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

Mycroft H

Do you've the optional disco lights on the rear?

GvidoR

What do you mean?

Mycroft H

Brake/Tail lights flashing instead of the indicators. Or all or a combination of the above. Used to see a lot of it. But theres feck all puntos left on the road I've noticed recently.

Mycroft H

Found a vid.

Electrical gremlins. Bad earth/connection/shorting issues.

GvidoR

All 6 indicators flash quickly, but that's it. No other gremlins. I tried cleaning the connections but nothing changed.

Hal1

MCM done a piece recently about rigging the lights to come on with ignition. I do it instinctively as well as making sure the cars in neutral, as I've a habit of leaving it in gear.

joujoujou

Ms jou's car's been recently set up to have lights on when handbrake's released.

No hassle at all, just coding.

Very handy.

Big Nasty

GvidoR wrote: »

All 6 indicators flash quickly, but that's it. No other gremlins. I tried cleaning the connections but nothing changed.

If no bulbs are gone the relay(s) need changing.

Duke O Smiley

I'm driving here since about three. There are some amount of stupid drivers on the roads, the amount of people I saw on phones was shocking.

Landed in Tipperary at 6. Cork tomorrow. Not a beat skipped by the Sunny

Duke O Smiley

Or Cork tonight..

Supergurrier

Went on an epic trip in this weather to go view an E39 530d with brother, headford to carrick on shannon and back, castlerea road was a nightmare so just came back via charlestown as the roads suited the panzer tanks much better.

Impressive pull from the 2.9 bmw diesel unit tbh. My poor 520i lost a foglight bulb to standing water, oh well, it panzered on



More fun tomorrow to view a car for me

Mycroft H

Dad came off the motorbike tonight. Slid on some diesel coming off a roundabout. front wheel went from under him, no getting out of that one. Wrecked his lovely ZZR. However, slid into a grass bank and walked away from it. Phew.

GvidoR

Ah sure I'm only down the road from Carrick

Noccy_Mondy

What route do you go from Tuam to Castlerea?

jimgoose

Mycroft H wrote: »

Dad came off the motorbike tonight. Slid on some diesel coming off a roundabout. front wheel went from under him, no getting out of that one. Wrecked his lovely ZZR. However, slid into a grass bank and walked away from it. Phew.

I'm glad he was able to walk away, but I'm finding it difficult to be sufficiently blasphemous about that. Bastarding diesel!!

Supergurrier

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

What route do you go from Tuam to Castlerea?

Well we live between tuam and headford

Home>Tuam>Dunmore>Castlerea>Frenchfort>Carrick

way home we went

Carrick>Frenchfort>N5 to Charlestown Roundabout>Knock road to Tuam>Home

GvidoR

It's Frenchpark. :P

Supergurrier

GvidoR wrote: »

It's Frenchpark. :P

Ok Ok Croissantville

Noccy_Mondy

Supergurrier wrote:

Home>Tuam>Dunmore>Castlerea>Frenchfort>Carrick

More detail on the Dunmore caatlerea bit?

Mycroft H

jimgoose wrote: »

I'm glad he was able to walk away, but I'm finding it difficult to be sufficiently blasphemous about that. Bastarding diesel!!

Bloody bike was mint too. The car had a dud battery this morning so he just jumped on the bike to go to work

C'est la vie.

GvidoR

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

More detail on the Dunmore caatlerea bit?

Was that so hard? :pac: :pac:

Supergurrier

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

More detail on the Dunmore caatlerea bit?

This way, road was as bad as ever, standing water everywhere too.

Noccy_Mondy

GvidoR wrote:

Was that so hard?

No, it's just as you can see, there's numerous ways to go about. Trust me, I know them all, just wondering how others do it.

Noccy_Mondy

Supergurrier wrote:

, road was as bad as ever, standing water everywhere too.

Ah, I see.....

Dartz

Bored sitting in traffic deliberately backfiring in front of Zafiras in the hope of something amusing happening.

Or how I spent my Friday evening on Botanic avenue.

5W30

Thinking of picking up a tablet to use as a car headunit...

Sourcing a fascia for a tablet will be tricky though. Another problem is steering wheel controls.

GvidoR

Yeah, it's too bad you can't cut the tablets to size. :P



Mine was luckily almost perfect size for a MK4, but not quite. Why do you need steering wheel controls with a tablet though?

5W30

GvidoR wrote: »

Yeah, it's too bad you can't cut the tablets to size. :P

Mine was luckily almost perfect size for a MK4, but not quite. Why do you need steering wheel controls with a tablet though?

Having redundant steering controls would just do my head in.

You do need them though, tablets have volume controls on the side which will be behind the fascia.

I don't plan on using the AUX IN on the old headunit either.

Noccy_Mondy

It's a great feeling knowing both cars are garaged in that rotten wind and rain

CIP4

I may get a new cigarette lighter that blown bulb is annoying it's mad. But at night the fact it doesn't light up annoys me. I need to get an identical one to go in as it would annoy me if it was anyway different I might just go to the main dealer and price one. I assume they are easy to replace two wires swap over isn't it.