge Charger when I had one on loan for a couple of weeks. Was nice to waft around in, but thought it was something I'd get I bored of fairly quickly. I saw as the US version of an Insignia.

Yeah they're not bad but I get what you mean. Ideal for munching miles but the suspension in it is archaic!

ba_barabus wrote: »

What car is it?

As above, 2015 Dodge Charger 3.6 V6

Foxhole Norman

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

For the Cork/Limerick people around :pac:

Drove though there thrice today and will do fairly regularly with the job. Its not as bad sitting there when you're on someone else's time But I agree with Dr Fuzz. The place needs to be nuked along with Charleville.

Chris_Heilong

A program on RTE tonight about the "Modified car scene" with the fellow from Republic of Telly, looks daft. A few guys told me they were contacted when they put up a facebook meeting and were asked were they going to be racing or doing Donuts, when they said no the program didnt want to know which might give you an idea of what it will be like.

...found a promo.

job seeker

Ya, it's the boyracer type is what they were looking for.. I don't know if I need the high blood pressure after watching that...

ba_barabus

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

A program on RTE tonight about the "Modified car scene" with the fellow from Republic of Telly, looks daft. A few guys told me they were contacted when they put up a facebook meeting and were asked were they going to be racing or doing Donuts, when they said no the program didnt want to know which might give you an idea of what it will be like.

...found a promo.

Rte in using bland stereotype to make a programme to appeal to those bland easily shocked members of society.

How original

dar83

Not to start a debate, but there are/were some people here that would fit into that kind of show with similar kind of carry on without having to reach too far...

166man

dar83 wrote: »

Not to start a debate, but there are/were some people here that would fit into that kind of show with similar kind of carry on without having to reach too far...

Who are these current people?

Chris_Heilong

As far as the Irish public goes... lets just say some people cant tell the wood from the trees.